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Hello. below is a question I emailed to Hash. Thought I'd throw it out here to see if anyone has the answer. Hello. I purchased a copy of Animation Master about 6 years ago at a comic book convention. The price of your software attracted me and the demonstration at the convention displayed it's user friendliness. I later learned that I needed the CD Rom to unlock the program each time I wanted to work on it. So I hesitated installing it on any computer fearing I would loose the disk. Needing the CD Rom in hand to unlock the program is very impractical for me. Does Hash offer a new version of Animation Master that does no…
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Everytime I try to load stage, it says "parameter incorrect". I am trying to follow online manual, any help appreciated...
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Hi Folks, I have a few questions, but first, a little background... My partner and I are going to work together on a project. We've looked around at various 3D Animation software, and have decided to go with Animation Master. Now, the thing is this...my partner has a MAC and I have a PC. So, I have a couple of questions.... 1. First and most important, will we be able to "merge" our footage (his stuff being on a MAC and mine on a PC), or am I going to have to get a MAC also in order for us to be able to join together what we do seperately on different platforms? 2. Come to think of it, how do you bring together stuff done on sepera…
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I need some help. I installed the animation software no problem. But when I went to click on the desktop icon, I received an error message saying, "Cannot locate the CD-ROM: Please insert the correct CD-ROM (HASH), select the OK and restart application." I removed the CD-ROM, restarted the computer, inserted the CD-ROM again, tried to open the program from the desktop and still received the same message. I tried opening it with the CD-ROM in the disk drive, not in the disk drive, from the desktop icon, and from the pearl programs menu. Still nothing. Again I have tried opening it with and without the CD-ROM inserted into the disk drive. The pamphlet that came with …
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Okay so I'm modelling my thing. I've gotten started on putting insides, but I accidentally make a wrong few splines and when I delete them there's still one spline left following the same path as the one already there connecting other splines. I can't deelete this withought screwing up my model. And sometimes I just want to delete other things and it screws up there too. It deletes whole areas of my model from just deleting one vertice. How do I delete it w/o doing thart? How do I delete individual spline segments? Also I'm having through with undoing in the modeller. It alwways goes back a couple steps on the same step I just did and starts to deform it and mess it …
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Dear Animation Masters, Where are the trailers advertised on the new AM2007 email? I have looked over the hash website but do not see them. Thanks for the links. Sincerely MIchael angelo
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Hi, I am new to A:M and I just installed it on my: Vista Home Premium 64bit Service Pack 2 on a HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop with 4 GB memory and over 120 GB free on the hard drive. The program starts up fine but: 1) When I try to login to the community section of the program using my user name the program locks up and I have to use task manager (says program is not responding) to kill the process. 2) When I try to open a project the program locks up and I have to use task manager (says program is not responding) to kill the process. 3) When I try to load “cloudyskylow.jpg” to a project the program locks up and I have to use task manager (says program is n…
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When I try to do some things, Animation Master will close out on me. This gets really irritating, especially when I'm in the middle of a project. Is there any way to fix this?
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Sorry I didn't post this in the FAQ forum. For some reason, it wouldn't let me post there. Anyways, I'm really interested in this program, and before I buy it, I'm wondering about something: If I film my whole fan film, leaving places for CGI and such, will I be able to completely add in CGI with Animation Master once Im finished filming? For example, if I want my alien tripods to walk behind a forest, so the audience sees them through the trees, then can I: 1. Film the forest 2. Generate the CG tripod 3. Place the CG tripod animation moving behind the forest... so we can see bits of it through the trees on the other side of the forest Exam…
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Hi I was wondering what are the lip sync tools like in Am? What sort of documentation does Am come with? What sort of technical support can I expect from am company, if i bought am. Does am have a paint program simular to that of bodypaint? What feature films does anyone know of that have been developed from am. How easy is it to learn the moddeling tools? What other software is compatible with am?, In your own words how does am compare with major packages like cinema 4d?, or lightwave? If you can answer any of these questions I would be very grateful.
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Just wondering, do any retail stores sell Animation Master? Is it exclusive to the Hash website and I saw a few posts about buying at expos and trade shows. Don't get me wrong I want Hash to get credited for the sale, just want to go right to store and buy when I can, if possible. Thanks.
