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ArgoForg — Out For A Drive
Published: 2006-11-23 17:31:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 9872; Favourites: 76; Downloads: 262
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Part of the 100 Challenge, namely 9. Drive. And yes, I didn't take the definition I'm sure was planned when that list came about. I'm just chaotic like that.
This one came from an idea that the incomparable gave to me, and as soon as she suggested it, it lodged itself into the evil recesses of my head and demanded to be made. The poor cute lil fairy (especially the curled-toe socks and wings) is a major tip of the cap to , whose work is all kinds of awesome. If you don't think so, I'm afraid I'll have to kick you in the back of the head until you think otherwise. Hope ya like it, too, Snow!
The details: the car came from a source I can't find anymore (which likely means they have been brokered by Daz), and of course Bob the Retarded Basilisk is from Daz, with some tweaks to make him goofy courtesy o' me. Other artists who contributed their work to my sordid sense of statuification were Goldtassel and SWAM, Linwhite and Flirty. The characters were posed in Poser, then textured and rendered in Cinema 4D.
So who's driving? And how did our cute little fairy friend become a hood ornament? That's a story I leave to your imaginations.... although I wouldn't turn down anyone writing it.
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Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
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This'll never cease to amuse me
Yay! Glad to hear it! This is still one of my favorite pieces, so I'm glad you enjoy it, too!
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that's one of the sexiest hood ornaments i've ever sen. 
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Oh my L0!i Gawd!! So Bob did managed to petrify,or more likely metalized a fairy... and finally owns a car for himself with the shinny lil' fairy "pimping his ride"..woo,i didn't know they have driving classes and licenses for basilisks..
Damn,i can't believe i actually missed this great one.. Despite being on your frontpage for almost like a year..
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Yeah, you lucked out... in a few days I'm probably going to replace it as my frontpage image, so if you hadn't found it now, you might have missed it altogether!
Bob... well, he just likes things with wings, and he likes to make them not move.... so even if he didn't metallize the cute lil fairy, he's very happy she's chromed. ^_^
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Love how Bob's tongue is just flapping around like a dog's. Can't stop laughing.
Where can i get my pixie hood ornament?
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Check your local dealer. If they don't have any pixie hood ornaments, then we'll have to go catch some more.
Glad you liked it! ^_^
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He definitely does! What other character can pee himself, petrify hotties and fall down the stairs in short order like he does?
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Best thing I've ever seen happen to a #@$@%! "Pixie"!!
Now do "Tinkerbell"!!!!
LOL!!!
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I'd like to think that the faerie world would freak out at what I would do to some of the cutey fey types if I had limitless power.
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Agro -- Once again you continue to delight and amaze. I thought you topped yourself with the gold statue, but this one is right up there!
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This one has to trump that one based on sheer Bob-the-Retarded-Basiliskitude alone.
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your the absolute best babe! you have done such a wonderful job here. i love every lil detail. everything right down to the reflections are beautifully done. you've done a better job then i ever could with those fae's - im jealous 
Long Live the Bob!
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Thank ya, darlin! I was really happy that everything turned out as well as it did.... and I think my fae still pale to yours. ^_^
Hope you had a merry christmas!!!
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Bob is slowly becoming the stuff of legends. My evil plan is slowly coming to fruition!!!! NYAHAHAHAHHH
Ahem. Sorry. My therapist says it's good to break out into mad-scientist-speak every so often.
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sounds like you have a very cool therapist...
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Any therapist can be a good one, as long as they have easy access to a prescription pad and a lot of time to write Zolof, Paxil, and Prozac on it.
Kidding.
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Oh my goodness, can you imagine Bob on a highway, making eye contact with all the drivers?! 
Bob looks soooo CYUTE in this! And you really took my idea and made it into something awesome!
Oh, and nice play with words on "3000 GT" XD I always preferred the Dodge Stealth myself, over the 'bishi.
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We will magnanimously let you slide with the choice of the Stealth over the 'bishi. Of course, if you have the choice of one or the other, you really can't go wrong.
