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grabbed a dem type gray scale off the web at tried this ...another quick example ....can post project if interested found something to fly over too sorry about the crash...no time to fix dem.mov
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Last reply by Flog, -
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HOORAH! I'VE ALMOST FINISHED MY FIRST EVER CHARACTER CREATED COMPLETELY BY ME! Surprising considering how long I've been modeling, eh? I never really tried to model any characters because I was scared. Now I am not! Tell me what you think, but try not to ruin my good mood too badly. He's a bank robber for a short my friend wanted me to make. NOTE: It's kind of hard to see the bump map on his hood, (that has the lines like in a ski mask) but they're there and will be visible in close-ups (i hope).
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Here's an air cylinder I'm working on. I'm using boleans for the holes but the hole on the rod end seems to go transparent part way through the stoke. Is that inherent to boleans? David Bimba2.m1v
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in this topic you could request a charachter or model. i would like to start with sum1 who could help me with building the charachters of Sum 41, an Canadian band, a band u should know
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Dragon-man
by Zaryin- 2 followers
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Hi everybody. It's been a while since I posted. I was working insane hours at work, blew out my back, and got fired the next day. It was a temp job though, and I knew I would get let go soon. I now have time to work on some stuff some more. This character is my spin on the Draconian from the series of Dragonlance books. Although I have the head done I have yet to decide if I will add the detail that I have in the reference with splines, or if I will try to do it with decals. The patch count is already at over 1200, just for the head, ugh! Let me know what you think about that. The pupil of the eye will be slitted. Right now I am using the eye from my…
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Naboo
by starwarsguy- 3 replies
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Someone emailed me who had heard I did Star Wars models for A:M, and wanted me to make a Naboo for their fanfilm. I'd done planets before so I agreed. Tell me what you think before I send it to him. By the way, it's a sphere with a green planet map on it with a high blue ambiance, inside a sphere using a transparency map that is the color white.
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As it was pointed out displacement materials were not available earlier this is a $1.98 ocean i created using a material as a displacement map and changing colors to also make it a color map then animating both in the chor its a bit too quick but a only gave myself a few minutes so only 1 render I'll post the project file the next post Tinkering Gnome ocean.mov
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Howdy folks, I decided to revive an old short that I was working on back in 2000 at least that's the oldest renders I found, I think I started it earlier. With some of the new features in A:M I think it will be easier to accomplish some things. Such as CP Weights, Dynamic Bones, etc. Plus it will help me to get into practice with some of A:M's new features before doing a bigger project. Anyways here are a couple screen shots and a little pose test anim I did back then. Hopefully I can stay motivated and get it done this time. testing_pose_slip.mov
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This is part of the interior of the haunted house posted a while ago. It`s obviously not completed and some items are `stand ins` but I thought it was about time I showed something again.
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Here's an example of an industrial cable carrier. It'll hold electrical cables. (got the compression low enough to post) I'm trying to do it using a constrain to surface, but can't get it to work. Ended up doing it in a chor. David Wire_trough.m1v
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Just thought I'd plug the recent additions to A:M Films here. If it's been a while you really should check more often. Recent additions include: Jerky - Rick May Whew - Rick May Masterpiece - Story, animation and sound mix by Luis Medrano Breakout of the Shell - Larry Rains Interesting stuff all found at: http://amfilms.hash.com/
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This is a little jagged but just testing the idea targas ..to PS then find edges then history brush Jane model on cd with her action and 1 multipass slow scroll to see effect better test000.mov
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I just got this in the mail! I can't believe this. It must be a practical joke. Thank (insert deity here) I just got cable last month! The film, by the way, is this one.
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Far Star teaser 2 Artists to creat this scene Reiko Weidtland modeler/texture/texture of 1121 astronuat the star of show Ian Cookson modeler/texture of 1121 room Rachel Jones space and far star planet Elisa Llamido narrator and composite of sonic boom and light effect Reiko Weidtland animation Jack West Director and lighting and heavy breather Far Star teaser 2
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I was just noticing that it took 165 million dollars to make the recent "Polar Express" aka "Children of the Corn Go on a Train Trip" or "Zombie Express" Now just thinking ahead I feel that movie opening weekend will gross 12 million tops this opening weekend. I hope they prove me wrong. But really do you think it will do that well. I always wondered where people get there funding to make these things? Can you only imagine taking 165 million and splitting it on this website among 20 or 30 small groups. How many movies of similiar quality could be made. I mean seriously I wish we had a large animation fund where we could split it up. If only Ho…
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Far Star Teaser 1: there will be more to come. Enjoy Aritst that worked on this scene Chad Hunt Unity Model and Rigging Laurence Clark Explorer and rigging Andy Mulia Texture or Exoplorer and window on Unity Rachel Jones space Holmes Bryant Moon Tomasz Grabarczyk Earth model booster emitter and lighting Jack West animation Elisa Llamido Narrator Far Star Teaser 1
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I know it's not finished, just looking for C & C...
