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hi again. back on the A:M larning again after soom time. picking up on the last tutarials i done. i have come across a problem with my A:M on my computer. when i follow the project pathease on my machine. as i go to set the pathease to 100% for the first action, it delets the action. i draw the path. i drag and drop the knight. i constrane him to the path. i drag and drop on him the walk action i drag and drop on him the wave action i drag the walk action on the time line to last to 3 second i drag the wave action to start at the 3 second point i go to frame 3:00 (3 seconds) in the time (frame) box i open up the path propertys and set the …
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I was asked how to apply a decal to one patch Have images in the Images folder Select the patch on the selection and choose "Add Image" Choose an image from the drop down list The image can be rotated in 90° increments with "Rotate Images" You can select multiple patches in step 2 if you want to apply the image to repeat on multiple patches. Cautions: Patch Images often do not shade correctly when used as bump or displacement maps.
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I don't think I've ever seen Oliver's youtube tutorials for A:M. Where the heck have I been? Here's one where he starts to set up a book with turning pages based on Kevin Detwiler and Robert Holmen's example posted here in the forum. Note that this is a multi-part tutorial (in 5 parts) and is Tutorial 40 in the series. xhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfgDqGe9GSk Here's the collecton: xhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwmsT_c4rTUaJZP7RPzs1i7tdY-LuwKgn He states: Thanks Oliver!
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I haven't tried to run Animation Master for probably five years. In that time I've changed Macs several times. Today I tried to install it using the Classic environment. No luck; or I should say I thought I was successful at first, only to find out that A:M couldn't see the original disc through Classic when I went to run it. I have Virtual PC 7.0.2 with Windows XP and tried to install it there. This time the app told me I had to upgrade Win NT with drivers for D3D. Only problem was, I was beyond NT (why doesn't A:M know this? Is the OS version hard coded?) and DO have D3D drivers. As it happens, I've been using Virtual PC since version 3, when it was a Connecti…
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Howdy all, been looking all over for answers here: AM keeps locking up (after working seemlessly for 6 months) and goes into an ultra, ultra slow motion mode (one click in any direction or 1 degree of zoom takes like 15 - 30 seconds) I watch the CPU use and it zooms to 100 % with any little command, so somethings wrong Make a long story short, I un-installed, re-installed twice now. I try to open the program and i instantly get a "missing KSPI32.DLL" pop up (with the big Windows "doink" sound) I've seen a couple posts about install / reinstall about using the "regedit" function -- I have no clue what that is. And I'm a little …
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A really nice and usefull resource, from a good friend of mine. Here you have her own presentation: http://www.artnatomia.net ARTNATOMY The work has been chosen as a finalist (in Educational Category) for the 15th Flashforward Film Festival (an online competition and live awards ceremony showcasing and celebrating the best work on the Web). Winners in all categories plus the "People's Choice" award will be announced at the awards ceremony on March 1 during the Flashforward2006 Seattle Conference at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. Application overview. This resource has been designed and constructed to exploit digital technology in the …
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Is it hard and how would i go about making a model or live person turn to dust and blow away? i also need to model the ground cracking. Thanks, Stewie
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Hi I dl this http://www.jpatch.com/ that has the same modelling features of AM. I have to evaluate if I can modelling something with the patches or not. If I can and it is easy than the box modelling , then I'll buy Am. Is there a basic character tutorial? I mean , a tutorial for modelling an figure, for scratch. I am a newbie, I create only low low low poly models using milkshape . I tryed to do something with jpatch but I need a startup..
