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Hello:) I am using and learning AM for 6 years now (started with AM99). I have done the taoAM , I have a small movie on AM films http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=801 AND I have a second place in the last xmas image contest. Does that make me a hash fellow now ? Until death Comments on the little movie are welcome. Greetings Marc
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hello all. now ive been researching on my own for the past couple of days since i first noticed ive had this problem, and ive tried all the solutions but im still having no luck. im trying to import a new .jpeg rotoscope, but all i get is a blank square in the modeling screen. i tried one suggestion to switch from "OpenGL" to "Direct 3D", then the whole thing disappears, but i still get a selection box( i even resorted to following one guys suggestion to switch from one to the other, then back again quickly, but that didnt work( no, i didnt try to do the chant yet ). i cant update the video card driver as im doing this on my day-job computer( to clarify, ive been pla…
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Hi Everyone, I own an online company with national exposure and I am trying to grow my business. My website is http://www.EZMLSListing.com Typically, I get about 50-100 hits per day. I am wondering if anyone would be intersted in submitting a themed 15 or 30 second TV commercial that I could post on my website and possibly Air in the future. As a newbie, my skills will take time, so I was thinking that I could provide the exposure and include the Artist's contact information and a link to their website in exchange for a TV Commerical that someone submits. There would be NO exchange of Money, it would just be a way of one hand washing the other. I…
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please could anyone explain how newton physics is applied to animation master
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I searched tutorial section first before asking here. I am making a film and at the point where I am I need to switch to camera two from camera one in a single frame. any quick answer on how to do this? Thanks
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How do I and where do I share the little clips I've made for review ? I am teaching myself, for about 4 months. So I would like to post some small video so I may get some direction. I dont know what I need to know until I need to know it Thanx to all Me and a friend have a small idea about a lame bunch of super heroes. With no real powers they fight forced sobriety everywhere. Pretty funny stuff if I can ever figure this thing out. next steps are modeling. ( I am good at bodies but crimp faces) and lip syncing. All my stuff is on YouTube channel_ Hazard6211
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anyone got a nice set of rotoscopes for a guys face they could hook me up with?
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well im underway with TAoAM V12 Yeti and reading the book and watching the videos, i have come to realize something. watching the web videos i see that in the project workspace eg: model, there is an arrow next to it that you click and the properties for this item drops down under the item. but in my Yeti v12 the properties opens up in another window like it use to be in V7 that i was using. so did they revert back to the old way or is there an option that causes the properties to pop down from the workplace items? cheers
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Hi, I'm working on adding some bones to one of my models (a scorpion, screenshot is attached). This is my first attempt at doing skeletal animation. As you can probably see from the picture, I was doing fine until I started to work on the legs. When I went to do one of the legs, I added four bones to it, then clicked auto-assign, and my bones were assigned to various unwanted locations (chunks of the two adjacent legs and part of the torso was connected to one set of leg bones). A few questions - 1) Is there a way to un-assign the bones? I've tried moving them around and clicking auto-assign again, but it still leaves them connected. 2) How do I…
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I bought A:M at NAB and just got time to install. Install hangs, asking for a serial #. The SN is not on the box, not on the CD disc, not in the manual, not in online tech support. Under "Installation" the manual doesn't even mention the prompt at all. Can anyone tell me where the Serial Number is? Thanks
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I got it to work once. Then I created a more elaborate path and all I end up with are wacky things that don't seem to follow the path at all. Is there a tutorial somewhere? Does it not work with bias changes on the path? -vern
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well im back and this time im trying some organic stuff , i allready know that there are tutorials for makeing a human face from scratch, but are they any good ones for making a face from picture , iv uploaded an example of what im taking about , seeing as this is all ready an animation i though it would be easyer to start on , but after a few hours i had nothing of any real value.
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I recently installed a AM 15.0c via the CD. Everything seems to be fine, I can view and access the CD library. I downloaded the CD box version (windows) of 15.0j+. After installation, the program started okay, but now my CD library is filled with question marks instead of the images which represent the content. Is there some special way of applying these updates that won't break the CD link or some way to fix it? (I emailed support, but haven't gotten a response yet). Bill
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I need to Download AM 15J+ For comparisons to AM 16 and 17 I upgraded my system. the previous download links do not work
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i made this funny animation for a movie site me and some of my friends are starting http://youtube.com/watch?v=tiBLwYkgr2Q i let me know what you think if this is the wrong place to put it then show me were the right place to put it is
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If I'm working on an A:M project, and I need to leave the computer for, let's say, an hour or more; when I come back, whatever is on my desktop [wallpaper, icons, etc.] will be in the Modeling Window or the Choreography. If I try to go to a different section [e.g., leave Choreography and go to a Model Window] there is only a blank grey screen. I still have toolbars, but the only way to get back to any of the workspaces is to do a Save and close out...then re-launch A:M. Does this ever happen to anyone else?