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please at first accept my apologies, i don't want to go to blender but export animation done under animation blender TO blender cycles of course .X seems good but i go to find x import in blender and go to animate under animation master someting for demoscene so then ^^^^ kindly regards stéphane
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Ok, I fully intended to buy the 2007 current version from the Hash website. I had tried to purchase on e-bay and lost at last second of bid time. Well unknown to me untl it was too late my wife put a bid on another copy of Animation Master 2006, which was described as "new in Box" and "This is what you would buy from Hash for 299.00" She did this for me for Fathers Day, and so she was just trying to do something for me. And I was excited to be able to get the program before I expected. Ok, now it came in the mail yesterday. The box is in great shape, their are two cds, one is Yeti character AM cd. The other is Extras CD volume one. The large box it came in had only…
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hi i am new at cgi animation and i was thinking about buying animationmaster, but i have not seen A:M used in any major film. and i was wandreing if you could still get good enough picture quality for A:M to be used with live action. I know that the quality of the model is by the modelor but can you still get the same effects as with all the major animation software? well i am a beginer and i just neeed a program to start into 3d animation. so just tell me waht you think about animation master.and show me any videos you have made or any pictures. email me at billypuddels@yahoo.com i am usaly on aim my screename is AH a mongoose's …
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I met an animation major, and she was saying how on job application reels, it's best to use a minimalistic "rig" rather than a fully fleshed character. She also said some people will throw away a tape just because of the rig they see used. So my question is, what's a good pre-made rig for A:M to practice animating, not modeling? Mind you I do own the bonus models DVD, so those are fair game for recommendations.
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This discussion is designed to serve two purposes. First, to highlight some excellent resources, and second to point everyone to related 'breathing spaces'. Breathing Space is the term I use for when you have been working at a project for a long time without taking a good break. Ideally, that breathing space should be as far as possible from the task that you are trying to take a break away from. However, it isn't so far away that you stop working on the project. If you wander too far away... that's a vacation! For more than a few people that means the end of the show. Move just far enough away to get a refreshed perspective on the task at hand. Take a…
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i am using v 13. i animated a charater using 3 and 4 frames between them, but i fond out that when i played the scene it was too fast what can i do to correct this to normal spped.
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Trying to do a quick animation of a model walking over and hugging another character. However, 3/4 of the way through, the "hugging" character just stops. The timeline halts. (The scroll bar on the bottom still shows there is some more "scroll" to it) but nothing. I'm using (well, attempting) keyframes. I'm using version 15a. Any thoughts off hand? Other things I thought of are, i'm clicking "shift+keyframe" and selecting the first option. Animation seems to working well, but it just stops. Any suggestions? Help? Thanks.
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Hello all here at hash animation master im new here and looking to get into 3d animation. but im useless with it i got it about a week ago and i carnt make nothing just need some advice on where to start once you get animation master with no experince in 3d? any advice on where to start how to start what to start with??? Thanks in advance guys look forward to replys. im thinking i should quit because i have always been intrested in 3d animation try loads of programs but never get the hang of it so now im trying animation master hope the experts here can help me out cheers cya soon
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I knew I'd be buying this book. Many years ago I found Tony White's 'The Animator's Workbook' in the bargain bin of a book store for the hefty price of $1.99. This was a very nice discount from the cover price of $27.50. My only regret? I should have bought every copy they had that day! 'Animation: From Pencils to Pixels' is not an update to The Animator's Workbook but is rather a whole new book w/CDRom filled with information, tips, observations and lessons learned in pursuit of animation. At a cover price of $49.95 it made me cringe for a moment (hey... I'm cheap!) but I knew I'd be putting back the other books I thought I might buy that day. I to…
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I am only on chapter four of disc one and I am already very pleased with Barry Zundels DVDs. I am on my way to a wedding or I would be working the dvds longer. I would encourage anyone wanting to be taught this program to invest in these dvds.
