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How'd they do that anyhow?Craig: Here we talk about a few miscellaneous, yet snappy sharp aspects of some of the artwork that was done for the game. One of my personal favorites (besides the Iron Ring forge) was the work to give George Dyke a megaphone. Tons o' fun. Hear no megaphone, see no megaphone, speak no megaphone.
Here he is in all his bull-horn glory.
Your Iron Ring is ready.The idea of having an "Ultimate Weapon" was something that Rob and I had toyed with for a while. One day we stumbled over our own silliness and realized that the very symbol of Engineering itself could and SHOULD be that tool. Thus the Iron Ring became a part of the PoleGame, and there was much rejoicing.
The forge is an exaggerated mechanical device which demonstrates the four different states of an Iron Ring in development. At each 1/3 of the way to completion, the forge swings onscreen and stamps the blank into the next stage of its development.
Poof! Your Iron Ring is ready. Now came the fun part. What should this monster look like?Here are the stages of development that the Iron Ring forge went through, before become the coolio 3D wonder it is today!
How was it made?Once the concept was down, and the sketches made for how the forge should appear, all there was left to do was build it. Using 3D Studio MAX, I constructed a wireframe model. By "painting" on textures, I was able to assign colour and texture to the model. Later, just as a photographer would, I set up appropriate light-sources and cameras to illuminate the forge and film it. The swinging and stamping motions were created by assigning key placements for the forge, like start and finish, as well as the stamp position, and allowing the computer to fill in the sequence. Much like a junior animator, the software helped create the transitional frames from one important action to another. What the heck was it going to do anyway?We thought a lot about this, a decided on something unexpected. The mystical nature of the powers that the Iron Ring conjures up, when directed towards someone who is not yet "seasoned" in the Queen's environment, cause a rather alarming change. The frosh are transformed into a more "primitive" yet symbolic gesture of Queen's spirit: sheep, and cows with the wings of eagles. I say no more.
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