Silver Bullet model

Hey if anyone is interested, I'm going to make an animation for Knott's Berry Farm's Silver Bullet and I'm showing how I do it from start to finish... something different to pass the time during the off-season...

http://badnitrus.coasterbuzz.com/

Where are you going to get the details from? Or are you just going to model it as construction begins and progresses? I ask this because all I've seen of it is the single rendering and the basic stats...but I guess if anybody can take those and make a great animation it's you.

Edit: I guess some of my questions are answered by reading the tutorial on your site. *** Edited 12/9/2003 1:52:11 AM UTC by mantis man***

Check out the link... that shows what I am doing in-depth... Of course it won't be 100% accurate but who cares, as long as it looks good =). It's more fun doing this before any construction takes place anyways...

Hey Keith watch Knott's Berry Farm request an animation again once you finsh. I am surprized they didn't hire you from the start.

BTW...Ya know Keith you techically in violation of TOS by posting this but I doubt anyone will mind much.... *** Edited 12/9/2003 2:04:23 AM UTC by Alex Nagel***

how can it be when its a part of coasterbuzz.........

Just curious, does anyone know if KBF plans on adding theming along the ride, like Alpengeist? Like with sheds and near misses, etc.?

I know it's alot to ask, but just wondering how in the world they are gonna tie in a state of the art invert coaster to the 1850's themed Ghost Town. Ghost Rider fits in perfectly, but just can't see how a invert won't look out of place soaring above an old gold rush town. Doesn't matter, I'm sure I'll love the ride regardless. But some cool theming would be nice.

Awesome tutorial Keith. I'm really happy you started this, as I've always wondered how you make your creations look so good.

Any chance you can do a little sub-tutorial on the geometry bezier curves/points/handles and or splines (I don't even know what a spline is)?

Or just point me to a link that explains it....

Keith should be banned from Coasterbuzz for all eternity for posting this. Unacceptable!

Isn't there some new point system on CBuzz for "bad" posters? I hope not, as both you and I would be banend too Joe!

Anyways, back on topic - awesome news Keith! Looking forward to riding (virtually) Silver Bullet before next year (although I still want my Stormrunner animation that doesn't suck). Long live IntaRide!

Wow! Awesome models and animations. Some of the best I have ever seen.

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jomo said:I know it's alot to ask, but just wondering how in the world they are gonna tie in a state of the art invert coaster to the 1850's themed Ghost Town. Ghost Rider fits in perfectly, but just can't see how a invert won't look out of place soaring above an old gold rush town. Doesn't matter, I'm sure I'll love the ride regardless. But some cool theming would be nice.

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The same way Six Flags Great America makes Raging Bull fit into there old west section. ;)

Thank you for taking the time to do this, Keith.

Badnitrus- Can I just please tell you that your talent and your skills are absolutely amazing, Holy ----!

I recently graduated from the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago, with a Bachelor's in Visual Communications, which is more along the lines of advertising, but anyway...a lot of my friends graduated with Animation majors, and they were totally shocked at how incredible your site was! Bravo on everything you've accomplished, way to go! I'm more than impressed, you should have a great-paying job, if you don't already, doing what you do.

I'm suprised no park company has hired you to do this, or have they already? haha

Fanastic work man--

-Jeff-

Thanks for the compliments! Jeff - I do this for a living at the moment through my company. I'm doing Silver Bullet just for fun though, but trust me I did try to do this animation for Knotts! Unfortunately, not all parks seem to see the value in what I do. One of these days I'll make enough money to not live with my family anymore =).

I'm gonna try not to let this animation get put on the backburner like a lot of my other ones...

Keith, you never seize to amaze me regarding your animations. I love how you're going through this model in a tutorial fashion so that we all can see just how much work goes into one of these projects. I'm glad to see that 3DVIP seems to be working out pretty well for you.

...And whoever didn't contract you for an animation in Knott's Berry Farm's marketing department should be smacked upside the head...especially after your awesome Xcelerator video.

(On a side note) What's up with the coaster's colors being yellow and red? shouldn't at least some part of it be Silver?

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CPgenius said:(On a side note) What's up with the coaster's colors being yellow and red? shouldn't at least some part of it be Silver?

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I think that the trains are gonna be silver (chromed out) to tie in with the silver bullet theme. As far as the Wild West theme, this one's gonna be tough to tie it into everything. Doesn't it go through like 3 parts of the park? lol

Back on topic... Keith, you are an animation God. lol. I'm still loving the site. I told Joe to tell you the other night about some of your hi-res pics not being attached to the right coaster. The lo-res pic is the right, but when you click for the hi-res pic, some of them give you a different coaster.

-Josh

Nice work as usual, Keith. Its amazing how you make it all look so damn easy!

Beautiful stuff! One day, Matterhorn? Perhaps? ;)

I think the yellow and red were just used as they are both bright colors and stand out clearly in the picture..could be wrong though *** Edited 12/9/2003 3:25:30 PM UTC by Turbo***

Badnitrus, as always, beautiful work....

For more info on Silver Bullet, go here: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031201005844&newsLang=en