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Hello all, I have been following the video tutorials but a few things haven't been going so smoothly. I will list the two problems I have below: - I am doing the car exercise and the tutorials car has perfectly round tires. The tires on my model are like a octagon. Also I made my flower with another exercise and the ends of the petals wore round... when I closed A:M and opened it the next day the end of the petals were a sharp point. Did I click some feature that I'm not supposed to? I compared my screen to the video tutorials screen and every feature selected is the same. - As I mentioned earlier I completed the Flower exercise. One "problem" I have is th…
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It may have been mentioned but its worth repeating. The v12 Help Installer has been added to the Help Page. You can view the Help files online or... with the help of the installer from right inside Animation:Master The links and installers can be found here: http://www.hash.com/htmlHelp/
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Is there a newer version than Version 11? The store dosent say.I have v11 .It just says -This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 November, 2007.The only copyright date I see is next to Mr.Dodo ,copyright 2003 Zandoria Studios ,did know if that was for the book or just the "Mr. Dodo" character.
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Hey all, I'm creating a comic book digitally and I need a anime girl and guy model to use a mannequin to trace out character poses, I have the web subscription so I didn't get any models with the download, if anyone knows where I can get a girl and guy anime models so I can use then a mannequin to create poses to sketch out characters then that would be really helpful ! Thanks in advance. Aldo. PS. don't worry about the rigging etc. I have a custom rig to use. PPS. no I'm not lazy - I just ain't got the time to model one up cause I'm creating all the draft pages and story plus all the research simultaneously an it's taking a long time !
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Does anyone know how to do or there any tutorial on anime eye or keekat eye rig? Thank you
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Hi all Once again I dived in the deep end and decided to take another crack at character modeling. This time, partially for an overly ambitious idea for advertising my webcomic on youtube, I started playing with one of my newer characters a cute, perky and petite goth punk from Devonshire: P. Blossom Hannaford. anyway as per usual i whipped up a rotoscope and got to work. So far it's coming along nicely so far. For what it's worth, I think it's much more successful than my previous attempts Mainly because this time I worked a lot smaller so the computer isn't choking on it yet and since this is a cartoon figure I went in with the Kiss principle in mind which give…
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i want to be able to make some cool anime hair thought about using the hair modifier particle system thingy (havent touched the thing in so long forgot what to call it) but i find that any type of particle has a tendancy to slow down my system by ... alot so i was thinking of modelling the hair, but i cant concieve of a decent method to modelling good looking anime hair. whenever i try to model anime hair, it tends to come out wierd and boxy or something
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I´m working in a project for my school, and I am doing a short animation with an anime style, I was doing some testin with Toon render but i cant find the anime option to get the right effect, where can I find it? Im workin on version 10.5 any other tips about anime style are very welcomed ^.^ thankyou~
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just wondering how if possable you can do a plasma like effect like you see in star gate sg1 , or a shield like effect as seen in supream commander
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For those that like to be ahead of the power curve I'm proud to announce that Hash Inc is releasing the new edition of The Art of Animation:Master. You can find the PDF manual and files associated with new/updated exercises on the Hash Inc FTP site: ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/updates/windows/Am2005/2005Manual.pdf 24.6MB ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/updates/windows/Am...wManualData.zip 5.1MB Of specific interest to older A:M Users will be two new exercises: Exercise 11.5: Make a Face - Colin Freeman's Cooper Face building tutorial. Exercise 20: It's Getting a Bit Hairy - Kevin Waldron's Wookie Hair tutorial Exercise 16: Smoke, Wind and Fire has also …
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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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ok, what happened was that there were constraints for the feet to make feet targets and i removed them (because i wanted to use the simpler IK system instead), now, i followed the steps for a basic IK system for them, but the problem is, i try to move the feet in a choreography and it wont let me, any ideas?
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I've got a bone with a kinematic constraint to a null. After the bone has followed the null, I need to have it let go and continue on an alternate path. However, when I set the enforcement to 0%, I find it popping back to the angle it had when I set enforcement to 100%. I can find no way to key the bone where it is just as I release the constraint. I find myself having to copy and paste the values found in the X, Y and Z rotation values in the properties window. (FWIW, keying the bone essentially does nothing as it records rotations at the time the constraint was enforced, and if you enable compensate mode, the angles all go to 0.)
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i am trying to render the lens flares in a choreography, yet no matter what direction i render it, it wont appear... the fade behind objects is off, fade with distance is off, and fade when aiming away is off. does anyone have an idea of what may be the problem and how to fix it?
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ok, i have this light, with lens flares, and when i render it, i can't see it, what do i do?