I can just hear the police reports across the scanner now, with the multiple accidents being caused along a highway after some car passed them and they suddenly seemed to lose control, or just kept driving and not turning the wheel, or other weirdness like that. It makes my heart warm just thinking about the talkative idiot on their cell phone that suddenly goes *Krick* and drives off the embankment.
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IT IS THE BOB!!!!! And It Is the BOB In all his Tongue Flapping, Wing Lusting Glory!!!
I absolutely love this pic for everything from the paint job of the car, the puzzled look on the faerie to the empty headed gaze of the world's most favored retarded Basilisk!
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Thanks, Woob! I would have to agree that there's a lot about this pic that I really like. I still really like the paint job on the car, and I was glad that I managed to get the camera angle to cover both the cute faerie to the tongue-wagging Bob.
And I would have to say that this is most definitely not going to be the only pic in the next couple weeks with Bob in it. This one was just too fun to pass up, and just gave me too many ideas.
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OMG I can just hear the wet flapping noise his tongue must be making in the wind... complete with the odd smacking noise of delight as he gets the odd bug...
*shudders*
That's our Bob!
Beautifully done! I love the whole set up and the way you've lit this and done the shaders! The petrified fairy made me laugh out loud immediately, knowing you like I do, I figured, poor little thing, wonder if Argo nailed her somehow when he was in Faery and stuck her on his car when he made it back to mortal lands? My sniggering scared my cat.
Yup, all Bob needs is some goggles and a scarf and he can look like the Dog... er Basilisk Who Wouldn't Be... (Farley Mowat reference there)
What can I say other than BOoOOoOooOoOB!
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Glad ya like it, darl! I know I should be paying all my attention to Bob and the cutie chromized faerie there, but I think one of the things I really, really liked about this one was the paint-job on the car. I changed up the material from the texture the Poser artist had created for it to a shader I'd never really tried, and I think it turned out really nice!
I did like the way the lights worked out, too. C4D is a straight wonder for doing lights... I know there are systems (3DS Max, Maya, possibly even Truespace) that have better lighting systems, but I love the lights C4D does... spots, distants, tubes, omnis, areas, and negative lights, and there are so many ways to tweak each one. It's an amazing program, and I'm hoping to get the Vue plugins for it soon.
But you really can't go too wrong in a pic that has Bob in it. Especially with a formerly-moving model in there, too.
Glad ya like it!!!
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EXACTLY what I was refering to on the shader. They can often leng an already wonderful render into something even more stunning- I'm new to the whole shadoer node thing myself - using poser 6 for now- I'm more into playing with skin shaders right now, but yeah, I see what you mean. I picked up on the paint job and the mirroring/ paint effect and was drooling over that for a long time (You know me and shiney things...)
And of COURSE I love it! You have a way of presenting scenes and characters that have a very special 'something'- character as well as humour. You always SEEM to casually throw something in that's exceedingly clever and always appropriate to the mood and (yes I'll use the same word) characters portrayed. Between Bob's expression and the fairy's presence... yup... that's an Argo Touch, I'm tellin ya!
HUGZ!
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Joel's got a point on her expression - she almost looks more confused than anything.
Still looks good regardless 
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Like I told JG, it was just a little tweak on my part to get away from my usual facial expression on this one. You can say that she just didn't realize what was going on until it was too late.
And yeah, it would be just terrible if Bob accidentally petrified some bikini-wearing cuties when the car bypassed a beach or something, huh?
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Wow. Very cool! 
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Thank you, JG! Yeah, this was one o' those that immediately started into the concept stage about the time Elle mentioned it. You know, when your eyes widen and you go, 'whooooa! I can do that, and it'll look hot!!!'
I thought about making her look a little more fearful, cuz that's sorta my trademarked thing, but a couple people mentioned that I've done so many of those that they'd like to see some other expressions once in a while. So this one had very little clue she was being targetted until she was already a hood ornament, I guess.
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Sort of a "Him: Smile! Her: Hey--that's not a cam..... BAM!" kind of moment?
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