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The lastest in my fascination with tracked vehicles. This, a generalized Soviet T-series tank. I've been keeping a Photoshop record of each step and expect to put together a tutorial when the treads are done and moving.
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Hey everyone, I went out and got a new PSP game called Patapon. It's another fun, stylized game from Japan Studio. Playing it and looking at the 2D stylization got me thinking. "I wonder if I could make a 2D animation in A:M. Of course it's simple in Toon Render but I mean actually 2D. So I made a model of a Patapon off the top of my head. Everything is going smoothly so far but if anyone has any suggestion or ideas feel free. I attached some pictures of the project. ( I'm also working on TAO of A:M on the side lines; only four more lessons left. Thanks for your…
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I thought of making a pirates of the Caribbean skeleton so i used Eugine model to make him added hair but still need help adding clothes to him does anyone know how. Here is a walk test Test_wak.mov
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Hi - I have a Dentist client that wants a 3D animated illustration of the teeth being grinded down a bit and Veneers being placed on... should be a fun project. I got the mouth and teeth modeled. Need to get some advice on how to show particles of teeth grinding off w/ the drill. I'll post in the Newbies. Thanks, Eric
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I am doing a personal project, nothing important but something I want to do. one of the main characters is a Bear. I been up since lastnight making the bear and I am actually quite pleased so far. I know how to rig a person but I am kinda lost on where to start with this dagnabit bear! I really want to do it right the first time so if anyone would please give me your ideas on rigging him I would be very grateful. I am not asking a full tutorial LOL. Just some ideas and maybe a basic layout I can begin with. I just dont want to rig him all up and then have to redo the whole dagnabit bear. any other creative ideas are welcome too. I respect all the talent in …
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I started playing with this old project the other day. We'll see how far I get with it this time: Comp_1b.mov
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panda character Using a Sub Surface Scattering rendering
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Hi All This a model I have been working on for the last wee while, it's going to be a Victory motorcycle. I have started to add some colour to the model and I'm in the process of making the metallic/pearl paint for the tank and rear fender. All crits welcome, this is the first time I've attached pictures to a topic to I apologoise in advance if they don't turn out right. Glenn
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I boned Frankenface but he is uselss for now. Help please? I used the 2001 rig that was in the folders and followed the tut "Show some backbone. frankenface2hairboned.mdl
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Started working on the Pod Bay interior for the Discover model. To make this model it's own complete set, I am going to include the Pod Bay doors and front wall sections (interior and exterior). The slider to control the doors will be part of this model now, and not the Discovery. So far, I have the rear and left walls modelled (with temporary textures on them). The floor and ceiling are blocked out as well. It's been tricky trying to get everything to scale without having any blue prints to work from, just screen grabs from the movie. The front section with the pod bay door openings, is just a temporary piece so I can get the other parts modelled and scaled in place…
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Ok. testing, testing 1 2 3 4 with this month's 11 second dialog problems I see: 1) rigging, modeling issues with arms, hands 2) lip sync for "yesterday I ate" starting around frame 155 3) hands penetrate around frame 95-96 4) ??? (not done with costuming, texturing) Comments welcome (and nooooo...ya won't have to go vote for me...unless you absolutely, positively want to wade thru 6 billion entries all with the same dialog) coccoonshiny8mpeg4medPCMhintedstream.mov
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It's my first real modeling with am. I have AM since 4 years but i used it at all. I changed my workflow to work with animation master now.
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This uses a noise combiner for a displacement material to create terrain for a flyover. Flyover000MP4.mov It's got a few odd pops and gaps but interesting none-the-less.
