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Hello all! It has been (I feel like I have said this too much) a long time since I have posted. I have been really busy with school and polo and photography stuff. My Dad wants me to do another archviz sketch for his office card for Christmas. Last year I used my Residential Lap pool sketch. For this year I wanted to mix it up a bit. I first started by using a vertical composition (Final render is going to be 1200x1600px). I then chose to use a one-point perspective composition to emphasize scale and accentuate depth. After I had these in mind I sketched out a doodle involving pillars and arches. The idea was to have a hall lined with pillars lead to a…
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I got am for the purpose of creating a logo for my painting company and got tired of reading thru and watching tuts. I probably got tired prematurely but what the heck here is my Paintbrush
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just something simple I did to test a new material. Haven't seen many people use displacement materials so I thought I'd post it ..
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I still have to assign some CPs in the hips, but its almost done: http://www.angelfire.com/film/noanoa/fig-bike.html Comments and critiques are always welcome. -Noah
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This may a "How long is a pice of string " questions but, Is there a table or list that suggests appropriate weights to be given to CP's, using the 2008 rig ? What I mean by that, is given a standard joint like a wrist, what type of percentage spread would go across the forearm, hand and fan bone ? I've tried to work through it, but with very limited success, and need to address the problem again. regards simon
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So im working on this boy charactor and I want some texture to the hair. As you can see it looks more like some kind of freakish shell than hair. Any suggestions? C&C welcome
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A DJ from our local NPR radio affiliate asked me to do a cartoon for his page on the station web site. He does a weekly punk rock show on Friday nights called "Suddenly the Sidewalk". He wanted something surreal. Anyway, I have made some progress on the first two of three scenes and thought I get some critique if I have made any egregious animation errors. Let me know what you think. KRCC.mov Thanx in advance Bruce
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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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A scene of my short shows my character looking into a mirror and making some faces, but I realized that when rendering to file the reflected hair is totally different from the original. This does not happen when I render to screen, and the funny part is that the lenght of the hair is the property most affected! The scene shows a small part of the head from back with the hair like it's supposed to be, but for some reason reflected it's totally different, it hardly comes out of the head!!! It must be some kind of bug or so, can somebody explain and help me resolve this problem!!! I'm using A:M 10.5
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Here is a new character i created the other day. Simple model but is pretty fun to use. his name is Tot He has already been rigged and has a walk cycle. More to come.
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ddustin and I are collaborating on a project, not so much working together, but helping each other out with tips and techiques, and thought we'd post a message here to get some feedback (suggestions , tips, and/or techniques) as how to proceed. The animation in question would be a short, not really a movie per sae, more of a commercial. The camera opens up onto a small building (very small, appears to be big enough only for a single person to stand inside). On one side of the building is a window with a conveyor belt running out from it, to the back of a delivery truck. packages would be sliding along the conveyor into the back of the truck. A character (…
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During the last couple of weeks I have done some experiments with realistic Ocean Waves in Animation Master. For now there is only one image to watch, but I'm working on a short animation that I hope to be able to show in a day or two. (The image is rendered with the simplest possible environment. No sky sphere, one single sun light and a simple reflecting gradient material.) Click here, for more information on this (The page will be updateted as the "project" evolves.)
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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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Hey! Just a test on a character I´m working on. No rigging yet. Racing boots/goggles are to be added. Crits? Fire at will... m
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Hey all, I finally finished another character. I don't got a name for it YET but I was hoping maybe one of you can come up with a cool name . Anyway here it is: Took me about half a day to model, texture and completely rig it. Now for the fun part! Animating! I wanted to make a simple character to practice my animation skills and this is it. Now I was hoping you all could give me at least one thing to do with him . So far I got: Pushing a box (make it so that it looks like he is struggling to push it) and jumping off a building. Thats it . Now I could think of probably a few more but I thought it would be cool if everyone could tell me what to animate wit…
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Each year we at 3We (the agency I am working for) are releasing a new christmas-calendar where you will get another funny or nice looking video each day. The image used for the calendar is (as each year) created with A:M, so I thought "why not showing it on the forum". http://advent.3we.de Best wishes and have a nice pre-christmas time . *Fuchur*
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It has been a while since I posted anything so I have the engine I am working on. (Some day I will get back to working on the bar scene just not today) This is a sort of fantasy rocket engine that will have moving flashing lights inside of it (thus the clear sections) I am trying to figure out how to rig a big crysta to the top of it as well as more hoses and some structure, but for now here it is in its unfinished un textred glory.
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Hello Started working on Angelina Jolie just for the fun of it to see how real I can get it.
