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I was thinking about models and modeling and had a question for the group. Has anyone taken an old model and reworked the Cps to produce a new model. Not added or removed CPs, but just relocated the existing CPs to create a new character. What I'm thinking is that it takes probably as much time to decal, bone, rig, smart skin, etc as it does to build the underlying mesh, so would it be reasonable to take an existing mesh, with all the decals, bones, rigs, etc already set up and reposition CPs to give the model a new appearance. There is always the potential that the smart skin may not act correctly since the CP positions have changed, but most of the rest sh…
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Okay, so in order to be able to continue my animation excersices I need a fully functioning character. I finished the eye setup - a la Sphere's deformed in a pose to keep the pupils onthe surface(see keeKat model on hash cd) and deformation boxes to add character to the character! quick and dirty test http://www.vrcops.com/vids/DTest1.mov Mike Fitz
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This was another scene i had to build for work. And like the rest of the project it will be in toon. I think i heard its a night scene too. So basically i got bored and wanted to play with AO. Hope you guys enjoy.
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Just playing around with an idea which I have in my head - WIP
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Just wanted to show my first A.M mechanical model - a Taxi Cab. Feedback (good or bad) welcome. Brian Kumanchik
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this was a cutie little duck i came up with about 20 years ago ( out of highschool and dreams of cartooning some day) it's just his head for now ...he was only a line drawing for those 20 years until yesterday thanks for your time Steve
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Found an old model that I never realy finished ,thought I would change the bad face and work on the decals .Still a lot to do especially the chest area mmm
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No it's not finished but I was itching to show another tiny section of my larger flick. Yes, there is lip syncing but no voices yet... Go on tell me what you think! Lallabys
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This is for the person who posted wanting to know how to do tank treads. Here is an mov of it. I can post the project if you would like. The F14 is a 3ds prop, along for the ride. David f14_on_treads.mov
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well this is the first thing i've posted. just want to see what people think of how i did this excersize. excersize4_It__s_a_Pitch.mov
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It's rare for one of my modeling brainwaves to work right out of the gate with no rethinks and no tweaks. But lightning does strike occasionally. The image shows the first test renders of a bump decal to simulate the look of a welded joint either butt or fillet. As is usual for me the decal started out as a spline model with a black to white gradient material applied. If anyone's interested I can make the model and material available.
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Here's another shot from my job that I started on yesterday. Its getting there but I still have a lot to do to it. Its toon render. All comments are welcome.
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Hi all, I don't have a website so does anyone know how a place I can uplaod my animations to and then post the link here for critiques. Thanks PS: I have AOL if that matters
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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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Heres a quick little character thats really fun to animate! His name... Odd Ball. [attachmentid=21237][attachmentid=21246] So far I have rigged him, abd gave him a few mouth poses. I am not sure if i should texture him or not. oh, i almost forgot heres a 360 view of him.[attachmentid=21241] Odd_Ball___360.mov
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I a starting my steam punk Short. So using a Top down methodology I am starting with the control panel, working out to the wheel house then to the boiler and engine room, and then throwing a skin on the whole thing. Here is the gauge panel. the colors are place holders at this point.
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This is another scene in progress. Its another scene for my job. Hope you all enjoy. All comments welcome, but remember its toon render.
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Did some refinements on a Still from a previous posting. Started some aditional models and started Story board, Camillo Thank you for comments
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This is the rough draft of my samurai model's head. Criticism is welcome. Thanks, MasterFunk
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Ever since I saw Lee's awesome Ironman, and then the movie, I've been wanting to model the hero. Here is my start. I don't have much time these days for modeling (heck, I'm a slow modeler anyways) so this will take a bit of time to flesh out. Happy New Year and enjoy.
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Hello! Seniors at my high school are required to complete a project for a final grade. It is supposed to occupy over 15 hours of time to create and blah blah blah... I am choosing analogue photography. I plan on doing a video and I need some titles for each section. Here is the first one, it is for small tank developing: FilmDev_720_A_0.mov I made an 8 light skydome for the cheap AO effect. I used the AA render for the DOF too. I know the 35mm is totally lame looking but it is meant for illustrative purposes only. Photoman
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Tightrope!