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I've read several post in which people were noticing that the emitters were not totally transparent when a scene was rendered. Well Nancy shared a little trick with me in one of my posts that I thought was good enough to share with everyone. Many of you may know this already, but some may not. If you want to make an emitter disappear, here's the trick: Make a small TGA image with a transparent background and an alpha channel for the whole image. When rendered in AM you should see nothing. Now take that TGA and apply it as an image to the emitter mesh you want to hide. Here is the kicker: in the image properties under the mesh shortcut, change the property from col…
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Hello! Once again it has been a while since I have posted a new project. This one is more of a sketch. The idea came when I was daydreaming in class . Here is where I am at: I am using a z-buffed kleig as the sun light, AO for the indirect lighting, and a few fill lights here and there. Notice the wavyness in the shadows, thats from low z-buffer map resolution. I marked up what I plan to do now: Photoman
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I produced it in AM Please look http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm12864062 I'm sorry if I make a mistake in a place to write
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Hi, I'm a 'rusty' old 'old timer' but I'm back and trying to animate and get some video of a bunch of models (space ships for the most part) created for my last AM project (a book trailer for my sci-fi book). To give credit where due, some models were created by AM users from all around the world. I'm using V14 NetRender (I plan to upgrade shortly), however, so far, I've only tried rendering right out of AM. I'm encountering a problem I've not seen before and it's happening on all three of the scenes I've tried to render (so that means 3 different sets of prj files, model files, etc). Things are 'shimmering' on finals renders (this best description I can come u…
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Hi guys, just wanted to show a WIP of my latest try to create a realistic girl character. I am quite happy with it, so there are a few problems I want to address before going on. Hope you like it! Let me know what you think! *Fuchur* realistic_head_model.mp4
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I can no longer render!!!!!!!!!!! when I attempt to render I get this once this lovely screen appears all buttons lockup and I gotta shut down AM! Why????????????? Where is my normal render options???????????????????????? I already reset AM trying to fix it
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Hello. I'm taking a short break on a personal project that I have been working on in Animation Master to work on this: I am almost finished with this but I still have a few things to go with it: * I need to finish the head by adding eyes, teeth and a tounge. * Finish the face. * Finish the hair. * Tweak the boots around the ankle area. * Tweak his butt. * Finalize his belt. * Rig it. * Model and rig his cape (I currently am using a rough stand-in now). * Add additional texture maps. I think that is it for now. My goal is to not get caught up in the details and finish this in another two weeks or so. I find that with my persona…
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I didn't want to work today... and as I was looking at some artwork by Shawn Dickinson http://shawn-dickinson.blogspot.com/2012/07/blog-post.html I admired his skull designs and decided to reacquaint myself with A:M's great organic modeling tools. The texture is a matcap and the crack is a boolean, 'grunginess' is fastAO-GPU by Jenpy. skull.mov
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So here's my WIP so far. I'm using this scene to test the Latimer model I have. This is a very rough blocking and I'm simply looking at the timing of it now. I would have used the frame burn post effect but it doesn't seem to be working. Anyway I'm looking for feedback on initail poses and how I could make them stronger and better. finishes_here.mov
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I have been working on this out of my head .I was going to sketch out pose of front,side top but thought to myself I no what I want so go at it see what happens. this is what I have so far.I have a few questions.First is the patch splines all right for rigging. The hands is there way to many splines/patches to rig .I really do not no what I am doing with this . Third stab at this Type modeling.I Have done mostly mechanical modeling. Thank you for the help in advance
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Hey Everyone, This is one of several personal shorts I've been working on. For this one, I edited different parts of the 1980 Flash Gordon Classic and came up with a Spoofy Screen Play. This is a WIP.....thus still rough and no back drops as of yet. Ming_Movie_All.mov
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HI everyone, it's been awhile I guess! As some of you may know, I put computer animation aside about four years ago after learning and working in A:M for over ten years, to focus on learning traditional cel animation. I've got one project, "Sexy Texie", that has been making the rounds of film festivals for the past year. You can see it on Vimeo. I tried to add a link here, but the post got wonky! I'm working on a new one, a poem about an eight year old boy who builds his own hydrogen-powered race car to enter in the big race. They won't let him enter because he's only eight, but he decides to enter anyway. I've got this one shot that I'm unable to draw by hand, and R…
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It's been sitting there for a year now but I've never tried Bullet Soft Body Dynamics. It works very well! Here is the PRJ if you want to try. RubberDonuts05 unsimmed.prj in the Chor and Choose simulate Bullet DonutDropAO1500.mp4
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I have been working on this Robot. This is my first time I rendered it fully Still working on A few more Thoughts. I will update progress
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Okay, I've just finished a small piece I've been working on. A little info here: I've been working on editing video of my two daughters (ages 21 months & 3 years). The video clips will be put on a DVD for my wife and the two grandmothers. Before the main menu on the DVD there's an opportunity to insert an intro video, so this is what I've created. First off, I apologize to the MAC folks if they can't view Windows Media Files. I tried other formats, but was having a hard time to keep this down to a small enough file size. I do recognize that there's several flaws with this animation. The monkey (in the foreground) has a few issues with twisting o…
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Hi Guys! Please anybody show me a/(more) good action(s) and please to mark offset,anticipation,follow through,overshot,squash and strech application in it! I will be happy, that you can help me in this topic and you can offer a good rig for my models ,because maybe I can learn the animation much more and I may can make my projects better!! I'm waiting Your answer and thanks before! Can you help me and tutor in the animation topic? Sharky!
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I just modeled one of those lightning balls, I had one in my room and I thought it would be a cool prop. Here what it is if you dont know what I'm talking about... http://storeforknowledge.com/itemdetails.cfm/ID/616 (Lightning Ball) The one I modeled is at the bottom, anyways I have all of the materials and everything on it except for the 'electricity'. What would be the best way to make it? I have been playing around with different stuff and I just want another opinion. Thanks in advance, and hope you like it so far !!
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This is my first attempt at modeling a face and I notice that I keep getting these ugly dents on the face. Any suggestions on how I can fix this?
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I got it as smooth and as even as I could, but he still has a slight hick-up in his walk. I've BUSTED MY BRAIN over this. There's hot neural fluid leaking from my skull! GmanWalk3.mov
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AV8B harrier
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Well, I'm still plugging along. This has really been a learning experience. It's starting to really look like i want it. Here's my latest progress. That's all for the help..
