Work In Progress / Sweatbox

Merman

February 17, 2005 by Zaryin

12 replies
941 views

Ok, I got another new character I am working on. It's a different take on the merman. I have a simple color, gradient and Yves' Skin Shader apllied to the character. I will be adding fins to the forearms and webbing between the fingers. I would like to ask all of you if I should add anything else? What should it be, and where? I could also use some advise on texturing, since I am getting close to doing that. Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.

Last reply by UNGLAUBLICHUSA, February 17, 2005

DodgeBall

February 17, 2005 by adamP

15 replies
940 views

I had some spare time on my hands, so I decided to practice some animation. This is the first animation I've cranked out in a while. C & C welcome. dodgeball1.mov

Last reply by adamP, February 17, 2005

Bashing together parts...

February 16, 2005 by Sevenar

8 replies
594 views

Take 1 computer game model, scoop out its head, chop off an A:M model's head, stuff it in the helmet, put a pose slider on the visor, and... You can make something like this, too: (why you'd want to, I don't know.)

Last reply by Sevenar, February 17, 2005

making a scene...

February 17, 2005 by sbk

1 follower
3 replies
387 views

This is a screenshot from an animated film I'm doing that will end up being around 9 minutes. It will be 3D with some 2D painted backgrounds, compositing, etc. This screenshot was largely from a 20 second test of my character, constraints, etc. etc. She comes up with the music box lid, and then dances around in a little repeated ballet move. The key turns, and her feet come off the pivot sometimes but that's intentional, because she's a character, not a doll. I'm quite happy with it so far, still tweaking (in between writing grant applications). Thanks to Vash, Colin, Josh, Vern and a bunch of other people I don't know. Sean

Last reply by Zaryin, February 17, 2005

My first test.....

February 16, 2005 by Neeblesquibb

12 replies
1.1k views

Before I talk about this, let's see if anyone can see it... I used a Divxavi compression. If it doesn't work, perhaps someone can help me make a file that will? NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE I HAVE CHANGED THE ATTACHMENT TO SORENSON3, SO NOW MAYBE IT WILL WORK! RockBlast2.mov

Last reply by agep, February 17, 2005

The Enterprise vs. Martian War Machines!!!

February 17, 2005 by jesshmusic

4 replies
485 views

I bet I know who the Trek fans will pick. But, I'll tell ya... I think these guys pack a LOT of wallop for their size!

Last reply by jesshmusic, February 17, 2005

Wegg's skin material

February 17, 2005 by Bruce Del Porte

2 replies
368 views

Playing with Wegg's skin material and Yves' skin shader is giving pretty good results so far. This is with the standard chor lighting which I will play with next. The render times and memory usage is still a concern (52 minutes/frame) if I want to use this combination for an animation but it looks much better than my attempts at skin materials. Yes, I know, she has no hair. This is a skin experiment.

Last reply by Bruce Del Porte, February 17, 2005

Second Attempt at a head

February 16, 2005 by JoshB

9 replies
663 views

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. …

Last reply by Zaryin, February 17, 2005

Phil's Gun

February 12, 2005 by jesshmusic

7 replies
760 views

Here is a minute and a half short I made a few years back. I recently re-rendered it at a better resolution and added some original music that i put together in GPO. The animation is pretty simple, but that's what I was going for! Phil's Gun Animation - Quicktime - Mp4 codec

Last reply by jesshmusic, February 17, 2005

War of the Worlds (1953) Martian Thing 1 2

January 31, 2005 by jesshmusic

57 replies
4k views

Here's something I whipped up today to see if I could get it close. It could be better, but I'm happy so far. I have more to do, but C & C is most welcome! NOTE: The images and animations in this post of the thread represent the most recent work. If you want to see how she developed into this continue reading. ->UPDATE (Feb 15, 2005): Here is a new short animation and rendered image. Martian War Machine Probe is Revealed! (Quicktime - Mp4 Codec - 500 KB) NEW RENDER (1024x768):

Last reply by jesshmusic, February 16, 2005

A peak at my mechanical entry.

