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I'm playing with IBL and placing an object in a scene with reflection ala Stian's tutorial. First I render out the background image which I then use as a camera rotoscope. Next the ground is set to Front Projection "on" in order to receive shadows, then I import a sphere with reflectivity set to about 35%. That's when I run into problems. The sphere, although it is not set to Font Projection "on", has a transparent image of the rotoscope on it. It's supposed to have the reflection of the environment sphere on it, not the rotoscope. What am I missing here? When I remove the rotoscope from the camera, the sphere has the correct reflections, but off course the ground i…
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Got this flipping thing flips_2.mov
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So I've started this and have exactly six seconds to show so far. I'm not sure I'm gonna make this deadline and I'm slammed at work all of a sudden after sitting on our thumbs for six months. I'm not really happy with this but it's a start. lipsynchtest001_h264lg.mov
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finish a Paid work ( Character Designer and Textures) - AZTEC MUMMY really nice make it in Animation Master
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This is a Shaded-Wireframe, very rough cut of the "Moving Foxhole" movie. Cannot figure out why the truck wheels start and stop. The action doesn't seem to be moving so fast that the screen refresh can't keep up. Or is it? Untitled.mpg
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Starting to get real busy here. Had to do some layouts of some cast plates with depressed lettering and imprinted ceramic middles for a client to choose from. Love the displacement mapping in AM, so much easier then messing around with high density poly models or micro displacement. So much quicker for the basic texturing than just about any program I have used in the past. Thanks!
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Been playing around and thought this worth a luagh oh can't upload it yes.mov
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Here's a quick storyboard just to see if this gag works. The audio is a very sincere Irish brogue-y monolog and I wanted to give it a twist. What do you think?
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I've been trying to combine a 3d model with some video footage. I was following the tutorial below, but think that it (tutorial) or I are missing some details. My latest test is attached. I was having a heck of a time getting just: 1. flying saucer 2. Shadow of saucer on the ground 3. everything else transparent What I got: 1. Render of the saucer only in PNG w/ transparency 2. Render the shadow only in PNG w/ transparency 3. Combined in vegas pro w/ the vide footage and explorted to mp4. I need to go back through my experiments and produce a matrix of settings so that I can produce model and shadow separately. Seems like I should be able…
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here's a look at my wips 2 different projects same company the space shots are for the POD the POD is a commercial, personal oxygen device ( yes it's real) the second is for a film, opening credits and plot development ( HASH will defiantly be in the end credits ) that one has particular challenges everything is kinda flat and black and white I'm using colored lights for depth, dimension, mood ect ( posted another query about those lights ) anyway thoughts appreciated thanks j
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Putting this little animation together as a learning thing along with the other one in the other thread ,Trying to impress Robcat lol I don't think so,anyway its giving me some choices wether to use constraints on the cards or not and wether to use fk or ik this is the question ,what do you guys do test_cards_2.mov
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Hello y'all! Been inspired recently to pickup an old project of mine. So imagine a summer day, a breeze whispering to the trees and creating paths through the grass on the hills, gently spinning the windmill that time and nature have left behind. Thats my scene in a sentence. Ive gotten started on the modeling of the windmill. I plan to "try" and create my own procedural rusty metal shaders but may resort to decals or a darktree shader. I will also use hair for the golden grass and leaves on the oaktrees. I may model a barn or some other point of interest too. More coming Photoman
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Well i dont know if i should follow through with something like totally awesome or just throw out this teaser trailer as a joke. but either way i wanted all you people to see what the great power or Boredom can do to a person. so enjoy. hopefully comments are welcome. and critics. and if you had a bad day and want to make yourself feel better. you can bag on it. i do not mind TeaserMaybe.wmv
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Can someone point me to a good UV Mapping tutorial? Thanks.
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Doing some samples of imprints on various mugs for a client, here is one of the base mugs without the imprints. AM is really handy with the decals, this jobs going to be so easy
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I need to anthropomorphize the Rubik's Cube for a school project. rcubetest1.mov Here's a motion test. It will have a face.