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Against The Author, The War of the Worlds, has been under serious construction recently. For starts, the website has changed from http://www.simons-magic.com to http://www.againsttheauthor.com The Movie is now using several software pieces such as Magix Music Maker 2005 deluxe, Magix movie edit pro, Animation master 11, The logo creator, green screen and MGI Photosuite III SE in order to create such stunning effects and scenes. Any Ideas, suggestions, tips or comments can be posted here. Alos, my productions now have an over-all logo,which is posted below.
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Hello, Here's link to the still image of the chain link gate and dumpsters I modeled for the animation: Gate and Fence jpg 001 Please let me know what you think. There's a model of the victim involved in the animation but I'm having trouble with the basics of layered animation with actions, walk cycles, etc. Something I'll have to practice with training videos and tutorials first. Get used to it, THEN do that in the project for a client, not while working on said project.
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Sky
by starwarsguy- 1 reply
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I used MuliSky to make a sky, but it won't look like a sky... I used to be able to make great skys with it, but I always get something like this now.
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Since I am on the topic at the other thread, I'll show an example of faking geometry with images on 4 cp plane. Low patch but high quality at a glance which otherwise stiff looking wood stick.
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you could animate a bug going under a rug with animated displacement map quick try bug.mov
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I first posted my Gumby model in the New Users Section, but I think this has become a Work in Progress. Here is Gumby! Comments and Criticisms appreciated. After I am happy with the model, I will begin Rigging
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Hi everybody, I've been working a lot on modeling and other things for my animation. I'd love it if you went to my website and checked out the updates as well as the story. Input on anything is always appreciated! The link: http://mvandeweghe.ath.cx/
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For those of you who missed its debut in September, The History Channel is airing "The Battle of Tripoli" again this week--at 11pm on Thursday the 11th, and again at 3am on Friday the 12th. I believe that is for both east and west coast. However, I have DirectTV and I'm on the west coast, so we get it at 8pm and midnight. (stupid spherical Earth...) So anyway, just be sure to check your local listings. There are sailing ships and maps that were made using A:M, and I have samples on my web site if you happen to miss it. Enjoy!
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I need to expand it some but not sure where to go next ,any ideas
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Here's a few seconds of my first character and first attempt at lipsync. The mouth is 4 pose-sliders adjusted manually. The voice track is me. Divx Clip
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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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OK. Givin' up on the cape for now. It's just NOT in the cards for a long haired character...not in motion anyway. My cape had 3 layers of dynamic chains, and looked a LOT more active in the app than it does after render, what happens to all that cool secondary motion? I'll post my test in the WIP forum because this one will not allow attachments. Basicly, I rendered it 2 ways: WITH collision detection and WITHOUT. With CD the cape bounced off the hair repeatedly and sprang and recoiled furiosly out of control. Without CD, as in this test post, the hair simply passes thru the cape. An interesting side note: I saw 'THE INCREDIBLES' last night. They sort of co…
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Hi everyone...can anyone tell me how to get video playing on 3d images
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I was commissioned by Answers in Genesis Ministries to "3Dize" their revised logo. Here's something cool I've made with it. I'm still tweaking the environment map. Special thanks to Rodney Baker for helping me with the AI import problem.
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This has been giving me fits all night long. I can't get the surface smooth of this simple, yet compound shape - notice the deformations around the cutout. The cutout is giving me all the problems, but I have to have it there. Any suggestions on how to do this? None of the planes are flat and none are directly on the xyz plane. The piece is curved too. The picture doesn't do the shape justice. The shape I am trying to get is very similar to the rounded quarterpanel of a roadster like the AC Cobra. Who is the expert on forming sheetmetal in AM?
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Here is the mdl since I don't have a personal website. Lab_acc.mdl
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Ok by no means is this stuff cream of the crop or really original, but I thought I'd post 2 renders I did in AM. I had a VHS concert tape laying around for a band called 'god lives underwater' which had a mantis as their logo. So I put together 2 renders involving a mantis model I had been working on for a little while. The 3d mantis was done in AM and the sequence was put together in Vegas Video 5. http://www.wideopenwest.com/~johnjzsigo/GLU/Gv2.wmv This whole render was done entirely in AM. http://www.wideopenwest.com/~johnjzsigo/GLU/Mantis.wmv I got the idea from the person who posted the clip of a animated monkey watching a video of his daughter o…
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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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http://www.museoffire.com/Nosferatu/ Why he didn't post this yet is unknown but searching around I found this animation. The artist's first animation is on AM films, but this one is a mind boggling 30 minutes long. WOW!!! We need more of him around. Great work and I enjoyed it!!! I want to see more of your work 30 minutes. Who said a film should take 20 years and never get done. He proved that theory wrong. Great job to whoemever made this animation
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At least I hope it is. I was in the mood for doing a human-like character and he was just....there. I might even finish him too.