February 16, 2005 by cfree68f

14 replies
1.2k views

Ok.. I did have one or two trouble spots in my Mechanical entry.. So I thought I'd post some pics here in order to get some feed back.. I mean.. hey all the entries are in right. What harm could it do.. So here is a very revealing shot of some of my spline problems.. Any ideas? I'll make it a link so as not to give to much away. Don't look if you don't want your vote influenced! C

Last reply by Zaryin, February 16, 2005

Goblin, trying to nail down the skin texture

February 14, 2005 by DornerDan

4 replies
626 views

Hello everyone, I decided to post my Goblin WIP. I'm generally pretty pleased with the head model (despite a few required touch-ups.) But I've been having trouble getting the skin texture to look just right. The skin was all done procedurally (save for one bump map.) Please let me know what you all think. And any suggestions or critizisms are welcome. I'd like to get the skin tone right. ~Danno

Last reply by Zaryin, February 16, 2005

Hopper (from Bug's Life)

February 15, 2005 by bkumanchik

8 replies
523 views

Here is is so far, I'm going to need some pointers when I get ready to map this guy. Any feedback (good or bad) is welcome. Brian Kumanchik

Last reply by Zaryin, February 16, 2005

First attempt creating a character

January 11, 2005 by PF_Mark

13 replies
1.9k views

I am using Cooper tutorial and have started my first non AOAM model of a sargent character I want to animate. I am not sure what I am doing and I am just going for it and well learn from my misstakes I guess. This is what I have so far.

Last reply by higginsdj, February 16, 2005

wow.....look at this.....

February 13, 2005 by Newbert_Zero

45 replies
3.3k views

all i did was take a picture of my kitchen floor..... make a new material and change type to projection map. add the image..... and I can now use this on anything for example the picture is kindoff dark. (edited) this is the latest picture in this thread

Last reply by heyvern, February 16, 2005

My Batmobile Model

January 15, 2005 by Alien_Films

8 replies
1k views

Here are some pics of the Batmobile model I've been working on... It's a little rough, but I've been doing my best. I think the metal the car is made of doesn't look right. Any tips on how I can make the metal look right & that makes it look to much CG?

Last reply by nyahkitty, February 15, 2005

Working on a face

February 13, 2005 by Vash

19 replies
1.2k views

I've been working on a face-criticism with proportion is needed because I've been working without a rotoscope or a tutorial. Small crease points may be dense and random becuase of stray and largly cross sectioned splines. Wireframe and shaded are posted conglomerously. gif.bmp

Last reply by Vash, February 15, 2005

Taxi Cab

February 15, 2005 by bkumanchik

7 replies
601 views

Just wanted to show my first A.M mechanical model - a Taxi Cab. Feedback (good or bad) welcome. Brian Kumanchik

Last reply by bkumanchik, February 15, 2005

Ugly line with diffuse map

February 11, 2005 by msfolly

1 follower
12 replies
957 views

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

Last reply by Sacman, February 14, 2005

Biker Girl Priss

February 10, 2005 by noah brewer

16 replies
1.7k views

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

Last reply by noah brewer, February 14, 2005

To join, or not to join, that is....

February 13, 2005 by Eric2575

8 replies
698 views

There are many instances in a model, when you could simply stick one object into another to make it look like they are one. Take, for example, a wrought iron fence, or a lever sticking out of a machine. Another good example, intersecting pipes. When would you have to join the CP's and when could you get away with the cheat?

Last reply by R Reynolds, February 14, 2005

Lizard

February 14, 2005 by Aragorn23

0 replies
480 views

Hey, Well I haven't been doing much with AM lately and I kind of abandoned my gangster project, but here's a quick model I made yesterday and today of a lizard on a log:

Last reply by Aragorn23, February 14, 2005

dancing monkey

February 12, 2005 by Bendytoons

3 replies
407 views

More fun with bvh. Here's a couple of mo-cap tests. Dance, monkey, dance Monkey in the wind

Last reply by williamgaylord, February 14, 2005

For Vern

February 13, 2005 by mtpeak2

5 replies
433 views

Is this what you want?

Last reply by heyvern, February 14, 2005

Everybodies "Sword model"

January 27, 2005 by Newbert_Zero

37 replies
2.6k views

um just post all your swords here..........

