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About twelve years ago, when CD's were a hot new technology, I had a client who needed a logo/avatar for a "CD Studio". "The Bean" suddenly appeared as a doodle in the margin: a blobby character with pipestem arms and legs, no features, surfing on a CD with a stack of three over his head. He was never submitted, but I have somehow retained a fondness for him. Over the years, I have built, and re-built The Bean in evey 3D app. that passed through my hands. Now it's A:M's turn.
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Started fooling around with building heads. Nothing much to brag about yet, but this little guy happened yesterday afternoon. A bit lumpy, but maybe I can get the mouth to work. So I biult the body. The hands will follow tonight. s'Got a vaguely Irish look to him. What should I call him, Ken?
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weed.mov The basic animation is perform by a randomly placed null ( by an expression) for each weed using constraints to follow the null Project file which is V15 includes sprite tga weed.zip Sorry for the modeling but just trying out some ideas
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With all the planets being done I decided to try one Did a quick cloud renderin PS adjusted the contrast made three layers and adjusted their transparency and added some color Got a nice decal and saved it to be use on a sphere oh and I have some glow on the model planet.mov orbtest.zip Project file includes decal
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express.mov Playing around with 15 alpha with nested material and an expression with simple constraints express.zip
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this started as doodle in Photoshop Got two decals one on sphere and one as camera rotoscope
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I rigged a simple mechanical model to rotate two arms. This model will be multiplied in an action 10x. Is there a way to move the rigged arm on one of the instances and have that carry over to the other 9 instances? The arms should all move in tandem. One bone at a time is very tedious.
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Took a break from animating fish to put bones in the Beast and Rider. 'Will become a short animation. Not sure where it stands in the 'to do' list.
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I've added some new renders to my A:M Stills gallery of astronomical art that I first announced in this thread nearly a year ago. Having found some improved textures, I've finally been able to finish modeling the Earth's moon and the seven major moons of Saturn. The Saturn moon maps come from Steve Albers' planetary map site. Titan was rendered with PlanetGlow, but it doesn't look exactly right. You shouldn't be able to see the horizon at all, but I can't think of any other solution that would work, except for vibrating the model really fast in multipass, but I'd rather not do that. I used a displacement map (16 bpc EXR file) to create the equatorial ri…
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door_jam2.mov Fairly early version of Ted opening the door (the model has changed a bit as well since this). For the moment he doesn't get much further than the doorknob...but the main timing and action so far seem pretty decent.
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mouthful.mov Rough test of an idea needs tweaking
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I ran a little test, did you know you can smartskin a bone to control HAIR? I added a new smartskin to the bone, turned grooming mode on and groomed the hair at different angles. hair.mov
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According to this post: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...amp;#entry48718 it is possible to get a white render with shadows using a sun type light. So far I have not been able to reproduce this. I get shadows with a klieg light, but not a sun. Yves states that any type of light can be used for this as long as the attenuation is set to 0? Where is the setting for a sun type light's attenuation?
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I need to work on several parts but this is a simple model. I really would like the teeth to show more. This is something I saw crawling around one boring day at work.
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Twister CP2
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Hi all I figured I should post my contest contribution on the forum. I bought this helicopter just a few months ago, and of course I had to model it:) I've always been an r/c guy but haven't used helicopters before (no I don't count those 30 bucks styrofoam toys we was playing with at the hash bash, lol). Helicopters are really hard to fly, but even more fun when you manage to control it a little Comments and crits are always welcome
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this is a picture of a robot dog in a movie about robots in their own world and own vilians me and my brother have been working on for a few days now. oops something hapened and it posted twice
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Been a while since I posted a WIP, so here is a render from a short I'm working on. I'm digging on hair and new and improved displacement maps, which I'm using here instead of bump maps. http://www.dinocarl.com/velociraptor.jpg Comments welcome! Carl
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This topic is also posted here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=243770 Basicly, this technique is a way to have cloth deform a bulky object, just like it does with a button except using a bunch of bones instead of one. Since cloth is made up of a flat mesh, you can add objects to the surface via path constraint to the cloth's splines, to allow the objects to stay with the cloth... well! This is done with constraints/bones, so why couldn't you do it also with bones in an object like a rope or a backpack (Woot). :: You can create a cloth grid and set up as you would normal cloth on a character. Don't forget to make a deflector o…
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Lots to fix yet but you can have a peek anyway.
