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Check out Mark VanDeWeghe's cover art on Creation Engine's catalog V.2 2004. If you don't get the catalog, here's a link to a similar picture. http://www.murc13.homestead.com/files/robocar14.jpg DanRJ
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here's my latest model of my room. i still have to add a lot a decals to the posters and add some more paintings but at the moment i think it looks pretty good P.S. i know making the edges curved would make it look a lot more real, but that adds twice as many control points to the project and then everything gets really slow. Comments Appreciated
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Hi guys, I donate this vehicle to this great comunity here for free use. I created many poses for every handling possible. Special thanks to David and Carlos for the Expression Wheel Rotate Tutorial. Please testdrive and examine this baby as hard as you can. Comments welcome. Maybe we could make a new comunity short animation project with it? Just an idea. By the way, I tried to write some notes and description in the fileinfo, no succsess. Is there some special trick to do so? ChromeTrecker040303.MAT Farmertrecker_Jake150411.mdl TreckerShake150411.act GreenTreckerT002.mov
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Hi all, like to show you a new model i´m working on. Happy about any kind of comment and suggestions. Greetings Frank
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Whipped this up in an hour for my reel...shows some of the capabilities of Steffan Gross's AWESOME newton Physics plug-in...which I am gonna use every chance I get. The collision detection scheme is the BEST I've seen yet coming out of A:M, and the plug-in is oh-so-easy to use. A GREAT addition to A:M's toolset. At D1 res each frame took 40 seconds. (No multipass) And big thanks to whoever wrote the helpful tutorial for the plug-in... I've lost the name. QUICKTIME is Sorenson3 compressed .8mb MCsmall.mov
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So I made a alien over last week please comment. info about the alien: They can't close there mouths but when the attack they digg their teeth into you and suck your blood which feeds them. When they dig your teeth into you they inject a virus which kills you. Their toungs are a weird blueish because they cut it on their teeth so much.
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Thank you very much your comment . This is my work project model not complete
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Hi all, Here's a face closeup with my model using v11 hair. Some of the hair is looking nice but I need to address some geometry penetration (through the forhead and through the hood). Can this be avoided automatically with Hair settings or do I have to handle it manually? Cheers
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Hey guys, I was going to post this in the rigging section, but maybe not until I hammer some more things out. But since I've gotten myself interested in some old models again, I've taken another stab at something that's always bothered me.... the spine!!! I'm still trying to work out how it works or if it will fail at some point, but the set up I'm playing with allows one to move it at the base, the middle and the top... anyhows take a look if you get a chance. about 730kb sorenson http://www.vrcops.com/vids/spine2a.mov Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com
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Here are some pics of the Batmobile model I've been working on... It's a little rough, but I've been doing my best. I think the metal the car is made of doesn't look right. Any tips on how I can make the metal look right & that makes it look to much CG?
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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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I tried a bit of an animation test with one of Shelton's characters, rigged with the A:M 2008 rig, to get in some practice with it (the rig) before the forum project gets started into high gear. This is just what I've come up with this weekend, between other non-animation things. There is no face rig on this character, so the animation is only body mechanics. I'm only mostly done up until frame 8:03 or so. I'm rather satisfied with most of the movement for him getting up, although there are probably a couple of small things I'd clean up after fleshing out the walk off of screen (listed below). After 8:03, there is just gross body movements that approximate walking …
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Here is a brand new character im working on! Any idea how I can model him?
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Just some Eye Candy
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BANNERS [attachmentid=15369] [attachmentid=15370] [attachmentid=15371] [attachmentid=15372] [attachmentid=15373] MOVIE www.bee-s.com/~gggg/avi/mm.mpg done in AM & 3DSMAX & Greeble plugin
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This is a charity music video to help support fire fighters widows and children. Far Star Productions. Inc. donated the special effects and the editing. The Angel models were made by Andy Mulia and animation was done by both Andy and me. The editing was done by my production company partner, Elisa Llamido. If you would like a DVD or the cd you can order it through the America We Stand As One website. It is a charity so there is no set price to receive the DVD or the cd; they ask that you donate what you can and spread the word of Love. Peace! http://www.americawestandasone.com/home.html
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Hi Spliners, here you can find a short video - sequence ... in this sequence I'd tested the Hair - Forces. becurse of this, the gras is moving a bit to strange but it shows clearly my problem ... The whole mass of gras is moving in the same rhythm ... Is there a way to put a turbulence to the force or control the Mass with an Image like black has a mass of 1 and white a mass of 0.1? Or are there some other ideas of creating some turbulence in the grass? CU Maszie
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This is the opening shot for my Mad Edd short. Mad Edd Animation AVI 3.5mb
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I'm on the home stretch with the cast. Just 3 more robots to go. All female, so I'll take more care making them. Then I go to storyboarding, recording voices and building sets. Once that's done I'll finally start animating some episodes. Click here or on the picture
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Here is a small picture of my UFO, although plane, it is just my beginning work. As you can tell by my name I am a newbie. I will put my alien model in here when I get to my own computer. The other model is of course Ed. If you would like to see my first short animation; [attachmentid=10034] This is my first short, it makes no sence, but it is a start. In Windows Media Player Ed vs. Alien
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Took me all week to get this far, and this was with exlcuding the backgrounds. Lookin for opinions on it. This is the best my limited skills could do.. http://www.twelveoclock.net/junk/BigBlowOut.avi
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dust
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This is fx work I'm doing for TWO, but I wanted to post in the general forum as well to get feedback and share the knowledge. dust.mov dust7.zip
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William Kevin Detwiler (aka detbear on the forum) hired me to adapt my rocket animation as a logo treatment. And here it is: The string looks a bit steppy in this low res version, the final version was 720HD. The music is just a temporary placeholder I made.
