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Ok..it's in word document file..I'm in the progress of converting to PDF, but this is what i have for now.. I'll be posting what you need: * the unrigged cape *the rigged cape *the tute * the Performance vid clothsimulationtute.doc
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I decided to look at bvh files and got one and used shaggy in a very rough attempt to get the feel for using the bvh action. I only matched four points of shaggy to the file which you can see since i did it in shaded mode so it is not very good but you get the idea 653k bvh.mov
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Hello everyone. My first post here. I'm a 3D artist working in the midwestern US. I've developed a character that I'm intending to cast in a short film when I get the time. Please feel free to critique, rip, or flatout dislike, the image. I'd love to know what people think. ~Dan
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Hey there. I am new... So, please excuse dumb questions. Here is my head model. The head on the left has a diffuse decal over the face, the other one does not. (See attached picture) Short of applying the diffuse map to the entire body, how do I smooth this transition? Just smooth the diffuse map out at the corners? What are shaders? Would that help? Any other general comments? This is my first try... I guess after this I a rig her? b pose her? c bone her? d attach to a body that is boned or not. Help - I would eventually like to animate her. Sorry for the newbie questions. Melissa
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This was my attempt at speed modeling. WARNING: Splines in project file below are poorly built and illogical. These were Speed-Splines as I was timing myself to see how long this would take. (1.5hrs). Regards, Eugene
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Hi all, I'm working on an indian story. Please have a look at the characters, wireframe and storyboard. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11946 Let me know what do you think. Satyajit
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Here's a cat I've been working on. He'll be looking as real as I can do. He's just being made down to his skin right now so try to picture him with some hair. Also the shinyness is just so I can see lumps better to work them out. It'll be taken off in the end. Any critiques are welcome.
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thanks to ddustin I downloaded the sample files from here http://www.marlinstudios.com/products/people/people.htm I made a plane and used the alphas as a tranparency decal and the other as color and added some flames from Colin...but forgiot to loop them and got this the alpha seems to be a little messed up but it could be my placement STILL.mov
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Hi guys, check out http://www.cgunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96 CGUnderground has green-lit the short film that I am making using Animation Master. They are hosting a permanent forum for the short film. On top of that they will host a webpage for it and place two interviews on thier site about it. http://www.cgunderground.com/ There is a persistant link to the forum discusion about the making of the film on thier front page. This is the film that I am working on with apprentices David Higgins and Chris Wheeler whom I've been teaching to animate using Animation Master as a result of the Mentoring program that David Rogers launched here in the H…
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I still have to assign some CPs in the hips, but its almost done: http://www.angelfire.com/film/noanoa/fig-bike.html Comments and critiques are always welcome. -Noah
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I was so inspired by Will Sutton's tree - that I had to give it a go. I had a leftover tree from when I was playing around with Marcel Bricman's Treez plugin - added hairy foilage - (2 emitters, 2 diffuse color decals) - When I rendered - decided I didn't like the colors - went into photoshop - changed to Grayscale, added the mountain horizon in the background - tweaked the contrast - Produced something very unusual for me - not cartoony - not really real - but pseudo-tromp-d'oeil... Will also post the original rendering
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Gene you forgot the brush and bottle top or it broke off then I tried to remove the cap and the polish evaporated 59k NailPolish.mov
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unfortunantly AM froze and i lost all this i saved the model before i applied bones. when i put on the bones it sorta messed up his figure but it made him look cool so i decided to keep it messed up. but then AM exited before i could save it screwed up. then i put the bones on again and i did it right this time. i need to figure out how to make it wrong.......that sounded weird. oh and i named him toufy. cause hes supposed to look "tough" Toufy_head_bob.mov
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I have this school project and I need to draw some scetches for it, so why not do it in AM to make an impression? the only prob I got is that I need my flat area to be filled with grass and prefferebly also some sand/rocks. My questions are: what's the best way to create grass? and how do I create sand? Here's the space I need to fill out:
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At the top of my "Stills" page are dual and single disc wide springer axle kits I drew. David R. Britton Jr.'s Stills Gallery I have included links to wireframes also. Dave Britton Jr.
