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Hi, all. I'm trying to rig up a simple contraption, where I just need to move one hinged lever, and it has a knock on effect moving all the other attached bits (see WMV file for what I'm doing). I've got it working, but I can't believe it needs to be as complicated as it is. Do I really need so many bones? The JPEG shows the bones and their constraints. I just move Bone1 and everything else works from that. Bone3 has a kinematic chain to Bone2. Bone6 has a kinematic chain to Bone5. Any critique of my method most welcome... action.wmv
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Hey people. I need help with a project in V 10.5 I got an idea of trying to make an animation that looks like a child's drawing with stick figures and such, and I was wondering how you guys think I should do the surfaces. The idea for the project is that I was going to start it with a zoom in of a simple drawing on a fridge door. The premise of the movie is a stick figure action blockbuster with a ton of stick figure fight scenes, car chases, and the like. I got the idea from an old Mtv short called Stick Figure Theatre on the show Liquid Television. So when the picture starts to move it's all in 3D. Most of the models that I've made The problem is…
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How's my Jabba model. Feedback tips all is welcome! Editing is also helpful to. jabba 2024.mdl
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in part of my movie that i am making its from the vision of one of my units and i have built a HUD to use only problem is i cant get it to stay exsactly where it is in realation to the camera no matter how many frames i edit , the hud is a transparent set of surfaces that allso has some movement itself . any ideas
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i've been making models for a little while, putting them into a choreography, and animating with them. but now i made a new model, and when i try to import it into my chor, the model gets a huge bounding box around it with a huge bone somewhere away from the object. if i edit the model, the root bone is smaller and placed correctly. but back in the chor, it has this huge misplaced one. how do i get the bounding box to appear normal again, so that i can easily manipulate the model (ie, rotate it, animate it) ? i have found other threads where people have this or a similar sounding problem, but i have yet to find a clear answer i cold grasp. any help would be appreciat…
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How does this work? Sometimes I seem to be able to do it but others... not so much. I can drag select a "group" in the chor and move those items but it doesn't put in a key frame for translation. I need to move about 200 model shortcuts together as a unit and key frame the translation. After selecting them all if I use the arrow keys or type in the translation properties only the last one selected will move. In the past I've been able to select a bunch of chor objects this way to set "Active" on or off... but after awhile it stops working. Any help appreciated. -vern
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Hi Everyone, This is a really lame question but I can't find the list of Mac A:M shortcuts anywhere. Could someone please let me know where they are? Thanks, Mark.
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I rendered out a still JPEG of one frame of animation. This took 3:36:30 (hours, minutes, seconds). Why did it take so long to render only one frame? here are the settings, no advanced, just regular final.
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Are we able to import live footage and do a "Human Torch" effect in A.M.? And if so, how?
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Hi, does anyone have a basic outline of building a realistic humanoid. I don't know if there is one in the book because I lost it.
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Woohoo, should be here Monday, I can't wait.
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Im most likley going to be getting A:M at the end of next week!
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i need help designing a hybrid cat lady can any one help me design her im trying to make everything from head to toe... please help
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Hi, Guys...!!! I am new on your site and I am amazed by the skills of some people here... not too sure if this is the right place to be posting this msg Let me introduce myself first : I am Yann, a webmaster and dive instructor, 27 years old. i have many questions about music, web , PC and education... Where i can post my messages... So, thanks a lot!
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Hi my name is Daniel and I am 13. I hope I can learn how to use animation master and, the reason why is that my Dad uses animation master all the time for work and I always wanted to use it so now I have the chance to.
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i am looking at some of the products there for sale...5 cds and SIGGRAPH DVD Trainings...also 3d AM Paint and so forth. what are the 5 CDS in the AM package about? it is about $500. i really want to create anime on it but it seems that just the AM software is not enough. 3d paint looks pretty cool to draw your models though.
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Whoa! So, I'm in the midst of doing the piston tutorial. Everything is going along swimmingly. The tutorial works. I can make a piston go up and down while the crankshaft turns. Exactly as advertised. Well, except for those inbetween keyframes where you have to make more keyframes to get the "shaft" bone to line up correctly with the crankshaft pin... Then it's "close enough," but it really isn't. Somewhere (early on) in the tute is mentioned the fact that we're going to "brute force" this animation without relationships, etc. Great, I can handle that, as long as it works. But, it really doesn't. Well, not accurately enough. It will look fine as it's m…
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I've run into a problem. I've started working on an animation and I want a character to speak. However, I cannot get a dope sheet to appear. I know I've done this before, because I've done the "Can You Say That" exercise, but that was a long time ago. I've looked in the manuel and watched the video on how to make a character speak, but all they say is to click in the action window and hit "New Dope Sheet." But that option simply won't show up. I right click in the action window and scroll over to new. I can get a light, camera, volumetric effect, and a bunch of other stuff, but not a dope sheet. I'm stumped. (I'm using the 2006 version from a disk on a PC, if that makes a…
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Hi all, I can't make any good models, and i want to use other ones, so i was wondering where i should go to get models for free that i can use on AM. If you know it'd help me out a lot if you could tell me. Thanks
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it was working before, but for some reason I cannot save a action as a pose ! I am setting a default constraints of bones in an action window and then usually go -- > Action / Save as Pose but now it stopped doing it. It was working fine yesterday ??? Do I have to reset something ?? When I look in the project window - the relationship is empty ? Help !
