Starting in March 2020, I began a large stream project to model a comprehensive, highly-detailed Caterpillar 434E backhoe. Please watch the first stream (first 3 minutes of abridged version at least) for an overview.
It's a straight-forward project of building a complex model over an extended period of time. The spin on the project is that I want your help to accomplish it! If I build some parts and you build some parts, we will finish this thing much quicker. Plus the contribution format will include reviews, the potential of having your piece(s) assimilated into the final model. Not to mention large quantities of XP are at stake 🤑
NOTE: This is an involved project reserved for Citizen members.
The general idea is that I kickoff stages of the project via live stream, which is typically once per month. For the time in between streams, you choose a piece of the backhoe and apply what you learned from the stream to that piece. For example, the first stream covered initial block out. So between stream 1 and stream 2, your job is to pick a piece and block it out.
This is the repeating protocol for each Assignment Period (between-streams):
I will reply to this thread after each stream with a [big] assignment post denoted by a 📣 emoji in the title. There I will clarify instructions about each Assignment Period.
We will centralize our collaborative communication between the streams and this thread. Ask any and all questions pertaining to the Backhoe project here.
In my Google Drive, please ignore files starting with Z.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NGpRhP2Aqt2nU62XsIx3_jHcWl-vmSAS?usp=sharing
Below, both are same.
File: 00 - Cab 02 .blend
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LE-mMGPGe-0uSGnEORl9WIy-E82gVzBk/view?usp=sharing
File: 00 - Cab 02 .blend1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DsOH7bppaAGnSVQlayo9GuFZlmCZws96/view?usp=sharing
blanchsb Sorry I ended the stream which prevents anyone from posting comments (unless you still had the page open). You asked:
So are we doing our own shading then or waiting for the next stream?
There's no obligation for anyone to work on shading. The only expectation is for contributors to 100% complete modeling their cab part. By drifting into the topic of shading I was simply giving a demo of what I plan to do for rendering the reel; a conceptual look at showcasing a model in the best light.
Only play around with shading if you want to and if you have time after modeling your part.
spikeyxxx was this https://cgcookie.com/questions/11495-what-is-the-substitute-for-this what you were talking about when you made the comment about dot product in the stream?
adrian I really like that symbol. I wonder if you could add like a ring effect to the bell and offset the clapper from the center? Add like some squiggle lines coming from either the clapper or the bowl. Ultimately it is your symbol and your staple so make it the way you want haha. You'll be able to use it as a nice stamp on your projects from here on out.
(if you need help with the names of these parts this helped me describe them)
Kent Trammell (theluthier) Sorry for delay to reply. I'm caught up with many things in my life. You may have to get anyone to take over file from me.
Here is the file in link below. It is editable. Because my PC only has 4GB RAM, others' collections in my file are deleted so to work faster on chair on that many RAM. So you may have to go to file and append collection "Chair by Rita" which is highlighted in the outine property as in photo below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mYGtjwo3LVftG_GvmUMcHlYq4DuBw1oZ/view?usp=sharing
It looks excellent from here, Rita!
Real Life getting in peoples' way again - always a pain. Glad you've stuck with it this far. :)
Jake, you can say that again. Our next door neighbour's wall has been knocked down by County Council's bulldozers & backhoes few days ago. Wall was over 300 years old and now it is gone. Once they have neighbours' properties demolished, they'd be onto ours next and my family and I are fiercely resisting them. We are giving County Council as much headache as possible and we are giving them hell.
I love historic architecture and buildings and support everybody defending his/her home: Petition signed. Best wishes and prayers for you and your family!
Ingmar Franz (duerer) thank you for signing petition, and also for your wishes and prayers. A lot of people have been praying for us and so we are getting strong. Fate seems to be working in our favour. Government is getting afraid of us now, as our case is highlighting their highest level of corruption. People around us are losing faith in the government and its senators.
People around us are losing faith in the government and its senators.
Sounds very familiar to me. We have here in Germany the second largest parliament in the world right after China with actually more than 700 deputies which could rise to even over 800. And while many companies and self-employed people are running into bankrupcy and a giant insolvency wave is already visible on the horizon, the German health minister Jens Spahn, a well known pharmaceutical lobbyist, buys a villa in Berlin for 4 million Euro (plus around 1 million for renovation) and threatens legal actions against journalists who name the price which of course has only a Streisand effect. Meanwhile more than 80 non-party initiatives have been initiated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland under the name "querdenken" (= thinking crossways) in order to protest peacefully (I'm an eyewitness!) for their democratic rights and for governments who are servants of the people as the true sovereign and not for a rich "elite". I could write a separate blog about this since this is not the right place here and I don't want to expand it further at this place. But doing artwork brings me joy and power 😀.
@ritag keep up the good fight! I sincerely hope your family's home and shop is spared.
PS: This time the file is right - I can see your chair shaping up very well! You're accomplishing the contours wonderfully. Don't fret at all if you have to stop working on it. Such a decision is more than understandable.
Sad day today. I need to send my Scrappy Lappy: "Lonestar Lenovo" in for repairs. There were some dead pixels on screen (that was not a deal breaker) and recently my fan has been dying. Now it is making terrible noises. So, I called my warrantee company and am sending it in for 7-10 business days (hopefully) for repair. I have a work laptop so hopefully it is up to the task but I may be living in Omar's world for the next 2 weeks minimum as I try to work on the seat from another laptop. Wish me luck chaps!
How do you even pronounce Geraghty? Strange word.
Where I live I'm surrounded by old stuff from 500 years ago when the Spaniards came and killed everyone. I think it's protected by all man kind heritage or something like that, they can't destroy it.
This chaps wishes you luck. I really need to buy a computer but I'm still so undecided.
Good luck, blanchsb. I'm sure that you'll succeed 😀!
PS: dostovel you just wrote post number 1200. Only 77 posts left and our "Backhoe" thread will be the number 1 here on CGCookie.com.
Oh no - I have cursed everyone with my hardware woes!
I now have a working computer once again but the project is so close to done that there's nothing left for me to jump in and contribute; it seems everyone's work is for the most part done, or close to done, and every part of the Dog is taken care of. That's okay, I'm happy to have done the work I did - that was so much fun, I really enjoyed this project and I can't wait to see what the next one will be like! Meantime I've started working through Wayne's animation flow.
