Navy Stories (Episode - 2)

Hello everyone!
Welcome to the second episode of: Navy Stories. A new 3D animated show covering the fun, and humorous adventure of my time in the United States Navy as a reservist. I was an aviation ordnanceman: a member of a team responsible for cockpit ordnance release/launch system maintenance checks as well as the loading of: missiles, bombs and the 20 MM Vulcan Gatlin gun, initially on F-14A Tomcats, and later on F/A-18 Hornets. I served during the 1990s, from late 1991 until late 1997.

Each episode will feature fun, hopefully humorous, interactions between myself and other amazing sailors as well as service members, many of whom became close personal friends on and off duty.

The series will also be used to test new, to me, techniques in 3D art, rigging and animation, as well as increase my knowledge and skills to make future episodes of both Navy Stories and my science fiction show: The MRU Chronicles even better.

Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to check out this adventure!

I hope it puts a smile on your face and brightens your day as you travel on your own life journey.

This episode was created using Blender 3.3.0 and rendered in Cycles using a DAZ 3D Genesis 8 male, Genesis 8 female and a Genesis 2 male.

Episode 1 of The MRU Chronicles is available here:
https://rumble.com/v2axczs-the-mru-chronicles-episode-1.html

Special thanks to the following artists who's content was used in the creation of this show:

Flight line clothing and gear by albin:
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/military/military-character/soldier-flight-deck-crew-rigged

F-14 Tomcat by jedidaichi:
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/aircraft/military-aircraft/f14-tomcat-7a473071-cf4b-4068-a758-c8ec3709f7f8

Flight line tug by sanchiesp:
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/vehicle/military-vehicle/us-army-fight-deck-carrier-tractor

Ordnance bomb cart by sanchiesp:
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-usn-mhu191-bombs-cart-with-gbu38-laser-jdam-bombs-model-1799464

Military base assets by OmegaRedZA:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/game-ready-army-base-military-base-1d5c8783446c4f6b85fafbadbc0e75d5

Song: Alexey Anisimov - Dark Force
Music provided by Tunetank.
Free Download: https://tunetank.com/track/4091-dark-force/

DAZ 3D characters exported from DAZ Studio for use in Blender:
https://www.daz3d.com/

Characters exported from DAZ Studio and into Blender using the fantastic, and free, Diffeomorphic: http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/p/mhx-runtime-system.html

DAZ 3D Genesis 8 and Genesis 2 characters, flight line clothing and gear rigged using the fantastic Auto-Rig Pro addon for Blender: https://www.blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro

Special thanks to the following 3D art friends:

ContradictionDesign for additional rendering support which greatly helped in the completion of this project.

KwasiAnimationStudio for additional tips and tricks which helped in the creation of this second episode.