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Ring Drone 2

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Az had been waiting for a while, waiting for Ring Drone 1 to complete its survey of the ship.   That left time to contemplate what was about to happen.  As the rookie on the mission, it was Az who would be the first to assume the alien form: human.  The TransMogrifier™ had been in use for centuries, but there were always risks.   The first attempt was always the most dangerous, and the most painful.

Az had seen what could go wrong in training and tried not to dwell on that.  At least the body plans were similar, and there was some indication of distant genetic seeding; they wouldn't be sure until they could sample one of the inhabitants.    

What was keeping that drone...?



Well - this took a little longer than expected, what with my attached storage dying, but with some actual backups, a bit of elbow-grease (brain grease?) and a very helpful render farm, got all the pieces put together.

This is the view from the other Ring Drone, RD2, as seen here:

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I hope to have a 3D version (alas, probably only anaglyph) soon.   Then...   six more views!

I've got test renders queued up for the POV of each of the four characters.  Probably Çz, the operator/commander next, which should help answer the question of the mystery sound:


Then Dn, the veteran and scanner operator (what is that dude doing over there?),  then the POV of Bp, Az's "friend" (as much as their species had any sort of relationships) and of course, Az's own view.   These are all pretty much lined up and ready to go - just need to see the tests, make some tweaks... and render!

And at some point there will be "movies" of the scanner and console displays.  

All in all - pretty fun!  Nice to be getting to this point after - 7 months???!   


(I highly recommend this on a large display and on headphones, cranked up!)

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MollyFootman's avatar
This is GREAT!  All the details mentioned so far and I noticed the Ring Drone that's making the picture's reflection and watched it turn as it turned to look at the saucer.  I don't know much about animation (as has been previously established :giggle:) but I bet the animation pallette time line in Poser is  really, REALLY complicated looking for this. ;P