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Up to now, I've pretty much been posting only still images, but this IS an animation forum after all. So I'm starting a project. I've created my first character, I have the head complete, although there's gonna be a lot of tweaking yet to refine the head further. The body should be easier, hopefully. Here's the sketch I used for rotoscopes and a turnaround of the head so far. Knuckles_McGurke_T.mov
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So I've been working on the main character for my first short, an old man with a long beard. I've been avidly following the recent threads on hair, and have wanted to use hair for this guys beard and mustache. I really wanted the hair quality, but the overhead of experimenting with the hair emitter, and rendering has me questioning if I should use hair or geometry to create the beard. So if using geometry how would I go about creating a beard that at least looks close? Below is a sketch of the target "look" and the current model with a geometry mock-up for the beard. The biggest issue is the ability to work the beard in such poses as in the sketch, as w…
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My grandest material essay so far... bony stegosaurus style-plates with contrasting tiger-striped Dino-Hyde© in between. This is one color material... and one displacement material (the skin detail is very faint but it's there)... and no maps! a turn-around: platesAllDispH264.mov platesAllDispH264.mov Yeah, it's got some pops.
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An experiment at making dragon style spikes with displacement mapping. Semi- successful. platesH264.mov
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Try it.
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COOL! I just uploaded my 1st WMV to the forum! I haven't shown any work in a while so...here's a spot I just finished with A:M and After Effects. This spot uses particle grass with a force on it for a little blowing action, sprites for the grass seed, booleans for the characters eyes and mouth and a dynamic constraint in his head. I am awaiting my clients reaction.... hope the wmv works! LL.wmv
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Just got my main computer up and running again. This is a WIP that I'll be posting my progress on and off. Photorealism is very difficult.
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We finally have a draft edit of the next sequence of Scarecrow of Oz. Yay! OK, so it's not Snow White or Toy Story, but we sure are learning a lot There aren't any sound effects or music yet, so it is kind of sparse in places. Hopefully Angelo will give us some background sounds soon. def3dca464469d2cf9f3
Last reply by HomeSlice, -
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So, I took a while off from animation:master and just recently started spending some serious time with it again. Here is a short clip of a character I have been working on for a couple weeks. She still needs a lot of minor work plus a face rig. She has a cloth skirt and cape plus dynamic braids. A huge thank you to Homeslice for the LiteRig and tutorials on cloth and dynamics, all of which made my re-learning curve much shorter and less frustrating. speartest2.mov
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Well, i just ran into something odd. I just reset all my settings back to the defaults in case i set something by mistake. But when i render to a AVI file the back ground remains the same but when i try to render to a MOV file the back ground changes untitled.mov has any one seen this? AM: 15i Window 7 ultimate i7 975 3.33MHZ ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 3GB 1600 DDR3 Nividia Geforce GTX 275
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Here are real-world objects shot against a (poor) blue screen. With A:M Composite it's possible to pull out a matte like this... and use that as a transparency map to remove the background from the original image... and overlay the photographed objects over CG imagery Ta-daaaahhhh! I"ve been wanting to figure out a way to do this in A:M by itself for maybe 5 years now. I'm still R&D-ing this so no tut yet.
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This is a Perlin Noise combiner used as a bump material. I tried it as a displacement material but in this case bump looked nicer and rendered faster. MoonlightG000h264_1500.mov
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Hello! Yet another project. My friend has asked me to do some graphic art and character animation for a game he is creator. Here is a character I have finished modeling: (Just needs a rig and textures) Cheers Photoman
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I put Yardie's bvh tut on and used it on my model ,It don't go into constrianing the legs so I had a play around and this is what I came up with.Does anyone know if its possible to use a aim like 2 on the same bone but one at each end of the bone ? bvh_run_test.mov
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Simple cumulus clouds from a sprite emitter Clouds05MP4.mov Haven't quite gotten the emitter itself to stay transparent so you don'tsee it in transit. PRJ Clouds06.zip edit: dark sky variant sprite... CloudSprite4_dark.tga They're actually faster onscreen in real-time than they are to render to a movie.
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Hi guys, I started working on my kids book that I have been planning about Aug of 09.. This is Howie he's the main character and the sun is his guide or guardian; This is what I have so far am mainly trying to get a comfortable appearance/overall feel that will be standard for the entire series... I would really like ur feedback on if the characters are appealing and if not how to improve them so kids would enjoy and relate to them more.....