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Hey, This is my first attempt at making a character. This is the very basis of him. Im going to be making a film with him if all goes well with the texturing and the rigging so here it is:
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I'm working on a Australian Shepherd model and I'm trying to add hair to the model but I'm wondering is there an easy way to control the hair color? The hair lengths isn't right yet either, but that is such a tedious task to adjust so I'm saving that for later. Correct me if I'm wrong or leaving out an option, but I can control the color of the hair either by: 1.) Model Surface patch color. 2.) Surface color of the hair material. 3.) A image in the Hair material. I was hope was that if I decaled the surface with colors I wanted, those colors would translate to the hair color but that doesn't seem to be the case. A bunch of decals with alphas channels to …
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Hey guys..in the A:M mailing forum i posted up a thread entitled: dynamics..beat cloth? and this is the demo animation I'm putting up...see the rig details below...I'm planning on creating my own "Dynamic Rig" to override cloth... capingdemo.mov
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Hello all: I'm trying to come up with an old leather material for a pilots helmet and bomber jacket I'm working on. This is what I have so far I think its pretty close but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Here's a hi res image of my contest entry. Wanted to see how well the textures would hold up at that size. Any crituques would be great. Thanks http://k.domaindlx.com/nglemb/janitorofwarforweb(huge).jpg
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Hi all - Here is a noob decaling question. The attached model has transparency of 40%. I have applied a decal which clearly is darker than the rest of the model(look at the top of the model - here is more transparent than the face which is the decal). I have matched the colors in my paint program to the model's RGB values. I presume because the model is semi-transparent this accounts for the color differences. Am I correct? How do I get around this? Thanks for any thoughts. Doug
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Episode III fever...
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Alright...I'm practicing some more on animation..here's my second pass at a jump (my first just stunk)...right now I realize I must show him hunching down more getting ready for the jump bot_jump_pass2.mov
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Hello everyone. For the moment Im working on this robot. It's supposed to be an very absent-minded and dumb robot (not evil but just non intelligent). This is also my first serious atempt on doing an rig on a character. I'll in a second upload a few animation tests I have rendered. Comments are welcome First is an 360' of the robot (with an little animation) Johnny6rotatesmall.mov
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to keep me moving in trying to create new thing i moved on to creating office stuff first thing i made was a pen to keep it simple in the begining. will try harder things later on. jay pen.zip
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The piano model was done by Dylan Perry and the "piano seat" I think was done by Roger Reynolds and I yanked the chandelier model off from the Thanksgiving dinner scene. Bellagio Fountains Less than 7 mb wmv file.
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The new v13 displacement is so fun to play with, but for some tricky situations (see attachment) you have to go further than the usual 8 bit gray scale image displacement maps. Remember that this is just one single patch! ..and it's fast to render too; less than 60 seconds with 9 passes. [attachmentid=13363]
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Not only do Piggies have long memories, they are impatient. Johnl3d picked on the wrong porker: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=183392 So while John's on vacation (he should be back monday), I decided to welcome him back in absentia & release my evilness into the wild. (Actually the mmc #4 was postponed & this gives me a running start) My homage to John is short but not sweet. For your viewing pleasure (oh no - the pleasure is mine): http://www.intercad-inc.com/nancy/FunWithCows.htm And I must credit a nameless good? samaritan who so generously provided John's image. Obviously there are others about…
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Hello, I'm trying to create water using the very useful tutorial at The Babbage Patch. I encounter a problem, however, when I try to apply the displacement material onto a simple square. The material is set up correctly, but when I apply it to the object, it comes out as a blank white sheet. Here's a screenshot-- I've followed all the instructions very carefully. The only problem I have in mind is a difference in software; the author created his tutorial with A:M 2001, and I'm using A:M 2005. On the other hand, does anyone have a different way of creating an ocean? I'd ultimately like to create a wake from a ship as well, but I have to get by this …
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I've been working on this in bits of spare time I manage to carve out now and then - 10 minutes here and there, basically. It's Robbie Sinclair from the TV show "Dinosaurs" (I couldn't come up with any original ideas that were interesting enough). I plan on modeling the whole thing, texturing, rigging, and eventually animating as well. This is the first character model I've really committed to in A:M, since I don't really consider myself a modeler, but I want to get better. I know I have to work on the CP layout, parallel rows are getting pretty dense in some areas. I've had some problems with hooks (they never seem to want to work, is there a trick to making …
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I have been working on some 2D Illustrations in A:M sorta going back to my roots; the work I use to do before getting into 3D....these were done directly within A:M they were not imported, would like some feedback as to what you think of them... Am working on being more efficient with the slpines trying to keep it simple but it becomes complex when connecting the shapes... -2D- -3D-
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In a little house by the river lives Platypus....or he might if I get that far The idea's been in my idea's folder for some time, an Australian take on Wind in the Willows. initial sketch and the first start. The tree's from the Hash cd, but since it's one of mine I won't feel guilty. It's a stand-in until I build the cottage and some of the surrounding scene.
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