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I'm posting a little help notice in here because I need some help with lesson nine and other than Robcat and Rodney I haven't seen too much of anyone else in the TAO area. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm real stumped on this one. My bones just wold not stay together and when they came apart leaves seperated from stems... it was madness I tell you; madness! http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=300932 EDIT: Yes apparently I'm in such a twist about this I can no longer spell "could." Super.
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I am an Animation teacher that has been using Animation Master in my classroom for 10 years. Recently my tech support department helped me to upgrade from Animation Master 98 to the 2008 version 15.5. It's a tremendous leap, that has left virtually all of my old classroom assignments and tutorials (with step by step instruction) completely obsolete. I too have found that I completely lack the understanding of the software to properly teach my students anything beyond basic model building. My problem has always been simple, our network configuration using a HASP driver has never allowed me or my students to access the basic libraries and help menus. I would love…
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Hello everyone, I want to do the Exercise 2: (Chorus Line) cancan with an interesting twist but it's not going well. I'm hoping others (who may have run into this problem) can possibly explain what is happening and can also tell me a way to get this to work. My idea is a 30 second to 1 minute short of the "cancan" dance that has gone wrong. My idea is nothing long or laborious (I think). It's just a quick simple chain of events that is bestowed on the unsuspecting characters hehe. In general, what I want it to be is shaggy's foot slips out from under him and he falls (quite hard) on the stage breaking through the floor which a loose board then shoot…
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Hey guys I em back know, still very new to this but got alot of time now i got my copy at comic-con san diego in 2006 i remember A.M. website you used to be able to post your TAoAM stuff and they would email a little gratz you completed this project or what ever, was just wondering if they still did that i also like to know if there is a place to download already made models for animating just somthing to mess with (aliens,lara croft,orcs,T-Rex) i did find 1 T-Rex but my version of A.M. wont open it
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i couldnt find it in the help in my AM
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I got it :)
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I got my copy of A:M in the mail woohooo! Now for my full blown first silly question. I am doing the video tuts and the problem is when I go from front view to side I often lose my model and can't find it. So enlighten the simple one what silly thing am I not doing that makes my model leave from view upon changing view? I have tried the buttons and read the book..so I either missed it or its a big secret! please tell Happy animating
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I have a little problem with the way i make things in A:M particularly around the face and head. I have trouble getting splines to meet so there don't appear to be "creases" . Like when working progressively from around the eyes to the rest of the face creases will apear an i have a hard time not getting them. it must be i have a bad work flow. Does anyone have any hints or tricks they use to get everything to come together right.
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I've had this idea for awhile, and it used to be for authers. But why not have a website were artists, writers, and storyboarders (did I get that last one right?) can come together and share ideas. People could collaborate on projects and make shorts for the world to see, and maybe have a show case were companies could view peoples work and perhaps offer jobs.
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my movies are to big how do i make them less then 2 meg?
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i made a movie but it takes really long to render is there anyway to speed rendering up?
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...Hi! Well, at least I always have found it a little "weird" and I'm not sure if this is resolved in that way for some reason or even if it could be a bug (although I don't think so cause we were talking about be a very old bug...) The case is that it seem to happens in any case, Action, Relationship, etc... but let's say you are modeling, ok? You add CP's, and you can see how it appears listed in the "Project Workspace Window" inside the Splines folder, thats right, but then, if I want to select one of they, and I select it in the PWS window it's not selected in the main preview window so there is no way to know which poit I have selected... And the only real metho…
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I have an issue with nulls, I have a bone, foot, that is already assigned to the control point and I created the null. And even if I have Attached to parent neither on nor off mater, once I try and control the null from the choreograph nothing happens. Basically I grab the cross and rather than move the foot, the cross just slides around. Check out the screen shot and see if there is something I am missing cause Ive worked with Poses and Bones before, but never had set up a null. Its my last peice of the puzzle then on my way to animating. As far as attached to parent, if you make that chenge do you have to re drop it into the choreograph?
