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Hi, I'm working on a theatre set. The red curtains open. The curtains are animated using cloth simulation in A:M 13. I almost got it nailed, but not entirely. So much parameters, I'm tweaking my ass off. Each time I have to tweak, simulate, tweak, simulate... Is there anybody who knows how to make these curtains move like the real thing? I'll post my curtain-project. It has the animated curtain. Just run the cloth simulation in the chor and see how far I got it. Never mind the missing decals. Please help me make this work. Thanks! Curtain2.prj
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This was the hardest model I've ever attempted. For mechanical models it's relatively easy to find front, side and top reference images, not so much for 1940's movie actresses. Every time I looked at a different 3/4 view of Ann Sheridan with dramatic lighting and did a test render, I found another CP that needed a small relocation or a spline layout that needed a rethink. I can see why 3D scanning of an actor's face is so appealing for a digital replacement. I still don't think the likeness is convincing but I'm sending her to Hair & Makeup anyway! (Maybe I'll say I'm modeling Ann Sheridan's stand-in. 😄 )
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Crashing down to the task of revising and finishing "Aesop's Council of Mice," my next short, in a few too-short weeks. This is a high-res pic of Pawtuckett. (The actual short will be produced at 720x480 DV.) Pawtuckett has a kind of yellowish color to most of her fur, and I'm checking to see if that explains the difference in glow color between the acorns and her. I'm just posting this pic because she's the first of the character models I've revised. I need to decide what to do about her thumbs, and a few other trouble spots, before I move on to the other mice. The hair is 10.x decal-controlled hair- -M@
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I left animation to be a firmware engineer and have had an itch to start making something visual again. This is what i have so far. Hair and facial animation is next. Normal render Toon Render BTW, thanks Yves for that ridiculously sweet skin shader. ~Delaney
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here ya go tell me if you like it or not
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Walther P-38
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Here is a model of a Walther P-38 that I made. I was going for a well used but still usable look. Please let me know if you see anything that could be improved.
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Hi guys, if you like check out my first animation on the AM Films site, "Crazy 4 Daisy", and let me know!!!
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Here is an acoustic guitar that i have started modeling and getting some of the decaling, texturing done out of the way. Once I build the neck, I am curious on how to make the strings twang when I animate it , when the strings are strummed. If anyone can shed light on the subject please let me know, I have an idea, but whethere to use dynamcis or just completely hand animate it all is gonna be a pain in the butt. I have two decals on the model, one I had for the decorative ring around the pickup, When I put the wood decal on, it put itself over it, is there any way possible in order to bring the decorative ring in front , on top ? [attachmentid=17385]
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is ther a way to give this lamp a glow without lossing Plasma effect
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The animation is horrible, but it's for learning purposes only. (give me a break, i haven't even graduated highschool!) Tell me what you think of it!
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this is what i have done so far itstill need alittle work but its getting better the reason the red is there so i can see the difference. tips and suggestions are helpful Thanks Knighthawk
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I have a model, that is driving me crazy. When I change the groups transparancy to twenty for instance, it changes the thickness of the toonlines as well. I didnot have that on any of my other models and cannot think of anything that might cause this. Any help anybody? blobby090410.mdl
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Here is the new character Steve
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Hiya folks! Here is a new piece that I worked on in collaboration with a number of people. AM was used for the basis of the metronome and related effects (so hopefully I can post it in this section, instead of the OT section). You'll need quicktime and its 19mb: http://www.iliadic.com/ut.mov Comments and criticism are welcome! Check out the rest of my site at http://www.iliadic.com Enjoy!
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ok now that i have completed my tripod i'm moving on the the other machinery in this case the blood sucker [attachmentid=17092] i'm working on the arm now but i cant seem to come up with a good one and Suggestions?