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Not sure where to put this post since it technically isn't a work in progress but a completed work. Tried to upload it to the gallery, but process stalled. Anyway, enjoy. http://www.decksawash.net/eggs/eggs.html Alan
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Foliage is always one of those things that takes time. Fur works great but takes forever, however thanks to the team at hash adding the options for cookie cut decals to cast shadows there is a faster option. Here are a couple of tests. Rendering time was about 20 seconds a frame, with all the detail supplied by cookie cut flat planes and zbufffered lights. leaftest.mov leafBilboard.mov
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My tall character walks fine when I slide the scrubber back and forth, but when I render [shaded] he simply slides along in the starting position. The little guy is fine. I have noticed that when I drop an Action on the tall guy and want, say, six cycles, they don't show as individual blocks in the PWS as do the cycles for the short guy. Is this pointing to the problem? MOTERCYCLE_TEST.zip
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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
Last reply by TNT, -
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Hello, My name is William and over the years I have been modeling and animating with AM. I recently 3D printed this guy out, (WIP). I also have been using hash to produce foam prototypes for the past year for local designers. Please let me know what you think. warm regards, William
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Here is an attempt at getting an image with a cool morning light feel. The background is just a decal with cool light color applied and some fog effects. The foreground is modeled with a lot of small individual lights to give the impression of bounced lighting off the floor and walls, etc. Does it work? Any suggestions for improvement?
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Hi all, I'm trying to find a tutorial for making a white back ground like Agep's. I'm having a 2 brain cell moment and can not find it. Could some one point me in the direction Thanks Phil
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I saw a redesigned 1701 on the web created by a very talented Star Trek fan and wanted to recreate it in Animation Master. I'll have to find the original web site in order to credit the author, but for now I'm just gonna post my progress. I know it's been done upteen times, but I'm a space junkie and always wanted to try my hand at the old girl. Enjoy.
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I created Frankenface using the stock characters, I sent Igor (pronounced EYE-GORE) out to collect body parts from the stock A:M characters and through the miracle of Hash science I created Frankenface! Can you tell me what 4 characters and what parts Igor collected?
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I have a volumetric light in this scene but it's not even ,it has more than one beam and don't look good ,is there a way to change or use ordinary lighting to get this effect ,Im trying to get a dark bg with a light over the table lighting the charectors faces and hands.I am not good with lighting as you can see any advice would be helpfull cheers Steve
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Hi all. After a considerable hiatus I dusted off my ongoing project of cheating on backgrounds on my webcomic Rhapsodies (Previous attempts can be seen here) This time I started working on one of the strip's principle sets/locations, Lysistrata Books a progressive bookstore owned by one of the cast members. After a rather frustrating false start of trying to alter one of the sets in the extra's dvd I went back in treating it like a television set with only two walls (after all we never see the others) Anyway so far this approach is going fairly well with only a few stumbling blocks. These being so far trying to find the correct recipe for plate glass (yes I know 30…
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Here is a simple model I made. It is a wood cylinder with no useful purpose that I can see. I just wanted to use it to experiment with lighting effects.
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Cartoon Goat 1 2
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I thought I would try my hand at modeling a silly young goat. I wanted an curious, innocent look. Best intentions but able to get into trouble. Like a typical kid. I just added a little color with diffused color. Let me know what you think of the head.
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Well with Jirards head model,where are you Jirard.A walk cycle ,done with the 2008 rigg and hardley done any smartskinning that rigg just seems to get better to use as long as I remember to cfa the model lol dude_walk.mov
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I am working on a semi- (to high) realistic (we will see how well she will turn out ) model of a girl. She was modeled from scratch and isn't textured yet (apart from the eyes). She needs some more poses for talking- and emotional stuff, but till now I am quite pleased with her. Before I will go on texturing her, I thought I may adress the porceilan-problem I run into. I tried using the porceilan-material, but I got a problem with hooks there. Anyone knows what I am doing wrong there? The final-rendering is without(!) porceilan which looks okay too, but I would like to use the material to make it even more smooth. Any thoughts? Thanks for your comme…
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I am still having difficulties with decals. I know there was a thread earlier concerning the corruption when a decal is placed on the model. Can someone direct me to that thread or tell me what to do? The decals when placed on the model appear fine, but when rendered they are stretched or pixelated. Steve
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So, it's raining in Asheville and I got inspired to revisit an old approach to making rain. This is done with a flock of animated rain drops. I't's just a proof of concept for this approach to rainmaking. test01.mov Here is the project. rain2.prj
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hey everyone! here´s a link to a website i´ve made for my biggest client, using a:m, after-effects and flash... i hope you´ll like it. took almost 4 weeks to get me there, so don´t say anything bad about it, or i will be about to cry www.ld-premium.com cheers...
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Hi all, I am experimenting with layers. The tractor is supposed to run between the right field-layer in the foreground and the left field-layer behind, wheras the farmhouse and sky are on an extra background-layer. One major drawback: Seems when I toonrender, I can`t avoid an outline around the layers or is there a way? I guess a workaround would be a cookie cut decal on a one patch plane? In fact that leads me to my main question: What really is the difference between a layer and a decal on a plane and which advantage and setbacks does each have?
