RED Spider...

[Jannard]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_1171089539.jpg

[CVB]

Nice.. Are we going to see that at NAB? Maybe on some t-shirts? :)

[Ace]

Jim,

Did I ever mention you scare me? :)

I think the missing part in this picture are certain camera company execs tangled in a web somewhere.

[Poi Boy]

OK, I know Beck spyder...what is the Red spyder ?
Aloha
-A

[Jannard]

Jim,

Did I ever mention you scare me? :)

I think the missing part in this picture are certain camera company execs tangled in a web somewhere.

Ace... you scare me too! Great minds...

Jim

[Michael Schrengohst]

Will this be unleashed at NAB on the unsuspecting doubters?

[Nook Kim]

I thought you were going for something more tank-ish body than.. uh.. bug-ish.

Nook

[Jannard]

The RED spider is going to bite all skeptics in the ass...

Jim

[Poi Boy]

NAB is going to be some fun !
-A

[Nook Kim]

imagine a bunch of Red Spiders walking around the Red booth, Frankie feeding a live capture of the booth to a huge display. And all of us celebrating the Red One's birth... it sure will be fun!

PS. Should I bring my Titanium R to the booth?

Nook

[Jannard]

Should I bring my Titanium R to the booth?

Nook

sure...

Jim

[phatred]

Oh great...now I can't sleep. :) Thanks Jim!

[CVB]

Jim, I could probably make you some of those... we could really have them walking around the booth... Let me know ;)

[Nook Kim]

sure...

Jim

It will be really cool if there is a special section for reservation holders, which we stick the Titanium R in the lock to get in, and you all know what will be in there. hehe. I'm so going to the NAB.

Nook

[Jannard]

Curt... you're on!

Jim

[Jannard]

It will be really cool if there is a special section for reservation holders, which we stick the Titanium R in the lock to get in, and you all know what will be in there. hehe. I'm so going to the NAB.

Nook

Anyone with a titanium "R" gets special treatment at NAB.

Jim

[Andrew Benz]

Jim, I could probably make you some of those... we could really have them walking around the booth... Let me know ;)


Curt... you're on!

Jim

It just gets cooler... count on it.

[CVB]

Curt... you're on!

Jim

Cool. I'm so there. It will be a fun weekend project. I'll PM you.

[Casey Green]

Jim,

I'd like to volunteer to help at NAB in the booth this year... I will probably already be out there for the week. I'd love to help the cause with any of my areas of expertise. I've completely setup and run NAB booths before for another Video company I used to work for...

If you are interested, let me know and who to contact.

Can't wait...

[IAN SUN]

From Anansi Moving Images' mission statement:

Anansi spun a web around the last of the four creatures and brought them to the sky kingdom.
The sky-god, seeing this last catch, called together all her nobles.
She put it before them and told them that the spider-man had done what no-one else had been able to do.
She said in a loud voice that rang in the sky, "From now and forever, my sky-god stories belong to you - We will now call these Anansi Stories".

And so, child, stories came to Earth because of the great cunning of Kwaku Anansi. Everywhere you look, he spins his web for all to see.


(Ashanti Legend)


In the spirit of the mythological trickster Bro Anansi, Anansi Moving Images employs the cunning of the guerrilla filmmaker to enchant, educate and thereby, profit.


http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_1171089539.jpg

[Stephen Webb]

Unfortunately due to a recent ruling of the Health and Safety Executive the Red Spider will not be allowed to be imported into the UK (or in fact anywhere in the EU) as it may be harmful to those of a delicate disposition and the bladed feet clearly don't have a safety guard.

[reduser1242]

I think we now know why there are no longer any break-ins at Red HQ.

[Rick Darge]

http://www.richard-darge.com/redrampage.jpg

[Don Woods]

Anyone with a titanium "R" gets special treatment at NAB.

Jim
I only wish I had one or two... But I'll still be there no doubt. :D

[Shawn Nelson]

Anyone with a titanium "R" gets special treatment at NAB.

Jim

Do you mean those of us that have reservations or only if we physically bring our 'R'?

[CVB]

funny rgd...

[Don Woods]

Curt You got to mill one of those even if it dosen't move..

[Ace]

http://www.kyoproject.com/redspider.jpg

[CVB]

Curt You got to mill one of those even if it dosen't move..

Oh it WILL move. Spiders aren't creepy just sitting there doing nothing :)

[Ace]

Curt,

Would be also cool to include a remote controlled silly string shooter that comes out of the 3 red eyes.