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Talk about getting sidetracked. I was working on the dashboard for my '41 Plymouth when I had the thought that it would look more authentic with a key in the ignition. Then I realized that a single key would look a bit odd which led to more keys with different shapes on a ring and finally a fob. The keys have no teeth since I didn't want to further complicate the models and this lack of detail would unlikely be noticeable in typical shots of the car's interior. The large unassembled image was the test for the textures (all done with Enhance A:M combiners). Why is it relatively easy to make something look fresh-out-of-the-box new or rusty, dirty and decrepit but it ta…
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Hello - for those of you that are tired of my dental animation... sorry. ;-) This one is actually pretty cool - it is for a dentist that created a new patented "braces" application combining the 3 current brace systems. The animation starts by showing the traditional 3, then his idea of combining the three and how it would work - then possibilities of what can be done with them. I had to start completely from scratch with new teeth and gums and everything, because in parts of the anim we had to make the gums transparent to see the correction of the teeth and roots. Anyway, just a warning watch when you are not sleepy - it might just put you out. ;-) http://www.fl…
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Some of you have probably seen this before but I decided to finish/polish it up somewhat - boy am I rusty!!! Anyway 'ave a butchers and tell me what you think, its only the first part there are two more to follow. Needs Quicktime 6 BTW. Rexiewake.mov
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This isn't animation but it is related to the WIP of our project and I just thought some people might be interested. I recorded most of the voices in our studio at work a few weeks back. However, I had Ian Fairbairn in mind to record a couple of voices. I decided to travel to his home in London and record there. Not ideal but it worked out fine and the quality sounds on par with the studio recorded stuff to me. Ian was in several episodes of 'Dr. Who' and 'Timeslip' in the 70's and also 'The Avengers' and other similar British series. [attachmentid=15573] [attachmentid=15574]
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I was messing around with radiosity again, and then ended up building the Programmer's Passage from the Matrix. Years ago I had built it once before (lost in the great computer crash of '04 of course), but without radiosity, the scene never looked right. Anyways, here's the render and project file if anyone wants to take a look at it. Matrix_Hallway.zip
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hi all, If i want to animate some thing like the vedio below, can any body tell me how to go about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYokKMwMLgs...feature=related
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I found a mug shot of Suzanne Somers from the 1970's Thought I give it shot. Hay if your looking for a front side view of a celebrity check out to see if they have a mug shot good reference photo 9 out of 10 time there right on the money as far as lining up the eyes you may have to adjust the photo a little bit but not to much. Sorry messed up on the posting the photos
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In this thread Robert showed me how I can generate an image suitable for normal decals. The image of a cylinder and sphere on a flat plane is his example. Note that the flat plane RGB value is 128, 128, 255. The image of a series of troughs in a flat plane is my first attempt. The problem is that the RGB value for the flat plane is now 112, 112, 255 which shows up as a difference in shading at the decal edge. So I started to debug this and I got an unexpected result. I moved the cylinder out of the field of view in Robert's example, re-rendered and the flat plane RGB is still 128,128,255 but when I put back the cylinder and moved the sphere, the flat plane is n…
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here it is.
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Wow, it seems a loooong time since I last posted! Here is a young girl character I've nearly finished for our pilot film - yes, it's still going ahead I've managed to get everybody together in one place to record the voice track next week (please!!) and most of the modelling is now finished. Several people want to animate on it so, hopefully, we shouldn't be too far off now MelSpin Animation (Mov)
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first render
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This is an image I rendered to show off the apple model we sell on eggprops Brian Prince textured it using all AM materials. Holds up pretty well for a low patch model.
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last one for awhile mushroom2.mov
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Hey all! I'm new to modeling in Animation Master. I have tons of experience poly modeling in Max, but dealing with splines and patches is a bit new to me. Anyway, I'm currently in the process of modeling a pig for a project, but I'm having lots of creasing issues. I've gotten the hang of getting rid of most of them, but I'm not sure how to approach creases in a 5-point patch. Can anyone provide any guidance? Should I even be using 5-point patches where I'm using them? Any help would be greatly appreciated! [attachmentid=15891]
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Hi everyone, It has been a quite a while since I've posted anything here! I have finished a glider design program that teaches the basic concepts behind flight. It comes with 10 pre designed gliders as well as materials for use with sci-projects. The 3D characters used to explain the games portion and the 3D gliders there were made with AM. The rest was done in a different program. you can view the program here: http://www.nc-games.com/glider.html Also I am doing a promotional where the first 10 people to respond will get the code to unlock the full glider program for free. If you are interested, please email: noel@nc-games.com wit…
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My original post: original bear WIP post Something just did not seem right, so I started working on a simpler "more youthful" design...see below. The animation is about a youthful,playful bear, and the original design just did'nt give me that feeling. My children like this new design better. I want to put hair/fur all over the body, so I want to keep the spline count down, hopefully will make it easier to animate. Having the arms and legs as seperate opjects cause problems with the hair/fur? Looking for some input about the overall proportions, design, etc. I guess I am inspired by Keith Lango's simple character designs. Thanks for the inspiration Keith!…
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hey people though you might like to see my new project i started off with a blender tell me what you think so far
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I'm still just a few inches off the ground, at the foot of the A:M learning curve. After some messing around with tutorials, I decided to have a shot at making a figure of my own. I think this Work In Progress is probably just progressing towards the trashcan - it has too many splines in some places and not enough in others, endless 3 and 5-point patches, some dead-end splines and lots of other bad stuff ('cos I don't yet know how to do it better). But I thought that making a figure of my own (complete with errors that will make it difficult or impossible to rig and animate) might be the quickest way to learn WHY models have to be built in a particular way. Bu…
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Hi, I'm working on the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece. The following pictures are from the West Pediment. I think I need some help with the lighting. It's supposed to be fairly realistic but I'm not sure what else to do to it. Not all the figures you see have been textured yet. I'm working on that too. Suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks.
