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Also you will need to run on an intel Mac as AM is not compatible on ARM processors. Im a dyed in the wool Mac person, but I strongly suggest you setup a windows machine if you want to get the best out of AM. Best solution is to get the best last gen intel Mac if you have to use Mac and setup dual boot so you can use windows native, and you can have AM running on Mac and Windows while booted in either OS. My current rig is an old 4.1 flashed to 5.1 Dual 3.46 with Opencore running Monterey and Win 11, 128gb, SSD's RX580 PC card AM works great in it and you have 24 cores to render, these machines are like couple of hundred now, will soon setup a dedicated PC just for Am soonish

You should just self publish ! Man its a tough world out there, but now you have so many avenues to expose your work from social media, your tube etc. No more burning CD's and DVD's so take advantage. wouldn't worry about ai, real art is hand created, not with prompts, great idea to do a refresh and have fun along the way. From our experience, we have tried so many things in the past years to " commercialise " from games, to hardware and software projects and more and what I learned is that if you plan to make something for commercial gain then be prepared to spend all your money or be prepared to give most of your intellectual property away while going through every possible obstacle under the sun to try and realise this commercial venture, where you have invested all your money into it and the project never gets finished because of these and other factors, also because somewhere along the road you forgot why it is that your are doing this work for, and commercial success / exposure become the point of focus. You stop having fun and burn out, with no finances and fist full of ideas, hopes and dreams, you reluctantly go back to work while you are burned out to catch up and get your grind on. Ive had plenty of opportunities to make good money with the right connections in the industry, but something . . . that little thing called artist integrity always made me stop, don't be a sell out man, to the point where you feel like you are fake just like the people and the commercial industry that surrounds you, then you have a Jerry Maguire moment and walk away from it all, because your cup is overflowing with bullshit and sitting for 6 hours in traffic everyday has sucked the life out of you. After many years once your mind recovers, you have almost caught up financially and thanks to your mentor, you have tuned your focus by going back to basics and doing what you know instead of trying to do what you didn't know, you find once things smooth out, that hey you've got al these cool projects on the shelf, you life is almost balanced, and now you can take some of those shelved projects and spend some time to do little bits of it at a time . . . for FUN, and now software has advanced, hardware is advanced, there is so much more now that you can do that you couldn't do back then and things begin to become fun again! Aha! THAT was the element that was missing, sure you can do hard work, but if you dont have fun along the way its never a good thing. This is what I've realised, if you concentrate on trying to make a commercial product, it will show, if you throw the commercial aspect of your work out the window and concentrate on having fun, it will show in your work and in turn people will see it in your work and they will be drawn to it and you can share it with them, then you may get approached by the commercial people who want to use your intellect to make money, just some of my experience I thought Id share after reading your post. The best thing is that you do it ! Once I was commissioned to draw a comic book and I looked at the end commercial product and the task was daunting . . . then my mentor ( old boss ) said, hey if you draw a page a day, at the end of the year you will have a 365 page graphic novel , true, just do bits at a time and dont look at the commercial aspect of your work on the horizon line and most importantly have fun while you do it ! I pretty much learned AM ( the basics ) in 30 Minutes while I was working in Advertising to produce some TVC's, as the software we were using was quite shit for character animation at the time, in fact at that time you either used SGI stuff Softimage etc, Lightwave or the small number of 3D apps that were only ever useful for doing title animations, AM was a revelation and hyper intuitive its was as if it anticipated how 3D modelling, rigging and animation SHOULD work, it was brilliant and still is to this day in all its flaws and achievements. The I did a brief internship with Momentum Animations and we still produce " commercial " work routinely with AM even though the worlds moved on with other apps, literally commercials. But Dylan Perry has been quietly working over the years on a feature length animation, bit by bit he's the guy you should talk to and get some inspiration, we don't classify as having major commercial success, but he knows the biz if that interest you Reworking is the key, he has so many models and set designs that are being updated and reused in his film I am watching what your are wanting to do in the real and you have a good idea to rehash your work and bring it out again Keep going man !

