Hon Hon Hon - Call me Nab, Atelier was my father

[ateliernab]

That moment when you have a SU file open, modelling pen clips to 3d print. and you open firefox to check something.
and you end up on the forum for 30 min.
and you close firefox.

and you haven’t checked the thig you needed to check, so you reopen firefox. and muscle meomry makes you open the forum.

darn.

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unrelated, I saw the tariffs war started, so I ordered a mini m4 / 32gb / 512 gb before it gets 20-something %
I’ll still teach twinmotion on my 3050 rtx PC, but I’m tempted to try my hand at Vray.

[napperkt]

About those tariffs. It WILL get more expensive because there is a fundamental logic error in that whole endeavour of the Man in the Bright Castle. Let us assume for a minute that it works. Tariffs make importing more expensive. Companies hence start investing in US based manufacturing. Any of you guys feel like working for Chinese wages in the US? I didn‘t think so. Hence you need to update prices of products to include local wages. Do in the end it doesn‘t matter if you pay a higher proce (cheap wages plus tariffs) or a higher price (high wages no tariffs) - you will end up paying more as a consumer. Your cheap work bench is gone. Back to the good old times where value was value. And you couldn‘t afford it.

It might still be a good thing because using cheap labor that you don‘t see is cheating in a way. And maybe it get‘s bad enough that cheap labor comes back to our first world countries. It may be good to have a true low income class again. And to reopen the coal mines and stuff that everybody can actually see and smell.

[Cotty]

@ateliernab

That moment when you have a SU file open, modelling pen clips to 3d print. and you open firefox to check something.

And you try to orbit with the middle mouse button in the browser…

[RLGL]

@napperkt

About those tariffs. It WILL get more expensive

I remember the 70’s and the stagflation prices never did come down when things got back to “normal”.

[eric-s]

I offer personalized V-Ray training (shhh, I haven’t advertised that yet) if I can help in any way.

[ateliernab]

I already took extensive notes during your fire-class in vegas. I need to decipher them now

[ateliernab]

this is what happens when you joint pushpull a complex face and misclick.

looks like something is trying to escape the grid. better call tron.

[ateliernab]

it was in my todolist. for quite some time.

edit : @Danimaupin already has hers, but how about @bmike and @RTCool ? I thought all the sages had to do their face-me character ?

[RTCool]

Love it. It was on my todolist also. I started one years ago, but did, as with many things, got bogged down and didn’t finish it. Ok, ok, back on the todolist again.

[Danimaupin]

We’ll have to collect them all for a group photo.

[ateliernab]

well there is this official collection to be added in

3D Warehouse

(I’ve shared myself in the warehouse. what a weird sentence to type)

[Anssi]

@ateliernab

I thought all the sages had to do their face-me character ?

That was quite long ago. The ones created then are in the Warehouse.

[Danimaupin]

@ateliernab

well there is this official collection to be added in

Fun! I have never even thought to look!

[ateliernab]

woke up this morning to a problematic situation on the parking lot.

you can clearly see three unpainted car, but the middle one is reversed. You should never see a reversed car. just right click on it and reverse it back so it’s white.

(edit : I’ll also assume they are properly tagged. The parking lot isn’t purged though, the blue car you see on the left hasn’t moved in over 3 years. But when I try to purge manually, it crashes.)

(don’t mind the dust, it’s pollen season + last week we had a sirocco episode, everything is dusty)

[bmike]

Is your parking space a long way from the origin?

[ateliernab]

well fun fact, the zero altitude (in france) is measured in Marseille. pretty much no tides, so it’s stable. You could call this the origin.

that being said, yeah, I’m about 5 320 000 mm away from this point, that explains why the concrete on the floor is starting to break. It’s a visual glitch due to distance.

also, vegetation. It’s either ugly or heavy, and in this case it’s clearly heavy.

[bmike]

You should try using proxies for the vegetation. Or maybe simple face camera composts made out of 6x9 pixel images. That will really lighten things up.

Re: concrete - no amount of rebar can fix the origin glitch. Sorry. Consider moving closer to the origin, or maybe using blunder. It’s free you know.

[ateliernab]

haven’t posted anything of value here in a while, it’s been a busy spring, and I guess that the “downside” of being treated for anxiety is the fact that the stuff I used to do to counter that… well I don’t feel the need to do it any more (talking about the paper art mostly)

still, a guy I know is opening a wedding venue in a castle, and he’d like some art for it.
I guess it’s time to crank the anxiety back up. fortunately, there is enough going on in the world that will help me…

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still, bits of 3d printing, made a couple of lampshades for my living room, I used to have some old crappy paper IKEA ones, now it’s way more stylish.
started from a model on makerworld, but because it was dimensioned for bigger printers and smaller sockets, I ended up remodelling parts of it in SU.

joke is, I barely use these lamps, I don’t like global lighting, I prefer a controlled individual lamps giving different moods.

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working on a car project for an architect client, can’t show it here yet (ever?). It’s been pushing the limit of what I consider doing in sketchup acceptable (slicing car bits with zorro feels so wrong)
as a side piece, I’m making him new wheels for a 1/10th ferrari 250gto. the original looked bad, I did a first try using actual dimensions for the Borrani wheels, then making a thicker version.
it’s an RC model but it’s only for his office, as a deco piece.

this needs a bit of scraping / polishing, but I’m letting him some stuff to do
I’ll soon do a full set of 4, this one will be the backup tire.

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I also spent time making a penclip. but now I realise I haven’t got a single good photo. I’ll check that tomorrow
precise printing is hard. the slightest dilatation of the material can create too much friction and require sanding down stuff.
but there is something quite cool about sketching, making, cutting, breaking, sketching again, and having several iterations until you’re satisfied.

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finally, I guess I’m going full circle. I started with plastic models back when I was 6-7, did some warhammer as a teenager, moved to just pleasure painting (random miniatures, bust…) and then, due to architecture school taking all my free time, just stopped.
well, 15years later, I just bought some paints again. I’ve printed Porco Rosso’s plane for my niece (half italian, loves planes, 4yold, not that many good looking non-warplanes around)

I’m gonna have to paint big italian flags, and even some freehand stuff.

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printed a few cool things too, and now I have paint I feel they deserve to be upgraded.