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Ok, I did a pretty good job of attaching the hand, I need to attach the arm now and so I have to make a hole for it. This is my least favorite part as I have a good chance of screwing up the geometry I already have. I have taken 2 screenshots, one for reference of the way the arm is now, and another with blue lines and dots where I think the new splines and cp's should go. Do you think I am pretty much right on the money, or would you do it differenty? Roger[attachmentid=18351][attachmentid=18352]
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Hello, I'm getting to the point where I am finalizing the construction of this dragon model, and I have to attach a hand, where the hand has 12 pts at its beginning, and the stump of the wrist has 8, I believe. This has always been the most difficult part for me....I generally try to model parts separately, and then attach them later, as that has always been the way that has worked best for me in the past. However, due to AM being different from polygon modellers, it doesn't seem to make sense to do that anymore. When I am trying to join to parts with disparate numbers of points, the simple solution is to make sure that each end has the same number…
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Hello I seem to have screwed something up.......I started working on the giraffe tutorial, since I thought that might be beneficial since I still have some problems with modelling. I wanted to change the units for the grid, so I could follow along properly, from cm to ft. However, after I did that, the grid disappeared even though I have "display grid" checked. I had changed the grid spacing from .16cm to 1foot, I wouldn't have thought that would have made it disappear. I probably did something wrong, what I want to know is is there anyway to get the default settings back? Roger
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I have been reconstructing my great great grandfather, John Charles Hall, while waiting for some decal fixes so I can make some cool mountains. Critiques are welcome. I rendered with V13c netrender on three slaves. Looks like there is a bit-o-jitter in the hair on the left. http://markopuff.com/animations/charles.wmv
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The moment i thhought of it i knew i would stick with it ants the mini series fell through i fell bad but this i am ready for im making a film based of the game i will need help notice i said will so anyone willing to help email me at connor112case@aol.com i will post my marine model in a day or 2 (peace out)
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Well, it's been a while since I had any chance to do any modeling, so I thought the best way was to model something I'm really interested in...The Honda Rune. So far I have the back fender, front fender, and gas tank (thanks to help on the main forum). Got a ways to go, but it's coming along. I am basing this off of some press photos (top and side views, but they don't quite match...), as well as a little scale model I have. Someday soon I'll be able to fork out the $25k or so to buy a real one. In the meantime I've been developing hardbags for the Rune, which will be available in less than a month (if you have a Rune...or VTX 1800). Comments are welcome. …
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OK sorry to be a pest.... I read the help file on this, I followed the directions but there must be something I'm missing because while I am getting the mirroed part that I want, it is not attaching. I am working in front view, its mirroring along the y-axis properly, but does not attach. I am grouping the left half of the body, then right click, choose CFA, and I get the mirrored part but it doesn't attach. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Do I have to move the pivot? thanks in advance Roger
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[attachmentid=18147]Hello, Here's a cave for a short film I'm working on. It doesn't look quite right to me for some reason. I had shaded it with the darktree shaders, but they take forever to render on my laptop, and I temporarily uninstalled them. What do you think? I seem to remember it looking better with the shaders ( I am using clay shaders, combined with some of the other materials). I wanted the main characters to have a "claymated" look, however, I am not sure that is appropriate for every prop / item in the film. Would you stick completely with the clay look, or have clay characters in a semi-photoreal environment? I ask becaus…
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Martin and gang---- I am not sure how difficult this would be to implement, but it would be kind of nice if there were a way to bookmark different entries within the help system, so that you can go back to them quickly. I am not a full-time user of AM, and if I don't do something a bunch of times I find myself having to go back to the help index or pester people on the board to find something. It would be nice to be able to personalize the help file, in order to keep entries on things that stump you handy. Just something I would find useful. If there is already a way to do this I'd love to know how. Thanks Roger
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I am working on a possible mini movie contest entry. The action takes place in a baseball game. I am attaching a short clip showing a possible opening shot where the camera flies in to center on the pitcher. I am also attaching a larger still that shows the lighting in better resolution. I am looking for comments and critiques on the set and the lighting. The characters are not posed in anyway other than a pose that is not the standard T pose. When the camera zooms in the pitcher is very likely to be in a different pose and there will be more players on the field. Also, there be a little more detail on the field such as foul lines and markings on the outfield w…
