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Hello Everyone, In the tutorial for "FW-190 FIGHTER" I can't seem to get past page 113 (page 121 as a PDF). I am able to Lathe the first two point Spline, but after I delete the bottom (or top depending if you watch video or read tutorial), reposition the Spline in front and side view, then rotate the green axis to be horizontal I can't get the Lathe tool to appear. It's grayed out. Am I missing something somewhere? I've attached a video so you can see EXACTLY what I've done. I'ver tried a couple variations, but if you can tell me something like: "At 1:25 you didn't do X" It would help a lot. Also the video tutorial has a lag in what the person is doing a…
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Name: John W. Cote Exercise: 1 Date Started: July 30, 2008 Date Completed: Exercise= July 31, 2008 Exploration=two tries Instructors: the A:M Community at the moment, TinCan back in the day.
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Hello all, I was planning on working through both the TaoA:M and Mr. Roger's Complete Guide. I was wondering however what the experienced folks had to say about which one should be done first or if they could be worked together. I realize that TaoA:M is close to everyone's heart as it's the manual and everyone has it, but if I'm not mistaken the AM complete guide is the defacto standard outside of that. What do you guys and gals think? Also if anyone could tell me about what Animation Bootcamp is all about that would be appreciated. John
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Getting an "Error Loading String -1" error when I try to set to "Scale in X-Axis only" from page 102 of the Art of AM. The error does not appear if I have only one cp selected. The error shows up when I used a bounding box and if the pointer is near the bounding box. When the pointer is directly over one of the bounding box's cp's then the error goes away. Using ver. 15.0d
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The problem-reporting thingie doesn't recognize me or my password. Do you have to have a separate account for that? So I model a simple disc. Bring up the library, select an image, drag it onto the model, click "decal." I get an exception 001 message. I'm using V15. V13 works fine.
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Hello I've finished the FW-190 Fighter Exe. and was wondering what did I do wrong with the decaling. You can see from the paint job that its off a few places.
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Hello my friends, When I try to load Key Kat into a chor. it says that the tga for eyes is missing. Then it loads with out the eyes. How do I get the eyes back? Keith
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I'm working on exe 4: Its A Pitch and I have the 9.5 version was wondering how do you make a grass effect I done a search on here there like only a couple came back. I tryed the hair material but someone said don't the hair effect to make grass. Here what I got so for I'm making a baseball field.
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Hi everyone- I was able to complete a reasonable Cooper face and I'm continuing with the tutorial to finish his head. My skull is pretty good, but I've run into a snag with sculpting the ears. Please post your favorite techniques, tips, & tricks on how you sculpt an ear! Thanks so much! Erik
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Just finished Exercise 1. Planning on doing at least 1 Exercise per day until done. :-) I had some fun experimenting with the various controls defined for Keekat and getting a feel for how A:M combines changes on many sliders at once. It's actually VERY predictable, as you'd want and very intuitive.
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im new at this so i have been doing this for 4 or 5 months so how do i and pictures to my backgrounds p.s. anyone know an easier way to make mouths on there characters
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I need flocking to work in this project. I need my bats to fly around the objects in this project. The flocking system is not working in this project. the camera is all ready animated and the trees are already animated, but the flocking system stopped working in the certain project. I can't get the flocking system to populate at all now. I need about 3--40 bats flocking aournd. I can't animate 30 bats like the flcoking birds systme can. The particle system is on. I have no idea what to do now.?? I can't believe it has to be this difficult. The flocking system stopped working in my project. It was working, now is will do nothing. I need serious help in getting the f…
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My students are using shaggy or the rabbit for it's a pitch because we had the knight with the bad knees. Most students did fine, however one girl has had trouble and she can't really tell me what she did different from the instructions. I have attached the file - Shaggy falls apart and his eyeballs fly out of his head. It's pretty funny, but not exactly what we were trying to do. Any ideas as to what she did wrong? shaggy_pitch.prj
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Hi All, I have a few new models I have done and I am at the point of clothing them, so what is the best way? Should I model the clothes over my model or as part of the model? I saw some by JTalbotski and it appears they were applied as part of the model, if so will they move as the model moves? I have seen some info about SimCloth or something like that but haven't check it out much yet. thought I would try you pros first! Wally
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I'm going back through TaoA:M and attempting to learn things with a little more depth. In Ex 2: Chorus Line I want the Can-Can Action to start at frame 00:01:00. I dropped the action onto the 'actors' at that frame, but the cancan started at frame 0. How do I get it to start at frame 00:01:00? thanks, Myron
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Name: Javier de Andrés Exercise: 3 Move it! Date started: August 23, 2008 Date Completed: August 23, 2008 It's a good exercise in order to get use the program. The bone system and deformations are very friendly. Exercise_3_Move_It_.mov
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Recently started with AM subscribe edition, put the download CD data file in, extra tutorials and models all seem to be there but when I tried doing the dope sheet, it can't find dictionary.dic I don't see it in the data folder. Where can I get the dictionary?