[CVB]

now we're talking... that would be so cool. I'll put that on the options list.. How about a frickin' laser?

[Ace]

Fricken "Laser" would be awesome.

[Brook Willard]

That is so incredibly badass...

[starts crafting "R" out of wood]

[Mike the beginner]

The RED spider is going to bite all skeptics in the ass...

Jim

I guess that means things are moving along nicely with the camera then:D

This is just brilliant and you guys are so funny. Can you imagine those graphic posts being put on the cinematography forum,it would turn them all :mad:

Michael

[Obin Olson]

I would love to have a RED R when will they ship?

[Brook Willard]

RED Rs were only available to the first ~1,000 reservation holders.

[Steve Tammi]

Bet you won't be putting that spider in your carry on luggage. :)

[Jeff Kilgroe]

That is so incredibly badass...

[starts crafting "R" out of wood]

HAHA... I thought about making an R replica of my own out of wood, plastic, aluminum, etc.. I haven't been ambitious enough to do it yet though.


As for this whole spider business... AAAARGH!!! I had the same idea the other day and I actually started modeling it last night as I was going to create a nice image for the desktop backgrounds forum in the OT section. I suppose I'll go ahead and finish it anyway because mine is a bit different - actually will have 8 legs. Might be fun... Create your own RED Spider competition? ...Anyone?

[Clayton Harper]

How did you get the storyboards from my first RED movie?


http://www.richard-darge.com/redrampage.jpg

[Ace]

How did you get the storyboards from my first RED movie?

Heh.. Its megatron!

[Jaime Vallés]

This is awesome! I don't know what it does, but I want it!

[Mardi_Gras]

Jim,

Something tells me you're not just aiming to silencing your skeptics, but also keeping them enamoured by and entangled in Red's web of pure genius... is there any truth ot this?

[Don Woods]

Bet you won't be putting that spider in your carry on luggage. :)

Hell No I am putting a leash on it and walking it around.

[CVB]

Luckily I live in LA so I'm driving to NAB :) I'll post some pics of the progress. I'm thinking I'll make them autonomous but also allow remote control, that way I can make the Red R be the key to allowing the use of the remote.

[Sanjin Jukic]

Unfortunately Las Vegas is too far for me this Spring but I could imagine the RED Spiders invasion in Vegas like at the pictures below

http://www.sanjinjukic.com/extras/red_spider_vegas1.jpg



http://www.sanjinjukic.com/extras/red_spider_vegas2.jpg


And by the way of the RED Titanium I am still waiting for mine, today is February 10, 2007, #694 RED Titanium where are you??? Kelly!!!??? I've got your email long ago that is already sent to may address? But OK I can still wait.

[CVB]

I was envisioning something a bit smaller :) I'm shooting for around 6" tall. I have the legs modeled now I'm working on all the hip joints.

[Graeme Nattress]

Reminds me of the spiders from Crichton's "Runaway".

[Jared VanLeuven]

You talk about passion, Jim defines it! To find the time to sit there in front of the computer and generate badass after the zillion other things he has to face during a typical day ... you inspire me, man. Hat's off.

[Jarred Land]

this is the Reduser Spider Kai came up with a few months ago.. taken to the next level by Red.

Gotta love it.

[wshultz]

I was envisioning something a bit smaller :) I'm shooting for around 6" tall. I have the legs modeled now I'm working on all the hip joints.

That's about the right size for an automatic backscratcher. Feels good.

[Nook Kim]

now we're talking... that would be so cool. I'll put that on the options list.. How about a frickin' laser?

Curt,
Brainstorming your laser idea...how about three laser beams shooting off the three red spots, casting "R" letter at the surface where those beams are hitting at. Something like the Batman light beam signal that he send out to the air. Yeah, if those red beams can cast R's in the air during the NAB, how cool would that be? I don't know if this would break any regulations of NAB, but, hey, someone could check it out.

Nook

[Jason Francois]

I was envisioning something a bit smaller :) I'm shooting for around 6" tall. I have the legs modeled now I'm working on all the hip joints.
That is too amazing Curt!!! Please, don't make them for sale, because I will have to have one and I'm already in trouble with the wife :)

I love this place and the company I keep here. :)

[Steve Tammi]

I was envisioning something a bit smaller :) I'm shooting for around 6" tall. I have the legs modeled now I'm working on all the hip joints.


Would you mind sharing you models? I would like to take a crack at animating the Spider in Lightwave.

