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All the awesome contest entries got that itch going again. I thought I would do something a little different for me, a superhero that wasn't Spider-man -- and make her female . x-23 is the female clone of Wolverine, for those who don't know. I have basically forgot how to do everything, so it should be fun. I already have so many topics where I show me modeling from the very beginning, this one I already am up to having most of the body done. I started with a ref I drew on my iPad (1). I wanted to go more cartoony/real with this one. I thought my reference turned out fairly well so I tried to match it as well a possible. For the actual model I just ha…
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I'm doing something a bit different with A:M. I've filmed an actress in front of a green screen, and I'm compositing her into scenes created in A:M. This is the current state of a short prologue to the story. These are videos for the music of the band Gekko Projekt, but the idea is to make them more like a short film telling a story than like a traditional MTV video. I'd love to hear any comments or suggestions you might have. Here's the link. I don't want to go public with it yet, so I've set a password, which is "drpepper" (without the quotes). https://vimeo.com/99576675 -Vance
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Hi all, A few points. First I am treating this exercise as an AM showcase so I am not interested in prizes. This also means I would like as much input into my image as possible to make it as good as it can possibly be (even if others wish to enlist to provide resources). I wish to 'showcase' as many features in AM as possible and produce a kick ass image - but - I am not the greatest/most creative artist out there (I'm a bit of ahack really). Any amount of critique/help will be most welcome. My image thus far comprises a background generated in another APP (a 3D Landscape APP) and I then moved the camera to look down on the landscape to generate the ter…
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I've got mine started! This will probably not be recognizable until it's all done and I say what it's supposed to be.
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Hey all-- Been a while since I've updated this; make a bit of progress. As always, any input is welcome. Thanks, Rich ROMFirefallextended.mp4
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Hello - attached is a short dance animation test I've done in A:M for a music video to my song "Ol' Scratch". I know, I know . . . there are various aspects of the rigging and animation process which are, to be generous, flawed . . . but the spirit is there! In short, I really love this software and the creative and helpful people here on these forums. I am in awe of how intelligent, insightful, and quick to help all of you are - thank you! To rig my biped models I feel compelled to thank David Rogers for this brief tut: http://am-guide.com/SetUp/ My models still give me trouble in the "knee, elbow, and hip" joints, some of which could be allevi…
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Here's a proof of concept test of a cityscape cobbled together quickly with copies of a single nondescript cube. The basic idea being to later replace that cube with a fully poseable master building capable of showing a variety of different details and facades. Similar variables might control details outside the building such as lampposts/lights etc. There are a few assumptions here: - Detail would (optimally) only be created where the camera needs to go (This might be directed through hot/active and cold/inactive zones) - Streets and sidewalks would be created after the primary city is generated and approved for detailing (conversely the building could be …
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Just a little animation I did this holly week!trim.5E83DB85_52AB_4B52_BC8C_0B435B4AD8AA.MOV
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Before I send a bug report, I thought I would ask here. I upgraded to 18b and since that time the hair settings are not recognized on any of my characters. The grooming is fine but the hair only renders white in any setting. I have tried multiple settings in rendering mode and each time the hair is white. In fact, if a test render with no settings other than base color to the hair it still renders white. So, has anyone else run across this? Steve
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I pieced this guy together using various body parts littered throughout the internet. I had to modify almost every patch cuz most of the parts were modeled using the 3ds file format. frankenmodel.mdl
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I was getting to make a show using A:M and I looked at the stills (to get some ideas). There was my very favourite A:M stock model created in '96 by Rich Lovato! Unfortunately, it is not available in the new A:M versions and I realy need to have a coppy from an old A:M user, so I posted some images with this "COOL GUY". Please, post it! I need to use this model, but please don't update him, because I use v1.11d+. And I don't have an old A:M CD, and that is why I need it (the whole model).
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Its been a long time since I modeled anything and I needed an excuse to model something - Anna from Frozen is as good an excuse as any..... So here is my WIP - progress thread.
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This is a squel to the topic: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...50&start=50 Reply : Well Zaryin/Jeff, I'm curious to see what you came up with, when I gave you her design informations.
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From the previous topic: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...t=0#entry393828 in the final post I uploaded a female base and I was thinking who would like to modify Alain Desrochers's Sirene or model Anna him/herself.
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Today's random doodle is of a sunny disposition. I stopped here because I started breaking things... His eye sockets and mouth are cut out via boolean cutters. P.S. The cold always bothers me by the way.
