{"id":3764,"date":"2010-04-24T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2010-04-21T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T08:23:07","slug":"making-some-new-quills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=3764","title":{"rendered":"Making some new quills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been using the quills made by Supercaptain a lot for my merchant desks, so I just stumbled upon a nice feather picture at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgtextures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CGTextures<\/a>, and though, I could make some new quills.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is the picture I found, what caught my attention was that it was against a dark, almost black surface, making it possible to make it transparent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3770\" title=\"qui01\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, I whipped up a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filterforge.com\/?affiliateid=200100725\" target=\"_blank\">FilterForge<\/a> Filter, very simple, to remove the black and make it transparent. The I cut out three different feathers to work with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3769\" title=\"qui02\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the feathers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3768\" title=\"qui03\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another one.<\/p>\n<p>Now using another filter for FilterForge that I just quickly put together, I added some color to the feathers.<br \/>\nNow, I really needed a head for the quill, so I started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheetah3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheetah3D<\/a> and made a quick model, like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3767\" title=\"qui04\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one looks nice, but as I will be working in a very small scale, most of the nice details will be missing.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a set of quills I made, assembled in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omnigraffle\/\" target=\"_blank\">OmniGraffle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3766\" title=\"qui05\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/qui05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"446\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know this was a little short, but I&#8217;ve been busy with a lot of stuff, among them making &#8220;The Neverending Starterkit&#8221;, and started to work on &#8220;The Neverending Docks&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been using the quills made by Supercaptain a lot for my merchant desks, so I just stumbled upon a nice feather picture at CGTextures, and though, I could make some new quills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[15,12,13,10],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cgtextures","tag-cheetah3d","tag-filterforge","tag-omnigraffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}