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Hi all! I have made some spaceships that I have made shields for. And I need an effect when something hits the shield. Any ideas on how it should look? I have thought on a "rings on water" effect. But more ideas would be great! Thanks!
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Hey i got version 13 for christmas then i got 14 from this website for dowloading it free, but when i looked into the libraby for version 14 nothing is there at all. also for the extra dvd, i dont get how to run it. it doesnt work on my computer or on a dvd player. any suggestions?
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In an action window, when I use the copy keyframe and then paste a keyframe, the bones are copied onto the selected keyframe but the nulls are not. This also applies for the paste mirrored option. Does anyone know if i'm doing something wrong? Thanks for your time. Sincerely, Masna
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ok so i have a big problem. im making a face with using a guide, and im making the nostril. to the side of the nostril there is a area thats opened and isnt patched up. it is 5 points in the area, but i dont understand what the 5-point patch is and where it is. i used th patch group mode because i thought that was it, but i guess not.
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Helpp ! Can't select Action Mode in Choreography !! Driving me nuts !! Drop a model in, then select action mode to create pose etc. Then after 10 minutes or so the action button gets locked or something - greyed out - you can only select the choreography button - which is already selected. Poses Still work , eg. eyelids etc - BUT you cannot enter action mode to pose model with bones ? Has anyone had this problem before ? Very Very Strange.
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I have a figure lifting boxes out of the back of a van and wondered if anybody could advise as to which was the best setup for the o constraints ? The box to the figures hand or hands, The hands to the box, and which would be the best constraints to use? The figure is lifting the box up, turning through 90 degree then walking off to the side, carrying the box ? regards simon
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Hey everyone. Just got a new CPU, so I'm putting A:M back on my machine. Right now, I have vers 13.0. 1: Where would I find the vers 14 update? I found a "vers 14 full - exe" but that's not it. 2: If I decided to just pay for the "web" version update (I think it's 15?), so I need to update to 14 first, or can I just grab the latest exe update? Thanks!
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Hi, I've been doing a control points faces but, I realised that, if two faces that needs 5 control points are side to side, it won't work and, in another model (I didnt do), I saw something that might solve my problem but I don't know how to do it. Look at the picture: how we do that? BWT, the thing circeled in yellow has no control point, it is just a spline without red dot thanks tido
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I brought a rotoscope in to help me make the side pieces for the top of my treasure chest. Now that I'm done with it, how do I get rid of it? I tried right clicking and deleting, tried hitting the delete button, nothing is working so far.
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I have a problem. Whenever I render a mist effect in action mode, it turns out great. But when I render in Chor, it turns out like a transparent white sphere. What's the deal?
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Hi everyone, I organized my coreography and put in a Character, a camera and a path. What I wanted to do was to make the camera follow the path while pointing to the character. So, I gave the camera a Constrain "Aim at" in compesate mode to the character. First step done. Then, I applied a second constrain to the camera in order to follow the path (a 3 point curve around the character). When I did that, the camera begun following the path but aiming the path too. I clicked off the Store roll option in order not to aim the path and the camera started aiming to the front... but not to the character. I tried to do this in A:M 7 and A:M 12 obtaining the same results…
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OK. I found out why my ver 11.0 A:M doesn't install on my new mac mini via OS X...thanks to the message board folks So, my next attempt at getting things up and running was to install Parallels to run XP virtually on the mini. Everything installed well (seemingly) but clicking on the icon on the desktop (again, in virtual XP) gives me a 'can't find CD drive' error. It found the CD drive well enough to install the program...what gives? Anyone know the answer? All the settings for Parallels that pertain to the CD drive have been enabled. It took a lot of lobbying to purchase the upgrade to 11.0 as I don't use the prog religiously enough for some peo…
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I'm currently making a new character (my first one ever) and I need help assigning nulls on the bone hiararchy. Can anyone help me?
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I lost my tutorial disk and can not figure out how to bring my cartoons into the program. Can anyone tell me how?
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Hi, all. A couple snippets of my recent labors on YouTube. Secret Service gone wild 1.wmv Happy Dance .mp4 You can see that I had a little trouble controlling the left hand in happy dance and my feet are slipping through the floor slightly in a secret service.
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I am a newbie but I have been doing pretty good with the tutorials. I have been trying them first out of the book and then watching them online to pick up some extra tips, etc. However I can't seem to find an online version of Exercise 11, Giraffe. Does anyone know where I can find one? I am having some trouble following the book and could really use a visual tutorial. Thanks, Robbin
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I am setting up some smart skin on eye lids. Looking from the side the corners of the eye lid do not line up as this view shows. I don't know if it's possible but here is what I want to do. I want to rotate the eye lid to the full open and full closed positions with the Rotation Manipulator. I know how to move the Pivot to the center of the eye socket. What I can't figure out is how to skew the manipulator so that its planes are rotated the same as the eye lid prior to actually rotating the eye lids CP's. That sounds confusing so here is a picture to help explain. In this view I am looking at the eye lid with both corners lined up. I want th…
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Simple question, I want to pan over an existing looping video placed in chor as a rotoscope or layer, how do I get AM to loop it? Right now it plays once and gets temperamental if I try to set different lengths or key frame numbers. v15 seems to have more options for this than v13 and 13 seems to crop a frame or two from rotos but either version will do for what I want. Any hints? okay dropping the same video as a second rotoscope gives me another repeat but then there's no smoothness to the position keyframes... I'm probably missing some obvious "loop animation" button, right?
