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Greetings, This isn't the image quality generally enjoyed on this forum, but since it's my first A:M model to make it from point A to repository, I'm pointing it your way. The video is 22+M, and I'm unable to crank out another version. Hopefully it is a generally viewable codec. I know the deer is on the large size, but remember the camera adds 20 lbs and small objects tend to disappear in the simulator (strictly a visual thing, no alien technology involved). My thanks to the creator of the horse model on the v10 CD - this would have been a longer road without that leg up. deer walking
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I've been meaning to make wolverine for a while now. He was and still is my favorite character from X-men. The version I'm doing is the one from the old X-men arcade series. Definately one of the best arcade games. Anyways, I started on him last night and this is where I am today. Comments and Crits are appreciated! Thanks! Later- Lazz
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Howdy all, Here's a fellow from a current project. Comments, reactions, critiques, suggestions all welcome! (edit) Should mention no texturing other than group colors. Trying to get the modelling nailed down first.
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Greg here's a pic of the pine. I can render with an alpha and you could use it as a decal.
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Hello Everyone ... I thought I would share a new animation that I have created. It is for an educational project in development called "Astronomy 101" and is geared towards ages 8-11. The movie clip is called "The Introduction" and ...well ... "introduces" most of the cast as well as the background story . Please visit and take a look if you can. I am especially interested in some feedback from those of you with kids in that age catagory (8-11). Please excuse some of the "cheesy" graphics and special effects ... but I think it is still watchable. EDIT: Opps ... I had the wrong ages in the original post. Ages 8-11 are the target. Thanks to everyone for your t…
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While I was continuing work on my Superman model I had a stop at Image comics booth during the San Diego Comic Con, and got to talking to the great creative team that makes a superb comic called "Invicinble". As a study in how quickly I could take my Superman and turn him into Invincible's dad, "OmniMan" (he's their worlds Superman) I created this image. About 3 hours work. He's got a new face sculpt and new face map (based on my face this time). The funny thing is, he kinda reminds me of my dad...with a mustache...<<image missing>>...hopefully the guys at Invincible will dig it and put it in their book...fingers crossed...now back to Superman. - pjc
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I did a test today that turned-out quite nicely with BIG help from our friend, Newton Dynamics... (attached 4mb QT) Basically, I made a 'beer-bong' (a funnel on top and a long tube) and set about 50 lathed 'Platelets' above it, set the gravity to -5%... and simulated! Afterwards, I wanted the animation to be slower and smoother- so I 'group-grabbed' all the simulated keyframes from the 50 Platelets and spread them out... I used a SYMBIONT material called 'Plush' to texture the platelet and the vein. The client wanted this to be a 'medical-meets-anime' look, so I toon-rendered and regular rendered and combined the 2 in After Effects. For a quick half-day test, n…
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A while back, plus some, I saw a thread here in which a character walked and left footprints behind. Is it possible to track this down? Thanks.
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Hi guys, I am having trouble making my martini look real.. The dark area on the glass is that normal? Can someone please help me fix the overall look? Thanks alot...
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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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Put my tank aside for a bit and started on this.
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A long time ago I seem to remember a thread that talked about blurring an object in motion. The trick was to have the middle to back of the object blurred with a trail in it's wake, but the front of the object was not blurred. Imagine a car or plane or fist in motion with the leading edge in focus and blurring the image as it goes by. I hope I'm explaining this right? MUFOOF may have been used, but I don't recall. Does anyone remember how to do this? Here is a pic that shows what I mean: Front relatively in focus as the rear blurs out inot the blurry background.
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Nothing spectacular, but my first real attempt at "freeform" modeling. This was real good practice for my "splinesmanship" skills. Still needs some tweaking, but I'm pretty happy with it. Wireframe Shaded wirewframe Rendered
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Hi Guys! I finished the first parts of my project, ... This movie will presents some aikido technics and etiquets! But just I can upload this in more parts! Sorry! This are first parts: Part 1 (This is required divx 5.03) Part 2 and I'm waiting your opinion! Sharky
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This is my test model I will be posting a few other static trials with different settings then get thom moving superthom01.mov
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What's the best way to animate those bulbs? I'd like to get an effect of a gaseous substance swirling in the bulb. John3D I need you!
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I'm finally breaking down and starting on a master chief model... After thenew release of Halo3 all i could think about on A:M was him XD So, here's the start of him!
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This anim is from the 10sec anim contest. It did not make to the month of June submission. I think I went over the file size requirement. Anyway hoped you guy like it and any comments are welcome. http://yojimbo1.homestead.com/10secClub.html Cheers, Somboun http://yojimbo1.homestead.com/main.html
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Hey guys, I spent about 30 minutes this after noon setting this animation up. I know you critique artists will find a zillion things wrong here:) And there are for sure, but over all this was a fun excersize! Animation codec, 3.2mgs... http://www.vrcops.com/vids/ClimbInB.mov Thanks for taking a look! Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com
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Eny comments or problem u see and want to tell me.I have workd on this car for 3 hrs and got only this far.