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Trying something I usually don't do and that is modeling. I am posting a wireframe and shaded wireframe to help with my questions. This model will be animated and I was wondering if the normal rigs will work when there are no hand or mainly feet. And any potential trouble with the model ..I noticed that the arms could use another ring or two of splines....There will be no mouth only implied by the bouncing of the nose. And I have to add a tail. The skirt will be cloth. [attachmentid=18162] [attachmentid=18163] Thanks Johnl3d
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During the creation of this beast, I did something that I do with other 3d programs.....I split the thing into separate projects, so each body part ( mostly) has a separate project file. Its just easier for me to work this way. However, I have come to the point where I want to start bringing these parts into the same project file, but I cannot seem to find a way to save the model out as a .mdl file from within the project----although there seems to be an option to import them from the File menu. So, if someone could give me the Saving and Importing .mdl files for Dummies version, I will post a picture of my dragon as he exists so far. I am sure its some…
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I know ya'll like these so I'll post this as bad as it is. There are a bunch of things to fix on it. - the spin of the green car - how the truck sits wonky on the side of the road - green car noses too far The spin and directions came from the Accident Reconstruction guy, I just need to make them look more believable. I can post this cause you really make out the details from here. David http://www.dustinproductions.com/files/pd-7-7-06.m1v
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Well every one i've finaly started on my real project. The story is now being "reimagined" due to certain instances. Son i've began imediately working on the models. also with the help of Jeetman cuboos dude and darter makng some of the models for me(full credit will be given) its coming along nicely.right nw at the moment i'm working on the main character. [attachmentid=17260] name:Aaron Age:14 Race:(wip) i've almost finished modeling the head,and i'll be using the hair system for hair.and heres a video of what i have so far. And yes the do know the decal on the nose is messed up. Aarons head video
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Hello Everyone! I would like to share some recent work i have done! I did these three models for a game, but it turned out that Version incompatability halted the process. I do hear that the production is well on its way again. There is a sniper rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol (futuristic). I need to check a few things first, but i would like to donate these to the community, I don't have any use for them, and i am pretty sure that alot of people would like to play with them Ben
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I am at the end of my ideas. I have made a mov file in after effects of letters being written out. I was going to animate the pencil chracter to follow the mov file in rotoscope to get the action and AM allows the rotoscope to be rendered as well. So I have tried for four days to get this to work without success. It appears to be working in the chor or action but when rendered the rotoscope is not in the correct location and it plays from the beginning of the animation even though it has been key frame to start and end at certain location. So does anybody have a thought of how to follow the script I created in after effects or is there another way to create the…
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this is dog man he 1/3 man 2/3 dog he cant be half because he doesnt have a human looking head (sorry i sucks at heads!) still needs alot of work and need better eyeballs tell me what you think so far and if you got any tips would be welcomed i know the fur looks weird and theres black behind his ears ill fix that later
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Been working with AM for a while off and on (trying to be as much "on" as possible more recently). This is my take on "The Door's Stuck". If anyone could take a look at it and tell me what you think, I'd appreciate it. It may take a bit to DL, as it's approx 20M in QT format; any ideas on how to keep animations smaller would also be welcome. Take a look... ftp://64.227.193.8/stuck.mov Thanks, Rich
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Being a huge Doctor Who Fan I thought I would need my own TARDIS. I have been watching the latest series and just got back in to how cool Doctor Who was. This TARDIS is to scale based on plans I found on the internet somewhere. Some guys actually build real versions. The doors open and close and as soon as I finish up a couple of clean ups on the model, I will post it up here fo anyone that wants to use it. Image: You can download a larger version of the rendering below.
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The new v13 displacement is so fun to play with, but for some tricky situations (see attachment) you have to go further than the usual 8 bit gray scale image displacement maps. Remember that this is just one single patch! ..and it's fast to render too; less than 60 seconds with 9 passes. [attachmentid=13363]
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Finally the forth VW-Polo movie is online: http://www.volkswagen.de/vwcms_publish/vwc...delle/polo.html after the realistic startanimation just click on the right bbutton "cleverle" and here you go. Back to start you can watch the other movies. Turn your sound on! Comments welcome... ;>) Jake
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I just finished a small presentation for the Wesley Mission. Their major symbol is the dove so I built a simple 3d dove as a unifying element. The project only had a two day turnaround, so I rendered it in realtime shaded mode and then used Mirage to add drop shadows. I also rendered the doves to load into Mirage's particle engine for the transitions. [attachmentid=18054] SOMVideo Unfortunately it's not streaming so it'll take a while to load (5mb), or you can right click and save the swf.
