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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="2">Painting 
                        on Polygons:</font><font color="#904C10" size="4"><br>
                        Critiques</font></i></font></b><br>
                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
                        Rick &quot;<a href="mailto:flat@iserv.net">Flatness</a>&quot; 
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 12<br>
                      February 17, 2000</font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Somebody 
                told me the explosion wasn't realistic. How can I make it more 
                realistic?</i></font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is 
                a tough question for me to answer, actually. For one, I&#146;m 
                not sure if a human being has ever seen and explosion in outer 
                space (other than a supernova, but that&#146;s not what were talking 
                about here). Maybe NASA has performed some weird experiment to 
                see the properties explosive matter in space -- although I haven&#146;t 
                heard of it -- but considering that there is basically no oxygen 
                in space I wouldn&#146;t have a clue what it would really look 
                like. Anyhwho... since this is science fiction, you really have 
                to use you imagination to think one up. The one thing offhand 
                that I would immediately do to make your explosion look more real 
                is make chunks of metal flying out from the blast hole. Also, 
                you might want to alter your mesh and make part of the base peeled 
                back from the blast. Nice work on your graphic, I hope my advice 
                helped.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On to 
                the next critique...</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is 
                an image sent in by Angus &quot;froofy&quot; McCann (<a href="mailto:macnel@primus.com.au">macnel@primus.com.au</a>). 
                </font></p>
              <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.12/pop/images/angusbig.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;h=516&amp;back=/content/2.12/pop/index2.php&amp;name=Painting%20on%20Polygons"><img src="images/angusthumb.jpg" width="100" height="74" border="1"></a></font></p>
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              <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><ignoreme>(<a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.12/pop/images/angusbig.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;h=516&amp;back=/content/2.12/pop/index2.php&amp;name=Painting%20on%20Polygons">click 
                for a larger view</a>)</ignoreme></font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Angus 
                sends word that it was created using 2b and 3b pencils, then scanned 
                and cleaned up in Paint Shop Pro.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is 
                a really nice drawing. You can see that Angus spent a lot of time 
                doing some nice detail work inside every part of the drawing. 
                He also did a nice job getting the arms to extend outward and 
                forward.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A few 
                things that I can see that might make the robot look better is 
                by making the legs longer. They are looking a bit stubby to me 
                and could be extended downward quite a bit. Also, it would be 
                nice to see the feet extend outward too. I think they wouldn&#146;t 
                be really be big enough to support the size and weight of the 
                robot.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You definitely 
                have some cool machinery going on this guy&#146;s body and I particularly 
                think the head is well created -- it&#146;s kind of small for 
                the body, but I personally think it looks cool that way. Another 
                thing I was thinking is that the waist of the robot might be too 
                big. I think there is just too much girth there -- looking from 
                the armpits down to the waist, there isn&#146;t much of a change 
                (it kind of indents in, but could probably stand to go even further 
                in). Instead of just having it gradiently pinch inward, maybe 
                if it sort of steped in at one point. All in all this is very 
                nice. You&#146;re definitely on your way!</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, 
                that&#146;s all the time I have this week. I hope this was helpful 
                not only to the artists who sent their work in, but also for others. 
                Critiques are a part of just about any college art course you 
                take because they help people learn to see and understand art 
                styles and techniques. Also, the best part is that it helps artists 
                improve. Thank you very much to both O.DOGG and Angus for submitting 
                their work.<br>
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                  - Rick &quot;Flatness&quot; Grossenbacher works on Gameboy Color 
                  games for Vicarious Visions.</i></font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Illustration 
  &copy; 2000 Dan Zalkus. Painting on Polygons is &copy; 2000 Rick Grossenbacher. 
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