You know, I was wondering about foozle spacecraft.

This looks like it's pretty big!

Yep, it's a bigg'un.

Great work, man! ^^

I always thought torpedo shaped with two large spherical units at one end just below the midline, and a missile tube opening in the center at the other end.

The classics are classics for a reason, yup.

Now I have that old Journey song stuck in my head. :P

When they're not doing what Foozles usually do, they do many other things, it would seem.

keeps on turnin'
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

yup, that song was totally about alien abductions.

Ezekiel's Vision, baby. Nothing but a Category Three Close Encounter.

Ezekiel saw the wheel. This is the wheel he said he saw. These are Unidentified Flying Objects that people say they are seeing now. Are they proof that we are being visited by civilizations from other stars? Or just what are they? The United States Air Force began an investigation of this high strangeness in a search for the truth. What you are about to see is part of that 20-year search.

*Theme music*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O.

Don't you know I watched that show every week when it was on?
But no. Ezekiel saw some shit. His book starts off with it, right from the get-go:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passag.....mp;version=KJV

I was a regular viewer of that show when it was first aired, back in the 70s. I hadn't seen it since - thanks to the magic of the internet, I now have a nearly complete copy of the entire run.

Heh. I caught myself humming the theme music several times while working on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msiL7R57ObE

as an Honorary Foozle, I approve.

Ok now that is impressive !

That looks like something out of a movie. A recent movie with super FX, not the old black and whites filming a pie-plate from a string.

It's still amazing to me that a shot like this, which once would have taken a team of FX people a million dollars to do, can now be done by an idiot like me for about the price of a can of beans.

It's still amazing to me, that a movie that takes a team of FX people and 200 million dollars can still be using a script that looks like it was storyboarded by a producer's 3-year old son using a can of beans with paint on one side. And better projects canceled because the first one flopped.
They should scrape a few million off the next Madagascar movie and make a foozle film.
"You're just not serious about the craft!"

If I could convince big media to pour cash into a project of mine, it would be that Hitchhiker's Guide thing I posted a couple days ago. It would be Classic British TV.

What software did you use to create this? It really does look like modern movie CGI. :)

3DS Max, and Photoshop.

Part of the trick to it is, (apart from all the fiddly little greebles, and a digital dirtwash over them to make them pop) that the image isn't a straight render. I did it in several passes, the way starship models used to be filmed, before the advent of CGI:

A daylight pass as a base.
A Mask pass as a background matte.
Individual passes for each of the colored lighting FX (allowing them to be tweaked individually)
and finally a depth of field pass to give the far edge a bit of atmospheric haze, suggesting size.

All composited on layers in Photoshop.

The sky in the background is a photo of the real sky out front of my house, taken with my iPad on a summer day last year.

Now that I examine the image more closely, I think I can see the effects you're describing. Very impressive! :)

Looks great :D
Although I would've thought that a Foozle spacecraft would have some kind of subtle or not so subtle shape joke :3

Thanks Cobalt, now I've got an image stuck in my head of
what Independence Day would have turned out, if it had been
Foozle saucers hovering over New York, Washington, and LA.
*Laughter*

Do you think that UFOs are real?

UFO just refers to flying objects that are unidentified. So, yes.

Thank you for the reply, Sir! I actually meant alien visits from out space. I have met some people who claimed that they were abducted, and I see no reason to disbelieve them. They have neither monetary considerations nor do they strike me as attention whores. They must have seen something.

I've seen things that I can't explain. However, unexplained things are just unexplained. UFOs fall under this category - until they become IFOs (identified flying objects) any conjecture about them is specious.

As for aliens visiting earth, I have seen enough fakery held up as absolute proof that I find it hard to take any statement of fact on the matter as plausible.

There's too much noise in the data for it to be of any value in making a judgement call.

Your words are wise, kind Sir! I believe that skepticism is warranted as long as it fits the data. If I would see a gigiantic alien spaceship in front of me, I would have to conclude that aliens are real and that they are visiting us (or maybe that Russia has better tech than I wouls have ever thought ).

What do you think about ghosts, Sir? I am asking because I and my family have lived in a haunted house where we saw apparitions and experienced other horrifying things. People are very often afraid to talk about this subject in the West, but people in the East are more open when it comes to this subject.