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I'm playing with IBL and placing an object in a scene with reflection ala Stian's tutorial. First I render out the background image which I then use as a camera rotoscope. Next the ground is set to Front Projection "on" in order to receive shadows, then I import a sphere with reflectivity set to about 35%. That's when I run into problems. The sphere, although it is not set to Font Projection "on", has a transparent image of the rotoscope on it. It's supposed to have the reflection of the environment sphere on it, not the rotoscope. What am I missing here? When I remove the rotoscope from the camera, the sphere has the correct reflections, but off course the ground i…
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A:M 16a: I am trying to extrude a spline ring along a path, which is a simple sign wave, but I haven't had any success with any of these plugins. Is there a known issue with these plugins?
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Copy and paste this into your browser window instead of clicking it. http://www.geocities.com/veridiusquo/LightClap.avi -Mike
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Here is the link to the film I made for my grad shool application for MFA animation programs. I found out that I got into CalArts, still waiting on UCLA and USC. http://www.michaelrobinson.com/returntoearth/ I've been hoping I'd be able to make this post for two months. I didn't want to post until the results were in, and good!! Some of you may have seen this thread This is a pretty rough animation. I put myself through a 6 week AM bootcamp (with all sorts of great help from the forums). The Caveats are on the link - and man, there are a lot! Since I won't start school for several months, I'd like to make a full fledged version of the movie t…
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Here's a tiny WIP I built tonight for a project. Any critiques are welcome.
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I was animating a short Easter movie amout a lost lamb and things were moving along fairly smoothly until I applied hair to the model. For some reason I am getting these weird moving black squares around the hair of the model. I am pleased with the way the fur turned out but I would rather not have ants swarming the poor lamb. Can anyone rescue this sad lamb from the evil squares? I'm at a loss for what to do. Thank you! David lambtest.mov
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But will leave the clothes untill I got it better test_vicki_hair_2.mov
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Ok....here's a new little model I'm making: the unhatched egg... After seeing this WIP you'll get the picture that I'm into simple characters, but mechanical ones.... After this I'll be adding feet, more detail on the "cage" and add some lights that are shining on him at all times (to incubate him)... this is going to be an interesting model
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In the first clip called water.mov, you'll notice black speckles on the trees. I've narrowed this down to doing a final render with at least 4 passes and with "soften" on and of course having hair with targa files and a alpha channel. Most likely I could render this with A-buffer rendering without black speckles, but then the precedural bump on the water doesn't show. That would mean no water flow. The second clip has two segments. On the first segment, you'll see rippling in the water. That was done with an animated decal and setting the first and last frame in the choreography. Unfortunately, after saving the project and opening it back up again, the key fram…
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I have created a great back for a seat to be used inside a vehicle I'm creating. My problem is this...What's the best way to create the bottom? (see screenshot below)
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I've set myself a challenge tonight. I'd like to see if I can go from sketch to usable character in two hours. The character is a Maxwell -- a sort of demon, or imp, based roughly on child proportions. At the end of two hours, I'd like to have: Produced front and side sketches Scanned them as rotoscopes Modelled the character Added the 2001 Rig Textured vinyl-like wrinkles where the skin bends in certain places This won't be a full-screen character, and a lot of fine detail would be eaten up by the noise I'll have to add to the final layout. (I'll ultimately be building a scene around a noisy, low-light photoshoot.) I'll check in tonight at 10:00, …
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Been feverishly trying to update my portfolio and I backtracked to an old project I've always liked. I've posted this one before ,but I did some touch up on certain areas and added a proper ending... C & C always welcome Corrected version Tech_Boogie_Redux_web.mov
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...It's shameful that I've had A:M for years and never attempted modeling a human head, so here it is. Please look at the spline layout and offer your (CONSTRUCTIVE ) thoughts- especially about the neck. I'm having trouble there. Also the ear connections are a little haphazzard, hazarrd ha..., oh you know what I mean. Sterling
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I've trie to figure out the timing without a lot of success. Is there some guidelines to apply? I have attached my WIP file for some ideas for anyone that takes thier time to review it.