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I saw MIB and loved it. And I love cat's. So, im thinking of making a short called "Cat's In Black" starring my own pets, oliver and zanzabar. Do you think this is a good idea?
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I just upgraded my Animation Master program. I hope It's easier to use this program. I have been practicing on my jety v13, I did all the exerscies that came in the book; But I would like to learn faster. Does anybody know about taking a course on line? The video tutorials are ok. But I need something more explainatory.
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i can animate, but i dunno how to make models. i can't find a totorial that just teaches you how to make a model. How would i start making a model like this: Once i get the hang of that i can go onto starting cunstruction on my Warioman movie stuff.
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Hi All, Can anyone tell how to simulate light emitting from a light bulb? What is the most effective way of doing this in AM? This light and many others will be visible in my scene. [attachmentid=15095]
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Hi I am really inspired to make a superhero movie with animtion master. So does anyone have a batman model. I know there is the russian batman but I need a regular one please. oh an maybe a iron man and a Joker.
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I need help
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Hey Guys, I am new to AM and need help with some issues. I have e-mailed support@hash twice, but have recieved no reply. How can I get some advice for my problems? Thanks T MAC
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Hello, I need to create an animation of a Winkie raking grass. What's the best way to constrain a long handle (the rake) to both of the characters hands? If I constrain the handle bone to only one of the hand bones, It works fine for that hand. Which means the other hand has to be manually placed. This causes me to have to line up and create a lot of keys to make the other hand appear to be holding on to the rake. If I try to constrain the other hand (to hold the handle) to the same bone or a child bone of the rake, I get a drifted attachment to both hand bones making it impossible to work with. I think it's because the contraints of each hand are compensating for ea…
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when you apply smart skin should i use multiple applications? in other words one smart skin for when the arm is down and another for arm up and yet another for arm forward.....or should i try to do all positions with one smart skin? mike
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So I have this guy So is their a tutorial on how to add bone cause I need an easy one.
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can some one send me the font wizard? or upload it as a zip or post a link to ware i can download it i need it for a project
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say where can i find the Maps folder? i went to the ftp site and i couldnt find it since i need the folder to get the fw-190 image.
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Hi, I'm having a little trouble with my model. I have 2 copies of A:M, snce I upgraded once. So I keep the new one(2006) in my desktop, and the old one(2004 CD with update for 2005) in my laptop. But now I have the problem because I need to work on my model on my laptop, but it won't work with older versions of the program. Does anyone know how I can transfer it, I tried exporting it to another format but it messed up the bone structure and I lost my pose sliders. If not, does anyone know how I can use version 13 on both computers without moving the CD back and forth?
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Rather than take too much time investigating I'll ask to be reminded here. Having one place to look will help immensely. So... Who do I owe a TAoA:M certificate to? Please post a note here so I don't forget you. I'll try to catch up quickly but it may be after Hash Bash before any certificates get out. Seeing your post here should expedite the process. Thanks in advance, especially to those that have emailed and expressed their interest. If you've completed TAoA:M... I O U!
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Hi i suck at modeling and i need a alien and it needs to look real and scary any help.
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ok long story short i started working ona new project and then things went bad take this image for example i dont know what i did but now AM renders way pixilated and i dont know how to fix it , ow this image is rendered as 800X600 but it seams flater than that and its not using a camera
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ok i have apperantly turns on some aspec of the program that i wish to turn off, but i cant find out how, generalys when maiking a model hiting the numpad keys shift to a certain axis alowing me to see the grid and make modifications etc. no when i hit it i get a perspective look at the designated axis and its making it very dificult to move stuff to correct positions
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I'll explain everything... I'm in 7th grade and doing a project about invertabrates and my group is crustaceans(crabs, lobsters, etc.) and we got to chose how to present it. Well of course i chose animated movie and i really wanna become an animator. So anyways i've spent like a week modeling my crab and it looks wierd. and now i have added bones and i am trying to add bones to the pupil of the eye to make it look around and stuff like that but i can't and i looked at the provided models with A:M like shaggy and it had a null thing and i don't know what a "null" is how to apply it to my pupil...wow... so right now you are probably like ...so please help!
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I finally got back into A:M. I originally got the program back in 2001. I was never very successful with it because I am not an artist or animator. It just seemed so overwhelming. Then in 2005 I got a civilian job with the Army as a broadcast producer. I am always trying to improve my skills, but it usually ends up being self taught. In 2006, I pulled out my AM program and started teaching myself how to use it. I was able to create a nice little logo for a news program I was doing. That accomplishment always stuck with me. But, job priorities and work load didn't allow me to spend the time I needed to develop any more skills. Time went by and my skills grew. I …
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