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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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I made this hour glass would like to no how to animate sand in it ...look for Tutorial on it could not find one. is this the right place to post this Hour_Glass.mdl
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Hello this is just an house crow I'm playing around with.
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This is just an test in doing photo comp. The clip is inspired by some norwegian tv vignette, where all sorts of objects hovers to create this two. It is however a bit of work behind this, I took approximately 60 images of my livingroom that i stitched together to make an environment map and IBL image. I had to go back to "global color" instead of IBL, since the IBL gave the groundplane an unwanted colorburn. The coin is made by coloring a coin with a felt pen, and the rubbing its surface with some paper to get the patter showing, then I scanned it. scanning the coin without the coloring gave me just the highlights. The scanned image got some ps fixing, and then was used …
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been making this model over the last few weeks, need to smartskin everything and i was wondering about making the shorts dynamic... is it possible and has anyone tried it b4? and ideas?? ta much S
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Hello All, I have a situation where I have created a walk cycle and want my character to wave and turn his body during and after the cycle. The problem is that as soon as I move any bone which is keyed in the walk action, it wipes out all the previous keyframes from the action for that specific bone. So, for example, the feet are cycling quite nicely along a path and if halfway through I move one of the foot control bones just slightly, then that specific bone no longer cycles normally. (I hope this makes some sense). Can someone help me out here? Thanks, Eugene
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help please cristof1.mdl martin1.mdl
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Hello All- Came across this fascinating little animation which I think was done in another program. I think the actual revolving of the bones/parts might be fairly simple or straightforward but I can't figure out how they get the skin to not crease as the parts fold in on themselves... Any ideas how not to crease the outer skin as the parts rotate? Thanks for any info! Tom CubeSpin.wmv
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hi all, If i want to animate some thing like the vedio below, can any body tell me how to go about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYokKMwMLgs...feature=related
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anyone have any idea on how to replicate this in A:M? I want to make a stainless steal refridgerator, but i need to know how to make brushed stainless steal first. Hope you gusy can help out.
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The right one is my first model and I would like it to look like the left one in it's details. I have never done anything like this, so any advice is really appreciated. Correct me if I am going in the wrong direction. Would I take my model apart as in flattening the hull? Once it is flattened, draw the plate lines on it in photoshop and then apply the tga as a decal color map and bump map? The model on the left was done by Fred Kuentz and William Babington. Since the hull is basically an octagon, should I flatten each of the eight hull longitudinal sections, or just half the hull flat? I also wonder how can I achieve any proportional accuracy and spaci…
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Around the mouth and eyes. I am having a tough time getting it to be smooth. Do I need to rebuild or is there a trick to fix it?
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When I copy a branch and paste it to make a tree, all the properties of the copied hair are lost as well as any grooming. Is there a way to copy and still keep the copied properties of the hair?
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I have modeled a ski lift chair attached to a cable. I put in a path thinking i could constrain to it and the bones would carry the chair around the path. My problem is how to make the chair and cable move around the path. I have tried a few different relationship ideas - translate to, spin like, orient like, constraint to path - but haven't got it to work yet. I'm sure it is the wrong combination of relationships. Do i need to use cloth? I admit i don't know anything about cloth yet other than the flag waving tutorial. Here is an embedded project. Thank You. ski_lift_embed_all.prj
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no matter what i do i can not find out how to get the grooming toolbar to show up.
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I have a chor with lots of sprites and hair. When the sprites and hair are turned on to realtime shaded in the chor view, it's almost impossible to do anything because everything is slowed down to a crawl. As a matter of fact, if I forget to turn off the shaded view, save the chor and try to reopen AM with shaded hair and particles turned on, AM doesn't want to open at all, or it takes a very long time to do so. My problem is this: Since I can't work in the chor with realtime shaded turned on, I obviously turn that off. However, when I render, I want the hair and sprites to show, so I turn hair and particles to "ON". Once the render is complete, Hair and particl…
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I'm working on a still, not an animation. I double checked, and there is no change over time in this still. All I am trying to do is render a semi realistic pine branch in a scene. Since I want to smooth the whole scene out, I'm initially using a 9x pass. The problem is the pine branch. There is obviously something going on that is causing this, I'm just not seeing what I'm doing wrong. Compare this to a TWO scene with a pine tree that has no blurring, but I bet it does have multipass? There is no motion blur or focal length change in the camera setting. Edit: After playing around with the hair material and not getting anywhere, I deleted it and created a…
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I know that's a bit vague, but I've never baked hair before. I'm trying to bake the hair (tree leaves mostly) in that opening aerial shot in TWO. It's a big shot and it will take many minutes to compute the particles all the way to the last frame if I'm just scrubbing the timeline, but should baking the scene take much longer?
