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I got tired of getting bogged down in modeling and texturing to get to the animating part, so I made this super simple character and took a whack at it. Here's what I came up with in one run through. It definitely needs refining. Any help with the timing and just communcation aspects especially would be greatly appreciate. hungry fridge wip. -Nathan
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Machine Gun
by dude- 15 replies
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Last night I started a model of a machine gun. I am using the Colt M4 as reference. I've got most of the basic splining done and I'm now working on details. But for some reason it dosnt look right, anybody have any ideas on how to make it better?This isn't for any kind of project or anything, just for practice/fun . [attachmentid=20728] Wire frame: [attachmentid=20729]
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This is approximately half of the music video that was made as comment on political process and ability of members of the parliament of my country... http://trajcedrv.mylivepage.com/file/?fileid=493 (You'll probably need to copy link and paste it in your browser to be able to download it) Unfortunately I didn't made it on time for the elections this year, and you'll probably miss the whole message... so what... I hope that you'll like the music (My wife Marina composed it) and if you really, really want to know, I'll post rough English translation. (Words by my Brother, John) I wasn't going for perfect animation (I tried to be as fast as possible), bu…
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Here are 3 images of a crash case we are working on. It is supposed to be a night scene. We use volumetric lights on the vehicles because it helps indicate the lights are shining. There are also non-volumetric lights to illuminate the road. My question is: How do you eliminate the banding visible at the point of emission? From the head on view (bottom picture) it looks great. (head-on, bad pun ) We are using Volumetrics with Z buffered shadows for render considerations. There was another thread where someone recommended using geometry with transparency and roughness to simulate this type of thing. Any thoughts? Thanks in advanc…
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Sneak Walk
by 3DArtZ- 5 replies
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Hey guys, Dropped an old sneak cycle that I made a long time ago on the model and rendered.... just for fun. There are some wierd things happening on the background, looks like a shadow, even though I have recieve no shadows checked... Maybe because this scene was made a long time ago in v11 and reopened in v13? 1meg http://www.vrcops.com/vids/Sneak1a.mov Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com
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O.K. I put the model back up for download. No changes made, just putting it back up since my anger of certain criteria has passed. So here it is again, should anyone be interested. Have ANY COMMENTS or criteria on this model, or its related use (ReadMe) feel FREE TO EXPRESS IT. This model is available for use in any "Commercial" environment, ONLY for NON-PROFIT use though. MMZ_TimeLord has a better description overview and how-to explaination in his reply below. [attachmentid=21014] HHouseFull.zip
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trying to fake a piece os cloth being folded rough 1st attempt [attachmentid=20626] Project file [attachmentid=20627] comments ? ideas?? Just remember this was just roughing out the idea but you might have a better way faket.mov testfake.zip
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It needed to be longer to loop properly but it was getting late [attachmentid=20610] [attachmentid=20611] project file does not contain the free darktree materials and the start pic is on the cd for darktree go here http://www.darksim.com/html/downloads.html sweep.mov 13sweep.zip
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i started on this helmet which i think is from quake...i just googled for helmet and this is the only one i saw with three sides to use for rotoscopes. i got one side of the front done but its flat...is pulling all the splines individually the only or best way to get them into thier place on the Z axis or is there an easier way? [attachmentid=20595] [attachmentid=20596]
Last reply by KenH, -
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Yep, its my dad model again. I did some updates and here he is. I think he is done now. I finished the rig, I do want to put some lip synch poses in him though. So here he is in just a stiff pose but you see how he is. Any comments? suggestions? Edit: updated picture with changes
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I've posted about this before, only then it was supposed to be a CGI film. It's live action now, and it is very CG heavy. I'm in desperate need of two or three volunteer modelers who are talented enough to create photo-real creatures and environments. You also need to be able to rig the models you creature. Basically, a lot of our sets will be digital due to the expense of building them in reality. There castles and medieval homes and things like that that will have to be digital due to cost. Also, I could use one or two people in the animating section, but that won't be needed until probably the end of 2007 or better. So, anyone up for the task? It won't b…
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Here is a space render... [attachmentid=20582] My original render altered with gschumsky's photoshop hand-tinted feel trick (http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23948&st=15) Anyway, was just playing around with it...
