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 (12)
3DClassics123456
Do you know Robert Czarny's pictures? He is a polish S.F. artist and he formerly worked with an old 386 P.C. He had to "hunt" and kill every unused polygon and his pictures where very realistic. Must we have gigabites meory and the ultimate P.C.? http://www.graphique3d.republika.pl/
RodolfoCiminelli
Excelelnt realization....!!!!!
sessan53
Superb scene on this picture. Like it:-)hugs sessan
lightstormcrow
My computer is way to slow to up with such high action components...Your 3D modeling is ALWAYS top notch...
cmcc
interesting comments. nice pic.
Richardphotos
looks like things are heating up in the welder shop and it is not the blow torch.the Vette engine is excellent as the poses
Mad-Mike
AHhh the good old MFM hard hard drive days, and also 56k modems and don't forget the bbs's!! My first computer was a kit.. Sinclair zx-81 ~ 3.25 MHz ~ 8K ROM, 1K RAM externally expandable to 64K (56K usable) ~ Monochrome only display ~ storage was External cassette recorder!
timtripp
my fist machine was an osborne. not even an osborne 2. 64k ram, cpm os, 100k floppies (it was a dual floppy machine one floppy for software, one for storage) and no graphics card. later i got a 400 baud modem and could dial-up 'prodigy' for real time stock quotes. i still remember getting a 100 meg hard drive and thinking i would never fill it. times change, but not nearly as much as the advertisers would like us to believe. could it be because the human condition doesn't really change at all?
goodoleboy
From your wonderful graphics work with modeling in Bryce and Poser, I thought for sure you were using a Macintosh. I can't remember the name of my first computer, but it had an 80MB hard drive, 10MB of RAM and a 12-inch screen, but with the black frame it was actually 9-inches.
moochagoo
Excellent collage !
efron_241
Great pose !! Super Fun with the animal in the back !
evielouise
Great modeling as usual dale !