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I dug out my Sgt. Tubbs character [the guy in my avatar pic.] and am trying to work with hair. After massaging it about [ in V.11, about six months agao] I discovered that even if I hid everything except the moustache, the hair applied itself to the whole model. Tonight, I copied the moustache into a new .mdl and applied the hair to it, thinking to bring Tubbs and it together in the choreography. The b/w pics are from the modeling window. The hairs are overly fine and I think I could do with fewer if I made them thicker. It's the choreography that has me boggled. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I see in the model window. I tried to do a screen r…
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Hello- In the properties panel you can turn on "Glow" for a group. It seems you can either turn "Glow" "ON" or "OFF". I tried searching the database but couldn't find an answer to the question, "What if you want a "Glow" to grow,... over time?...from nothing to a bright glow... Is there a way to do this without making two different renders...one with the glow "ON" and one with the glow "OFF" ...and then just cross dissolve the renders in another program like AfterFX? Thanks for any insights Tom
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Hi, I am in the process of texturing this tiger and wonder how many other ways is there compared to the usual paste on type. TigerB.zip
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hi im trying to make my first model. well i got so far through the first attempt when a m crashed and i lost it ( i save regulery now lol) so i have tryed a different aproach to it and am wondering. how would i atach a many splined face to a not so many splined head. and also how i take model fiels and put them into a m
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I've spent the best part of the last two days trying to make the X-Machine float alongside The Sentinel. On the first try, it and the umbilical were part of the Beast model. There was a chain of 10 bones starting at Beast's pelvis and running out to the X-Machine. This didn't work because Beast has a rolling waddle, and this just yanked the machine left and right. It appeared to be firmly mounted on a curved pole which was bolted to the saddle. Also, moving the machine always kinked the chain and fine-tuning each bone was going to take years. Then I cut the machine and cable out of the model and broke it into two parts: machine and cable and Translated them to Beast. Same…
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Hey Everyone.... I was hoping to avoid a boolean here. Is there a way to cut a circular opening in the side of a tube in A:M without using a boolean operation? Thanks so much for any suggestions.
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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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I have a choreography that at one time had a sound file in it (approx 1600 frames worth) I deleted the sound file from chor I deleted all keyframes from the chor - so that the only key frames are on frame 0 and frame 180ish I want to use this chor as a starting chor for subsequent chors as it contains starting models, camera, lights, render settings, etc. I add a new sound file (about 180 frames), change the starting chor length to be 180. I save this chor. When I restart A:M and bring this chor back into A:M, the chor length is still 1600? But there is no sound file, no keyframes past 180. I need to be able to save the chor length correctly in each…
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I have both the rider, and the X-Machine [the drum-shaped object on a tether] Translated to, and Oriented Like, the Beast. I tried adding a Roll Like, but it did no good. There's gotta be a way. Edit: Apologies. I posted the wrong clip. [the rider is there, but turned off.] WALK_TEST_08.zip
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I followed the same staps as the Flag Tutorial but by the time I got to selectiong Simulate, The Program Closes down with the Unhandled Error Message. Can anyone Help?
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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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this is the continuation of this topic I can't open a new poll in it then I had to create this new topic thanks for voting ... Well, you had 2 weeks for voting. The choice car to be modeled was the BMW 7 Sedan. I posted a new poll, regarding of the value to be paid for the tutorial. Your answer is quite important. The modeling of a basic mech model, in a direct way, uses all the beginnigs that are used in an advanced mech model. You understanding how works the parts and splines, you will be apt to model any type of car... The tutorial will cover : - Modeling - Texturing - Lighting
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I'm looking for some reference, or a tutorial on underwater scenery, particularly shafts of light coming down from above. [new cast member attached.]