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I am working on a scene that I want a video playing on a screen inside the animation. I have tried to import the mov file and assign it to the page but it will only show the first frame of the video and the image is flipped and and there a four images pasted on the screen. Any thoughts? Steve
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Ok,i'm a big final fantasy and kingdom hearts fan,kupo. so when i was talking to a freind of mine we were talking about one of the games, we started talking about moogles and i said"hey i should model a moogle" and he said "yeah that would be cool" so about a week after that finaly got to it and i finished 90% of the modle in 3 hours,kupo.and heres all i have to do now,kupo. 1)connect arms->body->head->line->pompom 2)rig the moogle 3)then i'm gonna add fur and fuzz for the non tooned version 4)make the moogles house 5)make the moogles couldin 6)make the moggles girlfreind the moggle from final fantasy XII and Kingdom Hearts [attachmentid=…
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The second character of the game, the girl and best freind. i'll have her full profile and my site soon. but here what i have so far. Sketch sorry no super phenix look for her....but mabe some element casting .
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I've been working on a short film about the Dragonlance books. Specifically the part where Sturm defends the High Clerist Tower and dies. I've been experiementing with diffrent styles of modeling and was just wondering what particular look do the members of the community think would fit well? I have my own particular style and prefrence but i'm not sure it fits well. I tend to have a mix of real-life and cartoon (much like my avatar pic). Any suggestions?
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Hi, The Battleship model needed to be 'special' and I’m not the best at creating neat space ships so the sketch below and model are loosely based on a ship I saw a while back in either Doom or Quake (great sources for that kind of thing). After the screen test I could see some of the texturing needed work but I wanted to get it out for comments. [attachmentid=18013] Concept sketch (scribble) Screen test. http://www.virtualmediastudios.com/battleship.avi The bridge could use more lighting – can’t see all the cool consoles. The patch count is enormous; this is 4 models assembled in the chor... something I learned from C-Wheeler (thanks!). Che…
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I've started on a new model last night. Unfortunatly, I don't have internet access at home, just work so I don't have any images.......yet. My question regards hair (see Topic Title) I've avoided modeling hair forever, simply because I suck at it....of course if I had taken the time to try it and practice it I wouldn't suck at it. Anyway, I'm starting to play around with it and the question is should I use helmet hair...or wait until my copy of AM v12 or 13, which ever the latest is, comes in to use the new hair system (should only be a couple more days). I'll be monitoring this post all day so any feedback would be greatly appreciated. By the way, does anyone have any go…
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i've been looking for a summer job so ican make money for things like plugins, A:M for y freind and other things. so i showed my mom turbosquid.com . so she said she'd let me make models up for sale onthe site as long i as consult her befor i start on something or price something so for my first models i'm going to model thing like funature around the house and make them as high a quality as i can. so i'm modeling the glass table and every thing on it, i'll post picture of it as soon as ther developed.
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I've got the animation complete, it runs about 11 minutes long, and is 37 MB in size. I was able to save it using Sorensen codec. You can download it here to see it http://dogst.com/SWimmortal.mov. It's 320x240. It's my voice doing all the audio, I have a couple people who'll do the different voices, I just haven't been able to get them over to record them, but this will at least give you the story and soundtrack. My skill as an animator is limited, so with a couple minor changes, this is how it will look. Let me know what you think so far. Thanks Dan
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[attachmentid=17958]I got some jeans on her at last ,thank's tp Jim Talbot's flatten tut .Im pretty pleased with the result allthough its far from perfect .Now to change the top ,maybe a plain t shirt oh the pick lol
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It take me long time to make this.I needed a lots of help on it in school and so on but i did it. I still need to fix some thing. I should have put it in WIP then o well.
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I am relatively new to modeling. I think the 1951 Mercury might be good for a start. This is the most original and unmodified pic I have found yet: As for this one, Cool but NO NO, it's been modified: ANYHOW, anyone got Rotoscopes for the side and back of a Mercury before I start modeling... .