Last reply by Vash, February 13, 2005

The Cat

February 11, 2005 by NickHutson

10 replies
553 views

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.

Last reply by pancho simpson, February 13, 2005

Animation Master short film on CGUnderground.com

February 10, 2005 by Frank Silas

8 replies
926 views

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…

Last reply by Sharky, February 13, 2005

idea with bvh

February 13, 2005 by johnl3d

5 replies
388 views

sometime the idea is better than the results 147k lightman.mov

Last reply by johnl3d, February 13, 2005

A Motion Capture Test

February 4, 2005 by John Bigboote

14 replies
1.3k views

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 …

Last reply by johnl3d, February 13, 2005

My desk lamp

February 12, 2005 by jamagica

1 follower
8 replies
674 views

Here it is..what do you guys think? I made it to animate later...

Last reply by agep, February 12, 2005

Dynamics for cloth tute is up!

February 12, 2005 by jamagica

1 follower
4 replies
797 views

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

Last reply by hypnomike, February 12, 2005

wow bvh files could be fun

February 12, 2005 by johnl3d

1 reply
350 views

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

Last reply by starwarsguy, February 12, 2005

Wookies can dance too

February 8, 2005 by cosmonaut

42 replies
3.2k views

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

Last reply by starwarsguy, February 12, 2005

"Wasting Time"

April 26, 2004 by Ross Smith

16 replies
1.7k views

This is a little short I made to test my new character's rig and (few) face poses. He will become much more elaborate in the future, with any hope. Video format is MPEG - 1. Wasting Time Audio and titles added in post. Thanks.

Last reply by Newbert_Zero, February 12, 2005

my first character

February 10, 2005 by Newbert_Zero

22 replies
1.1k views

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

Last reply by Newbert_Zero, February 12, 2005

marlin people test 1

February 11, 2005 by johnl3d

7 replies
623 views

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

Last reply by ddustin, February 12, 2005

Was missing tools

February 11, 2005 by Gene

7 replies
504 views

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

Last reply by starwarsguy, February 12, 2005

Gene's nail polish ...

February 10, 2005 by johnl3d

3 replies
373 views

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

Last reply by Gene, February 10, 2005

Balrog 1 2

June 21, 2004 by zandoriastudios

54 replies
4.8k views

Last reply by Mr. Jaqe, February 10, 2005

Non-sword, non-gun weapons.

January 27, 2005 by HeadlessBill

11 replies
962 views

I haven't modeled a sword or gun yet, but here are a couple of shuriken I modeled for the short I'm working on.

Last reply by Feline Witch, February 10, 2005

New Character

February 8, 2005 by paulmcg1

19 replies
1.6k views

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…

Last reply by Vash, February 10, 2005

Haunted House

February 5, 2005 by Dalemation

12 replies
1k views

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

Last reply by Mr. Jaqe, February 9, 2005

Dachshund Body

February 8, 2005 by .:shortdog:.

8 replies
635 views

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

Last reply by .:shortdog:., February 9, 2005

Bias Arithmetic

February 8, 2005 by wwoelbel

3 replies
402 views

This is a birds-eye of the full column segment. Just for reference

Last reply by wwoelbel, February 9, 2005

Tree

February 6, 2005 by zandoriastudios

1 follower
32 replies
3k views

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.

Last reply by apprentice, February 9, 2005

Gene worked real hard so I made this...

February 8, 2005 by heyvern

4 replies
411 views

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

Last reply by Vash, February 9, 2005

Squash and Stretch exersize

February 8, 2005 by Luxo

9 replies
777 views

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

Last reply by Luxo, February 9, 2005

The ugly thing

February 4, 2005 by pancho simpson

5 replies
686 views

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?

Last reply by pancho simpson, February 9, 2005

Updates to drawings at dbjr's web site.

February 8, 2005 by dbritton

1 follower
3 replies
642 views

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.

Last reply by dbritton, February 8, 2005

thank you Colin and Gene

February 8, 2005 by johnl3d

7 replies
736 views

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

Last reply by Mr. Jaqe, February 8, 2005

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