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Look what I found in my archives!

I'd almost forgotten that I did this. I found it on my hard drive as I was cleaning out some old files I didn't need any more. It was originally created to celebrate my 500,000 pageview; once again, though, my ambitions got the better of me:

I had intended this to be a longer animation. After a few reps, our view would move out to a long shot that would reveal that Tetsuko is standing on a tall platform. The chains would be attached to tall stacks of huge iron plates 20 feet tall (why she'd be standing on the tall platform); she'd be curling some 20 tons with each arm!

Unfortunately, problems of scale became apparent. The range of motion the pulleys travel is only about a foot (maybe a foot and a half), which means the 20-foot weight stacks get lifted only that far off the ground. Not as impressive a visual as I'd hoped for.

However, when I came across this earlier this evening, I decided (since this sequence was largely finished) that I'd go ahead and clean up some of the art, tweak the movement a bit, and share it with all of you. (And who knows; I may include this - with the gargantuan weights - in the 2 million animation.)

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THIS IMAGE IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT.
Permission is granted to transfer this image to an individual's computer system for personal use, and for NON-commercial reposting to Internet sites provided the image (including artist's signature and copyright information) is left intact, and artist credit (e.g. "Artwork by David C. Matthews") accompanies said reposting.

ALL OTHER RIGHTS RESERVED. COMMERCIAL USE OF THIS IMAGE IS PROHIBITED. ALTERATION OF THIS IMAGE, AND SUBSEQUENT POSTING OF ALTERED IMAGE, ARE PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE ARTIST.

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Description
Look what I found in my archives!

I'd almost forgotten that I did this. I found it on my hard drive as I was cleaning out some old files I didn't need any more. It was originally created to celebrate my 500,000 pageview; once again, though, my ambitions got the better of me:

I had intended this to be a longer animation. After a few reps, our view would move out to a long shot that would reveal that Tetsuko is standing on a tall platform. The chains would be attached to tall stacks of huge iron plates 20 feet tall (why she'd be standing on the tall platform); she'd be curling some 20 tons with each arm!

Unfortunately, problems of scale became apparent. The range of motion the pulleys travel is only about a foot (maybe a foot and a half), which means the 20-foot weight stacks get lifted only that far off the ground. Not as impressive a visual as I'd hoped for.

However, when I came across this earlier this evening, I decided (since this sequence was largely finished) that I'd go ahead and clean up some of the art, tweak the movement a bit, and share it with all of you. (And who knows; I may include this - with the gargantuan weights - in the 2 million animation.)

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THIS IMAGE IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT.
Permission is granted to transfer this image to an individual's computer system for personal use, and for NON-commercial reposting to Internet sites provided the image (including artist's signature and copyright information) is left intact, and artist credit (e.g. "Artwork by David C. Matthews") accompanies said reposting.

ALL OTHER RIGHTS RESERVED. COMMERCIAL USE OF THIS IMAGE IS PROHIBITED. ALTERATION OF THIS IMAGE, AND SUBSEQUENT POSTING OF ALTERED IMAGE, ARE PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE ARTIST.

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