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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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First, where are these posted? I must be overlooking them, as the only reason I started playing with this was because I saw other peoples WIPs.. so I'm assumeing there is an image contest with a theme of Toys.. So, what easier way to get involved then with the most primative (pun intended) toy I could think of.. Edit: Yeah.. I need to make the rings fatter..
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Hey all, I still haven't talked to Martin about this issue, but I figure that I'd switch around some obvious things, if for nothing else than to have a little fun! Here's the corny story I came up with: Cameron Keene, part-time marine, was enlisted by the shadowy group Nightrun Inc. to be the soldier inside their latest covert program, Project Brimstone. Reluctantly, Keene agreed and found himself in the laboratory of Dr. Walter A. Buchanon (later to be his the Keene's evil nemesis Dr. Canon ) being hooked to a rugged suit of armor loaded with every kind of fire arm possible. Wires extruded from his body, sensors monitored his vital organs and soon he bec…
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Heres a Felix model I'm still working on. The shape of the mouth on this charecter can pose some real challeges when it comes to expressions.
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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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Any one remember those stickers called Wacky Packages that spoofed real life products? They were the inspiration behind some new models I'm working on. I'd like to do a shopping carts worth. Comments?
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My First Render for my submission to the Hero contest... If you guys have any suggestions, please let me know! I know i'm missing something, i just can't put my finger on it... Image_Contest__Hero__Photoshoped_edit.bmp
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I'm half planning on making an antenna on the bike to make it look more like a toy, but this is how the render looks so far. If you have any ideas for me to add on, feel free to comment
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Just started yesterday and this is what I have got so far. Tell me how it looks and anything that can be helped with is, I would really like to place in this months 'toy' compitition.
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my new work ----------------------------------------------------- work progress ----------------------------------------------------- Modeling face - 100% painted face - 100% ( some errors to fix ) modeling chest armor - 100% painted chest armor - 25% (work in progress) modeling arms - 0% painted arms - 0% modeling arms armor - 0% painted arms armor - 0% modeling leg armor - 0% painted leg armor - 0% modeling boots armor - 0% painted boots armor - 0% modeling weapon - 0% painted weapon - 0% full bone setup - 0% smart skins - 0% facial poses - 0% ------------------------------------------------------------------- cu…
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Superman takes on the size changing Super Mega Fox. The Superman model was from the Extras DVD. I originally was going to render this in toon style but I thought it turned out rather well here. I'm still looking for someone to play the voice of the fox charecter but somehow I haven't found the right person to do that yet. Super_VS.wmv
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The skinny scarecrow is such a neat model I wanted to try it out. The audio is from the 11 second club. I haven't done any tweaking yet just getting the poses and timing down. but Im wondering about the acting choices? over acting? octoberblocking31.mov thanks David
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here is a screenshot of what im doing. I am making a animation music video of the song We Will Rock You. i have the lead singer guy in the front and the back five sing the We Will, We Will Rock you part. i am editing the sound to make it sound funnier so it sounds like litter creatures. well another thing would be if this is legal or not. but what i want to know is if there is a way to have a bunch of the little creatures doing a head bob during the whole song using sprites or something to make it easier or something.here is what i got... i want to make the whole thing in the back filled with those guys easier than having to drag and drop all the models and place th…
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Thanks to all who voted for my contest entry. Here is a wireframe of the pic entered. This was another great learning experience with lots of challenges. I also wanted to thank Robert Ballenger, aka Teh_Demon, for inspiring me to start this project. Cheers Eric
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Made a simple displacement map after looking at Matt's cityscape and got this idea Here's the quick results stamp.mov Project file v14 with decals bstamp15.zip
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A few years ago I had sketched out a design for a spacecraft and proceeded to model it in AM. I could never get the fuselage right. A few times a year I'd pull the model up and hack away on it but it just wasn't fulfilling my original vision. Sunday afternoon I had a what-the-hell moment and converted it to AM13. For whatever reason, it suddenly came together. I have a drawer full of old drawings with many a spacecraft sketch, but this one has always been my favorite; now it appears that I might finally be able to get it flying.
