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Originally posted by Foxe
My art team has this to say about the 'drone' images however:
"Judging by the lighting in the supposed "Drone" photographs, it seems to me that they are fakes, as the shadows never seem to match the environment. It should also be noted that the "Drone" does not cast any shadows onto the environment, either. Light either passes straight through it, or isn't there. In some photos, the "Drone" appears to be sharper than it's surroundings...as if added to an existing photograph. In my opinion, the "Drone" appears to be an elaborate hoax created by a CGI artist with an imagination and a 3D suite. Kudos for them, they did a good job in designing it, but made a few mistakes that gave it away."
[edit on 28-6-2007 by Foxe]
Originally posted by an0maly33
i know you can transform skins any way you like, my point is that the artist didn't take the time to create a new skin for the other half. he just flipped the on he already had.
Originally posted by an0maly33
i've taken a pretty close look at the photos. even if they aren't what they purport to be, i do believe they are physical objects and not photoshopped. the reflections are just too accurate and detailed to be cg imo. i'm not declaring that i'm right but it sure is a damn good cg job if it is. especially in 4.2 you can see the reflection of the "generator" that's sitting off camera to the left. you can alos see reflections of the markings on the insides of both objects.
in 4.1 you can see in the reflection that there is an "edge" to the white space the object is sitting on. so if this was rendered then the artist would have put this against a white plane instead of making the surrounding space completely white. if you think in terms of this being a large object then it can't possibly be real - i think that's the perception that some people have. but if you think of this in terms of an object sitting on a table then the images look pretty authentic.
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[edit on 27-6-2007 by an0maly33]
Originally posted by SuicideVirus
Anybody besides me find this a little too convenient? In most of the major discussions of the drones, a recurring criticism was that the lettering appeared to be essentially functionless. It serves no apparent purpose. Then a few weeks go by, and suddenly this stuff pops up that offers an explanation of not only why the lettering is there, but actually says that the lettering is a critical "component" of the ship and its design! It's not just lettering, but a kind of expression of the holographic construction of the craft itself, and possibly necessary for the control of the ship via psychic transmission (those are the blacked out parts, the parts about the telepathic control mechanism).
I don't know. Like I said, I find this a little too convenient, given that the complexity of the design and the information about seems to always be increasing in real time for us. Simple to more complex. We don't get to see the more complex stuff first, or out of order. It's unfolding for us as we look at it, rather than just being lumped on us all at once for us to try to figure out why some stuff looks simple and other stuff involves magic lettering an holographic construction.
Just sayin'.
Originally posted by an0maly33
i know you can transform skins any way you like, my point is that the artist didn't take the time to create a new skin for the other half. he just flipped the on he already had.
the object is symmetrical across that center point. the little spikes on both ends match position exactly.
Originally posted by 11 11
Originally posted by an0maly33
i know you can transform skins any way you like, my point is that the artist didn't take the time to create a new skin for the other half. he just flipped the on he already had.
the object is symmetrical across that center point. the little spikes on both ends match position exactly.
You are correct, the lazy 3D modeler that created this CG render got lazy, or just used common practice with symtrical objects. You see, when someone is about to make a 3D model of a car, they only have to model half of the car cut down the middle, clone it, and mirror it to complete the car and to make sure both sides are identical. This is EXACTLY what the modeler did on this CG render. The entire craft inluding the textures were cloned and mirrored to create the other half....
I made this image to show what i mean. Imagine the red rectangle is a mirror, you get exactly the same on both sides, except the font, which was not changed..
Its so obvious this is a CG render...
Originally posted by megawatts
This is Honey Trap:-
They are looking for one of you guys to come up with a real answer. Then Bingo Knock on the door, and you will disappear.. working for those that cannot be spoken of.
This has real ET material, mixed with junk to sort the men from the boys.
You are on dangerous ground here. Its not a Hoax, but it is. Just make sure you don't mention to anyone what bit is and isn't.
That's my call.
BY