Here's the AI answer, so it's possibly true sync windows settings with One Drive there must be some reason we don't want to do this, however.

Hello Window 10 users- Microsoft was going to pull the plug on supporting Windows 10 in October however this news article says their is a bit of a reprieve: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/windows-10-gets-an-extra-year-of-free-security-updates-with-a-catch/ar-AA1HlkZw?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=7ba54f7850154e77becf674c7348d3b5&ei=22 Does anyone know how difficult it is to sync Windows Settings with OneDrive? Thanks for any insights, Tom

the hew sound clip does show up as a waveform

Thanks you both! Very mysterious. If I add a second of silence to the end of "Happy New Year.wav" it will show but only as a flatline (but still be heard) If i convert it to convert to stereo i do get a visible waveform. Import this wav and see if it is visible Happy New Year11_OrigToStereo.zip Do you mean both wavs are not visible? "slurp2.wav" doesn't show after being imported?

Hey Rob The "Happy New Year" is heard but not seen in my timeline. However Slurp is both heard and seen. I'm using 19.5E

It shows in version 18, but not 19.5. I can still hear it in 19.5 though.

Please load the PRJ and tell me if "Happy New Year.wav" show its waveform in the Chor. Can you hear it if you scrub the chor timeline? Then import "slurp2.wav" and drag it into the Chor. Does it show? What version of A:M are you on, including the version letter? SoundTest001.zip

Just found another AM Model pencilguy.avi mp4 version: pencilguy.mp4 PRJ: pencilly.prj

My Live Answer Time thread has the link in the first post. There is also a link to that thread in my signature at the bottom of all my posts (like this one). The instructions on how to use the link are in that first post.

elephant2U.avi mp4 version: elephant2U.mp4 phant1.prj

Sorry forgot how to get on LAT. I to to clubs/live answer time and it takes me to google meeting page but it only shows how to start a meeting.

Get a line on some answers to your A:M questions at Live Answer Time at Noon CDT, Saturday Jun 21, 2025 Famed caricaturist to the stars, Al Hirschfeld was born on this day in 1903 Walt Disney: Jack Lemmon: Leonard Bernstein: 18 Of Al Hirschfeld’s Greatest Drawings

It was interesting to see the complex facial rig they had for their demo model. I'm sure you could do something similar in AM, but it looked a bit daunting.

I'll look for the replay. that's a subject I've been wishing they'd do!

Sorry for the late notice but there is a webinar that Animation Mentor is running today at 2pm ET on rigging: Animation Webinar Sign Up | Animation Mentor FREE!! You just need to register.

Yes thanks David I have gimp!!!

I use Krita....wraparound mode under "view" is helpful for that. GIMP can also do that using Filters/Map/Tile Seamless. Hope that helps.

Anyone know of an app that can make images tileable for decaling/texture mapping? Would really be handy.

Outstanding job. If you ever decide to do a pay-per download of this model, let me know!

Here's the stats for viewers of the website! It's likely a map of A:M users that have seen this Topic and visited the site. I think I have things the way I like on the website. It just needs a lot more animation! http://flownuts.com

I think it looks good enough to demonstrate my "balloon pump" for air pressure driven Hypercarts. When multiple pumps are placed in a long distance tube system, it will show the track weaving through topography, up hills, etc. Is there a large "land area" model available to utilize? Here's how the other Tube Track animation came out... I should say "so far". I tried changing Index of Refraction, but it looked like it pointed out flaws in my modeling. It had a nice shiny look though, I hope to use that setting for other things, maybe buildings. I added another pump to better see the idea. One should be able to picture the airflow...

I think we're waiting for David to use it in his animation first.

wow amazing work truly amazing stuff you got there! Do you think I could borrow this scene for an animation, if possible, I will definitely credit you.