Just prior to our city entering lockdown back in March, 2020, the company I worked for set up the entire staff to be able to work from home with little to no service interruptions for our company, nor any downgrade…
Tag: 3D toon
Starship Hrimfaxi Episode 01, Epilogues
It looks like the action in the Janus system is done for now… but is it really all over? Jump into adventure with the Starship Hrimfaxi! “The Hrimfaxi Adventures” are 3D animations, “Starship Hrimfaxi” are 2D. A dab of inspiration…
The Hrimfaxi Adventures Episode Two: The Pirates
The second episode of The Hrimfaxi Adventures, a proof-of-concept animation, testing DAZ Studio’s lip synch and animation capabilities using OpenGL on a low-end Macintosh. A fun learning experience.
Back to the “retro” Future, Toon-Style!
DC comics in the late 50s and early 60s had a strong Science Fiction vibe running through most of their titles, in many cases due to editors Julius “Julie” Schwartz and Mort Weisinger, both of who were long-time science fiction agents and…
Webboid Evolution Part 1
One seed for what grew into Webboids began in the 1950s and 1960s with a number of Artifical Intelligences (“AIs”) that appeared in books and media at the time. Robbie the Robot (from Forbidden Planet), Gort (from The Day the…
Webboids!
This is a test page done a few years ago; the Webboid character is a morphed version of the 3D model “Chibi-Boy”, while the test page was assembled in Comic Life on an iPad. The Webboid featured in this sample…
Retro Science Fiction
Very, very loosely inspired by “The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree” series of children’s books by Louis Slobodkin. The scene here uses models from two talented DAZ Published Artists, the “Toon Rocket” model from 3djoji and “Humble Homestead in the…