Post #800908 by TheLuckyParrot on Sun, Feb 23, 2020 9:43 AM

TRADER SAM FEATURE #7:

I am looking around and I think that this is the last entry I can make to the Trader Sam part of my overall project until I get back to the current work efforts. I think that after this last video is when I packed it up and set it aside for safe keeping and moved on to the volcano.

There are two things of interest in this video. First there is the general appeal of seeing the full and final artistic result now with the flora attached. It helps integrate what will be the overall look of the diorama into this feature and hide the mechanicals. It also helps hide Sam when the Moai is forward facing. Second, there is a lot for the tech-minded as I summarize and wrap up the last of the technical challenges I overcame to make this feature not only functional, but rock solid so that it will enjoy many duty cycles and have a long life without constant maintenance. (Which is important, because I don't want to have a final result that is not 100% functional and I also don't want to keep opening things up to repair stuff AND I have to consider that this project will outlive me and I don't want to burden or disappoint whoever ("whomever"? I can never figure that one out) it is that inherits it.

So here is the final progress report for the Trader Sam feature. Next I will start showing the work that went into Pele and her volcano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyRDPIuRPlk

[ Edited by: TheLuckyParrot 2020-02-24 20:56 ]

[ Edited by: TheLuckyParrot 2020-02-24 20:57 ]