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Just messing around, looking to make a ghost. I used Ed Lynch’s head model. Ghost 8mb
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Hi... I have started working on a new character. I don't have a lot of time to explain, but here's the concept sketch...
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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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Hello, been a while, I recently used A:M to build a mockup of a networking proposal for a presentation in my networking protocols class. This was kind of a last minute thing which is why it's so unfinished. I don't really have a use for it since I'm done with that class so I figured I'd let 'yall have it. Background info: I used the models to go transparent to show the placement of the networking cables in the walls, it got a wow out of the class and a "overachiever" comment from a peer. total construction time: 4 days. machines used: Powermac G5 A:M v15, Xeon PC A:M v14. download: Office ~2.1MB a few images:
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I just like to post random things sometimes. This is a render that I did last night of two characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Jiggle Billy on the right, and Happy Time Harry on the left.
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I'm in the beginning process of building a bed in A:M and before I go any further I'd like to know how to use the beveling feature in A:M. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. [attachmentid=11818]
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please does any one have an idea, of how i can make lighten and thounder light in AM V13.
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Fellow AMers: I'm looking into creating and Anime style character, but I'm having trouble finding a good source of Front / Side head shots of the same character and of the same scale. can any one point me to a good reference material? Thanks! Pixmite
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Hey Forum! Thanks for the kind words... I am attaching the 'final' version of the movie from earlier and another one I did quick on the side. Both are actually tests to use action blending, which for the most part works pretty cool, with a minimal of hitches. I think I stumbled upon a 'bug' or 'limitation' whereas when using v11 hair with dynamics'on' that any 'dynamic-constraints' do not appear at render time, like the program is only able to arithmaticly handle one, not both. I say that because I (naturally) put a bone in Miss D's 'chest area' with a dynamic constraint to add a 'jiggle' factor... and in my chor I can see it bouncing away REALLY nice...but when I re…
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Been working on this for a couple of weeks, trying to make a realistic face model splined on the principles in Jason Osipa's book. Didn't really set out to make a self-portrait, but I knew my face would always be available for comparisons while I worked on it. Right now I'm stuck trying to make a decent ear before I CFA the other half. Once it's done, I'll try painting a skin (color, bump, specularity, etc.) from scratch.
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Trying to do some modeling/animating with fan bones I came across a blog http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005...killed-him.html with a poem by Bob Dylan http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/do...nmetonight.html
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Here is a Cape Animation I've been working on, it's a work in progress. I'm not fully happy with it yet but so far this is the best result I've come up with The Cape was animated with the cloth wizard. If anyone here has any advice on how to get the cape to animate more naturally please help me with advice on Cape animation... Cape Test Thanks, Allen
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I have modeled every rivit on this upper structure with a small sphere. As the number of spheres increased, my copy/paste function slowed considerably. To get back some speed, I cut each sphere in half, which helped quite a bit by cuttin down on spline count. I received a suggestion that I might be able to achieve rivits with displacement maps? Take a look at my project and tell me if and how I could do this? It is important to be able to actually see raised rivits on the upper structure since close-up will be taken of it when finished. Thanks
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I decided to do a little test to see how the rig works. As you can see there are a few problems. Though I'm sure it's do to my bad modelling. -The arms really need work -The shoes go through the pants - The pants go through the shirt The shoes twist at akward angles The knees twist argh back to the drawing board As you can also see. I didn't try for realistic movement. I was trying to show where it messed up. Now he looks like he belongs in the matrix rig_test.mov
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Hi! I just wanted to pop in and show off my new character. comments, tipps and critic welcome! LINK TO IMAGE (1280px X 1024, 25 passes, on my Athlon XP 2000+ with 768 MB RAM, about 1h 20min) See you *Fuchur*
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Well it's been a long while. Little bit here, little bit there but I have something that I want to show. Yes, the lighting needs work. Yes, some of the sounds need a little tweaking. And yes, some of the textures might need modification. But what the hell, it tells the story so far! I will perfect it and add a little bit more before contecting the other bits I have done and then I think I will be almost half way through my little flick which should be all of 10-15 minutes. I am pleased... I think... BE WARNED IT IS NEARLY 60MB BIG AND YOU NEED QUICKTIME 5.0 OR ABOVE Bear Wood
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I've been fooling around with several cloud images on a hair material, basically trying to create a face model made of billowy, cloudy material. I have been rendering both in the modeling window and in a choreography and keep getting black "sooty" coloring along with some clouds. I have the transparency of my model set to 100%, so the only thing rendering is the hair material. I've messed around with properties til I've run out of ideas. Can someone point me in the direction to achieve what I trying for? Thanks.
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Could a few people try this displacement map test? Load DisplacementShadingTest.prj and compare a Progressive render with a Final render. DisplacementShadingTest.zip I don't recall this not working before but i can't get this displacement map to shade properly in Final render In progressive render I get an expected result.... But in Final render i don't get the shading...