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Heres the model zipped - instead of posting vague pics of splines. [And I owe you an appology "Mage" because it seemed like you were gripe-ing, (below reply), when it turns out you werent.] h2.zip Well, I was trying to spline off a picture of the Hunter Model. Obviously its gunna take alot more work and understanding. Not much to work with other than a side view as a reference. The Hunter model has such a minimal amout of splines, yet its cleverly done using bias tweaks. And plus theres only a couple hooks, which are hard to figure where they are splined off of? I tried to take snapshots off the Hunter videos of the wireframes, but the quality only gives minimal h…
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Hi, here it is, half finish I would say. There still a lot of modeling and texturing to do, but it gives an idea. I seek advices and comments especially on lightning. Thxs
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I've always liked the squash and stretch look of the Veggie Tales character's eyes and wondered how to do it in A:M. There were several posts on this forum showing how it was done with distortion boxes so I gave it a try. Very cool... then it made me wonder if the same technique on a generic round character head would make it easy to generate a bunch of unique characters very quickly without having to do any rerigging or remodeling (other than a new distortion box). After a little experimentation I came up with a design that works pretty well in most deformations - except for really extreme stretches. The example video shows one model instanced three times in t…
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Well, I actually started making this project with Truespace 6. I am still in the middle of it but Animation Master is easy to model with and I am not having problems with system crashes as I did with TS Nurbs. The spline base form of modeling seems to work much like I expected TS Nurbs should have worked. They are not the same but I think some of the approaches to this project I could apply in TS too. If I cannot figure out how to do something in TS I can quickly make it in A.M. and export it. So far though, I have been able to model the B-36 in A. M. without any system crashes distracting me from my task. Mainly because I think this application is so well though…
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Started this dragon to test the new displacement. This was just a quick preliminary to check the effect. Still need to decal the rest of the model (arms and legs). [attachmentid=13386] and a wireframe so that you can gauge the effect. [attachmentid=13387]
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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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I have been pretty quiet recently because I've been working hard on virtual me. I wanted to experiment with puppeting a realistic character, and I figured I was the best reference available. The model is not quite as elegantly splined as some of the other self portraits that have been posted recently, but my focus was on movement. So here's a first test at virtual me. There are still some tweaks to be made in both the motion and the model, but this is a promising start. Sorry it's so short, but I had to fit in the 2mb limit take20.mov
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I think I have finally found the look I was going for with the plasma ball I was making. The 'electricity' is oddly enough..glowing hair and you can see the wireframe below. If theres anything else I can change please tell me...hope you like it!!
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Well, I'm attempting to model the BC-304. I am not a very good modeler, so if you give a piece of advice on something to change, you might have to tell me how
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Ok, I'm serious about getting this thing done. Rodney, I'm taking your suggestion, and I'm going to concentrate on just getting the first installment done. Then I'll worry about trying to generate interest, and how the heck I'm going to distribute this thing. (I've got some ideas along those lines though). Here's the basics of the story as it stands so far: Our two main characters for this installment are travelling from Edo (Tokyo) to Satsuma. The journey is going to have 3 -4 legs, and each one could be traversed using a different form of transportion, giving us a good opportunity to show off the steampunk side of the storyline. Our two main characters…
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Ok,i'm a big final fantasy and kingdom hearts fan,kupo. so when i was talking to a freind of mine we were talking about one of the games, we started talking about moogles and i said"hey i should model a moogle" and he said "yeah that would be cool" so about a week after that finaly got to it and i finished 90% of the modle in 3 hours,kupo.and heres all i have to do now,kupo. 1)connect arms->body->head->line->pompom 2)rig the moogle 3)then i'm gonna add fur and fuzz for the non tooned version 4)make the moogles house 5)make the moogles couldin 6)make the moggles girlfreind the moggle from final fantasy XII and Kingdom Hearts [attachmentid=…
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Here is a preview of where I'm at on this little guy. Some of you may have seen the beginning of him in my thread about .obj export out of AM. Here is a link to a 360 spin.. Sorry 1meg size... thought quality better than blocky video, and its the same video Im using for a client review. http://www.colins-loft.net/transfer/gnomepreview.mov Let me know what you think... and before you jump all over me... Yes I modeled the hair and beard and yes I know that the new hair rocks... Unfortunately I'm having to tranfer this guy to another program and its hair doesnt rock... sooooo...
