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Since I'm starting over, I always start with this. It's my favorite vehicle from my favorite movie. There are no decals, yet. I'm still building it. Eventually, it will have an R2 socket and completely animated. It comes directly from the 1977 schematics and my personal memory of having the physical model. It is a work in progress. It's awesome to have this outlet.
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Early stages of my brothers Nissan. Questions, Comments and suggestions are welcome.
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Here is a model of the New Horizons Pluto Spacecraft. Not that impressive, but a paying client is extremely happy with the final model. Animation and Texturing will be done by others. My contribution to the project is complete. I just provided the mesh model. New Horizons Link
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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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Here's a test of a rotating camera rig that is part of your model. The rig is installed in our very on Thom model. All camera movement is done with pose sliders.
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Here is a character that I have been working on. I've got him rigged, except for mouth bones and poses. He does have a jaw so he can open and close. Three questions: 1) Is he engaging? 2) Does he need teeth? 3) Does he need eyelidds? Thanks! Scott
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How would I animate and render the beam that comes out of the pack?
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A number of people left me very nice comments on the AMStills gallery, so I thought a few of you may enjoy seeing a slightly re-worked hi-res version of the pic I entered in the March sci-fi contest. (the hi-res version is attached at the bottom of this post) A few comments on its making: The whole thing is really based on a lot of trickery and forced perspective, when it comes down to it. Luckily you can get away with that in stills most of the time! Breaking it down into parts: The lower city - nearly all of the small buildings are simply boxes with beveled tops. For the hi-res version, I went back in and added in some additional geometry t…
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While I was working on my Hailfire droid, I got bored trying to find textures (which i WILL do later ), so I started a Dwarf Spider Droid. Here's the foot:
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eggs with extremities! eggs_with_extremities.mov
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Does anybody have a model of Jesus or a man in robes? I need it for a project....please help Edit: Ok i think i found one but how do i install it? And if anybody does find a model, please still post it
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I made this up for back drop picture for High end Transformer Figures display case. I have to send out to be printed very large Display Case. Then i got A brain fart. Hey this emblem look Better 3D printed to put on back wall.one big problem for me is I do not have a clue about 3D printing.do I save as file and send it out to someone.is it that simple to get done
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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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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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Hi All, I'm currently working on this female head. After working with polygon modeling in 3DS MAX, it's a little difficult getting back to the spline modeling. I see that I'm getting unwanted creasing and indents on the face, especially around the cheek and near the eye. I've tried to fix the CP's as best I can. I didn't want to use too many CP's making the model more complex than it needs to be. Any suggestions.
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About 8 months ago I made... well tried to make Big Daddy from bioshock. I have gotten somewhat better and always look at the Bioshock project as one of my 'first' works. I want to see how much better I have actualy gotten, so I'm redoing the project. The first picture you see is my old project when I desided it was 'finished'. The second is the refrance picture i used/am using. I will post updates of what I've been working on when it finishes updating.
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Here is an update to the beast-creature thing from beyond the swamp grave thing. 2.9MB Quicktime (Sor3) http://www.renderwild.com/3d/004monster.mov -Taco
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was playing around with new displacement and ambiance occlusion last night and rendered this little animation. For some reason looked a lot better when i was doing quick render test and the animation is a bit rough but I'm not going to mess around with it anymore. The sound is scrat from ice age.
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I haven't modeled a sword or gun yet, but here are a couple of shuriken I modeled for the short I'm working on.
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Hi guys, check out http://www.cgunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96 CGUnderground has green-lit the short film that I am making using Animation Master. They are hosting a permanent forum for the short film. On top of that they will host a webpage for it and place two interviews on thier site about it. http://www.cgunderground.com/ There is a persistant link to the forum discusion about the making of the film on thier front page. This is the film that I am working on with apprentices David Higgins and Chris Wheeler whom I've been teaching to animate using Animation Master as a result of the Mentoring program that David Rogers launched here in the H…
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i have lights around my ship, but they don't render for some reason. On the engines there are red lights and on the ship . . . i don't no why they didn't render. But, this is my space ship that i did, tell me what you think update: for some reason the red lights now render, but if you look close at the space ship, their are chain guns mounted on the top and on the glowing engines, the yellow lights that are just bone lights, set with no specularity, do not render.