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eggs with extremities! eggs_with_extremities.mov
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The lenses are clear, but they do block a lot of light to his eyes. I tried bumping up the ambience on the eyeballs, but that has the effect of washing out his irises (simple color decals). Is there a way I can brighten up his eyes without washing out the pupils? I'd rather not use geometry for the irises unless I absolutely have to. Thanks! Nos
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Tried for a moving tunnel but got this will have to rethink or retinker newest.mov
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well it's no longer a wip with the help of AM i managed to complete the 5 cartoons each day this week will be a different toon titles 1 through 4 for will have AM cuts that i used to repair the old originals and number 5 "the three bears"is all AM tis the season
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Bear
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Here is a first motion test for my bear character "Pana-Boon". I wanted to test the rig, and I have already starting working on the problem spots. There are several problems that I am currently working on. Some of them have to do with patches not receiving the correct color (neck) and others are problems with the mesh near the joints. Overall I think its staring to take shape. I have not used any smart skin yet. Its all bones and fan bones. Texturing needs to be done, especially the mouth, teeth, eyelids, etc. Finally he will be covered with the new version 11 hair. The rig has been completely built by myself. It uses Fk on the arms and IK on the legs. H…
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Actually the question is open to anyone. I would like to have a strong contrasting shadow cast on the ground but have a light reflecting on the character's face. When I add any light and direct it up from just above the ground plane it removes the shadow on the ground. Can someone suggest the best type of light for this? I have tried all types at various strengths but have yet to find the solution. Any resemblance between this character and anyone we may know is purely coincidental. It is meant to be humourous and is not intended to offend anyone, even if they don't like the English. Paul Forwood
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well... I hope to be finished within the next 2 or 3 days... with Xmas just around the corner I'm not sure how much time i can spend on post and rendering... Speaking of rendering, does anyone have any suggestions? While doing a test render, i noticed some plack artifacts around the particle systems, but I kind of want to keep it well lit and cheery... is there even a way to keep it close to the workspace render... given time constraints I may only have one shot at it. I'm posting some screen shots without facial expressions or secondary movements (also without hair or particle systems). (See images below)
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Started out trying to build a mouth that I could stich to an existing head. After hours of pulling CP's around, I had something that could be the front of a fish. So I went with it. [The fact that I just re-watched "Finding Nemo" a few days back could have something to do with it][attachmentid=14832][attachmentid=14833]
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I created this guy for fun..... feedback is welcome... thanks.
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Paul Harris of Scotia Publishing was looking for a modeller. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6371 I suppose he found one, but I can't resist showing off my version with the reference image. Hope I don't cross any boundries here. ===================================================== It's not by any means a good likeness, but fair to close. I know he looks a bit older than the ref. I figure this is due to the elongation of the face and narrowing of the neck. The mesh needed more room for the mesh to be manipulated. The clothing is a bit too smooth, but I prefer not to deal with a dense mesh. At present the mesh is at 3044 patch count and sho…
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Hey there, good forum. While I still have a week or two of unemployment (and only that -- knock on wood) I've been burning my free-time on 3D, the way free time should be spent. Here's my newest character, the Belly Bot, with a completely redone face. I had to eliminate the pac-man mouth, sadly. I was very fond of it, but it wasn't capable of the expressions I wanted out of this guy. I mean, he's a face on legs -- his facial expressions matter. I was going for something noir-ish here, and I think it works well. Please give feedback. Belly, New Face New Face WF --Ross
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Anyone got a link to a good tut on doing the female figure? I'm working on the body of my latest and haven't been able to get it right. I'm still searching around but I'm hoping you guys can point me in the right direction quicker. Thanks
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Hi all. I really like what the programmers did with ver11, especially the way the panels slided in and out to have more room to work with. This got me thinking and I was wondering if this would be a nice feature request. It hard for me to explain so I did an avi of it. http://yojimbo1.homestead.com/files/AM.avi Cheers, --------------------------------------------- Somboun http://yojimbo1.homestead.com/main.html
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