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Just uploaded to youtube but still being processed. The help section notes that it could take up to eight hours. Since I've never done this before, I'll keep checking till I get some kind of results. I hope to get your guys feedback on this. Thanks Here is the link: Please leave your comments
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My friend and I we're on a video game streak the other week and came across and game, "Cell Factor". Great game and all, but now we plan to make a minimovie over it. Like, maybe 30 minutes. We've planned out that all human characters will be played out by real people, and we'll have Guardians (Giant Robot thingies that look like General Grievous clones.) done in Animation Master. So I blew off the dust of my CD and started it up. I'd like to know the difficulty of adding Animation to actual video footage. We're also going to be using psychonesis and will be using objects in A:M to throw around. All this is actually going to be planned out to be don…
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Hi Spliners : ill tell about MUFOOF Exist countless uses for the passes, one of them, is the capacity to work with Multiple Frames in Only One Frame ( MUFOOF ). Here i will show you, how to set parameters.. I use it to simulate a fast movement, GI, fire .......... The general concept is to produce an action (it doesn't import how many frames it has) that will be executed in one frame .... The secret for that is to alter the properties of the action inside CHO. First project -> Create a fast spinning helix -> model a simple helix and setup bones ( or download it here ) -> Create a new action , select the bone and select…
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I was recommending to a buddy of mine that he should add motion blur to an animation he had done. It's really easy to do in A:M, but more work in the funky setup he uses. He wanted to understand the benefit, so I did this short demonstration video, which you can see at the link below. Enjoy! High Def Motion Blur Demonstration Video -Vance
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Hi, I'm going through the tutorials and it seems there is more to A:M than what is in the book. Is there a manual online or on the CD that I am missing? Lori Hiatt
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someone a while back asked me if i could show them how to build a crown. so i made this video and sent it them. since it was just sitting on my computer and collecting dust i thought i would share it with all of you. i hope it helps someone else out as well.
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Here is a place to talk up your software of choice for making Tutorials. Tell us about what you use to make tutorials, what the pros and cons may be and where possible show us examples of tutorials created with those tools. Of special interest are those tutorials that demonstrate use of Animation:Master. For the record Hash Inc's preferred software for video tutorials is Camtasia. For freeware the Tutorials Forum currently suggests Wink as the standard for .swf tutorials. Please note that the forum can generate HTML tutorials based on discussions here in the forum via the 'Print this Topic' option. See THIS TOPIC for more information. Formats of interes…
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Animation:Master has very robust support for creating stereo images like Anaglyph, Free Viewing and Interlaced Stereo renderings. In this tutorial we will see another way of rendering to give a 2D image the feeling of depth. Download zip 2.6 Mb I hope you find this useful. JM
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You may be familiar with using Distortion boxes to reshape a mesh in the model window, but you can also use distortion boxes to temporarily warp, squash, stretch a model in a Choreography... http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=356311
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So I downloaded Camstudio and did a real quick tut on making a ball to see if it would work. It worked and lasted about a minute. But the size of the avi file is like 15 megs and the swf isn't much better. How do I get those file sizes down? I'll never be able to make tutorials with file sizes that huge . Thanks for any answers you may give.
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A video and sample PRJ for making a surface constraint can be found this thread: Post#4
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I'm sorry for posting what is probably a completely DENSE question. But where can I find the JPG's for the "Make a Face" tutorial? I can't find it on the main disc or the the "Extras" disc. Again, my apologies.
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Dione is one of Saturn's many unusual moons. It always presents the same face in its forward direction leaving one side light and the other side dark. You can examine this result from any angle if you make your own Dione model! Download the rectangular projection of Dione's surface that was recently featured at Astronomy Picture of the Day... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141107.html Then apply it to a sphere to make you own model of Dione. Choose either "cylindrical" or "spherical" application and compare the visible result. I suspect spherical will be the most correct one. Unfortunately it is not an elevation map so you can't make actual mountains and…
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Using MakeNormalMap001.atx plugin Enjoy Make_normal_map_Tutorial_h264.mov Part_2 Addendum I missed 2 important steps in the first video. Its a good refresher after viewing the first video. Updated this should play now Addendum_To_Normap_plugin_video_tutorial.mov
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Anyone use these and have an opinion (note the Mac version of Camtasia is not the same as the Windows version and appears to only have a subset of features - perhaps why it is $200 cheaper than the Windows version) Cheers
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I have been looking for tutorials on how to make various star wars things. There is one good sight at theforce.net but many of the links do not work. I was wondering if annyone knows anny other good sites. Thanks!
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Just got PFHoe and have tracked a clip. It opened fine in A:M and have been trying to get models and (shall I say) a floor into the chor. I finally have the model, but the ground that was created into the project does not respond the way it should. (transparent but will show shadows of the model) I have done other chors. where I put a grid under a model to create shadows, but with this new stuff I am having a hell of a time and wasting way to much time trying to figure it out. I just upgraded to LION on my Mac and am wondering if that could be the problem. I know some of you folks have used PFHoe before and hope you could point me to a tutorial or some other stu…
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i have looked through the forum but did not find what i am looking for. Has anybody done a water drop tutorial? i need a drop that either splashes on the ground or in a puddle of water. Thanks. P Happy new year..