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Had some spare time today. Put together this little animation. I wanted to try out some squash and stretch techniques. What do you think? Squashing.mov
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This is a birds-eye of the full column segment. Just for reference
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I'm working on a web site for a gentlemen that carves wooden Santa characatures and he wanted an animated Santa that would dance to "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and I told him "I can use one of your carved santas" (perfect job for A.M.) So I took a digital picture of one of his carved Santas and mapped it to a grid (billboard) and added a simple skeleton and proceeded to make him groove - including a "bowl-full-of-jelly" laugh just 30 frames and I'm pretty happy with the results (It looks like one of his wooden sculptures dancing!) My problem is I'm trying to get him rendered on a (pure 255,255,255) white background (without any sort of gradient) and WITH a s…
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Well- not quite as humorous as a dancing Chewbacca...but what is? I stmbled across a 'boxer' motion capture file and I had recently modelled and rigged a boxer...so I put the two together! http://campbellanimation.com
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Im trying to make a stack of cardboardboxes to tip over when one of my characters run into it.. Do anyone have an idea how to make this? I have made a test (done in 15min) that is CRAPPY (bad movements and they overlap each other). The way I did it was that I made one cardboardbox.. The I used that in a new action and multiplyed it by using action objects.. then i started to move them around.. Is there a better way to do this??? pls help test: esker.mov
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Wookie Dance This just uses the same .bvh mocap ZachBG posted in the resuable motion forum. Since it worked with 2001 skeletons I just had to try it out on the wookie. It's not perfect (the arm passes through his face/body a couple times) but this is about the best I've been able to get hair to render in an animation. Plus a wookie dancing to some MJ is just plain funny. Kevin
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Hey all, I finally finished another character. I don't got a name for it YET but I was hoping maybe one of you can come up with a cool name . Anyway here it is: Took me about half a day to model, texture and completely rig it. Now for the fun part! Animating! I wanted to make a simple character to practice my animation skills and this is it. Now I was hoping you all could give me at least one thing to do with him . So far I got: Pushing a box (make it so that it looks like he is struggling to push it) and jumping off a building. Thats it . Now I could think of probably a few more but I thought it would be cool if everyone could tell me what to animate wit…
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hee hee... this was fun... My turn John! Can vs. Extinguisher Models provided by Gene, available in the wip forum. Vernon "Ouch! Ouch... cold?" Zehr
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Thought I'd try to animate Gene's Fire Extinguisher but there is a small problem ...maybe because of Colin's post Colin hope you find the tgas Thanks again John fireex.mov
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made this...now I'm having after thoughts about how I will attatch the legs... but just for the body now...any suggestions? edit: forgot picture LOL
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Slap on your own decal and you've got your own brand of paint. Cheers, Eugene
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So I have mostly finished building my fleet of racing jets, and would now like to race them through some large canyons or possibly fjords, with maybe a mountain range thrown in for good measure. The jets should move about 250m/s so the canyon will have to be large indeed. I have my old AM 2000 book, and it mentions rebumpx, but I am not sure how compatable it is with v11. Any thoughts on good relatively recent tutorials on how to build mountains and valleys?
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Built this in about an hour.
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soo......sat down on friday and started messing, got the head finished in some 30min, and did the hair every now and then over the next 2 days. hair still aint done though, the back of her head is missing a lot, and i just noticed them two holes at the front there, but whatever...ill fix em...later. and no eyes O_o, creepy. (oh, that thingy there is a headband, not the hair line or anything, should prolly give it some more color) http://www.streamload.com/roughy/sayoround1.mov i could have revived the old thread but...didnt feel like searching for it. gotto go Zzz....
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This is a model of a tree I started yesterday, in response to a little challenge amongst the Fellows... It is 31,274 patches! all one mesh . At the tip of each twig is an emitter that I will be adding a leaf material to.
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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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Here it is.... i love the lathing tool it makes stuff like this so much easier.
