Friday, January 15, 2021

Quake - Shambler And Mariner Paper Models - by Bhautik Joshi

I believe that it was with Quake that I played online for the first time in my life, even in the distant 1990s (1996, to be more exact). It was a simple deathmatch game with a maximum of four players per session. The internet was dialed and the connection, besides being slow, dropped every time. Those were good times... 

  These paper models of a Shambler (villainous monster), a Mariner, who was the playable personable, a Snark and a crowbar were created in 2006 by Indian designer and modelist Bhautik Joshi. He used a program called MDL23ds to extract the shapes from the game's models and opened them in Pepakura Designer. Then he worked on them so that they could be assembled in physical form, which are the final templates that when cut, folded and pasted, form these models of the photos.

Eu creio que foi com Quake que eu joguei online pela primeira vez em minha vida, ainda na hoje longinqua década de 1990 (1996, para se rmais exato). Era uma simples partida de mata-mata com no máximo quatro jogadores por sessão. A internet era discada e a conexão além de lenta, caia toda hora. Bons tempos aqueles... 

  Estes modelos de papel de um Shambler (monstro vilão), um Mariner, que era o personãvel jogável, um Snark e um pé-de-cabra foram criados em 2006 pelo designer e modelista indiano Bhautik Joshi. Ele usou um programa chamado MDL23ds para extrair as formas dos modelos do jogo e os abriu no Pepakura Designer. Daí ele os trabalhou para que pudessem ser montados na forma física, que são os templates finais que quando recortados, dobrados e colados, formam estes modelos das fotos.


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Quake.Shambler.And.Mariner.Paper.Models.by.Bhautik.Joshi 


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