hotelicopter wtf ?

[straffo]

Obvioulsy fake but fun to see

http://www.fubiz.net/2009/03/29/hotelicopter/

[moot]

Yeah, I saw that one reading this
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/03/monstrous-aviation-part-2-huge.html

[Denholm]

Looks like a rendering. Some people at Blender communities will make a bunch of 3D objects for artwork competitions. This could have been something similar.

Here's one from just such a Blender community:

[firbal]

I would hate to be the mechanic on that one. That has to be one of the most maintance intense helicopter around, if it is for real.

[Denholm]

It's not. The picture comes from a website used by a lot of 3D artists. In fact, the picture I showed of the rendering of a car was posted to the exact same website. If you're wondering what I mean with, "rendering" it simply means the image you are seeing is a creation made in 3D design software which was firstly created, then painted, then rendered using the camera angle at which you see the picture.

[Die Hard]

Yeah, I saw that one reading this
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/03/monstrous-aviation-part-2-huge.html

What you saw there was the Mi-12, a real (museum piece) helicopter, not the fantasy chopper loosely based on the Mi-12 that Straffo posted.

[moot]

DTC, Ducon:

What I saw was the hotelicopter gizmo that Straffo posted. 

BTW, Straffo - check it out:

 

[Die Hard]

Ah... 

[Vulcan]

Looks like a rendering. Some people at Blender communities will make a bunch of 3D objects for artwork competitions. This could have been something similar.

It was done for an internet scam - quite a few (stupid) people invested money in it.