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just a wip crits welcome
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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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had to do a lot of rendering it took a lot of time to work out the bugs. I can live with this Tell me what you all think and any improvements I could do. Thanks crussingtest9a.mov
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Thought I would make a character that I can put in lots of personality. Im thinking of rigging both eyes together as a head, stems of the eyes as a neck and the 2nd back bone might actually be just above the mouth region, should be kind of interesting. Of course lots of exaggerated mouth poses. Not sure on what color and texture I should use yet.. suggestions always welcomed.
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So, I must say, the second face is considerably easier then the first, who knows, I may have some char modeling blood in me afterall I'm not quite done as you can probably notice, the mesh is dense in a few areas where it doesn't need to be, namely in the eye-nose region, and I haven't made a nostril yet
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Hi all, I created a simple table that I made an action for that does a basic walk cycle on a path. I also created a choreography action that transitions the walk to a stop. It worked great last night but for some reason it doesn't appear to be working now. Would someone please take a look at the project (I'm using V15.0i) and see what I'm doing wrong? I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just not seeing. Thanks, George table_walk.prj
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This is a little try at making an AO style render with just z-buffered kleig lights. I chose the "Biobot" character from the extras disk because he has lots of crevices and bumps to challenge the occlusion effect. AOBTurnTestH.mov The result isn't quite as satisfying as a real AO image but it takes only 5 seconds per frame to render. The quicktime compression is making the shadows on the ground look patchier than they really are. In the original render they're quite smooth.
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Dispersion is how refraction bends the different colors of white light differently causing the color fringing you see in prisms, cheap camera lenses and other irregularly shaped transparent objects. This is an attempt to simulate it by changing the Index of refraction of the glass material as the color of the light is swept across the spectrum during a multipass render. I also moved the light to fringe the shadow a bit. This is not a fast process, but if you need dispersion, it can be done.
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Working on fine tuning her walk, a bit much with smack and slap of the feet. Need to fine tune her clothes too but it is a start. Going to fix the ground plane, that is trippy, I said What the _ _ _ ? Vedas_walkWEB.mov
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Proof I should stick to animating But I'm going to do another one...
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for a contest. it is a robot, it remains still much of work
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I love A:M and this forum. I check it for new posts more often than I check my email, and I check my email several times a day. I've been slowly making images for my website upgrade and learning about materials a bit. Because I plan on using the "Christie" font throughout my website, and want to have the lettering look a little more "3d" I modeled the Alphabet which has taken me some time. But it has helped me gain a higher "spline consciousness". I'm very much looking forward to the time when I get caught up enough with my "day job" projects to actually try my hand at animating something. Here are a couple of the images I've come up with for the site. There…
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Hi all, I had been entering this comp with another App in the past but this month, after my initial attempts were panned have chosen AM and a completely new approach. Currently rerigging the 2 characters to be able to blink and talk (at least at a basic level). (Chicken: "You Stole from my kin.") Cheers
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I decided to start another animation project. I am basing this off a bunch of minor projects I have done in the past. I will be adding my piano model to some of them and adding some sweet camera angles and shots... Here are a few test frames: Render time is going to be murder! Most scenes have AO (the desert scene etc) and I managed to optimize those to keep them under 20 minutes a frame. The pool scene I took AO out so I could render faster (about 2 hours a frame with AO!!) Most shots are down under 20 minutes a frame now. I have plans to hopefully finish this comletly including rendering in the next 2 weeks to enter in a contest at my s…
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I wonder if it would be a good way to use a spriteemiter doing leafs for a tree and then just "freezing" it, so that you get a tree with many leafs usable for more distant trees. Does anybody ever used this or has any ecxpierience with that? Just asking, if it makes sense to investigate into that direction....
