Strange Machine

[hobbyfarm]

I FOUND IT, I FOUND IT, I FOUND IT, I FOUND IT /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Apparently, it is BS. I found it on a Computer Graphics Forum. The creator has won awards with this graphic!

Here:

<font color="green">CGTalk Forum</font>

 

[hobbyfarm]

Now, I found an animation of it.
Here:

<font color="brown">Traktor</font>

I guess the balloon must be a f@rt.

 

[hobbyfarm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I acutally think this may be real. Look at the rust patterns and such - you would need a *lot* of spare time to cob this up. )</font>

AndyR,
The modern movie industry depends on our gullability for selling their overpriced tickets to the shows. And, yes, these guys do have an enormous amount of time to devote to shadows, dirt, and rust stains. This guy listed 4 types of software to create this thing. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[AndyR]

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[Dargo]

Cool. Man, did that guy do a great job of editing the picture!! I can't even take out "red eye" on my pics. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[hobbyfarm]

This morning I tried the animation, and it doesn't work today.
Apparently, the server is off and on occasionally. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Here is where I found the link to the animation:

<font color="orange">GFXartist.com</font>

 

[RonG]

Boy am I gullible or what?I will never believe anything I see again!!
I wanted that to be real so badly........I have spent hours searching for that and the closest I have come to it is one more instance of it at strangevehicles.com but not a clue to where it originated.I cannot begin to imagine what lead you to it but thank you so much,now I can get on with life again)
Maybe my exwife was right,she really wasn't cheating on me!!! LOL Ron G

 

[hobbyfarm]

RonG,
To find this thing, I had to use "creative" ways to spell tractor. And, I kept striking out using just Google. I finally found it using Dogpile, a multiple search engine.I had a hunch that it was some sort of former Communist Block or third world country, so I looked up various ways to spell tractor. On Dogpile, I finally got a lead with "monster traktor". Spelling it with a "c" got me nowhere.
Sometimes you get lucky! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[RonG]

This guy got lucky because he found a smart guy like you reading the same post to bail me out.
The best I could invent was "Strange Backhoe"and I trust Google with my exwife so that is all I used to search with and that brought me to "Strange Spider Backhoe" and I saw the same pic again in a different place.
That was encouraging to me and I found a wonderful website on another board I frequent that held a lot of promise http://www.album-mmt.it/ because it had a zillion pics of old equipment and that is where I have been spending a lot of time.
That site is in a foreign language but I use the Google toolbar and it will translate a site to english by right clicking on the page so I have found a lot of interesting tidbits there.
I am too old to be thinking "Outside of the Box"like I need to and I am thankful to have learned something today.
So it is a fake,huh??? LOL

 

[hobbyfarm]

RonG,
If you click on the original attachment, the name of the JPEG is monstertractor.jpg.
That and variations of that (read - alternate languages) are what I searched for. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif