Articulated Environments - Darwinism vs. Eco-Perception

2007

In designing an exoskeleton armor, it more suffiecient to describe the creation as something more like prosthetic pants. Several designs were illustrated on the back of a copy of the Torque printable order form. Because the page was ripped, the scale of most of the drawings were down to a thumbnail. A working model for the late Christopher Reeve, a model for a couple of handicapped Wagoneers, as well as the final solution were illustrated slightly larger.

It became unreasonable for The Doctor to assume a model for prothetic pants could be created in time for Funkwagon's halloween show at Ri-Ra's. Prax, the bass player of Funkwagon, did not have a costume and had requested that drSoupy create him into a rendition of the old school Transformer, Jazz. Doctor Soupy, already having dressed up as Optimus Prime (won a pair of skis from Smuggs) as a kid, decided that Starscream was a good adversary.

Three days of minimal sleep was like being back in college for Soup. The Autobot had many subtle curves, all of which he felt, had to be accounted for. The sleek design of a porche is not easy to reproduce. The night before halloween, Doctor Soupy was present for the Funkwagon show at Club Metronome, and was dead tired. That left a couple of hours to create Starscream after work the next day. A couple sessions of paint on uncut cardboard, and some serious hacking an hour before the show took all of his skill, however, the ability to transform could not be performed. The show at Ri-Ra's was a success and big scary Pupkin Head took home the prize. Even the character from Halo could not compete with the monstrosoty. Funkwagon's favorite costume, of course, was a bag of weed. The rolled-up dude was ushered onto the stage.

Funkwagon followed the week of performences with a residency at Club Metronome until just about Christmas. A few sessions of life drawing and sraight up computer illustrating produced the flier above.

They got kicked out alright, but at least they know how to run a sick ass show.

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There were many brainstroms from this time period:

Curvy body structures take exponentionally more time to create then straight, cut angles.

Body heat must be accounted for in designing an exoskeleton suit; thermal circulation is necessary for comfort.

The Realm Wars Android Maker Mod could be used as a fundraising device for quadropaligics. Wagoneers

Unfortunately, it was also learned that one of Doctor Soupy's good old aquaintence's father died. Soupy, being somewhat socially withdrawn from years of arcane social discourse, was saddened to learn that John R. B. Brown, with his work with the Polhemus 3 Space Digitizing System was one of the first modern motion capture devices. Polhemus is credited for being the first company in the fith dimension with technology such as the DC Pulse Generator. The over dramatisized dinosaurs in the original "Jurassic Park" was their doing, and they had military contracts under ownership by Advanced Dynamics. This potential contact lead was never known. Soupy had stopped by their headquaters in 2002 for a job application, but was adviced to return when his Fully Articulation Remote Action Figure was a liscenced product.

2006

Prax is not working with drSoupy at Chefs' Corner now, after 8 years of dedicated service. An entirely popular lunch menu he helped to create is still there in varrying degrees. Thats business Prax. Now his band, Funkwagon, is rollin and Wagoneers are clearing bars and bitch slapping club owners! Entirely too much fun, but business in the Dr's neck of the woods was not so light either. The town manager is a bit cookey and the rest of the bunch in the buidling are disorganized and make large leaps in interpreting their own laws. It is good for business and the local economy, but it alienates local residents and divides social classes.

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