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So since I have a day or two off from work this week I decided to start a new project. I been drawing sketches of cars and other vehicles for a while now So I decided to start with one of my favorite ones. I call it the person mobility machine (PMM) for short. it is good on roads but also gas rockets to fly with Hehe. Here is the design. probably start modeling it tomorrow.
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1-Eyed Model
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I have just made a 1-eyed "thing", im not sure what to call it at the moment. Ive just gotta give him an eye now. And i need your opinions on textures for him, please tell me which one you think works best out of each coulor scheme. And of course tell me what you think of the model I plan on making a short animation with him. Blue Green Red
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Hey guys. I've finished with a one-eyed alien guy. I have a question about decals though...how come black won't show up in decals? is there a way to disable this? It wasn't a problem in this model, but in the future I know it will be...I'm saving the decals as a Jpeg. Do you think that's why? I also am pretty much finished rigging this guy...though I have a couple of questions about that that i'll ask later. Keep your eyes open for some animations
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Manual
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Hi folks, I made this as a demo to attract some potential customers: http://www.jostkeller.de/Ikea/Anleitung_end.html (its a Flashmovie) What do you guys think?
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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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Greetings all! I've had A:M for a few years now, but I've never really had the opportunity to get into it as much as I'd like and never made much progress. So I figured I'd best start back at the beginning with the tutorials. I just finished Tutorial 4 and would like to hear some critiques. Please bear in mind that this is the first thing I've ever animated. Previously, I've just played around with modeling a little bit, and not very well at that. All the manipulations were done primarily by adjusting the CP's and a few timing adjustments were made by stretching/compressing or moving splines around in the timeline window. I'm assuming it gets a lot easier when …
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Hi all, I've been pecking away for a bit, and came up with this. Please c&c about it. I'm interested in hearing about the shoulders and hips-are they workable? I've thought about stitching a spline across the chest into the deltoids to help definition,also one on either side of the center line to better define the abs. I 'm modeling him bald so I could use the hair feature,but I'm thinking of adding 'hanks' of conical hair splines for a simpler, toonier look. Some of the included models in AM seem to have these hanks 'stuck in' any wich way-this animates/renders OK? Thanks in advance for your help. Ww (Brian)
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Hi i'm new here and have no idea if this is were to put this. I will be getting A:M soon and wanna introduce you to my dream project: Hey everyone. This is sorta a sneek look at what my movie will be like. Now I hope for my first chapter to be complete by august and my second by September, if not sooner. Here is what i have panned right now, other details are under raps until release. Chapter 1: I Am the Lard Knight (Pts. 1 and 2) Wario Wario works at "Mushnick's florist" , which never gets customers. While the place is burglarized by Rupert Thorne and his men, Batman is killed trying to save the shop and Wario disguises himself as b…
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I am still a beginner in AM, here is a room I modeled. Let me know what you think.
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I know this is not that good, animation-wise, but I'm learning a lot about A:M by working on this. I build a scene, render it, change something, render it again, add some different materials, render it again, etc... and I'm trying to learn more about about compositing and all that that entails. So it's a good exercise for me. Here's the link to the film: http://www.irish-studios.com/F4andTieFighterMovie.wmv I thought I'd post this just for the heck of it. The audio needs a lot of work, especially the dialogue as it's almost indecipherable unless you know what it says. But if you're interested, the dialogue goes: "Houston, this is Su…
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This has been lying around for some time. Newbert posted his, so I thought I'd post it. The stripe down the middle is a decal error that I never took the time to fix. If you look closely, I modeling all of the details into the blade (indentations, curves, etc.). I'm trying to make a bunch of good models for a free model site...
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First model I have tried from scratch. Still have to add windows and misc ....... but I'm getting close. Textures are next ... should be fun.
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I am wondering how to make a camera's orientation follow the twisty curvy paths orientation like the one shown in the video, or more importantly, how to make a coaster car follow the orientation of the path. Making the camera or object follow the track is easy enough by making one of the pipes splines the path. Also, I was able to create two path constraints from the camera to the two outside rails which keeps it from moving into the mesh when the track twists and turns. I thought that would actually cause some weird circular constraint problem but it didn't. But I would like for the camera or for the coaster car to be oriented the same way as the track. In other wor…
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Does anybody know, where I could get a grass material (maybe hair?) for a relativly simple football lawn? (At the moment I am running out of time, in how to learn how to make it myself.) Any advice would be highly appreciated. Thank you Jake
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Getting Eddy to ride the bike without falling allover the place ,got that with some good help.next was to use the terain as a path and got that now .Im pretty pleased with this ,been trying for some time ,any sugestions would be nice .Its just a way of learning nothing more view
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Hello to all, I´ve started a new project where I´ll have a robotic character with an organic mask for a face. I´ve working hard for the last week and here´s what I´ve got, I´d really appreciate some critiques. Thanx already! PS. has anyone noticed how OpenGL is WAY better for displaying wireframes?