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Well, I've determined I'm not the greatest modeller, but, I'm getting quite good at SFX. Seeing as I haven't really seen anybody work with putting everything together into a SFX reel, I am. Eventually, there will be a fully animated SFX reel, but at the moment all I have is a WIP still image. So, here it is!
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Alien head
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Hello, Been a long time since posting anything. was playing around with A:M the other day and came up with this guy. m
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Well, well, well, well. It has been close to an eon now since my last W.I.P. Hopefully some of you might remember me, lol. I have not spent a lot of time with A:M lately because I've been concentrating most of my efforts in story development. I have finally reached the pre-production phase of modeling my characters. This character is a semi-human, mostly human looking, character from an unknown race (unknown as far as the story goes). I would like some feedback on my face model and any pointers/improvement I could make to my technigue. So far I have the base facial mesh going. I'm still trying to tweak the patches around to try to bring out the char…
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Talk about getting sidetracked. I was working on the dashboard for my '41 Plymouth when I had the thought that it would look more authentic with a key in the ignition. Then I realized that a single key would look a bit odd which led to more keys with different shapes on a ring and finally a fob. The keys have no teeth since I didn't want to further complicate the models and this lack of detail would unlikely be noticeable in typical shots of the car's interior. The large unassembled image was the test for the textures (all done with Enhance A:M combiners). Why is it relatively easy to make something look fresh-out-of-the-box new or rusty, dirty and decrepit but it ta…
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The project that I am working on requires alot of dynamic interaction between layers of cloth and hair so I have been testing these features recently. I decided to start a thread to show what I find and hopefully get some answers on the way. I don't know if there are any differences between Sim Cloth in A:M 13 and A:M 14 but I am testing both. This is a 2 second movie, from A:M 14 Beta 4, which shows that Sim Cloth on Sim Cloth is possible: The missing patches on frame 0 is an A:M 14 bug, I think. It always has a render problem on the first frame of the QT movies that I have rendered from Beta4. I have noticed that when I render to Sorenson 3 format fr…
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I a starting my steam punk Short. So using a Top down methodology I am starting with the control panel, working out to the wheel house then to the boiler and engine room, and then throwing a skin on the whole thing. Here is the gauge panel. the colors are place holders at this point.
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Just thought I'd post a pic of a model I've been workin on. Crits welcome
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blobwet.mov Tried to have blobbies act as a slow moving puddle but wil wait for fluids or try others ideas first about a hour to render on p4 1.7
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I took my fish character, duped the head, installed mouth bones and started playing with building Sliders. 1st question: Can you have three [more than two, anyway] mouth positions on one slider? For example: "AH" at 0%. "EE" at 50% and "OO" at 100%? At the moment, it would appear not...only my two-position sliders move anything on the model...but hope springs eternal. 2nd: When I copied the fish's head, it's textures came over with it. I can do a snapshot in the Modeling/Bones window, and in the Action window, and it looks fine. But in the Choreography, it's solid black. Where did the textures go?
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Its been a while since I did a personal project. Finally I've managed to model (and yes, animate) some new stuff. I guess you wont get surprised when you see I've modeled yet another car, but this time I did put more into it. Please take a look at the animation. I hope you like it Best regards Stian the animation: grimlock.mov a few stills:
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DaVinci's ideally proportional man (Vitruvian) was used as a roto to modify Thom into a more current "generic man" (note the beer belly). I have yet to rig him, but will probably be using 2001 skeleton, as I don't need the complexity or options of the squetch rig. He will have no mouth, eyes, ears, hands, or feet, other than what you see here... I used a "pencil sketch" trial with bitmap plus to get his basic texture... My character needs no more... though I'd like to figure out how to disguise the seam down the middle of his torso. What I'd like to get is some feed back as to his general appearance, whether you can "relate" to him or not and general "…
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Here is a rig test for an alien model which is still very much in development: This test was done to test the shoulders and hips and includes a very extreme/impossible pose for the right arm. There is still much to tweak but it is getting there. The model is 1574 patches and is rigged with TSM2 plus my additional bones for the neck and intermediates. The feet have not been properly integrated yet.
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Sorry I'm on vacation ..sort of this week...painting parts of the house and garage...in heat and humidity ...obviously warping my brain ftest.mov V14 project file beta 10 flaresinspace.zip
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This is with multipass two passes This is without multipass aflare.zip I did this in V13 because ( v14 didn' t like flare light added to model) a reported problem.