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hi all was asked to do a tut on this so here it is nothing new for the pros among you but might be good for the new guys ref movie and zip tut http://www.impmusicmedia.com/cartoon%20animations/beer.html lighting_tuts.zip
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Hi, Could someone post key links about libraries all in one place? I now have several models and materials, and I would like to add shortcuts with pictures, (I think Rodney posted some icons for materials on the extras CD, or maybe the 2005 CD--not all materials come up....? I saw a screenshot I think, but can't find it now....) know how to edit .lbr files if I need to (and know why I would) and how to restore them if I mess up. add some of the stuff from the extras CD. I was able to re-link the main Hash CD library in v.12 (Mac), but as I have the space, I'd like to add some things from the extras CD and get it all organized. I'm sure there ar…
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At the Dec 2 2023 Live Answer Time we reviewed the basics of flattening a face, applying a decal and painting the decal. The animation we watched at the end of the session is omitted for copyright reasons, but can be found here. @Pizza Time @Roger @Shelton
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Back in 2004 A:M Justin Barrett created a video tutorial set on facial animation in A:M. He has now re-released it on Youtube for free! Check it out! Thanks, Justin! Animate a Face
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We've had several discussion of video sharing lately so I want to make sure everyone is aware of this resource as well. Jing works with PCs and Macs and provides some storage space for you to share. If anyone is able and willing to test out the possibilities of Jing I'm interested. For those that need more service options/smaller file sizes than the basic Jing service provides Jing Pro is just under $15 a year. http://www.jingproject.com/features/default.asp Techsmith also has a 30 day trial of their Camtasia software. If you need to capture video plan ahead and use every bit of that trial period. Its a bit expensive for the hobbyist but I used t…
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This new "It Can't Be Done!" tutorial series will be somewhat more general interest and briefer than "Painting with Light" so don't be afraid to give it a look! Part 1 is on YouTube. How to make a smooth, glass-like heart shape? We preface our attempt with some discussion of A:M tools. Part 2 is on YouTube. We begin our heart with Lathing and make an unusual use of the Rotation tool. Part 3 is on YouTube. To the center of the heart! Part 4 is on YouTube. CFA early, CFA often. Part 5 is on YouTube. You get the Hook. Here is the image used as a rotoscope in Part 2
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So you want to snap bones to CPs? This is how it can be done... Episode 1 is on YouTube. A little bit of set-up is done Episode 2 is on YouTube. Pose export magic. Ta-Dahhh!
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This started out as "light" version of Jim Talbot's method to flatten a face and apply a decal but it's already running long... Episode 1 is on Youtube. How to flatten a face? errata: at about 5:35 you can see a bit of distortion happening on the screen-left edge of the mesh. That is because those patches are right next to the hidden stretched patches. Those will decal oddly at that edge. Ideally we would have one more column of patches between those and the stretched patches to hide and exclude from decaling. Then none of the decaled patches would be adjacent to the stretched patches. Episode 2 is on YouTube. Fixing the overlaps. errata:…
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I ran across this Tutorial on Irfanview that also happens to expertly show the capabilities of Wink tutorials combined with HTML coding. Irfanview Tutorial Now this is exactly what I envision us being able to do in the future. Scroll down a list of topics... view information. As nice as this is... there is even more where this comes from. For those not sure whether they want to click the link will take you to a menu based tutorial that expertly discusses some of the function of the utility Irfanview. Irfanview is a PC only utility that converts, displays and provides other functions too numerous to mention here. There is a lot not mentioned in the…
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EDIT!!! Massive and desperately needed edits done. Hopefully this is MUCH easier to understand now! Tutorial link (FIVE MEGS) Click to download ZIPPED file. 4.3 megs EDIT: LINK FIXED Phil Leavens
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These tutorials show you how to create this type of lighting and reflections. Update. See this short video. Although the video shows what is not working it also clearly shows what is working. The work around to using the probes meaning spherical maps is to just make them upside down in Photoshop. IBL_in_AM.mov This is 1 of 4 more tutorials. IBL_HDR_LIGHTING_AND_REFLECTIONS_Part_1of4..mov Here is the link to part 2 of 6 Tutorial 3 of 6 unwrapping_probes.mov Download hdrshop below under tools. I was unable to upload the quicktime to this site so I had to put it on youtube. …
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To make tutorials with the FREE program WINK download it from here: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Then install it, start it and go to Help to choose: View Tutorial Project 1 WINK will make a .htm-file and a .swf-file and you can start learning WINK in a quarter of an hour. The .swf-file is a Flash file. I hope you know Flash it is from Macromedia and it is 100 percent safe! To look at the tutorial you have to have the FLASH PLAYER plugin installed in your browser. About 80 percent of all browsers have the plugin. Internet Exploerer will install it automatically - just answer Yes! You can download it from here: http://www.macromedia.com/downloads Mak…
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I am in the process of making a short film with space fights. If i have a spaceship model is there a way to aanimate it falling apart? I can add the explosion FX in a compositing program.
