Steven Lund writes:
Always wanted to create a jet pack with VFX in Blender, finally got around to it!
You're blocking ads, which pay for BlenderNation. Read about other ways to support us.
Steven Lund writes:
Always wanted to create a jet pack with VFX in Blender, finally got around to it!
12 Comments
Ha ha. But it would be better still to have people devote the resources into actually producing real jetpacks!
I was reading an article about West Coast (U.S.) housing in the 1950's, and how they were designing large houses with landing pads for jet packs and flying cars. The article was very sad and it ended like, "This was 1960: Of course the next generation would be able to fly...."
Nice clip. Very funny.
@DavidBrennan There are enough crashes at the moment with just cars. God help us If everyone was flying. Bunker-houses would probably become popular :) I still want one though.
There are "enough" crashes? That doesn't make sense to me. Ideally, there would be zero crashes. That's how I see things, anyway.
And if you were making the bizarre inference that, because cars are dangerous, air travel is also dangerous....I fully stipulate the point. Moving at high speeds is always dangerous. If you're terrified by this danger....just don't travel.
Either way, please don't try and suppress men's curiosity, ambition, and industriousness because of your terrors. Another solution for you is to live with primitives in the Amazon or sub-Saharan Africa where there's no machinery to terrify you.
What would the fines be for drunken jet pack flying after leaving the bar, and crashing in through your window and into you while you slept, assuming either of you survived?...
Whatever the fine is when an airplane pilot does it, I guess.
Funny that you're distraught over legalisms when the creative challenges still cry out. Let's start at square one and then later on you bureaucrats can quibble over your rules.
@DavidBrennan, I hope you are making a joke about "...primatives in...sub-Saharan Africa where there’s no machinery to terrify you".
I am from South Africa, and it's amazing how people think nothing goes on in (South) Africa merely because they are ignorant about it.
For example, we have our own satellites in space, a huge transport infrastructure, Cape Town air port has been voted the best in Africa (which may not be high on your scale), but it ranks quite high in the world too. Cape Town has been voted as one of the top (10) tourist destinations in the world for many years - and not because of it being uncivilized or primative... on the contrary.
And, contrary to popular myth, we do not have wild animals roaming our streets! :-)
There may be some countries and rulers giving Africa a bad name, but please be careful of sweeping statements such as the above.
I was joking about the "enough", naturally everyone would hope there to be no crashes at all. Sometimes humour can be ambiguous.
Anyhow there have been several individual jet and rocket platforms. But the problems are more related to economics and necessary applications rather than technical difficulty. here are two of my fav examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVh-vlUius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBndcBjQFM
But as I said before I want one myself!
Not a bad test, though you can see his feet sliding around in the beginning.
With that rate of climb, it would have been a nice touch if his head had ripped off and was left rolling around in the dirt :-)
Cool! :) Making of, please!
Really nice! It's been awhile since I last saw something as nice and convincing as this. ;)
-Reyn
Yes Sir .