{"id":516,"date":"2012-04-07T20:19:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-04-07T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T19:19:59","slug":"majid-esmaeili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2012\/04\/07\/majid-esmaeili\/","title":{"rendered":"Majid Esmaeili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Majid Esmaeili&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/majid-smiley.cgsociety.org\/gallery\/\">virtual 3D sculpt of a faun<\/a>, that gets close to how I imagined the character of Maddock in my new novel <em>The Spyders of Burslem<\/em>.  Although with smaller horns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/maj-faun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/maj-faun.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"maj-faun\" width=\"549\" height=\"731\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-517\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity that Stoke-on-Trent could not have transitioned a tranche of the city&#8217;s talented ceramics model makers into virtual computer-based 3D sculpting and model-making, when we had the chance in the 2000s.  We could have turned our city into a world-centre for virtual character and model creation\/painting, building on centuries of tradition in the ceramics industry.  Which, with new developments in 3D printing and bespoke vinyl toys, would by now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dartistonline.com\/news\/2012\/04\/aardman-gets-3d-printing-savvy-with-the-pirates\/\">have come full circle<\/a> back to the creation of physical products.  Sadly the public-sector farce that was &#8216;Worldgate&#8217; seemed to make the city&#8217;s officials averse to production schemes that are &#8216;digital&#8217; and &#8216;creative&#8217; and that required significant public money.  And the highly insular nature of the city seemed to create a blind-spot, about the potential of global sales of virtual goods over the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majid Esmaeili&#8217;s virtual 3D sculpt of a faun, that gets close to how I imagined the character of Maddock in my new novel The Spyders of Burslem. Although with smaller horns. It&#8217;s a pity that Stoke-on-Trent could not have transitioned a tranche of the city&#8217;s talented ceramics model makers into virtual computer-based 3D sculpting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}