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My latest miniature is one of Bossk in a loincloth. I used an air-dry medium for it, as opposed to my usual Sculpey. It was a bit more papery and fibery than what I'm used to using. But, I'm gonna keep using it, because I got it for free and baking my Sculpey stinks up the apartment.

Several fan characters, so that would be six, plus the tauntaun and that's seven, and now Bossk in a loincloth to go with Zuckuss in alchemist garb, so that's eight. Up next on my list is Dengar in his ranger costume, then Greedo the thief, IG-88 the fighter, and 4-LOM the bard.

I use Das, as there was a pack of it at my mom's house. I haven't tried other air-dry mediums, but next time I get to the store, I plan to look into it. I'd rather a medium that has the same texture as Sculpey, as Das is very fibrous and papery. It's also extra messy and smells weird.

I used old paper and wall-paper glue and wire to make my sculptures

I've done some rendering in Lightwave and 3D Studio Max. Played around with Blender for a bit, too. It was okay, I wasn't too terrible at it. But, I prefer 2D, and if I wanna make anything three-dimensional, I'd much rather get my hands dirty in clay. Or papier mache. Something messy and fun to play with. Something that will produce tangible results.

Some day, though, when I get a better computer, I'd like to try Zbrush. It uses voxels and can make some very nice models. However, rigging those models for animation is a whole other story and not something that's recommended.

Ooh, how about when you're rotating your model and your view gets gimbal lock? Or, while animating, the model's limb suffers gimbal lock? Really annoying when that happens. And when the wrong points weld or when you have weight maps that are interfering with another part of the model, or that no matter how you fine-tune it, the IK chains still won't work right, or that the drag tool keeps dragging the wrong poly because its point is connected to another point and it's somewhere in some giant mess and you can't be arsed to go back and look for it just to correct it? And the endomorphs simply won't follow the key frames that you have set, no matter how much you mess with the timeline, and the animation is moving too fast for the dub, or the character's arm is doing really weird stuff because the rigging is all messed up and needs to be redone again for the umpteenth time...

I like rendering stuff for still images. Animating those renders drives me nuts. I prefer to either draw it or do stop-motion. Action figures and puppets cooperate far better.

If the programs used quaternion rotations rather than Euler, gimbal locks wouldn't happen at all. The gimbal lock happens whenever the axis merge during rotation and a degree of motion is lost. This happens in robotics, too. To correct the problem, the limb (or model) will rotate 180 degrees in zero time. It looks really weird when the rotation view does it, or your biped suddenly spins their leg like Sonic at high speed, and whenever factory robots do it, the results could be quite... dramatic.

Gimbal locks have made me wonder... would droids in the GFFA ever suffer from that problem? Or were their designers smart enough to use quaternion rotations?

I cheat and draw a texture.

But, yes, on gimbal locks... I'm just picturing some scenario happening with droids that tend to be more mobile and active. For example, 4-LOM goes to aim at a target, his shoulder suffers gimbal lock, and his arm spins 180 in zero time and flies clean off, almost taking off Zuckuss's head.

Zuckuss: ...What the hell was that?!

4-LOM: Gimbal lock. Could I have my arm back?

Heh, well, judging by his configuration, he may not have to worry too much about gimbal lock. If his entire chassis was moved in a certain way as to merge his rotation axis, he may then try to spin and correct it. Threepio, on the other hand, since he has joints that would utilize an X, Y, and Z axis, would be more prone to gimbal lock. His wrists and shoulders would be the joints that would suffer from this problem, if he were to do a series of movements that would merge his rotation points. Though, if his gimbal lock ended up taking off Artoo's dome... then yes, that would change the course of history forever.

Oh dear, particularly once he starts spinning lightsabers... Far too easy for him to start losing ranges of motion and his limbs to go haywire. And since we're talking about prostheses... Woe be anyone who's artificial limb suffers gimbal lock... Vader might encounter a few problems.

I'm going to assume, that since we hadn't seen any instance in any source of droids having this problem, that the GFFA uses quaternions.

And Pascal looks adorable. I love chameleon eyes.

I love Pascal and waiting to see him with colours