[CVB]

I'll see what I can do. You might have to ask Jarred and Jim, they own the rights to the design.. I'm just copying :) I'll have a reasonable facimile of the design done this evening. Stay tuned.

[Holosynthetic]

Spiders are boring, I like Peanut Butter

[Jason Francois]

Spiders are boring, I like Peanut Butter

I have no idea what that means, but it made me laugh. You must be drinking just like me. :)

[Ace]

Luckily I live in LA so I'm driving to NAB :) I'll post some pics of the progress. I'm thinking I'll make them autonomous but also allow remote control, that way I can make the Red R be the key to allowing the use of the remote.

Curt, can you remove the innards of a Roomba vacuum cleaner and somehow use that operating system to get it to walk around and detect objects and walk around them? Oh, and dont forget the lasers and silly string.

[CVB]

Ace, I have some homebrew goodies I made awhile back... I make all sorts of electronic doodads. The silly string is in as long as it fits.. this thing is pretty small. Heres a screen cap of the progress...

[Ace]

Ace, I have some homebrew goodies I made awhile back... I make all sorts of electronic doodads. The silly string is in as long as it fits.. this thing is pretty small. Heres a screen cap of the progress...

Nice nice

[Ace]

Are you using solidworks?

[CVB]

Yup, my all time favorite program in the whole world.... BTW I'm going to take a little artistic license to make things easier, hopefully I will capture the essence of the original design.

[Ace]

Oh and regarding the sillystring, there are those spiderman toys you can pick up which you attach to your wrist to shoot out the spider string.. Their quite small i believe, little carbon pressurised cylinders.

[Ace]

Yup, my all time favorite program in the whole world.... BTW I'm going to take a little artistic license to make things easier, hopefully I will capture the essence of the original design.

Solidworks is awesome. You gotta add to it anyway to make it a working design. I think anything you add to it will make it look even more badass!

[Jaime Vallés]

Curt, you're insane. I love it. If it works at NAB, somebody please shoot some footage of the spider walking around in the RED booth and post it here!!

[Jarred Land]

The original image Jim posted was actually done in solidworks in the first place heh heh heh... Solidworks indeed kicks ass.
http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_1171089539.jpg

[CVB]

ok... I'm just floating a balloon here.. what about something like this.. I put the beer can for size reference. I'm still gonna put the "head" thats in the image above... the little shiny spot on the cover are going to be ultrasonic sensors so that the little guys will lie dormant until someone walks by and it detects movement - then it pounces!

[Jason Francois]

i want one!!!! :)

[Scott Webster]

ok... I'm just floating a balloon here.. what about something like this.. I put the beer can for size reference. I'm still gonna put the "head" thats in the image above... the little shiny spot on the cover are going to be ultrasonic sensors so that the little guys will lie dormant until someone walks by and it detects movement - then it pounces!

Curt, you're in the wrong business
http://www.roboraptoronline.com/watch.html

Do you have anymore info on your FIZ system? Is it best to set an appointment or drop by your booth at NAB?

Cheers
Scott

[CVB]

I have tons of stuff on our FIZ system... I'll update everyone in a couple weeks. That roboraptor is childs play.. wait to you see the final rendering of this robot, its gonna be crazy.

[Mike Devlin]

Seriously Curt, if you decide to sell 'em (with RED approval if necessary) I am interested. It would be a great "watchspider" for guarding gear in the field given the sensors you describe!

Plus it would drive our dogs absolutely nuts...

[chuck colburn]

Jake the dog works well in the Red Zone!
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[Steve Freebairn]

For those of you that weren't there at the Sundance Red party, we got shirts with the Red Spider on them.

[Jason Francois]

For those of you that weren't there at the Sundance Red party, we got shirts with the Red Spider on them.

OK, so I can see who ISN'T trying to make new friends. :)

[Eli Jarra]

Yes!!! Sellecks' performance was worthy of an oscar nom. IMO... Gene Simmons was pretty good too. 8^)

[Zakaree Sandberg]

RED Rs were only available to the first ~1,000 reservation holders.

im 1015 i got a R :) but i was in the first batch of res holders.. oct

[CVB]

Ok, here's another update.. its a little in flux but I have it all working mechanically. I'm going to polish up some of the components and toss in the electronics then make the vacuum form skin for it :)

[Jaime Vallés]

im 1015 i got a R :) but i was in the first batch of res holders.. oct

Jeez... I'm RED #791 and I still haven't received my "R". I faxed the signed contract in November, and scanned and emailed a second one in mid-January, just in case. Does anyone know if there are others in my situation? I guess I'll email Kelly.