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Here I'm trying to use DOF with tha hair system...doesn't look right to me....... When I use fog it's not right either..I'll post a pic of fog on this later....... Using 17e 63bit Win 7
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I am new, and as you might tell by the movie attached to this post, I have had no training what so ever in animation, but I love it anyways. Please sit back, relax, and check this out. All my collected works if you think it is too big just download my low quality version All my collected works (but smaller) and note that for the high quality one I used divx to compress it and I think you will need to download the codec from www.divx.com. To see individual files I have done just go to http://www.psyog.cjb.net (1 pop up only for the .cjb.net the rest of site is ad free). Thanks
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Hi, this is a render WIP from my personal project. Any comments and criticisms from you guys will be very helpful for me.
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You finish these things and then say to yourself, "this is wrong and why didn't I pay more attention to this over here...etc", but I've done put a fork in it. 1.6 mb Flash FLood
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Oh I am so pleased! I have finally refurbished my office and got back into my pet project and got the first frame done. So couldn't resist sharing it with you all. Unleash you comments please…
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The co-producing team of Frederator Studios and Animation Magazine is happy to inform you that Day Off the Dead has been selected to appear in the second epsiode of the Nicktoons Film Festival, airing on Nicktoons Sunday, October 31th, at 10:00pm (ET) / 7:00pm (PT). Encore presentations include: Monday, 11/1, at 1:00am (ET) Monday, 11/1, at 10:00pm (ET) Tuesday, 11/2, at 1:00am (ET) I also hear it's been selected as one of the films for Spike and Mike's animation festival. DayOffTheDead.com
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Took High res pics of a mac book pro, stretched out some stock primatives, and rendered with ambient occlusion. TPG_laptop.mov
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Here's a model I'm working on from my Bugbots comic. Some of you have seen other work on this project, and I had a whole website at www.bugbots.com but I recently lost my free webspace so it's on hiatus. However I've been meaning to work on modeling Skarab, the main character, and here's my work so far. I'm going to be doing the eyes based on Dave Simmons great eyeball tute on the ARM. It's so simple and so effective I can't believe it! However I'm concerned that the eyes will look too "real" compared to the skin. I still need to work out some of the angularity in the splines and I'm open to suggestions for tweaks. The character is half insect and half human so …
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I'm working on a low-poly predator model. Hopefully I can keep it low poly...I always want to add too much detail. There's a lot of optimization that I can do, but I want to get the basic shapes done first.
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Back in 2004 I got an "Employee of the Month " award which took the form of a small gargoyle sculpture. I thought it would be a fun A:M modeling exercise so i began splining it out but hit a few road blocks and put it aside. The plan was that the recipient would get to have it on their desk for a month and then the next month's awardee would take it over but by the time I got laid off six months later no one else had done anything anyone wanted to talk about so I still have the trophy. Now I have some time, I think I'll try to finish it and see if I can rig him, possibly without straightening him into a T-pose.
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Trying to reporudce a 30 second clip from the s how. Here's the start...
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Hi everybody, here's a link to an animation I've been at the last couple days. Just something to go on my reel. Still need to do more with facial expression, comments welcome. http://media.putfile.com/June-entry-51 Thanks!
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I have begun my final project for Digital Film class. It is a humorous/macabre short entitled "Dogfood". The style is somewhat german expressionist, somewhat my own strange sensibilities. The man in it is tormented day and night by the barking dog in his neighbor's apartment, until he exacts his revenge. The man never actually sees the dog barking, so the script had called for a sillouhetted dog, rather than something too specific. Since I have no dog, much less one that would be willing to act in this part, I have opted to use a CG stunt dog. It doesn't need to be photoreal, just a suggeston of a dog. My digital film teacher has a vendetta against A:M th…
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I hereby debut a vague, confusing, fragment of a tale in the process of creating itself. [albeit snippets have slipped out here and there]. The main character [bipedal and arthropoidal] is "EL Cucaracha". [Grammer, spelling and emphasis in the original]...a James Bond-style freebooter, now in the process of fleeing for his life, for reasons unknown, though those reasons are no doubt good ones. It's the confluence two idle, non-related thoughts suddenly recognizing each other. One: 'el bog' himself was the product of pushing elements around with no particular goal in mind, and, Two: what the world really needs is a locomotive that can run on a single wheel, a 'razor-r…
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So this is the first time I've done an animated logo with AM. Turned out pretty good. The company sells Kettlebells which are used for building muscles. For those of you who don't know, muscles are things in your body that are slowly shriveling up as you sit in front of the computer for hours and hours with out moving anything buy your hands and fingers. This isn't the final version. It's a low res sample. The final is HD and doesn't have the orange glow.... man it looks SWEET. I'm watching the final render right now... still about 90 minutes to go. pkb.mov Here's what the final will look like: The zoom was just straight forward key framing wi…
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Hi guys I created this scene for fun, based on a little experience I had a few years back... *** Ever found urself in the wrong place at the wrong time? not a good feeling.. Sometimes it just best to turn right around and run!! Sang was hungry and went looking for food in a rough area of the ocean..Bumped into daddy!!! and baby worms and realized his stay should be short!!! *** I wanted a dramatic feel so I used a limited colour palette / textures and design... The bobbles were done by hand cuz my system can't handle particles... Done with A:M / The Gimp.... thanks for your feedback!!