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How do I save a model I work on to "my Libary"? Example. Say I make a air plane or baby's head. How do I place said model in my library folder so I can drag and drop in choreograph mode? And thanx to all for answering my painful questions.
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Alright, so anyways i was modeling, and ive notced that my Control Points are black, and my lines are white, and this gets insanely annoying, expecially for when i was modeling an eyeball (black and white) lol. Also one other thing, my graph seems to be really small when im zoomed, out. Im doing Excersise 10, the fighter modeling one, and the thing that you have to zoom out far, it just makes the graph looks like very many Teeny Tiiiny small square, and it really gets in the way, does anyone know how i can enlard these graphs?
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There are several things I was wondering, the first thing I was wondering was that how do you make a liquid concentrated, like goop, but it falls like slime or drool (I use 200 for the Viscosity... yet the liquid stays suspended in the air, it doesn't ooze to the ground like I want it to)? If this option isn't available, maybe a future request for an ability like that? Another question is, how do I reduce the speed in which the liquid is shot out? For example... I want the liquid to come out slowly, yet it is shot out as if it were going 200 mph. Any info would be helpful, Rav
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I'm sorry if there's already a helpful link or something that I've missed, but I've been studying eye anatomy to make realistic looking eyes, and I've noticed other 3d projects with usually simple irises but they're illuminated.....light fades around the edges. An example would be the character Tak. I just want to know how other people are doing it, maybe it'll save me a missed shortcut. I like the look of those eyes.
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how do you get video to play as rotoscope behind your model so you see them at same time. I get video to play but have to minimize one screen to see the other. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Ok so thanks to photoman I got the water down and now I am adding a boat into the mix but I need help figuring out how to make a partical outline of the boat as seen in this part of the tutorial http://www.babbagepatch.com/wakes.htm
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I have a decal applied to the floor. And it repeats over and over abot 20x20. My problem is when it renders it realy starts to blur as you get closer to the camera. I thought i read something about antiailising. Is this what I need? If so where are its controls? Please someone help. I'm at work working on this right now. Help before the next hour or so is crucial. Thanks for yalls help.
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Is there some kind of anti-alias setting or something to reduce the pixelated look of my finished renders in Quicktime? I didn't seem to have any issue with my previous 3D program's renders which meant it must have been a default in the other program. I've messed with the A:M render settings, but haven't found an answer. My outputs are set at 720x486 1 pass (4 pass didn't fix the problem). Any suggestions?
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does anyone know where i can find some (or at least one) tutorial(s) online about how to squetch rig a model in AM: 2004?
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I'm not sure where exactly this post would belong - I didnt see any "general help" forum, so please feel free to move this if its in the wrong place. I just bought one of the Sony UX180P Micro PC's and would love to use Animation Master with it. The Animation Master software requires for the CD to be in the tray while it starts, but the UX180P does not have any sort of CD/DVD Drive included (and the optional one sells for $399 and (I believe) requires it be plugged into a power outlet, eliminating the advantage of a mobile PC. I'm not talking about bypassing the protection or anything illegal, but just looking for a general way of running the software without us…
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I've done plenty of cubes or other 90 degree shaped corners and beveled them, but when dealing with shapes that don't have those corners, I'm lost. The plugin called zevel has it's use, but it's far from perfect and has it's limitations. I'm currently trying to do some trial n error bevel tests on a pentagon, but am struggling with my patch work, even tho I can get the corners better looking the surface that should be flat has a curve and there are other patch/curve problems. Did a quick search, but ik keep running in to cube bevel tutorials. These I can do, but a pentagon or octagon I'm unable to get looking good. Are there any guides that explain how t…
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Does any any body ever heard of ful_bugirl from haptek characters? If yes I would like to find out about the ful_bugirl.prj I want to animate it in A.M.
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OK last knite i decided to try and make a rotor blade for a helicopter it looks OK i guess , just wondering if any of you have any idea to make it better rotor1.mov
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alright this ones a bit out there but bear with me. thanks to the help i have been getting i have managed to get some of my AM skill back and have rendered a few short animations to my liking ( again thanks guys). my main concern now is that i want to put these in a web page, but try as a might i cant find an option to render as a animated gif. that said first question is does AM have this capability. second question is that if AM does not, does any one know of a way to load a small movie file into a web page to auto run and repeat as if it where a animated gif? hopefully with out the pause paly bar?
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