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Osaka's doodling

OsakanOne here. The better stuff of my journey to artistic enlightenment ends up here. At this point, it's mostly just experimentation...




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If you'd like me to have a go at something for you, just ask here!
 
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I know it's mostly a rough blockout, but I find the whole industrialized mechanical aspect of it very appealing.

It reminded me - in a positive way - of why I also like Gundam 00's Ptolemaios
 
@Fred
Its a nice experiment with edge-weighted curves. I realised lots of heavy industrial gear has curves in one axis but ends at right-angles with flat surfaces on another.

I figure the body has these big outboard engines but also these ... Curved blocks into the body, top and bottom, either side: four at the front, four at the back that hang over and then pull down with intakes.

Its a blockout yes but I do really like how the technique turned out.

I'd like to see @Foxtrot 813 's take on what detailing it would have before proceeding any further. It might just be easier to project Foxtrot's painting directly onto the model and then fill in the blind-stops using content aware fill tiles extrapolated from Fox's sketchings. It'd look painted from all angles but light like a real object.
 
You make such pretty things, I want them all.

Also this is doing wonders for helping me figure out how I want to do some detailing.
 
I've got my mac back but in a few months (I know I've been saying this forever now, but seriously) I'm going to have a proper workstation. Shit's finally going down in our lives: Things are happening. We're moving forward and its great.

It'll be nice to work on more complex projects.
 
But does it have a floorplan that I can build a ship article out of?

I like ships with floorplans because I can imagine walking through them, it helps with the writing and with the feel of places.
 
Not yet but I can do some nice scaled 2D slices (basically hull outlines, estimated positions of major systems) and produce some from there pretty easily.

When the layout is a sure thing I can then model it.

iirc @Foxtrot 813 is good with deck layouts?
 
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Not yet but I can do some nice scaled 2D slices (basically hull outlines, estimated positions of major systems) and produce some from there pretty easily.
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Sounds like a plan. Do some slices, get some edges, and write in some possibilities.

And do the measurements too. I wanna know how big this thing is in metres.
 
Okay, so what kind of size ship are you looking for here? Sakura or bigger? I've got the cutting system setup and I'll be ready to take measurements shortly.
 
Can someone suggest other configurations and purposes?

I would like your feedback and ideas.

Please?

Edit: Thank-you for the messages. Wow.
 
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I've had a lot of problems with Mac OS X's font smoothing (to the point of running Chrome over Safari: A whore of a browser that will gobble through resources like no tomorrow) and until @Moogle suggested it, I hadn't considered just examining the font smoothing and trying to change it myself.

Here's what I mean, so you have an idea:


Safari's Default smoothing
(MY EYES THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING)
ai.imgur.com_VILMNWi.webp

ai.imgur.com_BJLRjDc.webp

Custom smoothing behaviour
(more like Chrome: So much nicer to read)

ai.imgur.com_EuUJlUK.webp

ai.imgur.com_3cAShRZ.webp

So how did I do it?

@Doshii Jun might be interest in this, since he walks all day on a Mac so I figure I'd put this up for him but this works on Windows too:

Step 1: Paste the following into TextEdit and save as global.css

Code: 
html { 

    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

}

Step 2: Load the CSS override.
ai.imgur.com_Kh49IMc.webp

  1. Go to Preferences (for a Mac ⌘ CMD and , or CTRL and , if you're on a PC)
  2. Navigate to the Advanced Tab
  3. Under StyleSheets, click where it says [NONE]
  4. Navigate to the CSS document you made
  5. ????????
  6. PROFIT!
The difference is instant, amazing and quite frankly a huge relief. It could be far far nicer (I'm looking into how) but its a big step forward away from how it was.

Seriously Apple, not everybody has the shekels for a fucking Retina Display.
 
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