These two movies feature Javantea's 40th body. Although I've modeled up to body 44, I have decided that this is the best Javantea model yet. In the running model, you can notice the pinching effect is almost zero. The shoulders, elbows, and knees are important areas for pinching. The wincing video shows Javantea actually expressing emotion, which is better than in real life*. Each of these are less than 100k, so don't worry, be happy. If your browser doesn't support it, click here and here.
Yesterday, I posted something and then forgot to actually explain the image. I feel bad. Go back to see the full explanation of that sweet picture. But when you finish reading it, come back here because I got a treat for you. This is a 3D drum. There are a few things about this drum, so I want to explain a few things about them before I go on about how I mastered this artwork. Two years ago, I built a drum in my dorm room. I bought a 2'x2'x1" piece of super-ply. I bought nylon cord, brass tubing, a coping saw, and a 16" goatskin drumhead over the internet. With the coping saw, I cut the plywood board into four pieces. I put two pieces away and they are still sitting in my toolbox. The other two would become the drum body. How does a person turn two 1'x1'x1" super-plywood boards into a drum body? Simple, you cut concentric rings out of each of the boards. But the concentric rings are more tightly packed on one of the boards than the other. Then you take the widest ring from the wider-spaced rings board and put it at the top. Then you take the widest ring from the thinner-spaced rings board and put it under. They fit together with an airtight seal. You glue them together. Then you cut more and more concentric rings until you have a drum with the correct height. It's harder than it sounds. A coping saw is the wrong tool for the job. Later, I learned that a band saw could not only do that in five minutes, but it could cut it at an angle so that the drum body would be smooth inside and out. Instead, my drum is layered. That's fine with me. It may create a high noise to sound ratio, but it sure does put out a lot of volume. It can make more noise than a person shouting at the top of their lungs and it projects off buildings and over hills. I know because people have told me so when I drum. I made the goatskin head wrong. You're supposed to soak it for many hours and I soaked it for half an hour. It was nice and rubbery when I took it out, so I thought it would be good. But it wasn't. It's as stiff as a board. It won't make a proper sound. I even analyzed it with my AltSci3D Direct Acqusition for a Physics 207 (Physics of Music) term paper. You can read that paper here.