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Just had to rerender an old title as a favour for a friend, so I thought I'd post it here as well. From memory this was my first commercial test of Skycast. The cockatoo and plane are a long-standing combination, the line artwork is the RFDS' original design. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to animate the cockatoo in a substantial way. The titles were donated for use in the RFDS trek documentary. For those who don't know(Probably most of you , the trek is a bunch of 30 year old cars racing around outback Australia and fundraising for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The bird and the plane were modified from pre-existing models.
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Haven't played with expressions for awhile so here is a rough Idea a pose slider controls pointer at left and the rotation of the pointer controls the speed of rotation of the blade on the right roughly [attachmentid=13146] there is some glitches as the speed changes will have to look at that then post the project sped.mov
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Hello again guys! i havent been on for a while due to life... as it is always (Now have a son ) but ive been still hammering at the AM as much as i can. Anyway i thought i would finally post something up and maybe see what people think. This is a walker im working on and i thought before finishing it i would put it up here and see if i get any response. Im sorry about the lighting these are just quick renders before i clock off for the night but you should be able to see what im trying to achieve. Anyway thanks again guys talk soon!
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I have a simple question. I am desperately asking anyone if they can share or make some more actions for the Thom model. I have a project I am doing and my models bone structure is build like Thom. Please if anyone can....
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I've got a simple scene with a central object receiving reflections from a dome that has an HDRI image applied via a projection map. It renders very nicely, but I want to use an alpha channel to composite the object into another scene without the dome background. I tried tga output with the alpha channel enabled, but the resultant alpha is the whole tga, not just the central object. What am I missing here?
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Here is my Osprey model so far from John's tutorial.
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For a job, needs couple small tweaks but will eventually become an STL file for a resin cast model. The weird blob on the bottom is from a previous model they had and wanted to keep.
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Dania MMV3
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This is a WIP for the next mastering materials volume. Thought people would be interested in seeing a face made of 95% materials. There are only 4 image maps used and 3 are for hair control. The last is for an environment map.
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Hello folks, Recently I have embarked on working on my modelling and animation skills, so I decided I would produce some animations and models based off of something I'm big fan of. Basically this is a head of one of the robotic heroes (Toa) from the LEGO toyline "Bionicle". www.bionicle.com Enough about what it is, here it is! Its not much, but for a beginner modeller this is a big step up for me.
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I finally had the guts to try to build a full figure (next up, actually connecting parts that comes next time) This is mainly for the use of anatomy study, rigging education, and animation (I just bought Jeff Lew's vid and it's on its way...I have to prepare in any way possible )
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Last one for now expressthis.mov express.zip Sorry got carried away
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Well I'm up late, so I decided to post this image. A while back I had posted a wip related to this image that looked like dark beer. I think I worked out some of the issues though Enjoy Image info: 6 separate objects Mostly procedural (except for text decal) using native combiners blobby emitter for water droplets and bubbles 3 lights( with NO shadows!) Javier
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here it is, my first show and tell, the amazing: MAN! or not... I know he's crappy, but he's my first and Im kinda pleased with him, actually. Gotta do some more tweaking tho, so anybady got some good tips like: "GET BETTER!" or something? anyway, all help is usefull, so just post away! (btw, going to bed, so I won't critizise any of your tips before tomorrow)
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Hi I would like to show you a picture I have made for the CGNetworks Machineflesh Challenge last year. C&C are welcome Russel
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Here is the next piece in my development of the facial puppeting system. The goal was to begin exploring the performance possibilities. I gotta say I think it went quite well. Let me know what you think. (Sorry about the big file, best I could do) spystory.mov edit: here's a zip with a DivX avi in it, this looks and sounds better spystory.zip
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Hi, I assembled all the footage (you know what I mean) done for the Spiral Slayer Book Trailer--mostly screen or concept tests--and put all three musical scores behind it. Also added credits--the 5 or 6 Hash artists who helped with the designs, modeling, texturing, etc. In truth it's long and boring, LOL, but perhaps not so much to other Hash animators. Its here! Remember, play it full screen and have your sound on. Also, very few scenes are finished product and no story is really told. Cheers, Rusty
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