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I wanted to take a break from the tutorials and put some of what I have learned into practice. So far, I have modified Schlitzy by getting rid of most of the hair. Built a room, still need to put trim around the window. Added a layer behind the window for the moonlit background. Added a decal to the floor to simulate hardwood, and added some reflection to it. Finally, played around with the lighting (although, I'm still not sure what I'm doing with them). C & C always welcome. Thanks... Al [attachmentid=20568] [attachmentid=20569]
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I've just realized how much I've improved since I first got animation:master. heres my firs head :[attachmentid=20562] Heres my second:[attachmentid=20560] And last (what this WIP is about) my latest head:[attachmentid=20559] [attachmentid=20564] Anyway, just lookin for comment on how to improve my latest head.
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It's been a while since I posted anything in this area. Here is a clip of a case we have been working on for a long time. The Lawyer had to go off for military duty, so it was on hold. We were not happy with the vehicle interaction from the image perspective we had, so we decided to try a different image. Originally I had modeled the environment from a satellite photo and was able to use it for multiple views in Live action. It was a compromise all around. I decided to model the environment to suit the image, which results in strange looking modeled topography, but looks right in the final product, which leads us to where we are today. The …
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i've got the model done, yet i'm wondering, anything she still needs? (textures, body improvement, exe.) [attachmentid=20524]
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Hi, This was my first time entering an Image Contest, and it was really a blast! I was busy the week before finishing off "The Door is Stuck" in TAOAM (check it out in New Users and give me some critiques on that too if you get a second). Then I jumped right into this, it took about 4 days, give or take. I'll post some wireframes and other images here if anyone is interested. To start, if anyone wants a good laugh, here's my chicken-scratch sketch where this began: -Jim ...and some wireframes: -Jim ...and some shots from other angles:
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Here's a render of a couple little guys i've been working on for a pet project. The one in the back still needs toes, textures and rigging. Full size image (1280x600) here. And there are some walk cycle gifs for the bomb guy for his sprite sheet. Over on the development blog.
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Model I finished yesterday. Can u tell me what he's missing ?!
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My first dialog test was about tasteful and restrained acting choices. Not this one. I did this last year but I'm only now getting around to trying to light it and add a "background". Before you had to pretend it was night and that the car was moving. The dialog is Frederic March and Myrna Loy in The Best Years of our Lives. The sound effect was taken from The Palm Beach Affair. [attachmentid=20481] Pickupcafe504_h264300.mp4 I never quite got it to look like my "vision" of how it would all work, but I'm pleased with it. Update: I don't want to leave the impression that I did this in one sittin…
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im working on this little guy...he started as a doodle and i want to keep him as a kind of cartoony guy so i drew the outline then made the mouth and eyes as splines rather than decals so i could move them around. i made them render as lines and black then gave them bones. i made a simple animation where he waves and set it at cartoon render. now its done and i cant see the eyes, and changing his expression is a pain. does anyone have a solution for me? [attachmentid=20464] untitled.bmp
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Here's a comparison for Nancy, of the before and after images when I use the DreamyPhoto effect Photoshop plugin. It slightly zoom blurs a copy of the image, tints it (in this case a soft red) and adds it back on top at whatever opacity you decide. To me it takes away a lot of the hardness and rawness, while retaining the sharp edges of the original image and not blurring everything. This example is from a 1 pass preliminary render (without AA) so that's why the edges are pretty jagged. I can't find the final render without the DreamyPhoto effect. Grr... I'm sure all of this could be done by someone in A:M Composite. But I had already spent enough time on this i…
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Went out this weekend and shot some pictures of a horse. Decided to model it for a video project. I want to try the new hair and other features of version 13 Steve
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I have this thing for wanting realistic trees in my scenes. Ya'll can have your toony trees. We use a lot of panels with cookie cutter decals, and tree hair. A recent case we have is going to require us to fly down the road, past some trees so I thought I would make one using the treez plug-in. The problem was the high patch count and when you put hair leaves on it, My system would chug. So..... I make this tree which only has 700 patches, is 50 feet tall (leavea area a little large), and has leaves. I used the AM enhance Foliage material to create the leaves. It has a way to go but I like it so far. [attachmentid=20403] David
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HauntedHouse
by Muff- 8 replies
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Sorry for ALL the Topics on this model. Im not a forum expert! But OK I got it. Ill keep all future "updates" of this model on THIS thread alone. [Forget the other 3 threads....] (I posted a notice on the other 3 threads to refer to this one)And Ill follow in similiar manner for any future model postings - to single threads. ******************************************************************* See the model download thread, with MMZ_TimeLords render.