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Started experimenting with building landscapes, added a Ptero, and made a few dozen 20-sec. renders this weekend with the Ptero flying around. This morning [Monday] I'm trying to fine-tune things and the rotoscopes disappeared. I get a plain black background. Camera_02 had a strarfield roto. It too. is black. But, if I make a screen snapshot, the roto is there. I tried adding a new camera. It also will not see a roto in a movie render. I removed all the rotos and went with the default pale blue backgrounds. Screen shots see the blue, movies are black. I tried closing and re-starting A:M, then my computer. So far...nothing. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Mid-aftern…
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Hi spliners .... I began to work on my tutorial - "How to model cars". I hope finish it until Dec-07..I would like to know, which car you would like to see being modeled in the tutorial. CARS TO VOTE ... ALFA ROMEO GT BMW 7 MAZDA CX7 AUDI A6 CHRYSLER 300 and here... some cars that I modeled in the last two years.
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It's a little rough and lumpy but it's there! Yes, the first half of Spaceship... Enjoy Spaceship Just navigate to the Spaceship link in the menu to the left. It's a bit large at 39 mb...
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http://www.gentlechifitness.com/new_page_10.htm I got word that I can disclosed this, and it was a paid assignment, yee haw! I hope to animate this someday. I have kind of been animating this on the side to make sure it works. This was kind of a fun character to make. Its a compound bow, a fishing rod, and a shotgun. What thought went into how to make a inanimate object to life? It was a task and challenge that I love doing. I wasn't expected to even discern the sex of the object?
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Finally got some time to give the NIXUS a try. Thought I would start with the rear tire and rim. C&C always welcome. Al Thanks to Cristobal Vila for making the blueprints available to us, and thanks to Viper for allowing us to join in on modelling the NIXUS. " Original NIXUS concept by Cristobal Vila - www.etereaestudios.com "
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Hi guys... just wanted to show something off which I and a friend (S. Rosenblatt) made with very short deathline (so some of the animations arent very good) for my UAS with A:M. It is a LiveAction + CG Video. It is about 20 MB in size and compressed with Divx 5 and WinRar. Enjoy: - Download - *Fuchur*
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Coming into the last of animating the fish. This one [the big guy who eats everything] needs to have his mouth VERY wide open at the last instant. I have three seperate actions that move him. In each, his mouth moves a little. But when I go into Skeletal Mode at the very last, and drag his jaw down, that seems to over-ride all mouth action in all the actions. [ Everything else, like Fins and Tail were OK.] Fortunately, I could do an un-do and not much harm was done. But for the future, does any adjustment in the Choreography/Skeletal trump any Action?
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Hi, This is a video I made for my church. It features my pastor, Brian, and his secretary and some standard models from the A:M CD. It was supposed to be shown during a service about overcoming fear. However, when we previewed it on the big screen in the church, there was a very little girl in the audience who ran out screaming when she saw the knight running...so it did not get shown that day. Hopefully it'll appear at another time. Not the greatest synching in the world, I know, animation wise, but I sort of like it... I also have it out on YouTube at: if you prefer to watch it there.ScaryDream.mov
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tes.mov just testing an idea tes.zip This is a v13 project file with the decals (which I just had from playing with photoshop)
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Is there a way to change the percentage value of a Normal Map in Bitmap Plus?
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A magazine I read is running a short film contest on Youtube - and so naturally I entered an animation (all the others are live action). Here's the problem. It seems that at least one other contestant is continually giving my animation 1 star to lower its rating. I would really appreciate anyone who could go to Youtube and give me a good star rating (the more the better) to counteract this. Here's the link to my video. Thanks to all.
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A martian tripod from "The War Of The Worlds". I was intending just to put together something like a proxy version, as I wanted to get the gait sorted out first, but I got a bit carried away.
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How do you animate a Simbiont material? The water can be animated, but I just can't figure it out!
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i have seen some people create transformers in A:M, I'm trying to make some of my own transformer, bum I'm not sure what to do for the body and transformation. i have the heads finished, if any one wants to see them. cuboos shiftblade Kay
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Just felt like making something this morning, so I put together this Indiana Jones-style fedora. Figured I'd stick it up here if anybody finds a need for one. It's definitely not to scale and hardly perfect, but I thought it came out okay and thought I'd share. Here's a turnaround: indyhat.mov And the file: indyhat.zip
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Well..I found my "animation guy model (and fixed some stuff) and decided to start a real character animation haha. The clip is from Princess bride. It's when the short dude is hooked ont he poison and speaks his last words. This is a pop-thru..very basic start righ tnow..not much else besides a couple of major poses: I will continually post progress..I promise (i never end up finishing these things)
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