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As most of you know, my colleague and I have been working very diligently on ELZ, and despite my breakdown of sorts due to massive discouragements, I am back in the game and for the most part better then ever. The following vid is where we are at today with the opening of ELZ. Now do note, the dedication at the beginning is someone my colleague knows, and I had a lengthy discussion making sure he understood what it meant! Also, the girl is not dead if you are thinking that, because I did. Also, the flaming meteor shot is just filler and thus it is in low quality and not complete. It will be replaced by one or more different shots that don't take as long to render! B…
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Hey guys it's been awhile since I posted, hope everyone had a good new year. I took a break from the dental animations.... and got another dental related project. I think I have been typecast as the 3D dental guy, oh well work is work. ;-) This animation came out pretty good - it was a big project, so I didn't have a lot of time to spend modeling the 2 characters as good as I would have liked - on top of my people modeling and people animation skills are not the best, but with the professional voice-over and music in the background it really takes your attention away from it. Anyway, it's about 3 1/2 minutes long, and the first 35 seconds or so is the voice-ov…
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Wrapping up the the "dry" (rough) run on my most recent animation project. I'm fairly satisfied sands some minor tweaking of some of the animation and editing that needs to be done. The sounds are just place holders(BTW: any know of any GOOD sound fx resources) Just wanted to get some other opinions before I started to render. Here are the clips: SCI01.mov SCI02.mov SCI03.mov
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Had a few glitches with the swarm effect so but I'm mostly happy with it for a short project/test run.
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Iv been playing around with walk and run cycles as I never seem to get it right ,heres my first go at a run run0.mov
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well it's a start
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I'm reading Jeremy Birn's book "Digital Lighting and Rendering" and trying some of the stuff he talks about. This is a room lit with just simple z-buffered kleig lights. This renders in 75 seconds. The one in the book is much better but I'll get there.
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I decided to start a thread on some of my experimenting with outdoor lighting and rendering. So here is the scene I am going to be using: I designed/modeled it to have complex shadows, relfections, and have IOR somewhere (the water (1.33)) Here is a late afternoon lighting. I have updated that lighting setup slightly after the last render, I added 2 bulbs underwater (as suggested in this thread to give some shadow detail, and I also added a Lane T on the bottom of the pool. Ive been enjoying rendering to OpenEXR and using its high dynamic range (32 bit too) and buffers to get additonal tweakability. Next up is the midday daytime look! …
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After alot of work rigging a six legged character here is what I have. Crits welcome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiHxNyjZKNc
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here a timelapse of an animation. This n' is not finished but there are already three animations which show how I work first part part 2 part 3
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Trying 11 second club this month. I think the dialog fits my practice characters. This is camera blocking, character blocking and rough lipsync. Does it make any sense? 11sec_jan.mov Michel
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It's traditional to make New Years resolutions around this time of year (or perhaps sooner). So I want to know ... What do you plan on working on with Animation:Master in 2010? What do you want to accomplish with A:M this year? If you specify a big project ("I want to make a 5 minute animation"), break it down into chunks (write a script, design characters, model characters, rig characters, model sets and props, record voices and sound effects, blocking animation, etc.). One problem with New Years resolutions is not dedicating the time. So how much time do you plan on spending on Animation:Master?
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A brief test of a rigging notion I had: CarJump6H_.mov
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Hi all, I completly redid the Focke Wulf, I had found someplace and that I have used for my "propeller spin thread" . I also gave it a less martial more "Howard Hughian" look. Also added some poses for easy handling. You can roll , turn, tilt and steer the rudder, also retract the wheels and open the canopy. (see movie) Please feel free to take and use this model at your will. Maybe show us some testflights? Next I plan to implement John`s propeller speed technic as soon as I get a grasp of it. (Thats the propeller speed pose has to be filled up for, still nofunction) speed1.prj FockeWulfTest.mov
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This is the first animation pass at an idea. still to come are the facial expressions and the finger movements and ( having just watched it through a few times ) preventing that sinking feeling in a few places. Its about 10-12 hours work but, any criticism welcome, good bad, or how could you ? regards simon
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Just testing the face movement and a walk allso some breathing going on What you think so far test_000.mov
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three hours this afternoon. Unlikely to be revisited directly but, fun to do ( the rush shows at the end ). simon New_Year.mov
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Hi, I've been planning to complete several projects in AM but I can't seem to get things rolling at a good pace. So I figured that if I post some WIPs I might be spurred along by the forum and eventually complete something. I usually have a few things going on at once so its a little difficult to concentrate on one project through to completion. I will try to change that for the new year. Hopefully I can find some success by doing this. The project I'm currently working on is fairly complex with numerous characters and a very detailed background with lots of action. It will be a still. I am doing this only for my own amusement, especially since it would probably be ea…
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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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