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a little illustration of an editorial office for a product of my company there are still some parts missing. mainly it should illustrate some features of the software.
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new avatar
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I drew a new avatar A:M 2007 to use here in the forum And if I mirror it .... I have my name !!!!!!! I loved it
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I made this for fun in my spare time at work. Our company builds water tanks. I did this one a few years ago, just recently got back into playing with A:M. Got another one started, hopefully it will work out in a couple of days. tank10.mpg
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Hi, I am going through the tutorials and I think this is where I am supposed to post to get credit. Here's the finished product with two views. I was playing around with backgrounds when I first got the software and now my sky isn't blue! Look forward to feedback. Lori Hiatt It__s_a_pitch.mov It__s_a_pitchSide.mov
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HauntedHouse
by Muff- 1 reply
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Heres another update: [attachmentid=20325] Got most of the back of the house done. **SEE the Haunted House MAIN TOPIC THREAD***
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While I'm putting along on Captain Splines in the David Rogers book, I've undertaken my own learning experience model. Here is the first round of modeling. I'm aiming for an end result that will look as much stop motion as computer animated, animating virtual maquettes with the software. This particular model is a Svankmajer/Giacometti/Bellmer beastie: a virtual paper cutout of Georges Bataille's face, torso, and hands, scotch-taped to wire limbs. (Man: modeling scotch tape over bent wires is not easy, at least to this neophyte!) Here are some renders and a turntable. One criticism I invite is what do I need to do to make my turntable more "industry stan…
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HauntedHouse
by Muff- 4 replies
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Heres an Update. [attachmentid=20297][attachmentid=20298] Added Windows, steps, trim. ***SEE the Haunted House MAIN TOPIC THREAD***
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Hi! I have been tinkering with an old project and have noticed that an old problem still exists in A:M12. The problem is that if I have dynamics turned on for the hair of my character and I have dynamic bones elsewhere on the character there is some kind of interference set in motion between the two. Some of you may remember an old test that I did with a Woot model whose coat-tails would fly up when the hair dynamics was turned on. This problem still exists in version 12 (v?) and I wondered if it has been solved in version 13. Another problem that I am experiencing with this character is her hair. I have the constraint set to 'spring' because that always seems t…
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[attachmentid=20268] Not much to say about this one. Another building. Dont know if the DVD project is still Open for models?
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HauntedHouse
by Muff- 4 replies
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[attachmentid=20266] Heres a Haunted house in progress, which Im referecing from a photo. Not Duplicating! Made pretty good progress for about 6 hours of work today. Its a bugger! ***SEE the Haunted House MAIN TOPIC THREAD***
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I rendered a 1200x .mov file with sorenson 3 @ 746x420 with sound and when I played it back the sound was distorted like it was playing at half speed. Can anyone tell me why When I tried to render it with animation compression I recieved an error at every frame
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I am trying to put together a simple animation. I posted this character a little while ago and asked about rigging it. Anyway I have it rigged enough to test a simple walk test. The character is far from done but just asking for comments so far, tried some simple dynamic constraints also. Thanks Johnl3d [attachmentid=20218] piga2.mov
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A simple task as picking up a telephone receiver is more than meets the eye. OK, so I have Shaggy answering a phone; I wat him to pick up the receiver with the cord attached to it. In order for the cord to follow the receiver, I made the receiver bone a child of the last cord bone so that where ever the receiver goes the rest will follow. However, when i constraint the receiver to Shaggy's hand, the rest of the cord bones do not follow Now if I make the receiver the parent bone, the problem is the cord will move as a solid part of the receiver and you wouldn't have the amiability of the cord. Would appreciate it if anyone out there has the solution to sha…