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This is a character for yep you guessed it...a personal project that will take me the rest of my lifetime to finish. This is the second attempt at a human head I have made (the first was lost due to computer crash and having no burner). Hasn't been textured or anything (except a bump effect to sit in for the fleshy vibe). Due to the quality of the jpg I have just realized there is slight banding on the profile please disregard as this is not on the TGA. Thanks. Critique away. J p.s. the main reason for this post is because I usually make a vow on art forums NOT to critique someone elses work until I post something for others to critique of mine. …
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This is start of an animation with those characters... [attachmentid=13271] I'll try to keep it simple and snappy So far, I have characters made and rigged (Piglet is rigged with my hack at the Simmons's Squetch rig) I'll probably live dialog out of this one, it will have just the sound effects, and I hope that it wull be ready for the 3'rd Mini Movie contest... Tell me what do you think. Drvarceto
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other attempt of animation of base, of a ball. link Now I will look for in the next animations, to animate a biped model. Initially I thought about the model of Thom with the 2008 rig seen in some posts little by little!!
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Hi, This is an easy one I've forgotten and searches are coming up empty. My rotating asteroids seem to accelerate during the rotation. This has something to do with the interpolation or something like that... I just can't remember what it is or, where or how to change it. Thanks, Rusty
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here's the "hero" for a movie i'm working on called "The Movie to End All Movies" I had some trouble naming the guy, so i just chose my favorite character from Street Fighter (Vega) and added an 'is' at the end, feel free to comment any way you like. I'm still in the process of tweaking it a bit.
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Well, well, I have been rereading the walks section of the "Animator Survival Kit", and I wanted to make a cycle that no appear in the book, I wanted to "create" a cycle, from my imagination. Then I remembered the Insect Model and immediately come to my head the image of Hopper (the grasshopper of "A Bug's Life"). And I sit in front my computer to make a cycle of this kind, and the result is....................... Front View Perspective view P.D: Please select with the right button and "save target as..." I'm waiting for comments
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Hey everyone! I made my first test mini movie. Its called, "What is that?" Theres no sound yet but it will do for now.. I made this around September. I finally posted it my website. ( also in the right forum) Here is the link below: "What Is That?" I couldent make a direct link to the movie. I don't know how. sorry. Tell me what you think about it. (Best viewed on a HIGH speed internet connection)
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hello every one i was so busy during the last month working on a project for my company, it's a competation but...i coudln't make it on time..the dead line is today and i didn't finish it yet...cuz i'd informed about it too late... no problems...i think it's good to share it with u and check out your opinons. also i was working on HASH CITY models but i stopped for a while for this project, as u see the progress of my buildings modeling...i made windows as boolean cutters which was decaled from inside. i will keep going with it soon, but for now i would like to know what do u think of my ANT project pix... thanx
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Hey everyone, I'm pretty sure I haven't posted this before. (sorry if I have) Anyway, I completed a demo reel some time this summer. I was trying to get my foot in the door in animation, mostly I was targeting game shops. Never really got much response but I think a lot of that had to do with not having a broad enough application range (didn't want to uproot my wife) Swing by my site and check it out. All CG animation is done with A:M. The reel is also broken down into the individual clips for the bandwidth challenged Direct Link 6MG MPG -Alonso
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just mindlessly messing around with a couple hair systems. Painted a bush sprite and a grass sprite real quick, just to get them in there and get a feel for what might be possible down the line. Obviously you'd want a lot more variety in the images if you were doing something more serious.
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***Latest Update about 4 posts down**** Hey Everyone I've got a walk cycle up for comment/critique, be harsh that's how I learn! This is a work in progress and is currently in the "step"/blocking phase. Tell me what ya think, and thanks! Download onto your Hard Drive and loop in your multimedia player please-needed to keep the size down. walksteppedkey_0.mov
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Was doodling in AM and remembered Treez ( right click action..) anyway got a tree trunk copied flipped and attached then added eyestalk and lot of simbiot Darktrees ..okay 3 then set up simple enviroment and rendered I wonder how I could rig this to animated him... did the render on the right to play with radiosity 20000 photons then toon render [attachmentid=22451] [attachmentid=22453] [attachmentid=22454]
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Hello - I know there is a "particle system /hair" that can simulate curls however for a variety of reasons I am attempting to create curly hair using a different method. If you look at the attached image you will see a "simple straight object" and then you will see a "twisted version" of that straight object. If I was just going to create hair using the straight model, I could easily assign a color to the object and then use a transparency map to simulate strands. I can't really apply a transparency map to the twisted version so I figure I will need to assign a Material to the twisted object. The only problem is my skills are weak at creating a materi…
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Edit: No need to try this anymore. I have ascertained enough to send a bug report. Thanks! load this PRJ, select the camera view (number pad 1), and select model you see there. Switch between Director mode and Skeletal Mode. Can you see the shade thru the window in both modes or just one? CantSeeThruGlass.prj What graphics card do you have?
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Here it is..what do you guys think? I made it to animate later...
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I decided to try my hand at shaders and came up with this skin shader. Its a slighty tweaked version of Colins tutorial. (thanks Colin!) Let me know what you think.
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