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The one-legged jump! A new render of my animation for the fifth assignment at AnimationMentor, 20 years ago this week. The assignment was to do one long jump and at least two short ones. Now with sound effects i made myself! (animated in Animation:Master, of course)

today at Live Answer Time we made a snake slither up a pole and look to the camera SnakeCrawl006e.prj snake1500.mp4

Here it is as an avi file... snake.avi

This might be a fun challenge. A snake is going to slither up a pole in a circular manner while keeping it's head and body aligned properly. Unfortunately in the uploaded project, the only thing working is the snake ascends the pole with no proper orientations........hopefully we can figure it out on Saturday! Tom snake.mp4 SnakeCrawl.prj

We'll face the music and find answers to your A:M questions at Live Answer Time, Saturday Noon CDT, May 10 2025! Actor-Singer-Dancer Fred Astaire was born on this day in 1899.

Also some old animations created while at Streamline Media. A website header and an animation for a touch screen console. converted to animated gifs so has a bit of dithering.

Thanks Roger, Yeah maybe Radiosity is overrated, we were able to render some decent things without it back in the day.

Wow...the nasal spray, phonebook and collection of bills look very photorealistic. If I didn't know I was looking at a CGI rendering, I might have a very had time catching that they are CG.

Some more A:M product renders and graphics created while I worked at Streamline Media.

snowthing.prj

It's all 'math' to me... My question as it relates to 3D modeling is: How does this contribute to continuity of adacent (relatively) planar surfaces? There is another element of this video suggests 0-0=0. But is this more 'pulling rabbit from hat'* in considering that an x - y = z where none of the variables are (invariably) equal? How equal are they and when are they equal? *To use a phrase from the video. This underlying schemes concerns polygons. Useful for math but historically an obstacle for splines and patches. Terms to consider regarding continuity: Triagons, non intersecting diagonals Potentially useful: The Hexagon is a useful construct in that it can be divided into quadrilaterals. Going deeper down the rabbit hole: In the second video we are introduced to the idea of a null subdigon which is the equivalent of a two point line. This is also referred to as the 'roof' of the shape under consideration.

Here is a swift turn-around with a frame-by-frame slo-mo from "Mouse and Garden" (1959). I have watched this endlessly, trying to figure out what was going on.

found this excellant model and did a quick animation checkmate.prj

HEY HEY HEY ! These models are epic can I borrow Zack and Terry and also the three thief model if possible? Rigged or not is perfectly fine. Also are you going to finish the IGRIM series? -Pizza Time!

really enjoy some older ,odels

I did get my runoff election program to run and correctly process the sample data set. E:\_BI_Projects\CplusPlus_take5\Harvard\x64\Release>runOffElection a b c *candidate_count: 3 Number of voters: 9 Voter 0 Rank 1: a Voter 0 Rank 2: b Voter 0 Rank 3: c Voter 1 Rank 1: a Voter 1 Rank 2: b Voter 1 Rank 3: c Voter 2 Rank 1: b Voter 2 Rank 2: a Voter 2 Rank 3: c Voter 3 Rank 1: b Voter 3 Rank 2: a Voter 3 Rank 3: c Voter 4 Rank 1: b Voter 4 Rank 2: a Voter 4 Rank 3: c Voter 5 Rank 1: c Voter 5 Rank 2: a Voter 5 Rank 3: b Voter 6 Rank 1: c Voter 6 Rank 2: a Voter 6 Rank 3: b Voter 7 Rank 1: c Voter 7 Rank 2: b Voter 7 Rank 3: a Voter 8 Rank 1: c Voter 8 Rank 2: b Voter 8 Rank 3: a *tabulate() called! Voter 0 choice 1 of cand. 0 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 1 choice 1 of cand. 0 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 2 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 3 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 4 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 5 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 6 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 7 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 8 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Round Result: Cand. a total votes: 2 Cand. b total votes: 3 Cand. c total votes: 4 * the minimum votes received was 2 *tabulate() called! Voter 0 choice 1 of cand. 0 eliminated ? : 1 Voter 0 choice 2 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 1 choice 1 of cand. 0 eliminated ? : 1 Voter 1 choice 2 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 2 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 3 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 4 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 5 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 6 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 7 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 8 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Round Result: Cand. b total votes: 5 Cand. c total votes: 4 The Winner is: b

A concern about a "TV" is if it uses a technology like plasma or OLED that is prone to "burn in". Those are bad to have a program interface sitting on for hours. Conventional LED should be less of a problem.

TVs are optimized for TV usage, meaning a distance of something like more than 2m and up, in general not static content, etc. If you sit at that distance and watch mainly content in motion, all is fine – if you are closer, they are not optimal – color profiles and sharpness algorithms are not the same. Additionally to that the TV might not be optimized for higher FPS etc (because movies / TV shows are somewhere around 50/60 FPS in general while computer output can be much faster), but that depends. Short answer: It is best to use the TV / display for its intended usecase. If you will notice the difference depends a little bit on you... some can see a big difference between 60 Hz vs 144 Hz vs 240 Hz, HDR, color corrections, brightnesslevels, etc. some do not. So the answer is a little bit: It depends. Best regards *Fuchur*

That might be the case if he has a lower end HD display that outputs a max of 720p, but if he has a 30" or larger 4k TV shouldn't it show text just as well as any 4k monitor? I mean, it might not be as good as some of the best Dell or Apple displays but seems like it would at least be legible. Or am I mistaken here?

We talked a bit about Transfer_AW at Live Answer Time today. Steve @Shelton made a lo-res version (left) of his Hans character(right) and rigged him with the TSM2 geometry bones. Transfer_AW interpolates the lo-res CP weights to the hi-res mesh to get smooth deformations of the complex hi-res character. This shows lo-res Hans and hi-res Hans doing the same test action. There are a few places that will need manual CP weight-tweaking but mostly he's ready to go! TransferAWHans.mp4

A TV is not a computer display – be aware of that. Especially if you want to read text or something like that, many TVs will not do the best job in showing that too you. I am using two displays or even three sometimes for at least 10 years with A:M and it is fully fine. Best regards *Fuchur*

Thanks Robcat!

Click on the title "19.5E" or click on this

If you already have v19.0 installed and running on your computer but not any version of 19.5, run the v19.5 installer, then copy the master0.lic file from your v19 folder to your v19.5 folder.

Thought that's where I was AT!!! and where is the post for that link? Sorry I'm an idiot.