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A BlackBird - You are free to use it - if you like to! Perhaps adding some better sounds to it. You are welcome to download birdmodel01.zip to help me with the rigging. [attachmentid=14035] [attachmentid=14036] [attachmentid=14037] birdmodel01.zip bird01.mov
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I made this picture for my mom for her birthday. I made myself stay away from texture and realism for the most part, and tried to just focus more on the asthetic value of the picture a little more. It took probably 6 hours over the course of the week. The fir is always the biggest pain. Anyway, here it is.
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starting my last character for a star wars short
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Hey everyone! I thought I would let you all see my first model Im attempting in AM v.11. Its a screwdriver, a realistic one I might add . At least that is what Im trying to accomplish. I've been modelling what you see in the two images below for about 20-30 minutes, I did that in just that amount of time. Although, its not completed yet I think its pretty good so far seeing as it is my first model that I am doing in AM. Please tell me what you think so far . Click on the 2 links for shaded view and shaded/wireframe view of the screwdriver: Thanks Everyone Paul
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One of those weird ideas when I think I can animate Fiirst render- rough draft [attachmentid=17598] Now to get the actual results I wanted combo.mov
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This is the biggest format I ever had to output from A:M for. It only needed to be 30dpi, but at 32 feet wide, I had to crank out about 30K pixels wide. That certainly had my computer begging for more (memory)! I put some pictures of the finished billboard near the top of my home page: Atkinson Productions web site
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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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...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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Here is someone jumping for joy and another lipsynched one commenting the jumping. But how to get the .mov-file to loop? Rendering to a .mov-file using Sorenson compression I can not find any loop settings in A:M ? You can do it in the Quicktime-player, but not that way... I want to set it to loop as default. So how to get a .mov-file to loop? jump01C2.mov
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Chess Sorry if it's bad. First time at making an image.
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I am attempting to model the head of Gollum. I used a couple images from the web as rotoscopes and modeled from that. I think the head looks ok as a model (better than other stuff I've done) but the only problem is it does not really look like Gollum. Can anyone tell me what they think the problem is? Maybe his head is too boxy/square? Also, is it too spline heavy? Any ideas for where to lighten it up would be helpful as well. Thanks! Thanks for any input. Gollum Side Gollum Wireframe Front Gollum Wireframe Side Gollum Wireframe Perspective
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Baby Blues
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Hey! This is a first pass of a little short I'm working on. It's my first real animation and I would appreciate any pointers anyone can give. In particular, I'm having difficult with what to do with the hands. Anyway, let me know what you think. Here's the 900kb file: Baby Blues
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Hi, Here is a piece i'm working for a Visual Communication & Design project at school . It's meant to be either on a cliff face or over water so that the main view is of the ocean or something. The tables haven't been added in yet, and the Thom is just for checking scale (he's exactly the same size as me). Just posting it to see what people think of the design aspect. comments appreciated.
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One for all those political cynics out there, forced to endure another year of Presidential Politics. www.bdelporte.com/wagthedawg.mov 20mb, rated R for rude and crude, just like American Presidential Politics (it's those 3 day weekends, sorry) constructive comments are appreciated and heckling is mandatory enjoy Bruce Del Porte
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Troll Short
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Here's the first pass of the first half of my troll short. It's small and compressed and dark and there are lots of planned improvements as a result of seeing it but you'll get an idea. 3.8MB Quicktime
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Hi. I decided to give greenscreening a try. I started off with dying a sheet green, which sort of worked, but ended up buying a peice of cycloth. This was filmed in my livingroom with my 2 kids. The whole procces was challenging and at times frustrating, but in the end I learned a ton and had fun. The quality is poor because I have a miny DV camera, my editing software is crude at keying, my animation is "developing", I had to compress the crap out of it to get it to 11 mb, wah, wah, wah. This is just the beginning. I am getting Final Cut Pro which will help with the keying, and I'm starting to understand how action blending works, I think. When I get FCP I want to redo …
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GMC Safari
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Hi again spliners ... I modeled this some months ago, now I was authorized to show it... I am determined in two projects ( private and TWO ) but when I have a time I will make a more realistic render... for while this is the result without texture ( in this update still there were problems with the mesh ) textured ( final ) Thx
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Hi i've been working on this little animation for most of the weekend. Its two actions a run cycle and a jump. I decided to use mr ball pretty much since he doesnt have arms to have to worry about, and i was inspired by some of the other mr ball animation on the forum. The run is very close copy of a run cycle in "The Animators Survival Kit" by Richard Williams I know the right foot has some funny issues i just couldnt seem to fix at certain points, will try to tweek them later. mrball.mov
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I'm making this DNA molecule project available in response to this thread. It's a little tricky to work with: the four nucleotides are different models, with each atom modeled as an eight-patch sphere. There's a separate model for the skeleton of a seven-base pair double helix composed of non-rendering splines, with an action that adds the nucleotides to it as action objects. The choreography contains three instances of the helix stacked on top of each other, with the bottom two instances having "translate to" and "orient like" constraints to the top instance. Basically, this molecule has a strand that repeats the sequence GATTACA three times, together with its comple…
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Well after a little bit here, a little bit there and over four months later I have more or less finished my latest flick from the Bella Bear Project I have been working on... It still needs some refinement and I have banged my head against the wall a fair few times, especially with particles and volumetric lights but this is as far as I have got - please be kind I couldn't resist showing you what I have been up too... Peg to the rescue Be warned it is 10.6mb big - broadband connection recommended!