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Hi everyone, Here's my entry for Exercise 2: Chorus Line. I moved the camera off to one side to avoid that "straight on" look! -Sean Dance.mov
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hello to all m trying to make a flower with the help of flower power video tut. am not able to select all points i mean in front view i draw a box for selection points of STEM but some points not selected after making STEM and LEAF i want to add color but in mine A:M Project Workshop there is no (>) button for adding color IN VIDEO TUT in mine A:M PLZ HELP ME
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I'm enjoying the modeling and video tuts... Flower Power
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A bit too tired to work with spline modeling tonight, but decided to go through one of the quicker TAoAM tutorials, to at least do something toward using and learning AM, even if it's not what I'd wanted to do this evening.. Here's a few shots of the results. Working with the bones is a bit weird at first, not knowing if you're moving or rotating them, but I think by the end I was getting the gist of it. I think I got it pretty close to the picture (which is what I *think* the book is referring to when it says to match the picture at the beginning of the exercise). He is hovering a bit above the ground plane, so the shadowing looks a bit weird beneath him.
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Exercise 9
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Just a quick render from Exercise 9... I was in a dangerous mood, so I added a third leaf on the stem...
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Hi everyone Finally got to work and hope its look ok . The frist time post thank you
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I've been trying to complete the Cosmic Bowling activity. When I click on the "Simulate Rigid Bodies" option, the simulation runs, and it freezes up before the ball hits the pins. I'm using a Macintosh, G4 with a 733 pro. I'm also running the latest Animation Master, v13, with the updates. Anyone having this problem? Thanks, Andy
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Exe 1 : Your the director done. I like this programe keeping me busy
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When I import the Rotoscope Image it is white
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Welcome to The art of Animation:Master! Word of the new websubscription is going out to all parts of the world and the stage is set for the arrival of many new users. Welcome to the A:M Forum if you are one of those! If you are returning... Welcome Back! The art of Animation:Master is designed to thoroughly expose you to the workflow of Animation:Master with a focus on the principles of computer animation. Its a step by step process to set you up for successful animation from the time you start Lesson 1. There are many additional benefits of working through TaoA:M too. Here are a few: - A certificate of completion from Hash Inc! (Read more about it he…
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i have a candle project and i need help making it appear like it's Wax is melting on the candle please help me with this
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I'm working on "the door's stuck" from TAO for A:M 2002, however I have the latest version. My question is regarding the timing of movement. More specifically, I want the foot to start lifting up at 00:04:00 and stay planted on the ground at every frame before that. However, The foot starts lifting at frame 00:00:01 and slowly reaches the door. I made it through "it's a pitch" and rabbit walking without this problem. The solution is probably simple but I cant figure it out. Any help would...as usual...be huge. Thanks for looking. -PM
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Name: Javier de Andrés Exercise: 1 Date started: August 21, 2008 Date Completed: August 21, 2008 Exercise_1.mov
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Name: Javier de Andrés Exercise: 4 It's a Pitch Date started: August 25, 2008 Date Completed: August 28, 2008 I have repited the exercised First version looks me too exaggerated. There was a moment both feets were in the air. I decided do another version more natural. That's here. Exercise_4_It__s_a_pitch.mov
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 2 Start date 2-3-9 Finish date 2-3-9 Rodney I hope this works. I appreciate the direction. ref Can_Can.mov
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Exercise 1
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Exercise 1 Start date 2-3-9 Finish date 2-3-9
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Exercise 3
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Exercise 3
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I cannot seem to do the giraffe tutorial in VISTA. I am having trouble getting into the Rotoscope mode so I can open up the giraffe project. I either get a white box or the giraffe without the grid and I am not able to draw the splines. I was using Windows XP and was able to do the tutorial but since I got a new computer with VISTA, i have been having problems getting into the tutorial. Any suggestions?
