And as I made some more artwork for a friend's upcoming website (which will deal with the maritime industry) - I just now created this, for the "contact us" section! So what do you guys think? Looks almost too real, doesn't? But it doesn't really exist anywhere in the real world, it's all CGI (computer generated image) - And it took just 15 to 20 minutes to make. AutoCAD 3D is actually a engineering and designing software. So creating such artwork from it, is really a task for which it was never designed - However I myself don't know how else to create digital artwork... So for purists of the computer aided designing (CAD) world, using AutoCAD in this fashion - Is exactly as pleasant as scraping fingernails on a blackboard... Bottle with a message inside (3D wire frame) ( photo / image / picture from S-H's Garden ) Designing a 3D ocean world around it ( photo / image / picture from S-H's Garden ) Final image - Message in a bottle ( photo / image / picture from S-H's Garden )
Not at all, I just altered the material and optical properties of the bottle - Until it matched those of a slightly greenish piece of transparent glass. Basically you either choose a material from AutoCAD's material library (in which different types of glass is also available). Or you create a generic material of your own, and match it's properties to anything you want it to look like. Be it something transparent like this greenish glass bottle. Or like the cork that I also created, or the ocean you see in the picture! It all just happens within a few seconds. Yes, officially it should take just a few seconds - However it took me 15 to 20 minutes to do all of this. As I was also watching clips of Gilligan's Island at the same time on YouTube, (for inspiration)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC6-E5XV_yE Making glass bottle shine in AutoCAD ( photo / image / picture from S-H's Garden )
Great job S-H! I think you've crafted your message in a bottle very well. Isn't it amazing that a 3-D image that may have taken a few hours (days?) to render in the 80's / early 90's now takes a few seconds to render on a modern PC setup. I wonder what's written on that message?
That's a great idea for the "contact us". And it does look so real. Who knew you could get such inspiration from Gilligan's Island!
Your friend must be so pleased with what you've done. I'm sure it will greatly enhance his website for him. It looks wonderful and as Jerry said I like the reflection of the bottle on the 'water.'
Thanks Mart! You know Frank, I also sometimes wonder how far - And that too so quickly, we all have come in the computing world! Just a few weeks ago I was watching the TV series "Halt and Catch Fire". And so it too got me think on the same lines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAm3fRMKXBI I also remember that in 1993 they made the move Jurassic Park, and the studio (if memory serves me right) used a Cray X-MP supercomputer for all their 3D special effects - at the astronomical cost of over a 100 million dollars. Yet 20 years down the road, the average desktop PC has over 2 times the processing power of those "supercomputer"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg Yes that's how it is with me actually. Over half the time I spend on my PC - Any observer (who doesn't know me well) will think that I'm only wasting time, either on YouTube, or aimlessly using Google for God only knows what [or perhaps even God will have very little idea as to where exactly am I going with my searches]... However after about every half and hour or so of this cyber doodling, there is a flash of creativity that results into something like this! After which I very quickly revert back to being a moron one more! But jokes aside, Had I not been having fun watching clips of Gilligan's Island, I probably would have created something that otherwise would have been very dull... Actually Eileen, I haven't shown him anything yet - You guys are the first to see, as I get very good feedback from here. Besides, I'm right now having a very hard time figuring out HTML coding and web page making. I know a little bit of it (that I learned over 12 years ago for fun). However today all that I know about basic HTML programming is hopelessly obsolete. So learning that seems to have become a bit of a challenge... That's why I haven't shown him anything yet, or else he may start pestering me every hour asking: When will it all be up and running?
Just curious but is that your line of work,,website design ? If not, maybe it should be. You are surely talented at it.
No, I'm not a web designer. I'm actually in the metal working and machine tool industry (with some fabrication of electronic control systems too). So this sometimes takes me into the aerospace industry, the automotive, and the maritime industry also. Which is why I use AutoCAD (an engineering and 3D designing software), as it's an extremely powerful tool when it comes to research and development work - It can really cut short the designing period from a few weeks, to just a few hours (if not a few minutes)... Basically, this program is a universal designing aid. So anything that you can imagine, yes, anything at all - Can be created with this! Be it houses buildings and general landscaping, designing furniture, even complex machinery like jet engines and rockets too, as well as a few things that even I probably can't imagine! But what's really amazing is that in the past such programs were not easy to use - Yet today even a person of sub normal intelligence like me can use it too! So in a nutshell, the physical labor that designers used to experience as they drew stuff on the drawing board - Has now been taken out... See this video below - I made the whole animation of the intro with AutoCAD 3D 2007 (a far older and less powerful version of what I use now). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI0yR40uLT8 Which is why I had earlier said that if any purist ever found out that I am using AutoCAD for creating web page artwork - Than he or she may actually start crying. As what I'm now using AutoCAD for is nothing short of digital sacrilege, or call it engineering blasphemy! But web designing is something I practically know nothing about. Yes I have a very good idea how it's all done - But seriously, I've never tried it myself. So this will probably be the first time in my life.
Well, I am on dial up so youtube doesn`t like me. Perhaps you could send us a link to the website so we can see how it all came together. I think its fascinating but I am dumb as dirt about the more advanced digital/3D imaging ect.
Well, so far I bought the domain name (early day before yesterday), along with paying all the hosting charges for the 1st year. So by evening I uploaded the basic start page over there. However the links and other social media related stuff don't work yet - As I'm still learning CSS script (cascading style sheet). So once I've master all of that, is when I'll upload everything else. Anyway here is the link: http://www.pakshipbreakers.com/ This however is not the final look of the page, as after CSS, it will become something totally unrecognizable! Besides, there is a lot more 3D artwork to create. By the way, that grammatical error in the logo of the association - Isn't my fault. I just copied it exactly, and recreated it in 3D... That was actually a clerical error on the part of our Trade Mark Registration office (may years ago). So now that the name and trade mark got registered like that - We are stuck with it!
The logo looks good S-H When search engines are indexing a site they don't like to see error 404 links so I would 'unlink' the links until the pages are ready
OK, now see the contact us page - Still nothing developed in the html or css areas of the page, but the artwork I am slowly adding now! And the linkage between the home page and the contact us page is now working too! Also the home page mural artwork needed some work as well. http://www.pakshipbreakers.com/contact_us/contact.html