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Against The Author, The Beginning of the End Update Hello everyone. I know, I haven't posted in ages, probably most of you have forgotten this production even existed, but yes, we are moving along happily and are well on schedule to having ATA released Winter 2006. ATA, for all who don't know, is a movie that's premise revolves around three teenagers who accidently get superpowers and have to destroy and army of 10,000 killing machines on a deserted island led by a demonic dictator and her sidekick. I know, a little farfetched, just wait till you see it before you knock it, So, yes, I recently viewed the forums in order to update myself to 13b, (which I love t…
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Rodney I took Thom gave him poses with percentage slider. Then in action had expression drive the pose slider. Here is the result. Maybe someone else could help tweak this idea [attachmentid=17865] [attachmentid=17866] If you scroll you'll see it almosted works on a frame by frame basis ...hmm random.mov rodney.zip
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I've started work on an image that will be used to help promote my work in the CG and artistry realm. This image will mainly be used on my business cards, as well as a background for the business website, but I hope it to also be so good that I can print it off in large sizes. I thought I would share the various stages the image goes through as I create each part of it. Today's work entitled finishing off the suimsuit the female model will be wearing, and starting work on the background element, for now being a parking lot eventually with some kind of photographic background behind it. Some of you may recal the car model I was working on months ago. Here …
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i thought i would try something diffrent by trying some material effects by animating them. im still trying to figure them out but this was my first attempt water_test.mov
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did a quck study of these three [attachmentid=17894] except for hair collision this quick test looks good hat is cloth a.mov
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hey just something i made today out of shear bordom just though you guys would like
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Hi All I just posted my online portfolio. Still work in progress... Your feedbacks are Welcome!!! Best www.pepe-online.com
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[attachmentid=17882][attachmentid=17883] Made use of my "Columns" that I had previously posted to make this 'gathering Pagota', or whatever it could be. NOTE: IVE updated my "cockpit" post which includes a 'better' and longer concept of flight. -But not a whole lot longer due to file size and posting.
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[attachmentid=17844][attachmentid=17845]Im modelling this for a short star wars film... just started and the wing is about half done so far. Let me know wut u think .... its pretty simple so far
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Hi folks, I was asked at work to create a device that would wash solar panels. A dusty solar panel can have an efficiency reduction of 40%. The forensic lab [attachmentid=17841] that is under my care (I'm a stationary building engineer), has the whole roof covered with photovoltaic (solar) panels that generates its own electricity (under optimum conditions). Cleaning the dust from such a massive solar farm proved to be difficult, so, I devised this hi-pressure water sprayer that guides itself on the panel and the operator simply pushes the pressure line up and down the panels. This is a simple illustration I made this week, (roughly 9 total hours), tha tillustra…
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I made this a couple of days ago just to try out pose-to-pose animation for the first time. It was a kinda messy attempt, but I learned some from it and hope to use the experience in my next attempts. I'm mainly looking for suggestions/critiques but comments are always nice too. Oh, and its rather rough too... I was just trying to catch the broad motions. Thanks!, --Ross wtw3.mov
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Been to busy to do much but the start of this idea Will post project when I get something closer to what a envisioned [attachmentid=17785] [attachmentid=17786] ltest.mov ltest1.mov
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Hey guys, Just got a Google video account, so I thought I'd post up my first completed animation. It was done a long time ago, in ver 5. It's a military patch starting a slide show for an inpsection team in-brief. Let me know what you think. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6849811845875153421 - Paulie
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[attachmentid=17879] This is an Updated Video(7-1-06) Used a Displacement Map for this terrain. Did the camera movements, then recorded to .mov; then used the .mov file as a layer. Simply dropped in the "Cockpit" model and positioned it to the camera and re-recorded the animation. NOTE 1: I had to use .wmv because of file size. I dont know if I can get away with posting a zip- file (.avi/.mov) of 1.9mb size? If I can, itll be posted on a NEW POST. NOTE 2: It says .avi when downloading, but its actually a .wmv? Just rename it, or it should be fine as is? Semi-calculated? It is doing what I expected …
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I've been kicking around the idea of doing a series set in an RPG video game world for a while now. It seems like a great idea for a web series, with low resolution video, low patch-count models, and low res textures. Lower production value all around! I already have a lot of backround notes, and switching to shorter episodes for web-release should make writing a lot easier. I've modeled the low patch figures already, and I've got the female model assembled, mapped, and textured. I just need to rig her. The male model will be next to finish. I'm using basically the same mesh, there's only one extra spline in the female model to make the bust look smoother. He…
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Letting all those who may be interested in viewing my second part to Vibro Man. Just click on the link http://vibro-man.tripod.com
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