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Well, it's showdown time again, and this time 'round the topic was Walking a Tightrope. Yow! Here's what I came up with: http://www.hash.com/users/zachbg/tightrope_sor3.mov 800K, Sorenson 3, 13 seconds. For those not in the know, the deadline for these showdowns (found at digitalrendering.com's forums, reg. required) is four hours, from finding out the topic to handing in the completed animation. My time spent on this was probably three and a half hours, because I had to pick my son up from nursery school halfway through. I wonder if that's a problem on feature films. Comments and crits welcome. As a further interesting point, the modeling of th…
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Greetings, Looking for some feedback wrt things like hooks nd 5-pt patches. Some people don't seem to use 'em.. Me, I can't seem to spline my way around corners, so to speak. Please have a look and give me an idea if there are too many hooks or 5-pointers; I am going for reduced splineage. Feedback..? Thanks! http://www.nads-sc.uiowa.edu/~sallen/am/mdlHlp2/head2b.jpg
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Hi Spliners Here my attempt to make Water with an animated Material. I know, that the waves are too fast and the color of the Water is too blue. I already changed the color ( look at the image). But before I start the next animated rendering, I want to ad some Force, to move the Hair (Grass). But I never did it before and so my question is, how to do it. CU Maszie
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Hello friends. I just finished one of my latest models. It is a "design" mobile phone I made just for fun. I had no idea of how it would en up like, but I don't think it ended up that bad. The challenge in this model is that every corner is beveled (perhaps to much in some places). Anyway, let me know what you think. Okay looking or ugly as sin? Regards Stian [attachmentid=10051]
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Sorting through some stuff from my old site I thoiught..why not post a few old items related to halloween. ..anyone else have any to share ? All these were redone in v14...all still worked even though some were from 2002. Nothing great but just ideas arnie.mov pumpkin1.mov abc.mov halloween.mov I put all the projects in here and the darktree material for the ghost 's eye in case you didn't have it allprojects.zip
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hi all can any one tell me how to make a grass field that is is i need the properties specification. thz
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Hello! Since the contest deadline is past, I will now post the WIP for my entry, Back from the Dentist. The idea originated from a doodle of mine. Progression in chronological order. WIP This is from a frame of a quick animation I did. I will post later. Final I hope I am allowed to post this now, if not, feel free to delete! Photoman
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This is all a work in progress, but I figured I throw something up for feedback. I modeled the star freighter first and then the engine room as a separate model to be merged inside. I'm trying to block in my shots at this point... so no detail on the models either. Here is the star freighter itself... and the engine room with two characters for scale. This is a portion of the outside shell with the engine room model merged into it (to save patches). More to come as I get it cranked out...
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Hier are some little iconanimations I did for some selfpresantation of some coaching guys. Which one do you like better: The toon or the final version? FakeRimLightMatmovie.zip FinalMovies.zip ToonMovies.zip
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I have actions set that go beyond the length of where I need the Chor Lengh to be. I set the length of Chor to 1:20:00 and that is fine while the project is opened and things render correctly. I have several items that move along a path. But then when I exit and restart, the Chor Length goes back to a very long time. I know what the issues is - it is resetting to the longest action in my project. I have 1000's of items that were dropped in ( TREES ). Each Tree was added as I found the camera angle to be exposing areas where I needed to see trees. I know what someone is going to say - go edit each tree / item and reduce the action line for each on…
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I've just finished creating the phoneme's for my character and just had to try and figure out how this stuff works, so i Watched the "can you say that" video tut and attempted to make my own, a couple hours later out came this: Clip (890Kb Divx 5.03) Any feedback would be more than welcome I must say how impressed I am with A:M's implementation of the dopesheet etc etc..it was as easy as it appears in the video. However I did wind up with a bunch of keyframes that fall inbetween frames, is that normal? Laters
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i made thees pics for the movie to help explain the tripod thought you guys might be interested here is tripod info [attachmentid=18037] [attachmentid=18038] [attachmentid=18039] [attachmentid=18040] [attachmentid=18041] [attachmentid=18042] and heres info about the heatray [attachmentid=18043]
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here is what i have been working on for today, its not done yet, but almost is ( and, if you want to look at all of the other aliens i have made so far, look in "showcase" and look in alien queen) Pred alien [attachmentid=21640]
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Here's the completed logo I started a few months ago. It uses a slightly modified directors chair that was donated and a modified version of Woot from the TWO movie. Thank you Martin for permission to use it. I changed the shape of Woot's head and completely changed the color of the textures so he didn't appear greenish. I know this is the WIP thread but I couldn't find the thread for finished projects. Oh and Robert, I hope the finished shot clears up the drowsy look of the monkey hehe. Here it is. FMP_LOGO.mov
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This is gonna be my entry for this months 11 second club.....
