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hello there i was checking my old models when i found an uncompleted audi wire frame, this one was one of my tests while i was trying to model automotive models in AM. i decided to complete it, here's the result. also there's a wireframe image for the car from inside, i tried to make it simple to not puch the patche count higher. i hope to get your comments if something is wrong or if have to modify something to make it better, thanks
Last reply by Jin-Kazama, -
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Hey folks. I had started an AT-AT from Star Wars a while back, and am releasing it to the community here. It doesn't have any textures on it, but it is rigged and the project comes with a basic walk cycle for it. Feel free to download the model for your own use. If you happen to add textures to it, or change it in any way, please post the updated project and textures here so others can have access to it as well. There is a read me in the zip file that contains a history of changes. Please add a description of your changes to the History, so you can receive proper credit. When it comes time for the next Extras CD/DVD, I would like to submit the lates…
Last reply by Rodney, -
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Are there any SynthEyes users out there in NTSC land who are successfully exporting drop-frame camera tracks to A:M? I found it after successfully tracking a NASA animation of a flyover of the Victoria Crater on Mars (where the "Opportunity" rover is doing some digging). It seems that for drop frame footage, the frame times in the export from SE are all screwed up. It just seems odd that SE is the recommended tracker for A:M, and yet this doesn't appear to have been noticed. (I got into tracking after getting PF Hoe on the cover of Digit Magazine - it was OK I suppose, but SE is far more powerful. The footage above was a problem piece on their support forum…
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Hi all I had posted these in the tutorial section and thought it might be wise to post them here for more feedback. This is a character I have created for a music video I am producing for an Indie recording artist out of Buffalo, NY. It is going to be a combination of 3D and 2D. Please let me know what you all think. Cheers! They were created with the great help of Barry (Bizzle) and his amazing A:M Training DVD Bundle. I just finished rigging him and I will be modifying the model into a lioness soon. Storyboard is nearly complete and will be going to the client this week. Enjoy!
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Well, for no real reason, I've decided to start building a galaxy class starship. I'm thinking about maybe doing a whole line of star trek vessels and then I don't know what! I know that I am going to use my Galaxy class to play with doing special effects like phasers and shields and warp and etc.
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Peterbilt 379 1 2
by agep- 1 follower
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I've wanted to model a truck for a long time (no, the Lego racer does not count). I've just started on the peterbilt model. I hope to be able to make the wrecker version out of it, but due to little referance and no blueprints of that particular model (1996) I'm not sure. Anyway, I dont have much to show yet: LATEST UPDATE (21.05.07)
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Used very simple model, the terrain wizard in the beta , a few simbiot materials, and an animation on a layer. test.mov Nothing great but rendered nicely As Dhar said practice practice pratice...this took longer to render than setup
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Trying some ears, teeth, and giving the eyes some pupils. Will have to break and reconnect some splines to smooth this out
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Here's another shot from my job that I started on yesterday. Its getting there but I still have a lot to do to it. Its toon render. All comments are welcome.
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Hi! Can somebody help me out? I need to create a fountain of water. More like water from a garden hose. It has to be very realistic looking. Can this be done in A:M? Do you have a suggestion? Thanks! Erik
Last reply by John Bigboote, -
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I am working on a watersplash and have made a couple new sprites to get the correct look fount.mov Any comments welcome
Last reply by Darkwing, -
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Hi This is one of the first projects I did in 2000 with animation master. I am trying to get a reel together for my website and thought it would make a good intro. I did a new render of it with ao. You can see here the improvement in me and a:m over the years. I atached the old and new one. 3dfroglogoold.mov 3dfroglogonew.mov
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My friend and I are going to be taping off sections of our schools steps to look like concentric rings when viewed from a certain point. We're just about done with everything we need to complete it. So, I thought I'd share it with you all, and see what you think.