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Hello, all. I'm in the early stages of modeling a set for a short piece I'm working on, but I'm getting some strange artifacts that I can't seem to shake. I based my volumetric settings on this thread ( http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3994 ), but I don't seem to be getting the same quality of render. Number one issue is the sharp diagonal banding on the light shaft. I've set my klieg width to zero, as instructed, but no dice. It's not the "quality" setting in the volumetrics, either--even at 99999%, the banding is as sharp as ever. Number two is the missing shadows behind the urinal pipes. What happened to them? Is it because of the Z-bu…
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Yet another project to keep me from getting enough sleep...but lot's of fun nonetheless. This idea for a series was one I suggested as a project for the Atlanta AM User's Group. The idea was to use marshmallows as the characters and have all sorts of horrible and hilariously funny things happen to them "by accident". We would call the series the "Marshmallow Safety Films". Being such vulnerable creations, accidents are pretty easy to come by. Colin Freeman took a first crack at modeling one of the characters while I developed several story boards. Shortly thereafter Colin had to focus the Egyptian project he was doing at IBM, and we have not gotten the group togethe…
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I finally freed up some time in my schedule and began updating the "Ed's head" model for the 2005 CD. I wanted to share my progress and get feedback as I went so here is the first update: project render (the animation is horrible but that's beside the point) My goal before submitting the final model is (as well as general clean up) to include some sliders for the hair style. I have no idea how hard this is yet but I guess I'll find out. But if there's anything else you think might be helpful, let me know. I'll see what I can do before the CD is mastered. BTW, I did the hair after reading through the excellent Colin's Loft Cooper hair tutorial. Go throu…
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The dancing girl - For an advertising movie
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Only my second animation ever that wasn't a cycle of some type. Remember I'm just a novice but would love any constructive comment. Its a 1.8mb mpeg-1 file. Due to problems I had animating this model (major problems with the rig with unwanted bone rotation and oddball balance bone shifting) I won't be trying to fix the animation. I might try using the original model (circa 2000) that was working flawlessly in v9.5 next time. I would have hosted it on my own web page but I can't seem to upload anything larger than 650k so my appologies ahead of time for hosting it on tripod. The post title acurately expresses my current mood in attempting to post this animati…
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I've never really modeled a good character before. I've had a script for awhile for a short I wanted to do, but never had an idea for a character. After seeing the incredibles, I had an idea what I wanted. I want to make a girl character something like Violet or Mirage (round heads smaller bodies). I don't have any real modeling experience with characters, so how should I go about making her?
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Ok, so I've been trying to figure out the best way to animate a chain and sprocket like on a bicycle, but I see no easy way to do this. The easiest way I can think of is to use a path in a chor, and add a bone to each link in the chain that would follow the path. Then, I guess I would have to constrain the path to the sprockets. Please let me know if you have any better way to do this?? Oh, another question...why isn' it possible to add a path in an Action? Wouldn' this be useful? Thanks, Eugene
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I decided to make a cute character that's a top hat..Can you guess where the mouth's gonna be? The opening is going to be the seam between the bottom of the hat and the rim. Not much to see yet, but just wanted to post up
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Here's part of what I showed a potential customer. It really pales compared to the work the rest of you guys do, but it performs a very specifc function for the industrial equipment buyer. Most purchasers (VP's etc.) of industrial equipment are not engineers, and have a VERY difficult time understanding CAD drawings. They very quickly understand an animation. I can communicate in 15 minutes what would take an hour otherwise. Remember, most automated equipment STARTS at $150,000 and can easily cost millions, so they need to understand how it will work. This approach works very well. My hope is to continue to build a library of industrial items so …
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I've started a car of no specific type. I just grabbed a rotoscope and started making the car..I made some parts the way I wanted them to look so it'd be a new type of car...I've only made half of it...(screenshot below). I still have some unwanted creases. I had problems with five point patches but fixed 'em up. What a relief! Critiques please!
Last reply by jamagica, -
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I have modeled a tower and would like to "place" it in my back yard. Howver, I am still VERY new and as so my tower placement doesn't look as real as I'd like. Does anyone have any ideas about what I can do to make it look more realistic? I know I have to add a shadow and light and stuff. However, I havn't done any lighting tuts yet, and for the shadowing, I think I have to model a floor, which I'm not sure about either. Any help, (or just post a link to a tut that can help) would be great.. Thanks
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FRIDAY: This was my contest entry in the Anzovin's modeling contest this summer, and it took 2nd place in the Centaur categorie. Today I was tinkering with TSM2 and thought 'hey- I'll rig that centaur model'...so this is the result of 2 hrs rigging, 1 hour animating and an afternoon D1 render. There are NO cogs,intermediary bones or smartskins yet. We havent seen too many 'alternative' models rigged with the new TSM2 so I thought I'd post it. MONDAY:RErendered over weekend, the reflections appeared after restarting A:M and reloading the project, I also turned on the motion blur (multi-pass) for this test. 176 views over the weekend! Thanks for the compliments! …
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