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really rough only had about 45minutes fnt.mov
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Every year, I have to update a commercial for a golf tournament. I couldn't find my project from last year so I started from scratch. I spent most of my time on the grass/hair. Crits are welcome.
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This is the animation ive done with a:m. The model has no constraints, smartskin, or cp weighting so dont be to hard on the crits 1stwalk.mov wk.mov walk.mov wlk.mov
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For a discussion on the trombone forum about how to have a convenient practice trombone small enough to play inside a car. I propose to chop the slide to have only 4 (rather than 7) positions and fold the unused portion back up the slide, so that the total length of the horn (and pitch) remain the same.
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I was trying to see if I could get that special effects look where the camera rotates around the character while it is frozen in time. Here is the link: http://www.spiceisle.com/anvar/page2.html Nima
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I have a digital camera and took a few pictures of the office where I work and tried to add the free t-rex to a couple of pictures. This was the dino rendered in Am on black background ,cut in out then added to a layer in PS. In PS I copied just the desk to another layer then put that in front of the dino layer . Added a shadow layer effect and tried to do a reflective layer of the dino on the desk area. Is there any suggestions on how to do this better This seemed to work okay
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Hi there, for quite some time i am working on an picturebook for children which i wanna do in partly in AM. One element is a medeival castle, which is abandoned and haunted. This is the first step towards my castle. What do you think? Regards, Heiner
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HEY! Sorry if this has been a topic before, I may have missed it...but I just caught a great 'toon made with A:M at YouTube.com called 'Slap Happy'... UN-friggin-believably cool... credits go to R.Cory Collins and Eggington for the set... WARNING: 'Three Stooges' slap-stick humor. AND--- I just found another one called 'SPRUNT' by Stuart Lloyd...HILARIOUS! I won't give the link because I don't want to offend the 'parents' among us. BIG WARNING do not search for this if you are easily offended by sexual-themed animations...DEFINATELY DO NOT SEARCH FOR SPRUNT ON YOUTUBE. It's actually amazing to see some of the work being done by people who …
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Hi there, Experimenting with Toonshading for some book-illustrationwork. What do you think so far? Jake?
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Hi. I got this software called VRHotwire that lets you add tracks to QT panos and cubics. It' like Livestage, I think , but cheaper and rougher around the edges. I made a virtual tour with a QT cubic as the main node. I added a sound track and a small animation done in A:M. Comments welcome. Look down to see the animation. Cubic I'd love to hear from someone with Livestage on how it is adding this kind of stuff, and if there is a way to minimze the speed loss when adding animations to cubics.
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I tried my hand at 3DTotal's threedy forum speed modeling challenge and this is what I came up with. I had to cut a lot of corners as I model slow and you only get 50 minutes. topic : "piggybank"
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The attached QT file is a really rough walk cycle and is not shown to demonstrate how not to do it, even though you could probably use it for that purpose, but to demonstrate some strangeness to do with dynamic bones and particles in A:M 11.1g. This model has small dynamic chains in the shirt tails that hang below Woot's belt and collision detection is turned on. The first two paces are rendered with particles turned OFF so no hair is generated. The next two paces are rendered with particles turned ON and look what happens to the dynamic chains.
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This is based on sketches my 15 year old couzin drew, she's an insane 2d artist at this age already, i'm thinking she'll be working in the industry in no time. I'm doing this model to try and show her she should get AM and turn her characters into 3D. He's still in progress of course but comments and crits are welcome. Eventually he'll get a nice big blade, and most likely a gun of some sort as well. I think i'm happiest with his gloves as it was rather complex to place the gaps into them. I'm not all that happy with his face just yet. -Ethan [attachmentid=16099] [attachmentid=16101]
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