[Billy Summers]

Curt,
Brainstorming your laser idea...how about three laser beams shooting off the three red spots, casting "R" letter at the surface where those beams are hitting at. Something like the Batman light beam signal that he send out to the air. Yeah, if those red beams can cast R's in the air during the NAB, how cool would that be? I don't know if this would break any regulations of NAB, but, hey, someone could check it out.

Nook

If you could add a compartment for dry ice, and aim the lasers through the smoke/fog. would definitely look cooler and scary-er. Would also make a Red R or logo more visible.

[Clayton Harper]

Ok, here's another update.. its a little in flux but I have it all working mechanically. I'm going to polish up some of the components and toss in the electronics then make the vacuum form skin for it :)

Curt,

I get the actuation of the joints but what pattern makes your little hellion walk forwards?

Food for thought:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wut_-tAww24

[CVB]

Thats awesome... I've done 2 legged and 8 legged robots before, there is tons of online advice on how to make it work but 4 legs still a little tricky. I worked out a couple ideas and the main thing to look at is weight distribution. You always need to have at least three legs down and then center the mass close to the centroid of the triangle created by the three contact points on the ground.

That video basically shows exactly what I was thinking about.. if you look closely you can see the baby shifting its weight away from the limb thats moving forward.

Thanks for the heads up.

[CVB]

Nice..

[Jason Francois]

Damn, that's cool.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

If you could add a compartment for dry ice, and aim the lasers through the smoke/fog. would definitely look cooler and scary-er. Would also make a Red R or logo more visible.

Just use a much more powerful laser... Like about 350mW or so, typically the ambient moisture and other micorparticles within normal air are enough to make such a beam visible. ;) That's also powerful enough to melt crayons, pop dark-colored balloons [at the SONY booth] and permanently damage the eyese of any hecklers and naysayers that may wander by. :D

...Unfortunately, you won't find many such lasers in that power range that are red.

[Jarred Land]

So you want to see spyders?

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/453_1171332775.jpg

grandpas got some skills :)

[Brook Willard]

Damn, we've got some talent & free time on these boards... ;)

That's awesome. How about a nice big one for the 'ol desktop?

[Jeff Deveraux]

Frankie, Spike, and now Freddy. What do we do now Brain?

[Jarred Land]

freddy.. thats nice.

[Jeff Deveraux]

Must......... stay.............awake...
What ever you do, don't take freddy for a walk down Hollywood Blvd.

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_141023454.html

[Rob Lohman]

grandpas got some skills :)

Indeed!

Scary to see that thing move, especially if it would jump.... eeeekkkk!

I'm awaiting scary 3D movies of this thing.....

[REDHKSC]

Indeed!

Scary to see that thing move, especially if it would jump.... eeeekkkk!

I'm awaiting scary 3D movies of this thing.....

By joke, may I guess nobody knows they walk, crawl, run or jump, and there is only leg's single Sharp point like Knife touch the ground. Remember the decent HI-FI speakers use the nails type supporting GOLD to touch the ground to make clear sound reproduction.

Forget about the BLACK Spider and there is a RED Spider to make it better for the World of RED NESTs.

STEWART

[Floris Liesker]

"By joke?", I guessed. Nobody knew. They walked, crawled, ran and jumped, and there was only a single sharp pointy knife in my leg, touching the ground.
I remembered the decent Hi-Fi speaker-nails which I used to type 'Touch to support Gold' into the ground to make a clear sound reproduction.
I'll forget about the black spider as there's a Red Spider in which a better red world nests.

[REDHKSC]

"By joke?", I guessed. Nobody knew. They walked, crawled, ran and jumped, and there was only a single sharp pointy knife in my leg, touching the ground.
I remembered the decent Hi-Fi speaker-nails which I used to type 'Touch to support Gold' into the ground to make a clear sound reproduction.
I'll forget about the black spider as there's a Red Spider in which a better red world nests.

Hi lovely Babe,

I am so lucky that " you know what I am taling about "

Cheers,

STEWART
HKG - CHINA

[Kyle Stauffer]

Man the updated version's even cooler than my original. Should've used this one on the snowboards!

[Jarred Land]

yeah Kai.. Its pretty hardcore. I still like yours alot though.. there is the comic version then the all-business version.

[Brook Willard]

Well you guys can't talk about the other boards without posting pictures...

[Eugene]

http://www.plen.jp/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBIW7As0nxM