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A small problem with hair or leaves in this case. I render the tree and the top comes in lighter then the rest of the tree. How do I fix it? Also I need to render this out as a image/decal with the background as transparency. What would be your approach?
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I am using vers. 15.0j+. I am able to render output files in MOV format with sound, but not in the AVI format. I seached the archives and this is similar to another person's problem from March 21, 2010. In that case, he just decided to keep using MOV. However, I would like to use AVI. Does anyone know where I can find some way of figuring out what the problem is?
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When I render to file a choreography that I have not touched except for placing a model in it, I get a different background color depending upon the file type I have chosen. Tga get me gray; mov gets black and jpeg is green Any one know why?
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I have spent the whole day trying to render an action as simple as "a character waving" but was unsuccessful and feel like giving up. I have the V11.1 CD and was working on Exercise 4: IT's a Pitch and noticed that my rendered file only show the last frame, which is pretty much a "still frame" of the last pose. It wasn't an animated file of the six poses I created following the tutorial exercise. So I tried doing a simple action, "waving" and rendered an avi file, and the same problem persist...showing only the last pose in a equally still pose. So I tried searching for help here and this problem seem to have not been addressed. I want to try all those other…
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Hi all, I've found myself bogged by the move frames dialog. Can someone give a quick rundown on this? What's Before and After entries for? What's the Offset and Scale for? Or is there a portion of the manual I'm just missing?
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Can someone please tell me some good surface properties to create ice. I have been experimenting on my own, but I can't get it to look right. I was trying to adapt the ice settings in the current issue of 3D World magazine from Daz Studio to A:M, but I got confused because some of the D|S settings are named differently than the A:M settings. I decided it might be best to just ask people who specialize in A:M what settings they use. So I am asking... What settings do you use? Any help would be gratley appreciated. Thanks!
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i am making parappa the rapper and lammey (game umm jammer lammy) and i need help creating the mouth please help Im trying to mak my character talk but i dont know where to add the bones and how to speak with my parrappa the rapper and lammy there 2-D so its kind of hard
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I can't figure out why paste mirrored isn't working. I am working on a Mac, but other than that, nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Just trying to finish up exercise 5 and am a bit confused. Any help appreciated.
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the question is all in the title. All of my models use the same number of splines, bones, etc. how would i copy one pose from one to another? -hisako
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I've been tooling around with the image sequence option for decaling, and simply can't get it to do anything. I've imported as a sequence, and they have little movie clip icons next to them in the timeline - - but I can't seem to get them to actually DO anything when I apply the decal. I've messed with the settings, looked through the manual... nothing. Help!
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Embeding? 1. When is it useful? 2. What are the downsides to embedding, like when should I not use it? I ask because I recently have been having trouble when bringing projects to other systems even though the project is being accessed the same way via Ethernet storage from all systems. The other systems seem to have to re link to the source files? Dont know why. The only work around I have found is embed but aside from a large file I do not exactly know whats happening and what I should look out for.
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Hello How can I set a vewport image in the background of a view, only to draw splines ont it. Remy
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I'm assuming that the individual models, etc. from the Extras CD are free for use. But what about the component parts of the "project" sections? For instance, could I use Jim Talbot's leopard model, even if it's not out there as an individual model, but only as part of the project? (Hypothetically. That's not actually the model I'm playing with.) I guess I don't need to ask permission to use the Soap Opera set. But still...
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Hello, I recently received a flyer describing a neat 2006 upgrade that will have "Group Project" software and that software will facilitate an animation that we can all participate in. Great idea and so I have decided to post my work in hopes that I can join the project. I like the forums and community that seems to be available here. With that here is my first post, which is for Exercise 1. Thanks
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I want a clutch of these motorcycles to run through a scene with their headlights [and red tail lights] on. So far, as I look through manuals, A:M can make a halo-type glow around the object, but I see nothing on how to simulate an object that is emitting light. I did a fair approximation by creating a cube, coloring it yellow-orange, installing a light inside it and setting the cube's Translucency to 50%. Is there a better way? [attachmentid=16039]
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I want to delete the bones from my Cheech Wizard model, and practice with TSM2. Is there a quick way to get rid of existing bones, [like in the Action Window you can 'Clear Action'] or must they be deleted one by one?
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