Tallpindo has been gifted with a digital camera and is able to present his unique viewpoint in photos. There are renders here that were made from machines and software he acquired since December 1994. The machines and software from before February 2004 has now gone to the hazzardous waste and recycling center. BIOTallpindo grew up in a small town and had friends in high school who were older and owned hot rods. He went away to college at a state university where he had friends who were into folk music. Upon graduation it was off to California as the best of the two coasts to fit his degree in Physics.
A Shell salesman with a Porsche introduced tallpindo to the L.A. topless scene in 1965. Other batchelors in Marketing at Douglas Aircraft knew a vocational arts teacher in San diego which led to encounters with nude dwarf waitresses in Tijuana and a tall dark nude in a very dark bar in Tecate on the way to fishing in San Felipe for Cinco de Mayo.
Looking for a sports car led to a meeting with an instructor at the then new Disney sponsored Valencia art School. The next door neibor had a Xerox word processor and was a professional resume writer. I met Arial. Pica and elite were passe.
In Florida I met some extremely beautiful women who were mathematical aides to the engineers at UTC-GPD.
Which brings us to a desktop of the tower type with a 19 inch monitor and Windows XP that is finally hooked to broadband cable in August of 2004. When my sister retired we traveled together each winter to Florida near Tampa and I had to buy the cheapest laptop with a video accelerator board and a 15 inch screen to take with me. It was hooked to cable and the yearly migrations began.
Last year I took the train to the harley-Davidson museum in Milwaukee and took factory tours and even got Bill Davidson to sign one of my renders. I entered my memory first car model as renders into the Troy Traffic jam at a local car show as a virtual car. I flew to Tailhook to get updated on Naval Aviation and showed my carrier renders to the daughter of R. G. Smith an inspiration to me as an artist in the 60's and 70's. I bought (a print of ) one of his works and it is framed and ready to hang here.
Some of the vendors have given me models to use and some have sold me things to use here. I am impressed with the progress in digital modelling and rendering shown here. The site truly runs well and the need to thin the herd to avoid thumbnails not displaying has long ago disappeared.
I'll share with you a secret that inverts atheism. I have no boss. No immediate supervisor. The closest I come is critics and touchers. Then I can let you in on my secret. I work on objects in midair. Perhaps it began with idle preteen curiosity about certain breast configurations that are amazing for their apparant solidity. In the community of those who might be interested in an Air Force career if it was only a 3 year enlistment the official look was the wavey stripes of a Tech Sargeant not the 4 year with rockers of a combat Staff Sargeant. Midairs are something not really talked about except for a shock encounter. Looking will lead to bumping and that could be painful for overly sensitive wrappings. Better to leave them unattended as impost. Getting involved in marquee forms where a tension wire holds in a major compression to achieve lift is not a midair. I think my first secret whisper of the community setup that leads to a midair was an Air West DC-9 and an El Toro Marine Corps F-4 "Phantom." So I don't mold and manipulate geometric solids nor do I extrude splines. Just put the point right there in the open space and put another one somewhere then select "link" and there is is a line. Make several million of them and you have a mega polygon object. A conscientious lady once realized the impending doom and yelled, "Hug, Me!!." There was no way to shift blame for the midair. She didn't have that firm dome of the turn on explorer. Later another lady knocked on my door perhaps to explain. "My car won't move." I looked out and saw a pale blue Japanese hardtop sitting halfway in and halfway out of my driveway. Definitely the subject needed to be made more polite. Then the local animal control warden came in her official truck and demanded I accompany her to the other end of the street because she "was afraid of the man's dog." My dog had just recently died from a bite by a snake thrown over the fence into his yard. I went anyway thinking that was what she got paid for. I wish I could explain better to folks who want table top mockups or on the floor. I don't even hang things on wires from above. Just project a hologram and with a bellows full of electrostatic powder--WHOOSH!! The print is done in 3D and full scale barring those unfortunate excess thicknesses due to charge concentrations at projections.
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Comments (18)
MeredithWilson
Dear Dale, I got a look at the Citation X this morning sitting on the ramp. Tomorrow I'll meet the simulator version. Today was all systems classes. This is a whole new ball game. It's a lot closer to a 737 than to the CJ line. I went out to check it out closer after class but it was off flying somewhere. I'm really wondering about the flying characteristics - it's got some seriously swept wings which can be a problem at high mach numbers in the transonic region. We'll see how things work out. Everyone swears it doesn't have a coffin corner! I hope they are right! The specs seem to indicate its not a problem. Well see how things work out! Im sure there will be some nail biting moments!!!! I'm trying to catch up at Renderosity tonight. I finally figured out how to post the "Infamous Cheesecake Recipe" on Renderosity so I'm gonna put that up later at I finish slaying e-bots!!! THE Boss sent a congratulations for passing the checkrides Godiva chocolate bouquet to my hotel room this morning!!!! Woo-Hoo!!! Ive already eaten half of it!!! While Im on vacation and doing pilot training, Im going to need to continue doing a lot of cut and pasting with just a tiny little real comment added!! Im really sorry, but I just dont have much time right now to write my usual wacko stuff! Ill be back on March 3rd!! WOW - What a super classic 'Vette!!!! AND I love the color!!! I always thought I should have a pink car!! The only problem is folks here would think I was a Maky Kay distributor!!!! Sports car all do have feminite lines. That's another reason I think guys like them so much!!! Super job with the car, gal, and background!!! Love ya!!! Meredith
meico
There's something unbearably sweet about fast pink cars ... a contradiction in terms that stirs the heart [I think] Mike
Desiderius
Very beautiful car!! Nice render
RodolfoCiminelli
Excellent realization and impressive modelling....!!!
NekhbetSun
Good one ~
Denys234
Excellent!
msebonyluv
Excellent lighting and scene hun!! Excellent work!!
moochagoo
Wonderful Corvette !!!
evinrude
Sweet ride.
Indoda
Excellent 'vette definitely a chick's ride. ;)
SophiaDeer
Outstanding shadows on this one!
Richardphotos
I do not recall seeing a coral pink Vette until now. looks to be an outstanding model after your magic
jocko500
this is super looking
coolcatcom
Super looking Vette !
Biffowitz
Awesome model, looks great but I'm not that crazy bout the paint job. Sweet render!!
evielouise
well she must be a ca gal pink car and on the hillside dreaming away ; most that youn looking are in the bars with britney spears lol lovely and wonderful dale!
Dann-O
Nice are out of curiosity does carrera support Fresel shaders. They are really something that will bring out that car and make it pop. Fesel and SSS are those things you read about and go poo!!! I don't need those!!! until you have them and then you go Ooooooh!!! that is what I have been missing.
tallpindo
Carrara does have fresnel and subsurfacescattering (SSS). On this car I am working on some modelling issues related to non-interlace moniors (random looking meshes) and flat mapping (extremely acute needles over a broad area of mesh and needles that make concave valleys where prominences should be.) That, with patches to cover areas of glint or highlight has kept me busy redoing the wireframe without altering the proportions and lines and reveals. I should try those better texturing techniques on the C-5 Corvette I have which has no wire frame issues being from the digital design era. I have yet to make a two line sweep! Gordon and Coon's surfaces await.