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Hi everyone, Here are my stills from Exercise 3, Move It. I did the required pose: Then moved on to one of the extra poses: Then I channeled a little Bugs Bunny for inspiration for this last one: What do you think? -Sean
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Hey can anyone help me i already made my model but how can i put on the texture and also make sure the texture looks clean o the model i tried to do it by watching the FW fighter and the way they put the decal on there but i didnt come out the way i wanted it to look....ALSO when i try to save my picture in TARGA format and imported in AM the alpha channel comes out white how can i prevent that...here is a picture of what my model looks like with the decal on.
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Name: Ralf Kampp Exercise Completed: Exercise 1 Date Completed: 23rd Feb 2007 Remark: Looking forward to the certificat Other exercises still to come EDIT: Sorry, put it into wrong category/thread. Don't know how to delete it :-( Could an admin help out, please?
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Exercise 7
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Two problems with this tutorial - Often computers lock up when we drag secret on to KeeKat. Seems like it happens when a lot of students are working at same time. Does having all computers running off of one system with the dongle affect performance? The larger problem is there are no words in the dictionary - all words are in red box. I read a post about the .dic file being missing - and available on the ftp site - but I could not find it and I'm not sure what to do if I find it. Thanks! UPDATE - I found the .dic file on my CD and had to load it on each station. I think that solved one problem. But the systems still lock up when adding the secret.
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I have decided to restart the TAoAM class as I've been gone for a while. I'm doing it a little different than before. I am posting everything on my 'Myspace' page. http://www.myspace.com/fdputhuff You will find the stills under the picture section in the TAoAM book and the videos under the video section. Here is exercise #1 (See Attachment) 8-3-07 If I am posting this in the wrong place, please let me know where I should be putting this stuff. Thanx
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THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE UNDER THE EXERCISE # 2 TOPIC. SORRY Name: F. David Puthuff Exercises Completed: Two Date Completed: Friday August 3, 2007 Instructor: Rodney Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Loving it! Here is a link to the second completed exercise: Home of My Excercises Click on the videos link near the top left Thanks Rodney, - Thumperness
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Hey, I am trying to go through the flocking exercise. I am using the latest v14.0. Here's what's happening. I created a flock-birds, populated it with a goose model and used the fly action all just like the book. I keyframed the flock object to start at the left of the camera view from a distance. At frame 30, the flock is keyed closer and to the right. At frame 60, the flock is keyed closer still and to the left again. Here's what the problem is: When I scrub through the animation in the chor, everthing looks good and the geese point in the direct of the flock object's motion. When I render a movie, the geese remain oriented as they were in fr…
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Welcome to The art of Animation:Master! Word of the new websubscription is going out to all parts of the world and the stage is set for the arrival of many new users. Welcome to the A:M Forum if you are one of those! If you are returning... Welcome Back! The art of Animation:Master is designed to thoroughly expose you to the workflow of Animation:Master with a focus on the principles of computer animation. Its a step by step process to set you up for successful animation from the time you start Lesson 1. There are many additional benefits of working through TaoA:M too. Here are a few: - A certificate of completion from Hash Inc! (Read more about it he…
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While working thru the EX17 tutorial, the simulation freezes at frame # 2:15. I saw on another thread from August 3 2007 ( User named "someawfulbridge", post "why can't I bowl cosmically?" ) that someone else had the exact same issue. A Hash person responded that they were able to set up/do the simualtion from the top view in the Chor window and make it work. I tried that and had no luck. They also said that the tut file may be corrupted and that they would try to fix it by next release. I just updated to v15a, but still had the problem. Has anyone had this issue and found a way to make the simulation follow thru? Thanks, Niall I am running a PMac G5 dual 2.5…
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I am running a PMac G5 dual 2.5 Ghz, 3G Ram, ATI Radeon 9600 video card. A:M v15a. While working thru the EX17 tutorial, the simulation freezes at frame # 2:15. I saw on another thread from August 3 2007 ( User named "someawfulbridge", post "why can't I bowl cosmically?" ) that someone else had the exact same issue. A Hash person responded that they were able to set up/do the simualtion from the top view in the Chor window and make it work. I tried that and had no luck. They also said that the tut file may be corrupted and that they would try to fix it by next release. I just updated to v15a, but still had the problem. Has anyone had this issue and found a way to ma…
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Name: Javier de Andrés Exercise: 2 Chorus Line Date started: August 22, 2008 Date Completed: August 22, 2008 A funny choreography. It's good for understand AM basis. CanCan.mov
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