Is this real???

[Brooke]

Wow!  Those are great!  Thanks for posting the link!

[Rolex]

His name is Tochibayashi Masaru (surname is first in Japan). He's 42 years old and was born in Kyushu, but currently lives in Saitama, which is just north of Tokyo. Starting in 1988, while still in university, he started working as an assistant under several manga artists. He (unexpectedly) started doing CG animation for TV commercials in 2002. His bio implies that he is freelance and does photography, CG animation and 3-D modeling.

I meant to contact him before, since he doesn't live too far from me, but forgot. I'm going to send him an email and see if I can meet him sometime. I'll let you guys know.

[bagrat]

In the 1945 video did anyone else here that P-51 making a "woo woo woo" when it was strafing that house, if so why?

[Brooke]

Originally posted by Rolex
His name is Tochibayashi Masaru (surname is first in Japan). He's 42 years old and was born in Kyushu, but currently lives in Saitama, which is just north of Tokyo. Starting in 1988, while still in university, he started working as an assistant under several manga artists. He (unexpectedly) started doing CG animation for TV commercials in 2002. His bio implies that he is freelance and does photography, CG animation and 3-D modeling.

I meant to contact him before, since he doesn't live too far from me, but forgot. I'm going to send him an email and see if I can meet him sometime. I'll let you guys know.

Cool!  If you meet up with him, you should tell him that Aces High players think his work is awesome.  I sent him e-mail yesterday telling him that I thought is work was excellent.

I'd love to see a WWII aviation movie or show where this guy did the aerial combat CGI.  It is much, much better than anything else I've seen, to a large extent because he gets the movement to look real.  Most of the airplane CGI stuff might look good in terms of lighting and textures, etc., but stinks in terms of how the aircraft move, making it look laughably fake.  This guy's stuff looks great.

[KD303]

Originally posted by FTJR
http://www.angel.ne.jp/~tochy/

This thread was posted before, but if you look at the shiden kai video. Tell me what you think? actual footage???

Regards

A trip to the eye doctor for you. I mean, it's excellent stuff but come on. Real? The one which almost fools me is the "Merlins" footage. Lovely. I'm not sure how anyone could think that the film with the little boy running along with the Mustangs above him is real. You must know some pretty weird looking people.

[DaYooper]

Unless the contact with the runway is perfect and the runway is perfectly smooth, the tailwheel will spin like that.  Hitting the earth tends to provide lots of kinetic energy, besides the tailwheel could be in the boundary layer and not see much airflow.

Now if you want to talk about the 270 degree spin on the flightline, that's unrealistic.  Cool looking, but not realistic.

[g00b]

Originally posted by DaYooper
Unless the contact with the runway is perfect and the runway is perfectly smooth, the tailwheel will spin like that.  Hitting the earth tends to provide lots of kinetic energy, besides the tailwheel could be in the boundary layer and not see much airflow.

Now if you want to talk about the 270 degree spin on the flightline, that's unrealistic.  Cool looking, but not realistic.

A boundary layer, as in a laminar flow boundary layer, is only a couple thousandths of an inch thick.

I have personally witnessed a Sea Fury execute the most amazing parking job I have ever seen. He powered off with maybe 200-300 yrds to go to the parking space still coasting maybe 50 mph, executed several 90 degree turns down the various taxi-ways, followed by a perfect 270 spin into the parking space. It was freaking amazing.

g00b

[DaYooper]

I had to pull out my fluids book.  Yea, the boundary layer (assuming laminar flow) won't be that thick, probably thicker than a few thousandths, but pretty thin.

As for the 270 by the Sea Fury, that would have been an amazing thing to see.