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Hi guys , I´m working on a little animation with one of my characters, it´s the second pass and still need some work , but I hope you like it and tell me any comments for improve it ... I will post my advance until I finish. Saludos desde México,... and keep Animating... Pesas_legendario.mov
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I finally added hair to this model. What do you think?
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Over the next two months or so i am going to be creating objects to be used in a game online. All of the objects are going to be objects from times of empires and kings times. I will say now that i do not play this game but a few of my friends do. Which is who helped me get this project. So now i am going to be making objects and showing you guys my progress. The game is called War of Empires... and you can check it out here if you would like to. None of the artwork on this site is mine though. Im not sure where my work will go if its used. The work will be created from a certain angle of each of the models so none of the shots are final. but my first …
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I am trying to re-rig a character, and for the first time, [when making an Action] I find bones that will not rotate, or will rotate on only one axis. For example. In this instance, the arm on the right side of the pic. will move only fore and aft on the Y-axis. I can't move it up or down. On the other side, I can get the base of the thumb to move, but the two other digits won't. I can't even get the "rotate" symbol to show when I move the cursor over the bone. I have the bones 'locked' since I rarely use IK. I've tried IK both ON and OFF. I've unlocked the bones, but instead of moving in the screen plane, the arm section twists and spins around. LOCKED_BONES.prj
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Hey folks. As a way to help re-learn A:M, I decided to model the U.S.S. Enterprise from the original Star Trek series. There are so many things that I forgot how to do over the past few months, that there is a lot of trial and error going on here. Slowly coming back though... Al This one of the sheets of blueprints that I am working from. And here is the modelling so far.
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Alright, I haven't started on the face yet - I'm setting up the rig for the rest of the body first - but I thought I'd see if you guys have any comments. This will be my first full rig, and if you have any insight on face geometry, let me know! I've attached the facial geometry. I did set up a blink pose just to make sure it would work properly, but other than that the face is completely unrigged. Does the geometry look ok or are there going to be problem areas when I start animating? Thanks for your help! untitled.mov
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coca cola - full Project Donation Coca_Cola___AM_V15.0E.zip
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This is my first serious attempt to a full character model in AM, lots to learn but getting there...
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Hello, I am looking for some models to add to my business portfolio. Ideally I would like to do a trade with an artist at this point. I would mill the foam model out for you for free. Yes you get a copy and I get to show the results in my portfolio. I can discuss further details for those interested. Ideally, I would like to find a great T-Rex, Enterprise model, weapons, a motorcycle(chopper or harley)etc. I can not except every model that is submitted, but I will look and consider all that submit something. To give you of my back ground, I was a digital modeler for Lucas Arts and have produced several sculptures that have gone into production of the years. M…
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Hi friends ... I decided to participate in the 11second contest in this month... probably I'll use the Sam as main character, and the secondary character will be a dog. I modeled/textured the dog this morning and here is the result.
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I just re-opened the .prj doc. for the Albatros fighter and the DH-2, only to find massive decal loss on both. The textures are present in the PWS. Their icons are showing in each entry in the decals folder. Where do they go? Is there a way to stop it?
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Hey everyone, most of you who know me know that I have mostly been posting in the topic Super Mario Film, but now I feel less inspired to finish it. Lately I’ve been feeling more creative, and working on a project that was a spoof of nintendo’s super mario brothers didn’t feel right. So I decided to bring the project I had been working on before back to life. Three years ago I started having an idea for a show that featured 8 characters who lived near each other on an island, and they would do all kinds of stuff. Over the years I’ve come up with tons of funny ideas for the show and developed the characters so much that now they feel like a part of me, and it wou…
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Ok...so it's not gonna be the next Woody or Buzz...but hey, its my first A:M character and I'm kinda proud of him. Still loads of work to do (getting rid of that horrible beard and using A:M's hair system, sorting out those legs, teeth, tongue, bones...argghhh!!!!). LOTS of work!!! For any other newbies out there I highly recommend David Simmons eye tut (and I was <ahem> slightly inspired by how he did Bertrums belly!) Let me know what you think.
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(couldn't think of a good 3 or 4 word description.) I've got an animation three seconds long. The turret from one of the armored cars bounces and rattles down the tunnel and comes to a stop at the three second mark. [make a keyframe] Then it sits there for five more seconds. [make a keyframe at 8 sec.] But when I render it out, it takes the three sec. segment and stretches it to the full eight. What's going wrong?
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