#Helmet Vintage

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INTRUDER ALERT - BLU ENGINEER - IN BASE

and he's having some kind of weird yuri with red soldier can we get this guy out of here. cant stand their gayasses theyre making out in the intelligence room and being weird about it

bonus and variant under the cut

bonus:

"SO I SOLVE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS,"

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[semioticapocalypse]

Commander Richard Byrd, wearing a specially designed leather helmet and mask, used during his flight from Spitzbergen over the North Pole and back in a Fokker Plane, making the trip of 1,360 miles. May 10, 1926

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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I've been feeling p sick this last week, which for some reason means that my brain really really wanted me to do nothing but focus on creating this render. I created as a means to get better at using Alias Poweranimator 9.0 because I eventually hope to use this program to make environments for games. I am really happy with the process of making this render, and I feel like I learned a whole lot! It's definitely the most detailed thing I've made in any of these old 3d programs so far, and it's given me a lot of confidence that I can pull some cool stuff off. I'm considering making some kinda video documenting some nurbs modeling techniques I learned since this kinda modeling is super dead and there is very little documentation on how they were doin it in the 90s. Lmk if that is something anyone would be interested in. (UPDATE: I did it: https://youtu.be/G8NmDeGIXZE) The only thing blocking me rn is annoying bugs that come up when running this on modern hardware, and the fact that I'm currently having issues getting it cracked on my windows xp machine. Anyway, here are some behind the scenes photos and variants of the wallpaper:

Here is what the wireframe looks like in tha program

Here is my initial sketch alongside some theory crafting sketching on how to model certain shapes. Making stuff with nurbs is super fun because everything feels like some kinda open-ended puzzle lol.

Here are a couple wallpaper variants I made with some color adjustments meant to test how they would look in printing. Modus Interactive and I figured this kinda thing is what gives a lot of 90s renders those distinct colors.

Here are some 4:3 crops for all of you out there who know what is good and true in this world.

Here are a couple high contrast ones as a treat.

Last but not least, here is just a buncha random behind the scenes screenshots:

Thank u for checkin this out I spent a lotta time on it and had a good time yippe wahoo

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Handbook of Ornament (1900) Franz Sales Meyer

[we-are-knight]

Knight in Shining Armour, by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1926)

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(via Pulp International - Cover and interiors from Continental Film Review published July 1967)

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Helmut Koinigg in a Martini advert

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but you're the next best thing.

surprise surprise. more blu engie. head in my fucking hands. based on more conversations with @necro-hamster because we r both so ill about engie and the stark difference between his soldiers

crop and textless under the cut

[flexidisk]

Apple II Forever!

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US Army Air Forces Flying Helmets, 1947 ad

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internet find

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We pay these guys, but we can’t buy them. Bell Helmets ad - 1982.

[we-are-knight]

The Young Knight by Howard Chandler Christy (1911)

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Star Trek: The Original Series (Paramount TV, 1968), "Knowledge Helmet" from Episode "Spock's Brain"

Vintage original "The Great Teacher of All the Ancient Knowledge" bubble helmet constructed of a clear acrylic dome with aluminum disc protrusions at ear level and tooled aluminum component spires, spikes and acrylic knobs to serve as "feeder circuits" to the brain, attached to the helmet by nuts-and-bolts hardware on the interior.