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Hi Someone requested a version of my Sig Frog that can talk. So I made a version with a moving mouth with phonemes. I also added moving and blinking eyes and rigged the fingers. This was fun to do. Attached is a movie of the frog doing the famous I've got a secret dialogue. There is a part where the left hand gets jittery. For some mysterious reaon the left hand flipped around on me at one frame. I checked the curves on the elbow and the hand and everything looked ok. I fixed it up with a few keyframes. I am using the 2001 rig from thom. I used IK arms. anyone know why this happened? Thanks for looking. Let me know what you think of the frog. frogsecr…
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Hey guys, Been a while since I've had any A:M'ing time. I got inspired by one of the Bradburies (I think it was Matt) who had done the planets. There are some *huge* textures out there (also, Blue Marble Next Gen is awesome cuz it has a picture for every month on the year so you can see the snow advance and retreat) that can be put to good use. I still need a cloud map, and I'd like to have some kind of auroral "roadway" from the Eastern Washington, California and New Mexico areas to finish it off. But here it is in progress. It is actually the opening screen (no text) for my thesis proposal presentation. I'll be dry-running in about two weeks, and hope…
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I don't often bring images/animation out of the New Users Forum but from time to time someone posts something that I can only call inspirational. This is definitely the case with Glen Clarkson's 'Cavalcade of Rabbits'. Not only did it make me laugh but it was presented in such an innovative way, all while demonstrating the basic principles of Exercise 4: 'Move It', that I felt it needed a little promotion. Little touches like this really put the spotlight on what a little time, serious thought and effort can produce. Is this Showcase material? Maybe not. Yet here in its simplicity its great stuff never-the-less. Glen is still refining the …
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It's been a while, but I had this image of the playing card knights from Alice in Wonderland, and I wanted to put 3D Painter through its' paces. I have to say I really like 3D Painter and its integration with AM. That plus the fact that there's a new version of Mirrorsplines for AM13 really made my day. And when did Hash add the mirror all smartskin option? It's really cool too. Currently the model only has a color and a displacement map, I'll probably add a reflectivity map tomorrow.
Last reply by case, -
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it's my firt beginning of character for a movie film. i'm used to make 2D movies so let's try 3D it's strange it's normal it's a pity it isn't becoz i'm on the soft since 1 Week so pleaz don't be rude ....... it's for an electro video clip of a jamendo.com artist ca ya pallls steff
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Penguins have always been a favorite animal of mine. Perhaps it because they look like they are dressed in formal wear, or maybe it is just that they are physically unable to steal my french fries (unlike one of my least favorite animals: seagulls). Either way, the other day I drew some penguins for a comic (here if you're interested) which got me thinking about penguins once again. So I've decided to try making a basic model of a penguin... mainly because I'm not good enough to make a non-basic model Attached is the 1st step... plan of attack is adding some feet, shaping the head a bit, shaping the rest of the body slightly, fixing the eyes, possibly adding som…
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I am having a bit of trouble getting the decal to look right on this. it is supposed to look like orange paint applied to the glass. right now it looks like orange tint applied to glass.
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Trying out an idea straight from a comic like cartoon The old thought balloon in very very rough 3d manner lots of tweaking to be done This uses a animated sequence as a decal with two layers animated with displacement material You have to imagine it over a character head as he/she /it walks along Yes good or Huh what you thinking Thanks johnl3d oh its set to show double size so might look even rougher than it is if thats possible [attachmentid=19893] huh.mov
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I redid my frogman's rig with tsm2 and made some adjustments to him. He is actually manageable now. Here's a pic of him looking happy with his new rig.
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This is a project I'm working on... http://www.expropaganda.se/Animations/Hit_...Can_Trailer.mov I plan to animate the whole fight, and hopefully add a room for them to fight in. I choose this approach, because I'm doing this as an animation exercise for myself, and thought that if I add the room from the start, I might get bogged done in details... So fight first, then room, lighting, etc. I have no idea if it can be put together in that order, but I suppose it willl be interesting finding out Any thoughs are welcome. MagnusC
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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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I finished this yesterday and am currently working on the rig. My friend requested that I make a spider character for her so I came up with this. Its based off of a daddylonglegs. Let me know what you think! Thanks! -lazz
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