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Test animation. I used Anders Avero's excellent 'Rain effects' plug-in for the rain hitting the puddles. Some post effects were done in DogWaffle (I over did it a bit I think) and there are obviously other things to correct but I thought I'd post to show we are actually doing some work on this pilot film Haunted House movie
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This is a sphere off the cd with a simple gradient combiner material applied. I added pose sliders to the threshold and start and end points of the gradient and the transparency of one of the attributes. I was trying different settings with simple colors. To demo what they do I changed the sliders to different values every 10 frames with no real pattern and rendered a quick qt I'll post the project in next response grad.mov
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Hey guys..in the A:M mailing forum i posted up a thread entitled: dynamics..beat cloth? and this is the demo animation I'm putting up...see the rig details below...I'm planning on creating my own "Dynamic Rig" to override cloth... capingdemo.mov
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I wanted something different in our band video. There was a piece in the talent show that was not G rated. I wanted to remove it and have fun with it. So, I exported a screen shot, put it in as a rotoscope, added Keekat, and did a voice over (Sound Forge 7 with pitch change). It took a little to get the render settings to work. No shadow yet, but it is not that important on the floor. Thought I would share. Attached is a wmv in a zip. chhskeekat.zip
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http://www.campbellanimation.com/ We've been talking about BVH Mo-Cap down in the 'reusable motion' forum, and inspired by Zach Brewster-Geisz and Colin Freeman's cool animations and guided by Will Sutton's motion capture tutorial I was able to browse free BVH files thru bvhfiles.com via their 'BVHplayer utility' , import it into A:M and constrain it to my TSM2 rigged character. My character (Gurly Girl) also has long V11 hair so the effect of the hair on the real motion is...I think...pretty cool. But then, I like bus fumes too. If you were to mix MoCAP and hand animation... whooaaa! Have a look...give me some feedback...bad or good...I can take it...just …
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was adjusting metal material and messed up the pose but it gave me another idea so if you need a cloaking material for your flying saucer this might wwork metal.mov
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I added four cookie-cutter decals onto a model. Then I tried to have them dissapear. But in the rendered version their gone and the model is still there but in the choreography they're gone and the model's gone. So what am I doing wrong. I have included a prj file to specify. thunder_works.prj
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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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I'm working on a Australian Shepherd model and I'm trying to add hair to the model but I'm wondering is there an easy way to control the hair color? The hair lengths isn't right yet either, but that is such a tedious task to adjust so I'm saving that for later. Correct me if I'm wrong or leaving out an option, but I can control the color of the hair either by: 1.) Model Surface patch color. 2.) Surface color of the hair material. 3.) A image in the Hair material. I was hope was that if I decaled the surface with colors I wanted, those colors would translate to the hair color but that doesn't seem to be the case. A bunch of decals with alphas channels to …
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Hi, ya all For the last three weeks I have been putting a ridiculous amount of time into my first short It's called "CLOTHESLINE" It's a romantic comedy about a sex starved desert roaming psycho I have 8 shots done, well almost done I still have to go back and fix intersections and what not (out of 10) and may add a couple more but at this point I am pretty sure I will finish, if I keep making enough coffee It will be about two minutes long, includes three characters and be rendered in version 12 to take advantage of the new composite and cloth features. oh, and its timed to Rush 2112 This is the third shot shot 3
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Ok, let me get this straight. We are supposed to think in three dimensions, learn to model, apply hair, texture, decal, bone, rig, animate, operate a camera, set up lighting, learn the physics of photon mapping. Then every year a new version comes out with features we have to figure out all over again. It sounds like fun. Anyway here is my latest attempt at making a realistic face.
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Any comments? oh and if someone could tell me where i could find a good laugh sound for shaggy that would be great..........................AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For the last time why wont it let me make an attachment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its under 1mb its avi. And i did not preview post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why WONT IT WORK!!!!!!!!!! Edited Poke.zip
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Hey guys..this is just part of what I'm creating..it's the control box leading to the ultimate machine which will be a surprise..for now, just critique this...the discs with "no tops" really have tops...the lighting just delays them out...
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In this thread it was asked how to make a dodecahedron. I have attached a project file that shows one way of doing that: Project1.zip
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made a block then use dup wizard to made a wall 5 by 5 pick center 9 blocks and group decorate blocks made second object slightly larger than a block decorate new chor turn off gravity put wall in chor make path through center of wall add second object constrain to path select block wall in muscle mode click on group in model in chor right click cloth wizard crank up stiffness ( more than i did) goto chor in pws right click simulate spring system you get object 2 knocking out center blocks adjust gravity at point of impact..(this feature is new to this idea) render yes that is my ugly mug on wall wearing hash t-shirt old hash t-shirt…
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While I'm waiting to get my Robot fixed I began working on these rotoscopes. They are inspired/copied from an old Golden Age cartoon "The Fox and the Crow." I've always loved crow characters. I found when I was doing my robot that not having a rotoscope was too much freedom and not enough structure, and I got bogged down since I had no direction so I'm hoping this will help. I want a decent rotoscope that will help me plan out the splines, which was another issue I had. Someone said (I think it was the guy who did the Osprey) that you should always work from a rotoscope. Anyway, here it is - any comments are appreciated that you think might improve it, or anythi…
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Hi Hashers : I am making a short* for TV, the bosses asked me to animate a match toothpick burning.. the final version will have one minute. This is just a test ... You can view a MOV test in my site ( click on my signature and go to ANIMATION section) * all done in A:M
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Another thread in the forums is asking for methods to reproduce the machined or brushed metal look. I had to have a go and unfortunately only produced this. Can you do better?
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