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I was charged yesterday afternoon with doing a graphic for a presentation. One of those "Step 1, Step 2, Step 3..." type of deals. My other work was slow, so I asked the boss if I could go home and do it in 3D. It's overkill for the job, but I thought it would be fun to do and foolishly believed I could knock it out in a couple of hours and get off work early. I finished it around 10pm last night. So that didn't work out exactly as planned, but on the plus side, putting together a complicated scene was a great learning experience. I had a fairly rocky false start, but learning from that, I started over again fresh and tried to do things in a more organized, sma…
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Ball_640.mov Trying to do a series of 10-20 seconds 'briefs', one each week. This is the first. I need to change the composite on the third scene. using a shadows only render ( if I can remember how ) as there is a unintended mix of toon and non toon renders. When rendering a cookie cut decal in toon, it shows on both sides, only the one side in Final ? Any feedback welcome. regards simon PS should have mentioned. this is a VGA conversion of a 1080 render.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! all contributions welcomed! A new year - how will it turn out? Perhaps - you have got some idea? Make an animation and make a contribution. Here is my contribution. happy_new_year_30.avi
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Here is my xmas card for this year enterrely made in the same magnificent program. Merry xmas and a happy 2014 to all of you! Feel free to use this card if you like it !
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Hello! Flowering - please comment! flower10.avi
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This is a fairly simple sequence approaching Titan (moon of Saturn). I'm trying to put together some video to go with songs on the prog rock band Gekko Projekt's upcoming CD. Many of the songs involve a science fiction story about being marooned on Titan. Any comments are welcome and appreciated! Titan Test #1 -Vance
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Being a novice at decaling and material creation, I am trying to create the texture for the shirt of the character. Any help is appreciated. I have uploaded a sample. Steve edit and really don't know much about photoshop
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Hey Everyone, This is one of several personal shorts I've been working on. For this one, I edited different parts of the 1980 Flash Gordon Classic and came up with a Spoofy Screen Play. This is a WIP.....thus still rough and no back drops as of yet. Ming_Movie_All.mov
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Hi all, Working on a project featuring the character ROM and looking for critiques and ideas in some areas, specifically backgrounds; how do you get a background to look like an actual deep environment instead of a a middle-school play backdrop? Any ideas on camera movement, timing, etc. would be welcome. It's pretty much my first animation of any complexity, so I know there's a mile of room for improvement. Thanks, Rich romfall.mp4
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Here's a character (Captain Crazy Pants) I was working on before I took a trip to the ER for emergency abdominal surgery (was july 11, and I am almost back to "normal"). Since you're all waiting for the Mascot contest voting to begin, I thought this might be the time to post before the excitement begins...I had intended to do more with him and add some auxillary friends - but my energy level hadn't been up to snuff and I found it difficult to sit at computer for any length of time. Ok...ok...enuff with the excuses and sympathy gathering... I will probably return to this set of characters at some point as I want to have some new friends to integrate with photos …
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Somewhere on this forum some one showed a project they were working on describing a solid object turning into a cloud. What I am working is an arrow from Cupid hitting its target and the arrow turns into a cloud of hearts and floats into the air. I was looking through John's prj and did not see one. I was thinking it was Gerry and his Christmas animation but did not see it there either. Does anyone remember or could point me in the correct direction? Steve
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I was using one character in chor and want to replace the character with the correct character or another version of the character. Is there a way to do this? Steve
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I forget why I did this last year but here it is... Burnagb6nrQ
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Hi fellow virtual pupeteers! Just wanted to share some preview stills from "Trapez", a 5 minutes short I'm currently working on. The film is adapted from the short story "Der erste leid" by Franz Kafka. :-) Tore
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The other night my youngest announced that she had a great idea for a Christmas short. She told the story of a Christmas tree that really wanted to go home to spend the holiday with a family of it's own, but was ultimately left in the tree lot all by itself. I liked the story, we chatted, and came up with a quick outline. I tasked Nicole to compose the soundtrack and I would start work on the models. We might not make it by the holidays, since the story has grown to include a lot of elements, one of which is the delivery truck below. Hopefully in a day or so I can put an animatic together to post up here. We could use some help if anybody wants to lend a hand in the story…
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greetings my friends after a long period of thinking about it, i´ve decided to dismiss my short movie project "the lunch encounter" (the one with the guy and the cat). for several reasons: 1. the story wasn´t strong enough. 2. my animation skills are not good enough to compensate the rather weak story. 3. it´s too long. 4. i wasn´t 100% happy with the look anymore. also i realized i suck at story writing. i really do. i´m always starting to make a movie because i just want to do a short, not because i want to tell a story. maybe some of you can relate to that. i just have fun creating characters and props and sets and doing the lighting and stuff, …
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Had some extra time this month to work on an upcoming episode. I'm toying with the idea of putting 3 seven minute episodes on DVD. It would be nice to make a bit of cash for my efforts. In any case, here is a scene I finished involving Super Mega Fox as she toys with a fox hunting villain in an overinflated duck costume. Comments more than welcome! Ballet_test_C.wmv
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The modeling for the upper floor is complete. It was tougher than expected to deduce the third dimension of things based on their shadows so I ended up just making educated guesses. (My thanks to Mark Largent for his link to a building in New York on Google Street View. That was really helpful.) And there's no way I can reconcile the angle of the sign extending from the left of window #3 and the length of its shadow. Hopper more or less got the perspective of every component correct except for that sign. But hey, I'm no artist. I'm sure he had a good reason at the time.