Last reply by animas3D, -
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Hello, We have been busy and I didn't want to post too many WIPs, but I have a few more for you. These clips are just tests to see how the models hold up for animation/rendering. Of course we are rendering everything in HD720, but a few things have to be rendered smaller for testing- (especially those containing multiple volumetric lights). Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that the purpose of these clips are to show the models in lighting. There is one lipsync in there that is incomplete, because I didn't really want to go into simulating the cloth(It's all about the face/the arms are STIFF). Thankyou! Click on the pic! More updated images …
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hi all, I'm quite new to A:M and still learning the ropes but it just wondered what you thought of my new logo for my company 'EmeraldStorm' Here is the link: Click Here It may take a while to load and you need quick time player. Please can you add comment's to it on my website. Thanks Elliot
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I think this is sufficiently different to warrant a new thread: [1] I'm installing a single bone that will move the same [left and right] plate on both treads. On a previous attempt, I installed the bone in the right hand tread plate, on the Z-axis. Some of the plates developed a twitch wherein the bone rotated 180 deg. and the left plate flopped over to the far right of the right plate. I suspect it was because of the oblique angle the bone occupied at the points where the plates moved over the major drive wheels at the front and back. [tho' I'm not certain] This time, I'm installing the bone along the X-axis. The question is: at the points where the plate move…
Last reply by Kelley, -
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Hello everyone, I reworked my May 07 "Toon" Image contest entry and am posting it here for your review. I made a few changes in Photoshop and I prefer this version over my contest entry. The model is my own original design of a transforming Fighter Plane/ Robot that is part of a short personal animation project that I am working on. The model is designed so that I don't need to swap models when I am transforming in in a shot. It is rigged and ready to go. The mech in the image is one of the mecha designs that will be in the short. This model is pretty much done but I have a few more minor details to work on on this model (so it is still a …
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weird tree
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ah, it's been far to long since I've had a chance to work in AM. So to get back into I thought I'd just start fiddling, and this is what I came up with. I really have no explanation for it. -Nathan
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Here are links to the full res and reduced res versions of the logo intro animation... The Text and Fonts selected for the intro are temporary and we are deciding what the final font will be, but we are excited with the outcome of the winged skull. Hubukai (John Hubickey) rendered this monster out at full res (3 full days of rendering) and created the video files and is hosting the files! Without him there would be no Dark Skull Productions! (I suggest *right click>"save as"*) FULL RES (HD720) DSPintro (18.8MB) Quicktime (H264codec) FULL RES (HD720) DSPintro (6.71MB) Windows Media(WMV) Comments are welcome, but I doubt we are going to change much.…
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Ive been working on this car for about 3 years on and off its a 2003 Audi TT quadtro when i first started it i couldnt get it look right at all everything was out of proportion and the materials i was using made it look like crap well after seeing Xtaz and his BMW i decided to give it another go i almost basicly started from scratch so far just got the front basicly done with a few areas missing got to give a big thx to Xtaz again for the the material hints still has a long way to go but i wanted to get some comments on how it looks so far and what could be changed if needed jobe
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Hey all, The rock band Rush is coming out with a new album soon. To show my appreciation -- and to pass the time while waiting -- I've started working on a little fanimation. Right now, I'm at the modelling stage. Here's what I've got so far: Feedback and constructive criticism are welcome. A:M's SSS feature rocks! Btw, I'm sorry if it's inappropriate to post this. a proud donor to Neil Peart's motorcycle gas money, Tai
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For all those who doesn't remember me, here is a little refresher White Devil Project Archive 06' Anyhow, I have RESUMED work on the film. An all new teaser trailer will be coming out shortly. Stay Tuned! Hopefully this will peak some old interests and hopefully some new ones. I'm back baby! Ace Liquid Knights *Update Edit April 11th
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Hi Hashers ... I finished to model and texture a new car - BMW X5 / 2004 - to my gallery now I will do some tests using it in a live scene ... comments are welcome as always ....
Last reply by clonewar12345, -
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Here is a project that i have been working on for a couple of days. I made it in A:M and surfaced it in photoshop. I will be posting updates as i complete it. Any comments or criticisms would be appreciated.
