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They might be large plush toys, although for $5000 each I'd want diamond collars on them or something.
It's been pretty windy here, the bubblewrap might blow around and wrap around people who stood still/too close.
Ah, I see. You must anticipate every possible calamity. It is amazing then, that you end up involved in (responsible for?) so many!
What Is It?
The suspense builds...
Lola: Ok, Richard. Let's see what you got.
Richard: I hope I got a red one this time, and maybe one with an animal print. I hope there's not too much bubble wrap. That stuff scares me when people jump on it.
Good composition on the picture barbult, it's not easy getting everything in the frame on a close-up.
Thanks. I had a broader view to start, but this homed in on the important parts better.
The suspense is ... hmm, let's not go there.
Just a small note, I tend to hold a Stanley Knife (Box Cutter in the US?) with the blade edge downwards (the edge parallel to the handle as opposed to the one at 60 degrees to parallel - as shown in the image). However, there are many ways to skin that cat do the job [oops, poor choice of words].
I love the way helpful cat is helping, very true to life.
Regards,
Richard
Maybe I have it upside down. I don't know how to use one. Can youi show it to me in a hand, reaedy to cut?
It is indeed upside down. You'd typically hold it like this:
Yep, Leana's doing it right. However, if the contents are particularly at risk of damage, you can operate them the other way up, with only 1/8" of blade sticking into the box, and the 60 degree back of the blade rubbing on the box flap below the tape you're cutting. That's why I said 'I tend to hold it...'. As with everything, exceptions happen.
Regards,
Richard
Almost Open
Richard: Lola you've got the cutter upside down. You'd better let me do it.
Lola: Nice try. No. You know that would be a bad idea. I can turn it over myself. See. There, I've almost got the first box open.
Of course there could have been another spelling mistake, and the boxes could contain six models of Mr Spock ( LeoNard Nimoy )..
We'll all have to just wait and see. The first box is almost open.
You see a car-driving, talking, cat here and worry about the reality of breathing in a cardboard box?
I don't let facts (reality) get in the way of a story about Richard Haseltine. 
Edit: I did think about trying to punch holes in the boxes, but each side of the box is a single polygon, so removing polygons to make a hole would not be a simple endeavor. I guess I could have modified the texture to look like holes, or replaced the box entirely, but I didn't spend my time on doing that. Maybe I should have done more. Maybe if I were not Beta testing an application, several DS6 plugins, and scripts for several PAs at once... That's my excuse. But it comes down to "Reality Second". (Like at Burning Man, the oft repeated motto is "Safety Third".)
Looking forward to it as always ;-)
It's great that you have the freedom to change things whenever the mood takes you barbult. I'm curious how the whole story started, I guess Richard's avatar is the basis for him being a cat, but going from that into a whole 'Richard's world' is quite a leap. Was it just a few individual renders to start with, and the story aspect came later? I think I'm digging a hole for myself in my thread, trying to realise a vision in my head of what my characters world is like, possibly beyond my ability to turn it into pictures.
Just a rhetorical philosophical question: 'Why would you be any different from the rest of us?". As soon as I think I have a vague handle on what I'm doing, I suddenly find it was an illusion and things are way more complicated than I thought, or I'm even less competent than the last time I had to re-assess my high degree of incompetence.
Regards,
(Other) Richard
it could be Schrodingers leopard
I agree completely Other Richard. It was working fine so long as I just pootled about doing things for my own entertainment, I could start things and drop them if it wasn't working out. But now I started a thread I feel commited to sticking with it. Might be a good thing though since it should keep me focussed. I just wish my imagination had a 'pause' button, so i could get some sleep
@3DIO just for you, someday I will find a reason to put Lola in something more revealing, but not too revealing. Stay calm.
Interesting. Hmmm. How would one render that, I wonder.
Ah, the only difference is that I relish the fact that I don't know what I'm doing.
Of course that only applies to these stories, it does not apply to trying to using Daz Studio itself, or Blender, or all those other things.
I love the way you signed your message!
The obvious one would be two versions of it, each with reduce opacity (and perhaps a different hue or glow). A more interesting one might to break the two renders into squares and apply a diffrent half of each, so you got the base render of the non-superposed bits and squares with gaps of the two superposed states; but II am not sure how "readable" that would be. Either would need two renders, or some arcane fiddling with canvasses.
I may try one of those techniques for the fun (struggle) of it at some time. Right now I am deep into another idea about what comes out of the box. If it doesn't work out, I may have to try something different.
Wait, I already did, back where Richard learns to swim. (He is an excellent swimmer.)
You never know who might show up in your story.
I was there for awhile after I first discovered this thread.
That's right. And you might be back at some point.