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Hello, it's my new work. there is textures, rigging to do. it's a start. there must be a weapon to stage.
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I've got an idea for the animation I'll be doing but right away I have a question. I want to have an extremely stylized Christmas tree shape (more of a triangular spiral) growing out of the ground. Here's a simple sketch. I don't want to just scale it, I want it to corkscrew out of the ground. What's the best way to "grow" a shape like this?
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Hi there, i am trying to render a model with a normal map on it, but the result is not very satisfactory. I am gettin all strange square artifacts all over the model. Anyone a id4ea wher this may come from? Best regards Heiner AM_Test_0.bmp
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Well it's actually been a long time since I actually really used AM for anything (probably before Christmas actually). The projects I have been working on required other tools. So I wanted to crack open AM and see if I still had it in me! So what I'm working on is modelling Batman! I'm trying to go for a style similar to that of the graphic novels. The unfortunate thing is that I lack rotos. I couldn't find anything satisfactory online and when I tried to draw my own, well, let's just say that didn't go very well. So I'm just going at it! So far I'm not sure whether or not I'm happy with what I have. There's quite a few problems, such as but not limited to th…
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I did not want to make a new topic but I had to get this question answered. I am trying Homeslice's simple animation rig and I am trying to fix this Thanks in advance.
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Here's what I've been working on in my minimal spare time. Works been killing me.
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Hi I've modelled the Zagato Perana Z-One. While modelling the car, I rendered out wireframes of the progress. I put it together and uploaded the time-lapse video to YouTube Please take a look and tell me what you think Best watched in HD You might not like the color adjustments I have done to the final image, I was just experimenting, I have no knowledge when it comes to color adjustment. But I hope you like it anyway Best regards Stian Small teaser:
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Decided to Do a little Fan Art Model of one of my favorite characters from Dragon's L.
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Hi guys working on a train project and I have 2 questions that maybe you can help with first question smoke when i export out as a jpg or tga I get smoke in the finale render ( test mov jpg has smoke) when I export out as a movie I get no smoke however when I place an image such as the stars in the background I get my smoke ( test mov has smoke because of star png background ) is that normal for movie export or do i have to turn something on 2nd question models do you guys mdl to scale say something is 20 feet do you mdl 20 feet I've been doing what feels comfortable is there a rule ? thanks j TRAIN_MOV.mov
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Here's my first blocking effort. Haven't decided if he makes it or not..... ClimbWall_0000.mov
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Yea I'm running the contest. But it doesnt mean I can't animate...or try to... This is my first roughing in. Jump_Over_a_Wall_Pass_1.mov
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a new client wants an animation which explains the order process of his new business idea, it´s a special kind of courier service. they want the animation to look like it´s a real cartoon, but it should also look modern & stylish. so right now i´m trying to find a style that looks like a hand drawn cartoon, but also modern and somehow hip & cool... i just took a character i had and retextured him (the characters in the animation will look different) and modeled a few props and buildings. it´s more about the general look and the render style first. any suggestions what might get it look even more cartoony? david, if you´re reading this: what would b…
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Opening Three shots of current short. Any Feedback welcome. simon Why_S1.mov Why_S2.mov Why_S3.mov
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Just in case I don't get this finished for the end of New Years day. This was going to be a simple test but, I'm getting carried away ( as usual ). Also a test of my knowledge of using toon render, which I hope to use more extensively next year. regards simon Sneak.mov
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Took about 2 hours. Mainly just bored and felt like modeling something random so I whipped him out.
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While awaiting a render I thought I'd try an idea for the car chase sequence. I've taken some low res targa photos of the lego houses and mapped them onto four patch planes to composite within the multi plane chor option. The question is, how do I get it to cut out the space were the windows are ? Heres an example of one of the files. Green_01.tga I cut out the spaces were the windows were and left it transparent in TGA format. When rendered it shows the gap as a flat white ? Is there a way around that ? regards simon Apologies here is a jpg version of the same file
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After a lot of thought and debate I have given myself the green light to start this project. I wanted something short and doable within a six month time line. So with these thoughts in mind I have the following planned. A story that requires... -Only one character model. -Only two set models. -Only 5 prop models. And that's it. I have the story written already. It's based off of a longer script I have planned for the future. I wanted to do a small trailer like project but make the trailer a story in itself. So far the story would only be about 2 minutes long which I think is very much achievable. Keep in mind that this will not be my primary project. …
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