Last reply by clonewar12345, -
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I had modeled a simple tower to test out some tiling textures I made on photoshop. I started playing around with it, duplicating it, scaling it, and sticking them on, and I wound up with a really cool looking castle design. I decided to work it into a poster for my daughter's birthday. (I used to have a sound clip of her saying, "I'm the princess, in the tall, tall tower", hence the title and inspiration). The castle model is only a proxy right now. I'm going to replace it piece by piece with a more detailed model. The lighting and the background are final, for now. The lighting may get tweaked as I go along, and I may repaint the clouds in the BG, I'm not sure. …
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Was playing around a bit with the new Squetchy Sam Rig. What a great character to practice with. SquetchySam2.mov
Last reply by Dagooos, -
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Howdy Hashers I couldn't resist posting this WIP showing my intrepid heroes getting into trouble. I am quite pleased with it but it certainly ain't finished. You will need QuickTime 7 to view and it is just over 1mb if you want to take a peak. Lift Off Once this scene is done and dusted I think I am probably nearly half way through my film... OH MY GOD I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!
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We are in the process of gathering our sources to create a portfolio. Our company doesn't specialize in 3D stuff. However, we use A:M quite often in our pipeline of work. We hope to have the process finished in a month. I thought I'd share some of those clips. Here's one, more to come, and eventually the final edit. CREA_MEDIUM.mov
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I have three actions on a character in a chor but the last action inside the chor does not match the actual animation inside the action. It is one of a kid putting a flashlite on a chair and the flashlite is constrained to the left hand until it gets placed on the chair. In the chor the hand is in a different position after he lets go of the flashlite than it is in the action. How can I fix this?
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If you have ever watched slow motion water drops the tail end has a long spout of water that then collapses and a large drop falls to the water. I was playing with the idea and using blobbies to form the drop at the end but the results need a lot of tweaking as you can see from this post. I only colored the blobbies so I could see what looked right or wrong. Mostly wrong blobt_1.mov
Last reply by Darkwing, -
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I notice that there's a built-in [?] offset when V.13 pastes a copy. Every time V.11 pasted the copy directly over the original, I half wished it wouldn't. Now that it doesn't, I find that I have need of the old way, particularly when making multiples that have to sit on the same baseline...like the engines on the Junkers flying wing, like the tank bogey wheels I'm trying to align. Can the offset be disabled, or re-set to a known figure, so that 'X' number of cliks up, and 'X' number sideways will put the copy back on the baseline?
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Here is something that I have been WIPping up: If you scroll to about 3/8ths of the way through this movie you will notice a frame where the hair completely disappears. Is this a known bug? Anyone else seen this? I have been trying to get a good mix for silvery-white hair but it just comes out looking too flat. Also there seems to be an issue with hair guides not behaving well on the edges of 5-point patches. Does anyone have any hair tips? I am also experimenting with modelled hair. Looking for the best options.
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Hi, Many have seen these models before but… here they are again. Using Bill Young’s ‘Model a Face’ CD from Anzovin Studio, one model was based on my face and one was based on my daughter’s. Mine could be a little better, my daughter’s came out pretty good. Both heads are rigged using one of the first face rigs presented in the AM community; Shawn Freeman's as shown on one of the AM SIG Pro Training sets. On one, you can see that I've overlaid the 3D face control setup from an early version of the Squetch rig. Latter images show both the models in scenes from my current project. Comments welcome, Rusty
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As the required rite of passage for TWO, here's the lion and the door. Have spent the best part of a week chewing on the carpet just to get it to this point. It's been better, and it's been a lot worse. Adding Kinetic constraints always flips the hands 180 degrees. Keeping constraints on has been an exercise in frustration suppresion. Ah well, if I have to disgrace myself before the entire Hash community, let this be the day. LION_AT_THE_DOOR.zip
Last reply by Kelley, -
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My "real" job has kept me from getting much done in A:M for some time now, but recently the situation has improved and I'm working more normal hours. I might even get back involved in TWO. This is something I did last year: Self Portrait Thread I still have some tweaks left and of course eyes instead of mere spheres...and teeth and gums and a tongue and throat and texturing and hair and rigging...and maybe even a body! Here is it's current state:
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it is not the greates of texturing of modeling but it doesnt matter that much. jeet ----- ValleyProject.mdl
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Hey everybody, I know I have another topic that's still out so don't get too mad Well, I'm trying to wrap up everything that I've been involved in (hence the Star Wars models frenzy) and one of the many things on the list was texturing this fantastic model. Hang on Martin, 2_08 lighting is next For me, the goal of this project was to have a set of textures that matched the great quality of the model. This meant grabbing tons of photos and layering and layering in PS. It also meant tons of unwrapping in AM--of which a little has been done. I'm going to try to push my skills as far as they go for this one and prove to the world that AM is capable of anything...a…
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I render 1 animation short (TGA sequence), when the camera zoom or pan the line have flicker (shake). My model is using simbont AM. I use multi-pass 49 (7x7) render also have this problem. What render setting i should be to do? please help me. thank q.