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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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Hey guys, I made this as a quick very basic demo to show my friend(not that im good at adding effects etc lol) The timing is WAY OFF and im going back and redoing it to get that better. I need to know if u guys think it will look convincing when i get the timing better. Ill take any feedback thanks Geoff knight_back_flip.mov
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Just started modelling a new character starting with the face and head. The only render to date is the model decaled with the roto rendered in front of the roto. A little bit of a cheat, I know, but I haven't built the eyes, hair or rest of the head as yet - and I have yet to learn how to properly decal a head! Wireframe has been posted as well. http://higginsdj.250free.com/wips.htm Cheers
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This was in another thread, but probably better to be in its own topic. Attached is a Word document showing how to Export a simple shape out of Photoshop as an Adobe Illustrator path and then into AM as a mode. If someone could post on a website that would be great (I am approaching my limit for bandwidth for the month ) Cheers, Eugene USING_THE_AI_PLUGIN.doc
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Hey Hashers, I'm posting the opening segment to my director's/demo reel. The Quicktime clip is 20 seconds and 4 MB. Essentially, this will be the lead in to the actual reel clips. I still have to build/add the effects track. Here's the link: http://home.pacbell.net/jedonald/AM/Sentinel.mov C&C are welcome. Thanks in advance, Jefferson
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Hey guys, so after a week of doing these little 30 minute (or so:)) excersices I put this sequences together. Even though there are a lot of little problems that could be fixed I'm feeling kinda dangerous with this Animation:Master right now! Also just have a feeling of "This software kicks animation booty!" as I was able to put this together with only minimal time spent. Anyhows... take a look if you get a chance. http://www.vrcops.com/vids/NightClipA.mov Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com
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Hi Guys! I upgrade the texture of my aikidoka model. I made it by William Sutton's UV tutorial and Jim Talbotski's features tutorial! I'm grateful these great stuffs! Thanks Fellows! Here are some samples: Please write me your opinions! Finally I made a live-action with Toshisan! You can see this picture in the attached file. Cheers, Sharky
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Here is a little test to see if I could animate my bug attacking someone.... Thom seemed to be a good test subject. http://home.alltel.net/collinsfamily04/attackcomp.mov Cory
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Here is a new revision of the mouth creature. http://home.alltel.net/collinsfamily04/walk.avi I like the skin on this one. Thanks a bunch to Will for the excellent tute on mapping! One point though, if you use the approach of using one image pasted "through" the body, (from one side) the bump map portion becomes inverted on opposite sides. Color is fine, it's just the bump map. Due to normal direction I suppose. I now understand how to use the UV editor, and it is a gas! Cory
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Here's what I have so far for the January 11 second club. Its a bit more challenging this month with three characters and their voices overlapping. The scenario is : A lady walking out of the pet store with a couple of Dodo birds she just purchased and they are all very happy. The lady will be clapping something in her hands during the clapping part but haven't thought of anything fitting yet. dodotest4.mov BTW those Dodo birds are cool models and they are on the extras DVD.
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Thought someone might be interested in my latest rush project for a client to be used in a 30 sec logo. Took 18 hours of work and contains 10,671 patches. Camillo
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it's my work for this we i work with displacement mapping
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Hello everyone. My first post here. I'm a 3D artist working in the midwestern US. I've developed a character that I'm intending to cast in a short film when I get the time. Please feel free to critique, rip, or flatout dislike, the image. I'd love to know what people think. ~Dan
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Penguins have always been a favorite animal of mine. Perhaps it because they look like they are dressed in formal wear, or maybe it is just that they are physically unable to steal my french fries (unlike one of my least favorite animals: seagulls). Either way, the other day I drew some penguins for a comic (here if you're interested) which got me thinking about penguins once again. So I've decided to try making a basic model of a penguin... mainly because I'm not good enough to make a non-basic model Attached is the 1st step... plan of attack is adding some feet, shaping the head a bit, shaping the rest of the body slightly, fixing the eyes, possibly adding som…
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Hey Guys, just wrapped up my demo reel and felt like posting a clip from it that was done in A:M. Some may remember this from a few months back..... but anyhows, here it is sorenson3 about 2.7megs http://www.3dartz.com/WIPS/WidClip.mov Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com
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So with all these discussions of group projects and the like, it really has put the bug in me to do a web series of some sort. Before that however, there needs to be an idea and some designing. Now in short, right now I'm sorta just designing a character and seeing if more blossoms from it. Essentially what I'm trying to do, is re-design an old character of mine, Captain Heroic. This time, I'm really trying to go for a simplistic, stylized, adventure hero type look. So with that said, I'm kind of stumped This is just a quick sketch I threw together and hopefully it can be a launchpad for ideas. It would be very helpful and nice if some of you creative folk here co…
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Hello Fellow-Hashers! Well, this is the first time I posted anything really, so if I do something stupid don't tell me, just pretend like I know what I'm doing. Anyway, I've been working on this for the last few days. It's based on a Hildebrandt painting. I did some post work in photoshop but it's mostly A:M. You can tear it apart if you need to. Enjoy!
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I'm looking for a free model of a generic laptop computer (patches, not polys). I'll model it if need be but just trying to save a few steps. Thanks for any help! Gerry
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Phew! It's been a long time since I posted at hash. I finally got the opportunity to use 3D in my cartoons again and figured you guys might like a look. The UFO will become quite an integral part of the storyline of my current comic. The only problem is that it only gets updated each week and it's fairly slow paced. It'll be more enjoyable to read the entire thing once it's finished (I hope ) Dan Beeston http://www.invisiblespiders.com 'Get 'em Off Me Man!'
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