What if TalkRadioX never existed?
The picture you see here is a single frame rener of a project I was working on before TalkRadioX. It was called Project X and it was to be cgi animations using old time radio shows as the audio track. I chose a show called "X Minus One" to start with. It is a great sci-fi radio show that I could easily visualize. Cgi animation is very tedious. To start I designed characters from basic 3d models sculpting them into cast members for the show. Wardrobe is modeled in a similar way. There are a lot of details you may not consider at first, for instance: What will the surface texture of this item be. What is the reflectivity, the transparencey, the luminence etc.
Once everything including the sets are virtually built then comes the hard part. The motion.
If you work on animation long enough you start looking at the world in 1/24th of a second intervals. The way something moves along a timeline. How fast does it accelerate does it deform with motion. How heavy is it. The complex motion of the human body is mind bending. Paths of action, anticipation follow through, squash and stretch are all principles of animation that help create the illusion of life.
The look of this animation project was to be retro, almost as if it were a TV show from a different time line, where computers existed in the 40's.
This "TV Show" would have an opening sequence during the narration that represented scenes from other episodes in the series. Since this was the fisrt of it's kind I went about creating ultra short clips to be "montaged" into the title sequence.
This frame was from one of the scenes. I have some various renderings and test animations but most everything, six months of work, was destroyed by a harddrive crash ( from a new computer purchased just for this project) HP replaced the drive but not any of the files.
This rocked me a bit, having almost 2 minutes in the can ( that is many many many hours of rendering) I couldnt even begin to think about starting over, I couldn't recapture the creative fever that drove me to start the project.
Animation is a tedious process. It can take months for one person to create two minutes. Each frame is a work of art.
So instead I found Radio Dan and started TalkRadioX