Zev or Xev
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Originally posted by DalekTek790:
I have a personal question for you, Flame. Where did you get that image? Did you make it yourself. If so, can I find it (and other digital art you’ve done) online?
I made the image myself using a 3d animation program called [i]SoftImage[/i] while in art school. I’m rebuilding a better version of the character in [i]3d Studio Max[/i] and/or [i]Poser[/i].
Flamegrape has been a project that’s been on the back-burner for a while now. I want to use the character as the mascot of my website. Or better yet, as the main character of a videogame. She’s loosely inspired by a number of other charaters: Artemis, Sil (from [i]Species[/i]), the android from [i]Metropolis[/i], that female robot from Frank Miller’s [i]Hard Boiled[/i], [url=http://www.flamegrape.com/abbydalton/index.htm]Abby Dalton[/url] in [url=http://www.mst3kinfo.com/daddyo/di_317.html]Viking Women vs The Sea Serpent[/url], Jellybean from [i]Even Cowgirls Get The Blues[/i] (or maybe she’s more like the Chink– “Ha ha ho ho hee hee”), Xev (not Zev– get it straight, Lee), Lara Croft, [b]not Xena[/b], Sandy Bullock as Gracie-Lou Freebush in [i]Miss Congeniality[/i], Barbara Eden from [i]I Dream of Genie[/i], Catherine Schell as [url=http://www.flamegrape.com/maya/index.htm]Maya of Psychon[/url] on [i]Space:1999[/i], Patricia Tallman as [url=http://www.flamegrape.com/lytaalexander/index.htm]Lyta Alexander[/url] on [i]Babylon 5[/i], Sioxie Sioux, Pris from [i]Blade Runner[/i]…. you might get the idea by now.
Once I complete the new version of the character model, I’ll have images available for download. That might be next year at the rate I’m going. The first version I made could not talk, have facial expressions (other than blink), or have poseable hands. The new one will.
On a final note, the face of Flamegrapae is actually the face of a girl I knew in art school. To prove that one doesn’t need expensive laser scanning equipment to make an acurate 3d model of a person’s face, I replicated this girl’s face by having her model for me and I simply used a makeup pencil and photography. Unfortunately, that girl was killed in the ValueJet plane crash in 1996 a week before she and I graduated. This computer-generated model is all I have left of her. Flamegrape will always remain in existence as long as I live.
(And yes, she saw my work before she died and thought it was really cool! And if anyone starts singing [i]My Heart Will Go On[/i], I will beat you with a clown hammer.)
[ 17-11-2001: Message edited by: Flamegrape ]