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ive been working on wallpapers for my friends company as part of a promotion and too improve my skills a little over time this one is the newest 24:20:37 render time radioisty with AO and 36 multipasses tell me what you think
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I was making a small model for a bigger project that I am working on. I did a testrender just to see how the model did turn out. Its a very simple model(s) and a standard AO render, but I thought the result turned out nice, so I want to share it with you guys. I might if I find the time make several more bottles and fill the environment with them, but for now, I'll settle with this render Let me know what you think
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Hey Guys, Im currently working on my first model. Its an X-Wing and im using the tuorial for the plane in TAO to complete it. I should have a rendered version of the fuselodge up tonight if not im shooting for tomorrow. I want lots of feedback and any tips you guys can give me. Thanks Geoff
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Hey everybody... As the time with my family gets shorter and shorter I find myself with little spare time. One day after work a friend of mine wanted to go to the comic shop. As you might have guessed I picked up 2 volumes of "The Ultimates" by Mark Millar. If you're a comic fan, I would highly reccomend it. Anyway, I was inspired by the style (which is really groundbreaking) and decided to make this quick little "doodle" in a rare free afternoon that I found. Chances are, I won't be able to finish this...but here's the torso. Modeled from scratch except for the temp belt buckle and the textures are a combination of materials, dark trees and maps. …
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In trying to make a better looking lit building, instead of using an abmience map, I made each of the rooms, threw some lights in, and here's what i got.
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http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29707 Posted in newbies, got no help, gonna start over if no replies =/ The project and files are downloadable (and the video to this point). Thanks for looking.
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Hi I am looking for peoples thought's, comments, on my Yoda model and animation. I going to rework this model and do new animations with him. (There was a light saber battle I never had the time to do. Any helpful comments would be greatly appreciated. Thx for your time. Little_Green_002.mov
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a1blobbies.mov Did 100 frames with yellow then red then blue then green color side note as I reported on first alpha only one fluid renders in final render right now I used the tutorial project added the fluid source called "smoke" in the second box and it was the only fluid that rendered in final render even though it shows fluid in quick render and wireframe
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Got home late and found V15A1 available so tried a quick project lowering a ball into a cup of fluid. Needs tweaking but looks promising tt.mov No Newton just a key frame drop in slow motion I know its 15 not 16 will have to read titles before clicking
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I set aside the Fish Project for a week or so and worked on other stuff. I had the Pose Sliders all built and ready for a sound file. When I opened the .prj today, none of the sliders worked. These three were the worst. The teeth, and tongue, which were to show briefly on TH and FV were the worst, moving out through the mesh. In all of them, the lower jaw worked very little-to-none-at-all. This is major discouragement. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Hi all, This has been driving me nuts, The smudge on the forhead is only showing here. when I render the model, it goes away. Any ideas? Something to do with a 5 point patch? It's happening on both sides.
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I'm trying to decal a movie or image sequence onto a laptop screen and it's just misbehaving like crazy. I'm on v13q. I've done this before and though it took some trial and error I did get it to work. But that was a few years ago. I've tried a QT movie and I couldn't get it off the first frame. I'm trying a sequence of .tga files but I got an error message, though it seems to be behaving otherwise. Any help, or anyone pointing me to a help file or thread would be much appreciated! Gerry
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The correct texture pattern on the cube is only on the front side. How can I change the orientation of this? This is probably so simple I'm just overlooking it. It seems that when I place this pattern on a model, it only applies it from the front. Obviously I want to make a floor with this, but when I drop this simbiont on a floor, it gives me the elongated pattern seen on the top of the cube. Answer: Open the material's properties and click on Transform. There you would type in a value of 90 in the X rotate value, which will give you a top down orientation to this particular material.
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Okay I was in photoshop and decide to play with a few filters and got some interesting results that I saved. Now tonight I decide to add them to a couple of spheres and put them into an small animation. decal.mov Not sure what else to do with the "decals" so here they are with the project file v15alpha (testing it for volumetrics) decal.zip
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I have a stone floor texture. I bring it in as a decal, but it has to be re-sized. I have a high contrast black & white version I want to used as a bump. How do I get them aligned? I've been struggling with them, and they have to be perfectly in sync or it looks like a red/green stereo image, seen without the glasses.
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I literally only have 2 maybe 3 hours a week to play with the software and this is what I came up with this last week. Crits and suggestions always welcome. (I still have a lot to do obviously)
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I use AM as a general 3d workhorse, so I though I'd show a couple of simple and very quick projects. I thought I'd put them into a single WIP thread so that people can ask any questions they may have, and because I don't think they'll be worth a thread each. Amway Business Centres.. total project time was 1 and a half days, although it wound up at two days when I needed to alter one of the render settings and had to redo a render. That's for the sequence shown and a global map animation showing the centre locations. The project is based around the final image of a man climbing a building, the rest of it was pretty much up to me. I started the project using newton p…
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OY! I recently was handed a storyboard for a local retail chain which showed a 'monolithic' gigantic thing covered by a silk-like fabric blowing in the wind. I was at a sales meeting with some of my fellow animators who use Maya. The question was put forth: "Can YOUR software do this type of effect???" The Maya team said they had an excellent cloth simulator but that none of them had ever experimented with it and then put forward a 'pie-in-the-sky' number ($40,000 which meant they didn't want to go near it) to do the job. I said I would like to do a test and after a day of dinks came up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTE4nCHGwNo This SOLD th…
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Anyone have any advice on how a character might draw a sword without it moving through the mesh of the scabbard...without having to fine-tune frame by frame?
