Thu, November 17, 2005
Air Raid—5:50 PM
One of the things I've always loved about 3D rendering is how easy it is to copy something once you've built it. If I wanted to draw a picture of two planes, I'd have a whole other plane to draw after I finished my first plane. But in 3D land, I can just build one plane and then hit Duplicate. (Of course, this can be taken to extremes – like the Lord of the Rings battle scenes.)
The assignment this week was to place my plane in an environment, so I decided to place multiple copies of my plane in the environment and stage a battle. Ideally, I'd have preferred a photograph from the deck of the battleship looking up into the sky – but those are pretty hard to come by. (Still, don't think I wasn't tempted to place the battle above this bunch of tourists or behind this guy's photo-op.)