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Hi guys, I just wanted to let you guys know that there is a new tutorial on how to export from A:M to Unity (a gameengine using the FBX-format) on my website. Video-Tutorial: A:M2Unity3d. Another tutorial can be found here about how to export from A:M to Quest3d. (a 3d engine using the directX-format) Video-Tutorial: A:M2Quest3d. Hope you find them useful! See you *Fuchur*
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Lets say You need to edit your demo reel but all your source footage is on an Authored DVD. You need to get it into a format that you can Edit or view off the net. For_Gale02.mov For_gale_03.mov
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Hello: I am rusty with texturing. I remember seeing a magnifying effect where I can make a magnifying glass handle AND circular lense and use something that when rendered will act as a magnifying lense effect. Anyone know of one?
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Hi - I keep seeing references to Holmes's wonderful tuts but I can't find them. I found a couple of links but they go in circles. If Holmes is reading this, or anyone else who knows, please send me links to your/his tutorials, particularly those on rigging. On the subject, I'm making a hand rig and would appreciate any tuts or how tos for basic and advanced hand constraints. Thanks Much, Doug
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Hi I wan to make simple face with 2 eyes 2 ears eyebrows nose a mouth hole which i really can't make i made full body with neck but i only need is face i tried many tuts for understanding but when i start working its getting wierd & then i stop work delete the whole file & when i back to hash websites see these am still the i try again but can't make it please someone help i dont want to rig my face i want to know how to make face with spline or primitives please help help help! ..... & im using one prop with this character so please tell me this too that how to make this hole in cube box ......................... THANKs.
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the tutorial is at http://www.babbagepatch.com/ specifically I'm stuck on http://www.babbagepatch.com/water2.htm I'm attempting to create the action like it says, but I can't add the material into the action like it says to, am I missing something? BTW: I'm using A:M v11.0
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Before my computer was maliciously hacked and wiped late last year I had a wonderful collection of documents in digital files from the wikiold site. Things like Compositing, Ambient Occlusion, Etc.. not in video - but PRINTED (OR Prinable) format. Have these all become lost in time or were they moved. Any assistance is appreciated. P.S. I se links all over to the ARM...but that site is down. Cheers and thanks in advance for any assistance. Mark
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Hello, I'm searching for an other 'Grass with Hair' Tut. This Grass Tut I already found but there was an other one, but I can not find it ... Maszie
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I'm pretty sure Giulio Porta's tutorials have been linked here in the forum before but it's very possible that some have not seen them. They are especially useful to those who are new to A:M. For instance, here is a tutorial on modeling (and texturing) a very basic Eye: Glass Eye Tutorial Guilio provides extensive information on Modeling, Rigging, Texturing and Animating with a focus on Fish, Birds and Humans. The tutorials have been used at Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale Campus. Check it out: Spring 2011 Syllabus, Tutorials and Resources
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Learn how to tell stories with Animation Master using your own models, sounds and bitmaps in four basic lessons. I believe you can learn it in four hours and then you have to practise for four more hours. Then you can teach it to others! Animation Master is a professional program but possible to use in schools for students from 10 to 100. Other professional 3D programs you have to work with daily - not A:M - not having all those buttons and commands instead just the basic ones to use for whatever you want to do. And everything aimed at animating not just doing nice images - but that is of course possible too. These four lessons are for telling stories with lipsynche…
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If anyone wonders what formula to use when it comes to calculating BPM(Beats-per-minute) to FPS(Frames-per-second) 60:BPM*FPS=NumberOfFramesPerBeat Niels ps. Cycle length can be p.a. 13.39 in order to keep things on timetrack
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