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Here is my latest character named Alexis It's composited over a photograph a friend took for me of a beach, the rest is pure A:M with no touch ups Comments are most welcome - I posted this here in the wip as well as the stills because I'll be posting other poses and such in this thread so keep an eye out. *Edit - Updated with new render of fixed bellybutton - thanks for the heads up the_black_mage
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Hey everyone I am new to this whole experience so I decided to get everyones feed back on my simple image. 1. I would have loved to try to join some of the parts with hook, Some odd reason I wasn't able to hook the images to make it look like it had more flow. So I went with intruding the different parts of the model. 2. I have no clue how to play with the lighting or contrast to make it look better. An tis would be cool. Welp hope everyone likes my simple design remake.
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emitstreaks.mov Would work better if I change the model to have the streaks in a small formation..will try making a smaller emit area might be easy to fix looks better ? edit_emitstreaks.mov emitstreak.zip v14
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Would it be better to post simple things like this effects.mov or this sky.mov or more complex stuff like test2d.mov
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Hi All, Can anyone tell me why my character model actions work properly in the action window and get corrupted in the Chor window. If I drop more then one action in my chor window they blend some how. It happens wheather I use a path or not and it does not go away when I slide the actions appart on the timeline. I have also use the model properties Blend, Add and Replace at different times with out getting predictable results. Technodandy
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I recently finished another commercial using Animation Master. It was a quick job, made easy with my favorite software. Switch.wmv Edit - here's a Quicktime for folks that are having problems:Switch.mov
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Well its been a while since i have had the chance to post in here... been so busy. Well here is another shot from work. This is before any surfacing has been done. This is also my first experimenting with the skylight. And always its toon.
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Hi all. Just a little info on what I'm doing before I get to what I am asking. I am an actor living in L.A. My son-in-law is a Director/DP and my daughter is also an actor. Mixed into these titles are writer (myself and my son-in-law (Drew)), animator/CG (me) and producer (pretty much all of us). We are in the beginning stages of making our first joint movie (a short subject). In my infinite wisdom and total disconnect with reality, I have written a movie that has a number of special effects, and I plan to render those effects in A:M, assisted by whatever tools I can muster. While the list is subject to change, so far I have a force field, of sorts, a floa…
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wow, its been a while since I've been on. anyway I'm working on a live action movie called Metal Invasion. what it basically is about is, robots invade California and some special ops soldiers are sent to take care of them. I'm currently working on the models. this here is the Gauss Cannon and this one is the Rail Gun this is just a standard turret and heres the one I'm currently working on. a cargo ship comments, suggestion, ext are welcome
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I've done alot of mechanical modelling & animation, however this is my first real character. He's a power plant worker to be used in a tour video. The body, hands, and hair are from various characters on the "Extras CD", although each have been modified slightly.
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Hello, We've (John "Hubukai" Hubickey and I) are still working on sets for our characters. The thought entered my mind that these characters should be good for any set we make for them, so I've been playing around with the old roto feature a little in A:M. I found that I don't really need to do it that way, since A:M puts out really nice alpha channels in the TGAs that can be used to copy your character from a blank scene and paste onto a photo directly, via Photoshop. The Idea was to use the rotoscope feature in A:M (right-click on the "shortcut to camera" in the PWS under the Choreography) to light and adjust the camera angle to fit the photo. Then take into photosho…
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Maybe this section is more lively and somebody could give me some help on my walkloop from here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...mp;#entry245470 ?
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i was inspired by bioshock to try and figure out how they make blood look so real. After a long time fumbling around with photoshop, to get a good looking liquid surface tension normal map, i think i got a fairly good result. The key though that I found out was blood doesn't have a white or red specular highlight, it's blue. Anyways, here's the results of my testing. BloodStain.zip BloodStain.mov
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this is an idea i had for the 2008 mascot image contest. still needs work. feedback and suggestion are greatly appreciated.
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