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Over the past couple of years and I have used the standard lighting setup. Over the past couple of weeks I have been playing with lights. I have a couple of questions. I am building a room with can lights (recessed lighting in the ceiling). I want the can lights to light the room in an addition I will have a fill light such as a lamp. When lighting a room such as this 1. Is it best to light from the model, action, chor? If you light within the model I have had some issues trying to get enough light in the room. In the chor it is tough to position the light and you have to add to the model for each chor. 2. I remember the Yves did a tutorial on ligh…
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I've decided to model a demon and put it in a scene for the image contest(Sci-Fi). I figured it would be in the fantasy category. Here is what I have so far. Criticism is welcome. If I am going to place in this contest I will need all the help I can get.
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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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Well, I know that I start on a lot of models, post them in here, get help when needed, and then abandon making, much less thinking about finish them. Recently I got so upset that I erased all my files, models in the works, all the hopefuls I did for two, all my ABC, and TAoA:M. Yeah, that was stupid. Anyways, I started to do this model, after about a week break from A:M. I am working off of two different size rotoscopes, not a big problem, but I need help with this oddly shaped human head. To reassure you, I am not going to abandon this model because I get frustrated, I am going to finish the head, nice and smooth, or ugly and jagged. I need some hel…
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Hi! I've never used shadows only but now it can really help me! So, I researched it, did what I thought I needed to do but I'm not getting it to work. Settings Tried: Render to TGA and then to .mov Buffers: Alpha=on and tried off Shadows on Render Options: Quality Final Shadows on then tried off Everything else off Nothing in Alpha buffer or RGB channels I opened the TGA in PhotoShop CS3 and the .mov in After Effects 6.5. I'm using AM V14c Am I missing something? Thanks, Rusty
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Hi All, I tried the technique to build a tree as used by Brian Taylor who is working on Rustboy (www.rustboy.com). I think the results were quite good and this is a much faster technique when compared to using hair (or at leas that is my experience). Here is a quick summary of what I did. 1. Create a patch and past a Cookie Cut decal of leaves. 2. Animate the patch (by tweaking splines and cp's) to give a wrustling movement to the leaves. 3. Render as a QT with an alpha channel (do not use any compression for the QT, just use Animation). 4. Make a model of a tree trunk 5. Make a patch and add a decal of the animated QT as a Cookie Cutter. 6. …
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I was just look through my old project files and found the FW-190 Fighter so i thaught i'd spice it up a bit Heres pic 1............
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This is a problem that arises from time to time as you all know. The spinning prop. Here’s how I handled it. I created a three frame action. I rotated the bone prop this way. Frame 0: 0 degrees. Frame 1: -120 degrees. Frame 2: -240 degrees. ( the plus or minus determines the direction of rotation, I wanted it clockwise from the pilot’s point of view) I added 10 percent blur. (Default is 20) But I was still getting a solid prop. To overcome this I made the blades 85 percent transparent. But in the action I only rendered frames 0 and 1. I did this because the blur won’t show up on frame 3. I’ve enclosed a single frame image as well as the actio…
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