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He has finally reached planet Bear? And being a brave soul decides to go exploring… However, the background seems to fuzz for the first three quarters of the flick but not the rest. I have a horrid feeling this is going to be a pain when going to final render. Ideas anyone? Do I need to use Multi-Pass on this one? Spaceship Landing
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Before I talk about this, let's see if anyone can see it... I used a Divxavi compression. If it doesn't work, perhaps someone can help me make a file that will? NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE I HAVE CHANGED THE ATTACHMENT TO SORENSON3, SO NOW MAYBE IT WILL WORK! RockBlast2.mov
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About two years ago I made a TARDIS model, that famous blue box from "Doctor Who". I made a fresh version of the model recently, here's the wireframe: For a while I was aiming for a toon look, but that hasn't panned out: I'd like to be quite daring and go for photorealistic based off the new TARDIS, which is a rough painted wood look, my attempts to make textures/decals: :blink:Oh, and just for kicks...at one point, I lost my mind and made this: Now, I'm asking and begging and humbly throwing myself upon the mercy of wise hasher for your advice as to how to begin.
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This time I have a pretty unusual question. Its somehow from the field of packaging design. I have to prepare an existing circleshaped 2D illustration to be able to be glued onto a reallife halfsphere smoothly. So it will have to be distorted somehow and I wonder if AM could help me here to find out how this distortion will have to look like and/or how it can be achieved. Has anybody ever done something like that? Any ideas that could be helpfull?
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NoNo and NaNa welcoming You to the UnderGround.
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The file attached here shows the start and ending frames of a two-second clip of my alter-ego, Danbuster Cameronean Leadboot. He is posing for the camera in his own fun-loving crazy little way. It was intended for my avatar, though only a few frames now exist because of the limit. The wild blond hair is a hair emitter. I had to do it like that, because it was too difficult to accomplish fuzzy hair that sticks straight up using a mesh (as I have with my other models). The fur on the body was accomplished by using a fairly rough and low-scale bump map. The hair is the problem. In preview mode, it renders fully shaded. Here, in the rendered file, the first fr…
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Design of an interior under the offered sketches
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A friend was drawing a picture involving Phantom, and it got me thinking... this was mostly a study in modeling and lighting. I was thinking of posting it on A:M stills. One item of concern, however: I didn't make the rose. I think it was on the forum. I seem to remember someone saying it was up for grabs. However, I wouldn't want to use someone's model uncredited. if you know whose rose it is, please tell me, because it's a really nice model. It's one that looks weird unless you apply the supplied pose to it. Thanks! -Zev
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to keep me moving in trying to create new thing i moved on to creating office stuff first thing i made was a pen to keep it simple in the begining. will try harder things later on. jay pen.zip
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I saw this on youtube and thought this would be cool to try. This is animated using 2 control bones, but I could get it to 1 with expressions. gear.mov
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OK, I'm going to tackle modelling a character. I've created some images in Poser and my plan is to use them as rotoscopes. The character will be used for toon renders. Are these pics OK for the rotoscoping process, or should I have done something differently? I don't want to make problems for myself before I start. Thanks Adam
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Hyello- Martin recently was mentioning the strengths of copy/pasting body parts to make your own characters. Not only is this a great way to learn but it is a speedy way to get custom characters on demand. The other day I did a test for a potential diet supplement advert where a woman who has 'recieved the benefits' of the diet supplement would be the central character in the spot. My potential clients needed a 'mock-up' for a meeting so they could sell their concept, and 'theoretically' if I made the art I would get the gig... (doesn't always work that way...) They initially wanted a 2D traditional animated character, but liked the idea of a 2D/3D look. I used …
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Here's an animation I've done over the holidays. Wanted it out before Christmas, but took too much time. Let It Snow EDIT: The larger version is now on A:M Films, HERE. Richard
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Well, this thread brings together a lot of other stuff I've posted on these boards, so bear with me. I'm still working on the full version of my "bathroom" scene, which is complicated enough that it requires storyboarding. Since the characters and set are already built, why not do the storyboards in 3D? Well, it turns out there are a lot of good reasons why not, but suffice it to say, 3D storyboarding is only worth doing for judging your characters' relative positioning, along with the corresponding camerawork. As soon as you start moving arms and heads, you're gonna wish you'd just picked up a pencil. On the plus side, 3d storyboards sure look a lot pretti…
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