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Opened V.13 today. Choreography and Modeling windows are solid black, no grid. How to change the color? Doesn't seem to be in Properties or Tools.
Last reply by Kelley, -
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There may already be a way to do this but if no one has posted anything yet.... Here's a way to switch between camera shots, angles, rotations etc... just using one camera, during one render. I've included the project file so you can pick at it. 1. Set the camera's "Interpolation Method" to "HOLD". 2. Move the camera to a different point in time. 3. Now the camera will quickly switch from one view to the next. camera_switch.zip
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I needed a bit of a break from working on my Jupiter 2 model, so thought I would re-create the Jedi Starfighter and HyperRing model created in Anim8or. This is what I have so far after a few hours of work... C&C always welcome... Al
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Here's my finished clip. I meant it to be a WIP but I had it done in about 2 days. [attachmentid=21470] George X_Wing_Levi.mov
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..but was cleaned up within a week. flow.mov
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When I was but a pup, I was an avid reader of Air Trails magazine. Their premier artist was Douglas Rolf. Rolf drew with a very fine, almost fragile line [no color, minimal shadows] but very, very precise. His stuff was beautiful. Recently I went through years of morgue files culling out the chaff, and found a stack of xeroxes of his work. Among those drawings [just as good as I remember] was this plane: an Art Deco gem designed by Hugo Junkers somewhere in the mid-30's. It never got beyond blueprints and a scale model. But what a plane! I googled it, and even on Google, it's rare. There is a seaplane version that I'll play with next week. [on the trailing edge …
Last reply by Kelley, -
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shoot.mov Just trying an idea
Last reply by Dhar, -
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One of my all time favourite TV shows when I was a kid was 'Lost In Space'. Loved Robert Kinoshita's design of the Jupiter 2, the spacecraft that was to get the Robinson family to Alpha Centauri. So here is my attempt to model the Jupiter 2 spacecraft. Head on view Top view showing NGS locations Lower view showing fusion core View of flight deck Animation showing the fusion core and EVA hatch opening and closing. jupiter2_.mov C&C always welcome... Al
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I have been working on the design for these guys for a little while and these are just ones i have made. I will make over 20 more over the next year. Please no stealing the idea. Not a great idea but it is mine all the way. I need some ideas on new characters and ideas on how to improve none are rigged yet but am working on it The Beans
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Animating a materail and got this groundtest.mov In case you want to play with it v13s groundtest.zip
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Orange Lilies As some may recognize, this was my contest entry for April. I almost didn't enter it since it is seriously flawed but I ran into several problems that couldn't be fixed or worked around in any timely fashion. However, the painterly aspect I was striving for shows and I am loathe to abandon the image so as the spirit moves me, I will continue to improve upon it. First, the trees will all be replaced, hopefully by trees created in AM with the TreeeZ plugin. These were created in XFrog and imported into AM as props. The problem is that the leaves on the trees do not render correctly - the alpha channel is ignored. I don't know if this a problem with t…
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Here my current wip, just got A:M today
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