I've been playing with 3D Modeling, and "Skinning" 3D Figures with Fractals and Animating the Character!
If you've seen my latest post in "Chaoscope Meets Mutatorkammer" (here -
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?topic=473.15 ) then you have seen some abstract work.
Here is my First attempt at "skinning" one of the given 3D Humans (Victoria - DAZ 3D Studio Freeware) with that same fractal! Plus one more for the face, and one for the background!
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/3dtest3.png
http://i106.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/sockratease/e9ee0d7d.flvThe animation is HORRIBLE!!
But it's my first effort.
I wanted to have the pretty lady fly gracefully around the spiral, and grow in the process to make the illusion of 3D more pronounced.
Well...
I need a LOT of practice. The end is pretty much what I had in mind, and thought I set up in keyframes... but the beginning is both slow and WAY off the path I was trying to set!! But The End is Great! I got the "Sliding down the curve" to look good!!
But I am having fun playing with all the different ways to use fractals I can think of, and with some work on animation and lighting (Much work on Lighting!) this could be interesting!
I make AMATEUR little Flash Games, and think I may be able to create a 3D Fractal World type thing eventually.
Could be fun!
Practice is next.
Then better software. Then a computer with a Real processor instead my crappy little celeron thing. Maybe a nice video card. And Time! I'll need Time to make this work, but that was my first effort at anything like this, so I posted it!