What happened with the new Ant?
faisan
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I remember there was available in the Daz Shop a new model of an Ant (newer than the Daz Original one), I think it was from Alessandro_AM, but I'm not sure. I wanted to purchased it but I couldn't find it anywhere in the Shop.
Why was it removed? There could be a possibility it's available for sale again?
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That would be this one, which was mentioned in the forums, but I don't remember ever coming out https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/172196/giant-ant ; In the meantime, the DAZ ant isn't really too bad if you update the textures to iray, or, as an alternate, there's this one from the AntFarm https://www.daz3d.com/a-n-terra
I found that the AntFarm's "A-N Terra" makes a great "Zarbi", a sapient arthopod species from "Doctor Who". Actually, the digital model is far more impressive than the "panto" styled costumes revealed in "The Web Planet"!
Sincerely,
Bill
The A-N Terra link doesn't work. Don´t you have a mirror?
Strip the ; off the end.
Ken Gilliland over on Hivewire has ants of the world complete with ant lines and a bunch of different breeds.
The creeper collection https://www.daz3d.com/the-creeper-collection-bundle
Yes, that's what I was looking for! Thank you!
I have this but only because I was going to add fur to the spider but it wasn't set up well for this at ALL unfortunately >_<
@DisparateDreamer have you tried it with the new deforce strand hair on the spider?
I bought this set when it first came out. i love it I made tons of images using it .
Anyone remeber the 50's flick "Them"? It gave me a whole new outlook when it came to ants.
It's in the BYOB today
Remember it? Shoot, I still enjoy watching it from time to time when Turner Classic Movies airs it. Some people may think, "Ugh, another giant insect movie." The reality is that it was one of the first and helped establish the genre, which only later from repetition by other productions became a cliche. Some will argue, "What about 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms' or 'Godzilla'?" Yes, those debuted earlier, but the concept there was that of a prehistoric monster awakened by atomic testing. "Them!" was one of the first to play with the idea of contemporary life, normally diminutive, mutated and enlarged to threatening scale by atomic testing.
For its time "Them!" was an elaborate and respectively budgeted production, spending quite a bit of its funds to construct its giant ants, thus allowing the performers to interact directly with the "creatures". Later, "lesser" productions like "End of the World", were far more frugal, trying to pass off regular grasshoppers crawling upon photographic cutouts of city skylines as its "monsters" and results were...less than convincing. Now, the poster embedded above shows them with slitted pupils like some hybrid of arthropod and reptile or feline, but the actual props resembled real life ants far closer.
It has been argued that James Cameron may have been inspired by the drainage tunnel scenes in "Them!" when he filmed "Aliens". Certainly one can see rough parallels, whether intended as homage or simply coincidental. One can easily imagine Ripley in those scenes. If somebody asked me to recommend a good 1950s "atomic horror" movie, "Them!", along with the original Ishiro Honda cut of "Gojira" (Godzilla) would be my immediate suggestions.
Sincerely,
Bill
Thx. for that heads up !
I love all those movies every one you mentioned I'm a 50's scifi nut all the Japanese made movies, Forbbiden planet, the giant claw, an atomic effected vulture, the blob yup I'm a nut LOL!
Bought it on VHS, LaserDisc, DVD and now BluRay. Of course, I also have several different versions of Beginning of the End, the immortal low-budget classic from Bert I. Gordon (read the initials) that acheived most of it's "effects" by putting real grasshoppers on photographs of real locations,so my taste is questionable.
Oops! I goofed! CyberSox stated the correct title for the poorly executed example, "Beginning of the End".
I had a sneaking feeling "End of the World" was just too bloody generic. But yeah, that production filmed normal grasshoppers, most of the shots employing badly processed optical mattes. In several shots, edges of the bugs turned 'invisible" and one can see the background plate. The movie featured Peter Graves, best known for the original "Mission: Impossible" series and years later, "Biography".
Sincerely,
Bill
And Airplane! Peter Graves was the pilot with uncomfortable questions for the young visitor.
I am proud to say that I nurtured a love for old monster movies and MST3k in at least one of my children.
Not to mention a bunch of other "great" B SF movies like It Conquered the World, where he fought a creature that can best be described as man-eating carrot from outer space. And, of course, he's also the brother of James Arness, who gained his greatest fame playing Marshall Dillon on the long running TV series Gunsmoke, but had his own memorable SF movie turn playing a different man-eating carrot as the title character in the the original version of The Thing.
My favorite bit is the shots of grasshoppers "climbing" skyscrapers that are clealry just grasshoppers walking on top of photographs of buildings, with so little care being taken during the filming that some of the hoppers end up walking on the sky itself. Of couyrse, for all that we mock the film now, the ending gimmick has subsequently been stolen by many much better known films, including Attack Of The Killer Tomatos and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks.