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Hello All- I have been trying to make a basketball swish through a hoop with netting and do it in a dramatic way. Alas,..so far ..no success. I have embedded a project for anyone who wants to take a look. Basically I took a basketball backboard (from an old hash model library) and eliminated everything but the metal hoop and netting. Then I took a Basketball (also from an old model library) to use as the "deflector". Using Mark Weller's video tutorial on using the Sim cloth simulator I took his suggestion and used the very top row of cps in the netting as the "attached" part of the cloth so that the netting was stuck to the hoop. Before I even added …
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I made this mode in Ver 16 RC 1 ans all seemed to work fine till i tried to pose the pose in Choreography when i click anywhere out side of the mode i'm unable to select or pose the model. I can use any other model from a previous version without any problem. any way to fix this model? Here's some pictures and the model. gy_mod_rig_07.mdl
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Count Draggula, that is. He's a new charecter that I will feature in the next Super Mega Fox cartoon. I don't want to reveil too much but let's just say his name says alot about him.
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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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I've always dreaded going back and editing the geometry of "finished" models because it typically involves breaking decals. Is it possible to work around this by storing decal stamp data on a CP by CP basis, rather than a patch by patch basis? Now, bear with me for a second here. My programming knowledge is pretty limited, so I have no idea how feasible something like this is; if it would work, if it would create ridiculously bloated files, what have you. But I DO know that this is a feature I've wanted for a long, long time and it just kind of occurred to me how one might go about doing it. Here's what I'm thinking. Here's a simple little model made up of fo…
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Been working on a commission for a friend and was running into a problem with the fire ring. I have created a circle spline path and attached a fire emitter on that path to create my "ring of fire". For some reason the path it takes looks like so: And the render: test2.mov I can't figure out why the streaks stay on a hexagonal path dispite it being attached to a circle. Any ideas?
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With everybody making head models, I felt the urge to play with making one today, going for more realistic than I normally do. I borrowed the ear from my v3 Krok model. Not liking the mouth right now, but still, fun to mess with... I should point out that I model the whole head rather than doing that face mask thing.
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AM to the rescue the mission complete 5 narrative animations for Dango Tango a web series for they're Halloween season the first 4 where done in another 2d program in 2009 and they needed to have certain scenes redone without changing styles and going back to 2d would have delayed the whole thing so i turned to good ole AM for the ans. the short mov shows the success of that I rebuilt the first scene and made a seamless match to the second in a matter of hours ( the cut the to bird is the 2nd scene ) other scenes where then rebuilt in a similar manner ok so it's not pixar but thats the look number 5 was all AM ( decals made in another app th…
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i needed to whip one up for the series that will run in a few weeks there will be an info banner under the mov when completed Trailer.mov
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Each year we at 3We (the agency I am working for) are releasing a new christmas-calendar where you will get another funny or nice looking video each day. The image used for the calendar is (as each year) created with A:M, so I thought "why not showing it on the forum". http://advent.3we.de Best wishes and have a nice pre-christmas time . *Fuchur*
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Here's an image I've been working on that uses volumetric lights and the fantastic Lego man model created by Xtaz.
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I Haven't shown any of my work in a good while... I am working on a new character, an animated spokesman for an appliance store. Thanks to Jim Talbotski, I borrowed his Sir Nigel body as a start for the body. Animated with a BVH from Biovision... still have work to do before we pitch this. gordyABC.mov
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Hi! Just wanted to share a small simulation I did with these cubes. It is a cloth-simulation... even if it does not look that much like one See you *Fuchur* rendering_box.wmv
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This started out as a project to use to talk about extrusion and five-pointers and holes but got too complicated for that purpose. SpaceRay!
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Hello- I was attempting the tutorial on Newton Physics... the one where you have 3 cylinders that are supposed to tumble on themselves. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...st&id=19636 Each cylinder is set to be a dynamic object and the ground is static. Pretty basic stuff, but I get this error message when I right click on one of the cylinders in Choreography: I am using V17a and after receiving the error message I copied the "explode.hxt" from the V16 Hxt folder into the v17 Hxy folder ,thinking that might help...(because there was no "explode.hxt" in the v17 folder). Didn't help... Has anyone had similar issues...or any sugges…
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It's been a looong time since I created anything remotely good in AM, even longer since I posted anything. So I decided to get back into it and create a new character. I've never been good at creating realistic people, so I am creating a cartoony style wizard. Here's the first WIP shot of the head:
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Started trying to animate the male as the female walks away in "Why"? It was going OK until I switched to the left view and tried to select the male shoulders to make them droop. Every time I tried it selected the other model behind so, deactivated that and went back to the male, only to find that the skeleton won't show up in the window, even if I toggle the skeleton button in the chor. Select him in the PWS and the figure shows but not the bones. If the chor button is toggled, it selects the female in the PWS, even though it is deactivated ? Thinking to post the problem file here, I deleted all the non relevant parts and embeded everything. Only to find…
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I've been inactive of late in the A:M world... new job has me going in other directions. But Friday was a 'hurry-up and wait' day- so I perused my A:M files and saw a model that I last worked on TEN YEARS ago(2003 with a SetupMachine V1 rig!)... so I revisited it... added some SSS, some matcaps, some FastAOgpu, a TrueBones motion capture action(offset on the different dancers) and let Youtube provide the music track... The poneytails are controlled by a pose that has muscle-motion sway in a 100 to -100%... then a bone parented to the head bone with a dynamic constraint... then a smartskin relationship on that bone that controls the pose by the rotation of the bone. …
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Hello all- Just a quick question. I was checking out the UCLA Lab of Neural Imaging and came across a cool picture of a brain. I was trying to duplicate it in AM. I even thought that there was a Dark Tree shader that approximated x rays but couldn't find it. Anyway, in AM I took 2 spheres, crumpled the bigger one slightly and made it transparent. Added a color map and high specularity and came up with something that doesn't look even remotely what I intended. Any ideas how to achieve the effect on the left? Many thanks! Tom
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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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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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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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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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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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I started a new project of modeling my favorite bicycle. I could not stop, and I am half way there. I just wanted a basic bike for myself, and then make a Black Op version of my recumbent bike for the zombie /end of the world survival road warrior bike. I manage to get the basic bike patch count to 12,000 and I try to not get too detailed on it. I have not rig it yet! Took me a day and a half to get this far. One of the thing I learn from this is to model the pieces in a separate model window, and then once you got it, copy and paste to the main model window. I test the bike with another character and it fits really well with real world scale character. She is 5'1" fee…
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Arny (Super Fantastic Action Hero) tries again. The entire episode will run about 7 minutes. Too bad for Arny. SuperFantasticActionHero.mp4
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So I've got a good start here on an old-school Christmas light. Not sure if I should add a point source light to it in addition to the glow material.
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I'm still trying to improve this...it's my first attempt at a walk cycle. I used bits and pieces of this video as reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55KOR2etlo Any critiques would be appreciated. Ham_05_20_2017_walk_test2.mp4 Ham_side_cycle_05_21_2017.mp4 Ham_front_cycle_05_21_2017.mp4
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Rolling flat tire effect made by rotating a projection map on a tire. The tire itself doesn't need to rotate. Flat Tire! on YouTube
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Here's something I've been wondering about for 20 years... Could i use A:M to scan a complex model to make a displacement map to put on a simple model and give it the shape of the complex model? In this test case I used a surface constraint to measure the difference in radius between the left shape and the right one. With some text editing and spreadsheet jiggling I made a bitmap out of that data and applied that to the simple shape on the right. The "scan" was very lo res, just 30 pixels around the perimeter, and it has a glitch in it, but the basic concept worked. If I could streamline and automate the workflow a bit, the scans could be very high res and work in al…
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(may need to click to animate)
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An image using my CHESTA robot model infront of a layer BG in the choreography. Trying out some animation now.
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Well, since I'm not on the mailing list (Dragon does happy dance over new forum! Yeah!), I thought I'd go ahead and post this here, even though it's been around. 'Yote Tail Since I've got several render versions up, I've linked to the html page so you can choose which would play best on your system. Comments and critics are always welcomed.
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I was going to submit a second entry for the "toon" contest, but Steve informed me I could only do one. So, this is just a quick pic I did the other day. It's nothing spectacular, but fun nonetheless. I created the Alien a couple years back, just never did anything with him, but now that I've got TSM, he's boned and rigged. Comments and critiques are welcome, but the picture is pretty much finished. Time to move on to other things. (v10.5 / WIN98se / AMD 2400+ / 512 MB / ATI Radeon9200)
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Hi there, Well, finally got round to running a fly-round of my female character. I think I better getting on slapping some bones in her, and start doing some animation with her... I think she still needs smoothing out some more, but I'm just spinning my wheels at the moment, hence the need for some animation. Maybe some clothes on her as well - yes, she's nude, so you have been warned. I based the body on Joe Williamsen's awesome Bisley Warrior Princess, and the head on every single wireframe that I've seen by Jim Talbot - thanks for the constant inspiration, both of ya! The hair and ears were obtained from Vuk Pavlovic (sp?), so thanks go to him. The…
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Someone asked about more information on the Boids of a Feather project and workflow. With apologies to the creators if I'm stepping out of line by posting here on their behalf, I submit the following link: Boids of a Feather Information contained therein is a must read (IMNSHO) for anyone wanting to produce a finished short film in Animation Master.
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Hello everyone. This is my first AM project, I bought the software last week and I can't put it down! Especially since I had previously purchased Truespace 6.6, what a waste of time and money! Well I guess it was a tought me to appreciate AM. He will eventually be a soccer player. Sugestions and critiques are MORE than welcome. I could use all the help I can get. Thanks! My Webpage My Webpage
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I can't get projection maps to apply as anything but spherical. I don't know what's up, probably me being an idiot somehow. I was wanting either a difuse map, or a color map (or both) but I can't get them to actually show up on my model unless I have the interpolation set to spherical. Otherwise, it doesn't show up at all. Any ideas as to what might be going wrong?
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Last night's topic for the four-hour Animation Showdown was "Dive!" Our character had to dive into a pool. I found this one quite grueling. It's not much but at least he got off! See it on my Showdown page (QT Sorenson 3 - 148K)
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Sorry, since the forum this was posted in doesn't allow for pictutre uploads, I started a thread here so I could show a way to respline his model. I'm sure some the modeling gurus can come up with a much better solution, but here's my contribution anyway. I just took your pictures and re-drew some of the lines. For me, there isn't any trick to avoiding these types of situations other than experience. You just start to sense alot earlier that you are going to paint yourself into a corner, and you do your spline rearranging before things get too out of hand. So I guess you are doing exactly what you need to do in order to avoid this sort of thing in the future Model…
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Hi! I have entered model showdown on Sunday. The task was to model human skull. So this is my less than 4h work.
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Hey everyone! I haven't posted any of my work lately, but here's my latest. It's an alien head. I was inspired by something and I can't remember what I was inspired by. Anways, please crit. Thanks. -Rolo
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Hey guys! HAPPY EASTER. I haven't posted, commented or been on the forum how i woud like. But this little doodle idea i had on the bus i decided out of trying to model using a flat side drawing all the splineage in hash like i would on paper. No rotos just drawing the side view and using the magnetic mode and tweaking i got this head model that was done realitively fast the splineage probaly took 15min to at most half hour. The rest took probaly another hour or 2 i forget i was on the net and watching tv so this didn't have my full attention.... Open for comments ..........talk to you guys later i going to get some Easter Dinner now.
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Some folks may remember this little fella - Well... I've been dusting off a sequence from this short and thought that I'd put it out there (-here-) for those who wish to opine. I've been trying out a different animation style with him and am pretty pleased with it.... Squash and Stretch are our friends! QT - Sorenson2 - 1.5mb Anyhow, all comments welcome. Bring a bottle.
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Posted this topic in the Showcase last month but never really got any replies... Does anyone have any tips on the kind of Cloth simulation I need to do for large cape animation. Go to my Batman page I have Tests on Cape Animation there & so far that's the best I can get. Alienfilms.net/Batman/ The Cape has a low patch count. Should the patch count be higher, or would that help at all? It ether looks to heavy, to light or to stiff... I'm using A:M 8.5 but plan on getting 10.5 pretty soon. If anyone has any tips I'm all ears. Thanks! Edit: Added Link
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I've been working on this metal flake material, in v8.5, in my spare time. I really wanted to capture the sparkling quality as the perspective changed. I rememberd a tuturial by Charles Babbage: "Diffraction Grating 101", where he used a multi-gradient tree for specular accents. I figured I could do the same thing for a whole material by adjusting the "edge surface" property, by rotating you see the same material slightly offset with some colors attributes switched, giving it a twinkling appearance. Still needs a little work. Metal Flake Test .MOV If someone would like to repost, please do so. (low, low bandwidth) And incase your wondering "Why did he…
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Three animations I have been playing with over the last couple of years in the gallery at http://members.optusnet.com.au/~s_bruce/index.html Its the first time I have thrown a web page up so hopefully it all works. They are all exercises I have used to learn AM for another project. Although I am tempted to do some shorts with the frog. The Aloevera flower spike is 2 models. The stem and a bud which is attached to it 80 times. Took a while to render but not as bad as the frog which averaged 2.5 hrs per frame. I did have the frog down to 30 minutes per frame using a multipass light rig but had some problems with artifacts on displacement maps so dropped b…
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Hi hashers! I would like comments on a character i have been working on lately. I am beginning some test animation. Lip sync is not very acurate right now, but it was done more to check poses than making a believable sequence. http://www.cam.org/~mgigue/lespotins.mov Thank you!
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this it is my first test to create grass
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Hi Hashers : I projected this armchair for a design contest (IMAGINARIUM), I simply caught the logo of the company and inverted it, all of the materials are SIMBIONT, and I used skycast for illumination .. comments are welcome ... cheers Xtaz
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