Hope you guys enjoy this:

At 9/20/09 11:33 AM, VinnyXY wrote: ...
That just proves that science and religion are enemies.

This is only true based on the subjective properties applied by those who worship. The other options are to rationalize science into their religion, or to recognize their dogma for the metaphor that it is.

Personally, I find religion unnecessary.

Hoping for a unified government on any scale is kind of like hoping for rain... be careful what you wish for. That is, it's not the Unified Europe you should be hoping for, but a Europe that can maintain sovereignty and individuality, and if such a unified force would be beneficial to its people.

That said, Europe seems to be unifying no matter what the people say, so my bets are on "it's bad" and I hope it doesn't happen.

To the OP: He's not arguing for 'free health care', he's arguing for a Public Option that the subscriber must pay for. The Public Option will also NOT be mandatory for every citizen in the United States, so if you already enjoy good coverage from your private firm then stick with it. If you elect to take the Public Option for a spin, and you don't like it, you can drop it for something better.

It amazes me how people really don't know what the heck Barack Obama is talking about.

LOOONG time not posting in the Art Forum. I put a piece up in the Art Portal but for some reason it's not showing up in either it's intended category or in the scouting zone... So I guess it was a minor glitch that hid my upload. So I'll put it here for now. Enjoy!

Well, you did such a great job with Manson, why not do other rock stars? I vote for Rob Zombie!

I guess this guy doesn't like the avatars very much...

Actually, the wrong thruster fired to stop rotation... I finally realized that when I watched it for the 10th time... blast.

Anywho, each 10-12 sec shot took about 1 hr to render. The work was definetely in the modelling.

I'll draw up another with the same models and it should be a little quicker (read: rather more fast).

I recently made an animation and submitted it to YouTube. It also features a music artist from our own Audio Portal. Here's the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeuK I3vkRSk

Hope you enjoy and thanks very much! (Pic below is from linked animation)

At 3/26/09 12:39 PM, hio3 wrote: i have never seen one in my life

The only time I did see one, it turned out to be a plane.

I'm pretty sure all UFO's are something mundane and average. No one can verify people's stories that claim that have seen an actual alien craft.

At 3/26/09 12:40 PM, Fleshlight wrote:

a bunch of art forum regs got together once, including mindchamber, who confirmed that Image Bot will monitor the art forum. Now he's just got to design him.

and I hope they'll only let people post art in the portal who have been given the right to be there so we don't have a bunch of spammers fucking it up for everyone.

I kinda thought that's what down-rating the art was for. If a piece of art gets a whole lot of 0-1 ratings it would just be deleted like any other flash in the flash portal. I think that's a good way of it policing itself. Add to that a mod or two and I think the Art Portal will be secure enough to enjoy the quality stuff while everything else burns... BURNS! In a GREAT PIRE OF EVIL SMITING!!
::ahem::
Where was I?

Warp Speed

Some fantastic stuff in here! The attention to detail and good command of anatomy makes every piece well above the average seen here in the art forums. Love it.

Lets get some space craft in this thread:

Fire everything!!

At 3/15/09 08:56 PM, Kinsei01 wrote:

At 3/15/09 05:50 PM, raveninskyprime wrote: I modelled the new Star Trek design. Higher quality pic here.

very very nice. my only suggestion is to make the "U.S.S. America" curve along contour of the ship as well

Oh, but this is actually accurate to what is going to be portrayed in the upcomming film... otherwise, yeah, I would definetely have the name curve with the countour like in this pic featuring the original motion picture design:

I modelled the new Star Trek design. Higher quality pic here.

I made another cover, I figured the other one looked rather 3rd or 4th issue and that this one would be better for a first issue.

At 2/19/09 11:53 AM, JT1 wrote: Is the enemy the same character as the one you posted on 2/5/09 and 2/6/09? In the first pic, there were brown spots, but in the new one the spots glow bright green. Also, the blades on the arms and tail are different.

It is in fact the same fellow, but I'm still deciding on the minor stuff about him.

I toyed with the idea that the "spots" shift color depending on the fellow's activity. I think it would be better and easier if he just kept to one color though.

The blades on the arms and tail are also different. I think Fatcheos has a point in that the tail blade just doesn't belong.

Whoa, that's a good spot... (ha ha, spot).

Anywho, no space ships this time (thankfully!)

Blarg... space battle!

And so the thread goes to shit...

Looks more like a cat in bath robes that happens to have a sword... which is still awesome, actually.

Perhaps a longer robe and cut the pipe?

I've taken a request to model a 3d dragon... problem is I have yet to model any living (organic) thing in 3d yet, so it's challenging for me to say the least.

I'll show you what I have so far, and hoping for tips from other 3d modellers out there. Thanks!

Shouldn't the wings be more... you know... wing like? They kinday give me the impression that they're just fuzzy arms, not even feathered.

At 2/6/09 10:51 AM, JT1 wrote: I like your new stuff much more than your old stuff. You are significantly better now.

Yar, I've been learning new tricks and I'll soon be applying them toward the story again.

For now, here's a character that will be introduced in the series: Lisa Sanders

Hmmm... I'm not sure what those black spots were... Perhaps something to do with the fill command or something...

Anywho, here's a patched version:

Here's another one, a redesign of a villain that will appear in the comic known as "The Darkling."

Hope you enjoy!

Thanks for the support and advice, and here's another drawn piece (featuring a city in the background), I figured I had to try a daytime shot at some point...

This one is titled "Lost and Confused"

Sorry, still getting the space ship thing outta my system!