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If yo get stuck on some part... be sure to ask!

Mind if I ask how you created/what your process was for creating the Play-Doh/Clay effect on the models? It looks great and the animation really captures the claymation/stop-motion style!

At today's LAT I was unsuccessful in making a Selection Filter. This post shows How to make a Selection Filter. Occasionally, it doesn't work. If not, select the bad filter's tab, choose "Remove Filter" in that small triangle menu... and try again! Also FYI, here is a reasonably thorough list of new features in recent versions of A:M @Dylan Perry @Ganthofer @Roger @ChuckGram

Could only find "upload images" so I'll post it here and please let me know the proper way to do this and if you can play this video. VLC was used to convert it. This particular video had a lot of help from robcat (the glowing threads) DWfinalTitleC.mp4

At the end of Live Answer Time today we watched a cat climb a fence... Check out the compressed anticipation pose. Check out the full extension of the legs before he leaves the ground.

Hi Dylan, I think that is 3AM Sunday Morning, Melbourne Time. Ouch!

I'd like to come and join you guys but I can't seem to figure out what time it will be in Melbourne Australia. I'm getting different results depending on what converter I use! Can anyone help me figure it out?

You'll be mesmerized by the answers you get when you bring your A:M questions to Live Answer Time at Noon CDT, Saturday, August 16 2025! Felix the Cat animator Otto Messmer was born on this day in 1892. "Feline Follies," the first Felix cartoon.

Attached is my Batman scene file with decals, easier then looking through any DVDs Batman.zip

Hi Robert, Just looked at the date my original model was created and says October 12th 1999. Don't recall who at Hash I was in communications with (might of been Steve Sappington) they probably wanted to render an image for shows and stuff.

So Hash commissioned this Batman... what did they do with him? Is he on a DVD?

The more thorough September 5 , 2020 video uses Auto Assign at 43:53 Note that the "head" problem discussed at 1:01:37 will probably not be a problem for you. It seems to have only happened to me.

My fav view of him so far.

Understood, I have to redo the rig from scratch using this TSM2 and version 15 if I remember right. You also used an "auto assign" at one point I think that made things quicker and that's why I could use the video of that LAT to study more closely but I don't think it's available yet. I'll keep checking to see when it is. thanks for responding robcat.

Darker coloured suit and some colour corrections in PS.

Looks good, now we just need a cigarette dangling out the corner of the mouth.

A rendering of Bats, finally arms down.

problem 1 - the only bone you should be rotating in a smartskin window is the bone that smartskin is for. The smartskin window says it is for "LBicepDynamic", so moving "LBicep" is going to be trouble unless there is a great reason to do it. problem 2- you're still using this rig that has a zillion extra bones and constraints added on top of the geometry bones. When you are making smartskin you should be using a version of the model that is geometry bones only... geometry bones that are easy to move. problem 3 - I don't think this "COGS" rig was designed with smartskin in mind. Is there a place in the instructions where it says "do your smartskins now"? If there is, I don't think this stage of the model is it. problem 4 - You should be using TSM2. You'd be done already. TSM2 gives you a version of your model with just geometry bones for you to do your CP weighting and smartskinning and no constraints yet making things fly around crazy.

Is this just on my machine er whut? Please try to rotate the Lbicep bone in the Smartskin window, either with the manipulator or scrubbing the Y axis in the PWS. On my machine it goes WACKO rotating spastically in large increments and the bone is way off. Even tried saving the model to disk & importing it into a new Prj. but no difference. Recently had similart problems but was resolved with AVG anti virus but it's not working now, so any help appreciated. SuitCoat3.prj

Two more slight variations Rocky44_000.mp4 @John Bigboote wanted a bigger shape on Ro-cky Rocky44x_000.mp4

It's spline controllers... see? Rocky42_000.mp4

Thanks Robert! He has a basic rig for posing, If I ever do anything more with him he would need some major smart skinning

That's a great looking Batman, Michael. Is he rigged, too?

Some results from recent C++ exercise regarding file data manipulation. Using this image as input: Here "edge detection" has been done. Every pixel in the original was tested to see if its red, green, or blue values were different from its neighboring pixels beyond a certain threshold. If so, a white pixel was plotted in the new image. If not, a black pixel is plotted. Here the image has been rotated. Every pixel in the output image is populated by the values of a pixel that is x degrees from it, around a center point. If that x degree rotation is looking at a position that is off the original frame, a black pixel is plotted.

Has anyone ever tried using AM under Crossover, either on Mac or Linux? I'm contemplating trying running it on Linux under Crossover and just wondered if anyone else had already tried this.