🧵 Just found an old usb.
the chair nerd at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 02:52:38 UTC No. 948293
So I just found and old usb that contains a series of images that I thought were gone for good.
Since I know some of you guys enjoy vintage renders I'm gonna go ahead and dump some of them. A big chunk was made in Discreet 3ds max 5 and 6 back in 2002-2003 when I was a little shit. Now I am a huge piece of shit. I hope you enjoy them as much as 12 year old me was proud of them.
I specifically remember that my first 3d rendering ever was a wireframe of an airplane from the 3ds max plane tutorial that came with the cd. That is far gone because I used to save my my projects on cd's.
But picrel may be 1 or two weeks in when I was just playing around with the software, learning empirically and not knowing that I could make bigger images that the default 640px x 480px. All the engine trusts were made in an old corel draw that was already installed in the family computer.
So please enjoy.
the chair nerd at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:00:25 UTC No. 948294
Back then because I was a little shit without internet on the family computer (dial up and only one landline for my sister to talk with her friends) I specifically remember being obsessed with Halo CE. I didn't have access to a copy of that but I played occasionally on a friends house. So I modeled the warthog from memory.
the chair nerd at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:14:40 UTC No. 948298
Back in the Napster and EMule days the only thing I listened was hard rock and techno. So I wanted to be a dj or at least have one of those futuristic consoles This was one of my first "Serious files" and by that I mean multiple renders and not just a doodle after school. This was the first thing that took me more than one afternoon after school to make.
the chair nerd at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:16:10 UTC No. 948299
Don't know how to make clouds? No problem I
'll just add them in Photoshop.
the chair nerd at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:35:30 UTC No. 948306
Had a friend at school. Early on I made many renders for him and ended up teaching him how to use 3ds max. One of those renders was a series of 'Digital Trophies' of an aom tournament he organized at the end of school year.
Funny thing is that he was one of the lead animators in Arcane and has worked in many Illumination films. Never talked back tohim after school cuz he became a communist just like all animators.
Names obviously censored.
Anonymous at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:53:06 UTC No. 948309
The SOVL
Thanks for sharing. Love the signature, I remember when I changed mine with every new render back then.
the chair nerd at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:53:15 UTC No. 948310
I was broke as fuck as many 12 year olds are so in order to play mtg I bought cheap lands form my peers and using an old inkjet I printed my own cards after erasing them with acetone and a lot of rubbing. About 1 out of 5 tries looked decent under a sleeve.
I realized nothing stopped me from making my own cards and use my own 3d renderings. I even managed to sell a couple of them.
the chair nerd at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 03:55:56 UTC No. 948311
>>948309
Thanks Yep I'm familiar with that. If you look closely cuz I didn't know how to use shapes in corel or photoshop the signatura was actually a png out of a thick spline rendered in max hahaha
the chair nerd at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 04:00:42 UTC No. 948312
I remember my old geforce3 video card. I think it had 512mb of video memory. That was huge back then. But them, nothing stopped me from imagining my own 2gb vram gpu! OMFG 2 WHOLE GB OF VIDEO MEMORY THAT IS A LOT!
Anonymous at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 04:39:28 UTC No. 948316
These are freaking awesome dude, loved them all
Anonymous at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:57:11 UTC No. 948337
>>948304
I hope that the coming Age of Mythology is good.
Anonymous at Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:58:46 UTC No. 948339
>>948301
just like your mom's bedroom
Anonymous at Thu, 15 Jun 2023 01:54:36 UTC No. 948394
>>948300
you gotta open the windows when you take a shower, breh
the chair nerd at Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:17:30 UTC No. 948463
So back in 2004 to about 2007 I started using the 3d Total Forums. For those familiar with those the community was stupidly awesome and I learned a lot just by watching the progress on some of the real artists on those boards. What I've always loved is 3d modelling and I got to participate in many of the community sponsored Fast Modelling Challenges.
3d Total Forums is dead now and so is my passion for 3d. Now its just ajob for me but back then it was a really fucking fun hobby.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jun 2023 20:21:09 UTC No. 948643
This thread exemplifies the old days of the Internet. When people were INTERESTED in CREATION. You had people with humor, with gusto, with ability. This is what I miss most, the spiritual aspect. You had motherfuckers with baseball caps on backwards making the most eclectic and awesome shit. Now you got industry corporate drug addicts making "smooth CGI"
the chair nerd at Sat, 17 Jun 2023 23:50:30 UTC No. 948675
This was animated before I knew anithing about bones and controllers so everything you see was animated and then linked to a pov so it woul'nt destroy the animation.
Yep I was fucking clueless and I loved it.
Anonymous at Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:45:36 UTC No. 948726
>>948293
>So I just found and old usb that contains a series of images that I thought were gone for good.
based if true. cringe if you're a zoomer larping as an early 2000's artist. but judging by your backstory and period accurate aesthetics (which zoomers always to get it wrong) im pretty sure you are the former.
good thread, anon. this is real, genuine Y2K aesthetics gold.
Anonymous at Sun, 18 Jun 2023 14:05:56 UTC No. 948734
>>948463
>3DTotal
oh shitt that really brings me back. havent visited them in a loong time. also RIP to 3DCafe and Deathfall too. they're all part of my fave 2000's 3d communities
Anonymous at Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:52:12 UTC No. 948740
>>948348
This isn't even a bullpup. It's like a pistol for a 20 or 30mm cartridge
the chair nerd at Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:41:26 UTC No. 948761
>>948740
Yeah sorry bull pup I think its when the trigger grip is in front of the casing opening. My bad.
>>948733
Fuck yeah brother. Enjoy this render.
>>948734
Oh 3d cafe the memories. Shit has definitely gone to shit.
Anonymous at Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:16:27 UTC No. 949342
>>948476
>modelling: 59min
impressive
the chair nerd at Sun, 25 Jun 2023 17:01:40 UTC No. 949350
>>949342
Nah. What's impressive is how I came up with such an idiotic concept like "car jack in the box" without drugs.
Anonymous at Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:32:24 UTC No. 949437
>>948296
"Se buscan putas", nice work!
Anonymous at Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:56:01 UTC No. 949438
>>949437
Something that I read at an actual stadium bathroom.
Anonymous at Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:20:48 UTC No. 949513
From what I can tell, the majority of the works in this thread is like : hey, look at me, i can do X in Y amount of time, I am so special, even if it looks bad and is very poorly lit and the subject matter is a clear rip. And now what is going to happen is that your competition, the AI, is going to go down to I can do X in less than 30 seconds. I feel like you are jerking yourself off in this thread, for really boring, predictable, mediocre work to boot.
the chair nerd at Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:37:14 UTC No. 949515
>>949513
>you are jerking yourself off in this thread
Who isn't? Are you the only selfless person in 4chan?
the chair nerd at Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:38:54 UTC No. 949516
>>949513
Those works were submissions to a speed modelling contest back in 2004-2006.
Anonymous at Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:43:32 UTC No. 949517
>>949515
I don't post work here. I post work for likes on real social media and I certainly don't "speed model". Cutting edge smut.
the chair nerd at Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:54:52 UTC No. 949520
Believe it or not what made me want to study architecture was the Fifth Element. I was obsessed with 'japanese molecular' architecture that inspired the design of Corben Dallas's apartment.
Now I can't even touch those ideas with a stick.
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:21:40 UTC No. 949557
>>949520
looks like the inside of a fancy RV
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:34:26 UTC No. 949564
>>949513
>i feel threatened by what a child did in 2005
the chair nerd at Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:16:47 UTC No. 949568
>>949564
Lawl