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Hey Hashers! I'm sure this has been posted somewhere, so I apologize if that's the case. Does anyone have a step by step on how to utilize multicore rendering? A way to render multiple frames at once? I can't seem to figure it out. I work on both Macs and PCs. Would there be a different way for each or are they the same? Thanks in advance! Shawn
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this is very rough will fix later howto.mov
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I posted an effect here http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11508 this is a comment Once again you've done something really odd with (almost) no use So to show a possible use I threw this together Thank You Shaggy for volunteering this is slightly new blobbies not in project ainterestuse.mov
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Hi all I need some help on how to separate a photo into 2 parts and then, how to use the 2 new images with AM to create the effect of a model in the original photo. photo 1 An example would be of Victor Navone and his model in front of his computer. photo2 I have worked with Photoshop for several years but never messed with masks or alpha channels so does anyone know where I can find a simple tut. on how to separate the fence? Then to create a project in AM with 2 layers and my model?
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I used a few materials and change them all with one pose slider just as a test this should point you in the right direction. I'd use a pose with decal switching too johnl3d would have posted sooner but 11.1d doesn't seem to like qt would not save it on my machine eyechange000.mov
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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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Hi guys, I started working on my kids book that I have been planning about Aug of 09.. This is Howie he's the main character and the sun is his guide or guardian; This is what I have so far am mainly trying to get a comfortable appearance/overall feel that will be standard for the entire series... I would really like ur feedback on if the characters are appealing and if not how to improve them so kids would enjoy and relate to them more.....
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Sorry John trying to animate like the great Dhar msword.mov needs some tweaks at the wrist and sleeve to start with this was the first render msword.zip
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Master Chief, in all his glory. Yeah, the decals are terrible, but im planning on making a movie, not a still. Here's what i have so far! Masterchief_Final_Rendering0.bmp
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Last summer I wanted to make a couple of short live-action videos of the Hulk. I started, but because of school in the fall, my project was halted! Now that I finished my first year of college i'm ready to start the project up again. Here's what I've done so far. Modeled a Hulk: Okay, I didn't really model it. I saw the one that came with my AM v11.1 and I knew I could mess with a little. All I did was a little smartskin tooling around, added hair, and gave him a little more texture. Is it the best Hulk ever? No, but it'll suffice for my thirst to entertain myself this summer before boot camp. If anyone can help me out with the model, please do. I'm still an ama…
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Hey Guys... Just finished this little piece... let me know what u think it's not brilliant or anything, but actually turned out better than i thought. Was maybe thinking of submitting it into the image contest, but am not sure how to do that?... Is there anything i need to do first before i can submit it? if not... Who/WHere do i send it?.... Thanks Damian
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This is a female? character Ive been working on forever. I think the modeling is finished but I'm stuck on the decaling and hair. Any suggestions appreciated. I have been using the Nagel brushes with Photoshop. I really don't have a clue about the normal, diffuse and specular maps.
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Thanks Jim Lighting really does make a diifference.
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I've been bending these splines forever. It started out as a project to learn AM. The modeling is essentially finished unless someone notices a glaring flaw. The head and body were modeled and decaled separtely. I wonder if the proportions and the decaling aren't matched? I'm not finished texturing and the hair is still preliminary.
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Any suggestions especially as regards to decaling and lighting appreciated
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Its great to have software for someone that can't draw a straight line (like me) that allows you to express yourself. Thanks for all the great suggestions.
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OK I know that I post a lot of stuff but I want to post this. Its a torsoe and the blue on it isnt a texture...Its lighting! Its so kool! Anyways, I this is a torsoe that I have for a semi-realistic character. I dont want the body to be exact I want it to be fairly realistic with some cartoonish about it, but still noiticable that its a human type figure. Please give me some imput. Thanks, Robert Fiermonte WIRED!
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Hello chaps, It just struck me that it's been almost 2 or 3 months since I last posted any work here and that I've mainly been commenting other peoples stuff. However, a new school year means new inspiration, so here goes. Here's my attempt at a semi-realistic human, male head. The forehead and backhead is still under work, so is his nose and his mouth(I don't like his mouth at all, it doesn't look good):
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