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Hi This file is a heavily compressed version of my entry to the April Competition at 10secondclub.com. I missed the deadline due to last minute compression problems. I was taking a 640x320 avi file, (13+ Mb), and attempting to get a 320x240 MPEG-1 file which fell between 1.5Mb and 1.8Mb. In the end I failed. The file shown here has been compressed as follows: 640x480 to 200x180pixels compressed with Sorenson3 at 20%. Audio compressed to 8bit mono using MACE 6:1 The results are not good so I am hoping that one of you wizards out there will be able to offer some advice. What is the best way of creating an MPEG-1 at 320x240 with decent sound and a legible …
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It's hot out here at LegoDude's college summer camp, so I made this little fan to keep him cool. Set the movie to loop and you too can stay cool! (Unfortunately for LegoDude, when the conference ends, and he goes on stage to close things down, he's going to be melting in the heat, lose his footing, and get sucked into the fan... sort of a LegoDude meets Mr. Bill ending to a fun debut of LegoDude! ) If anyone wants the project, I'd be happy to share. Need to zip together a package so you'd get the decals (cookie cutter and transparency map). This represents about two hours of work, so things like on/off knob and (d'oh!) electrical cord are left to you to do! …
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I was thinking about doing a scene on a mexican beach and started witha colorful but well worn row boat, next I would like to do a fishing net to drape over part of it but not quite sure how I am going to do it, also any ideas for details I may have missed.
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Mr. S.Permie! I need some input about how to model the mouth. Thanks in advance!
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I want to start making the lipsync poses for my character, but first: How is this wireframe? Are there too many splines? Not enough splines? I am just curious as to how many splines other modelers use for a mouth. Thanks
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Good day all! I'm truly not at the level of the rest of the users but "I've screwed my courage to the sticking post" and put up my first model. All I have to do now is figure out how to put some bones on it. Hints, suggestions and comments are very much welcome. The model can be viewed at the following address: http://www.cmcarts.ca/AM.htm thanks, Gaëtan (now if I can just fiugre out how to put in a smilie!?)
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Here is a dog model I have been working on. I think he's done but any suggestions for improvement are welcome. I designed him for the mascot competition so I wanna make him really good. I'm sure there will be better than this in the competition but I am pretty happy with him. Well, I hope you like him. Take Care
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I am working wiith V11 hair and was wondering how it would look in toon render simple example Thom volunteered but he looks different hair_test.mov
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Right, I couldn't resist posting this critter - it's a long while since I modeled a creature in AM and I am trying out the OSX version of AM. So far so good. This chap will be appearing, once finished, in my Bella Bear stories and replace the original alien that I nicked from the Hash CD. I kinda made him look a bit like Alf since I thought it might be fun to make him distant cousin… Anyway any comments or suggestions welcome. Oh, and please ignore the leery material - I am not using that I just wanted to try the materials under AM for OSX
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I have created a mosquito character...I tried to bone rig it, and it was tough work, but I did. And yes, I read all tuturials on doing stuff like that, but, I can't get the smart skins to cooperate with me...somebody PM me if they're willing to help:
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I'm working on the principle that if you move points around enough, eventually you luck into something that looks like what you are trying to model. I do have the rest of her, but the body looks pretty bad. Now I need to figure out how to decal her. sept0.tga
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Greetings! I run a small specialized psychological software company. I was very impressed with AM at a trade show. I need 3D looking animations of "characters" made into sequential "cells" that I can use as animated bmp files. If you are interested in contract work to make such characters, then please contact me at jas@braintrain.com, website: www.braintrain.com or call 804-320-0105 Joseph A. Sandford, Ph.D. President, BrainTrain
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Hiya everybody. Here's a peek at my first A:M character. He's still *very* in-progress. This is just a copy-flip-attach of what I have, so far. Still needs decent eyes, body textures, possibly some fur, as well. What I'd really like to do, is shoot for the sort of look that "Father of the pride" has (if anyone has seen this new NBC show) But so far I havn't found any settings for the fur material that look right. I'm probably going to hold off rigging him until the new Setup Machine 2 comes out, since that should (theoretically) make the job easier. Making this guy has been an uphill battle, of not just coming to terms with the problems of spline …
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Was trying a few different things tonight. Photoshop and Winmorph and of course AM morphed a face and applied it as a decal then set some poses in the chor original model face belonged to eddie on the cd wanted to see how well it would work beside the fact that the decal morph has a few flaws it worked okay check it out sort of pre halloweenish decaltest.mov
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Hi Folks, Well, now you all can finally see why I've been pestering everybody with my many questions for the past year. Here's my first WIP. It's not perfect, just a Proof-of-Concept. Here's what I'll be improving: Better sounds Fill light on left-hand character's face Rock firmer in bucket Better roller rotation for right-hand character Mountains will be darker and maybe some mist http://www.briancarabee.com/animation.htm Comments welcome. Thanks, Brian
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OK- I'm posting 1 more...then I'll leave you alone for a while until I have something more linear. This is ANOTHER test, and as an afterthought I tagged some sound onto it and it 'sort of' fit. If you can get your QuickTime to loop...loop it and this conversation goes over and over like the ones me and the wife have. I rendered this 10 sec sequence with and without porcelin and was able to frame for frame compare it at D1 resolution. The porceline STAYS. A colleague of mine once said..."sound is half the picture." That was the same guy that said "She's got freckles on her but she's pretty. Hope you enjoy. BigEd.mov
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I had to cheat a little and get this animation done. It's a little rougher than I would have liked, but it still works for what it is. I did use the blobbies in the shutoff segment, and would have liked to use them in other places to describe the fuel flow direction. Even better would probably have been using sprites, but I'm still unclear on how to get them (sprites) to behave properly. Thanks to Johnl3d for all his advice and guidance, and to everyone else who gave me tips. http://hre.com/jhvdigital/videoclips/colorsystem.rm Quicktime format; http://hre.com/jhvdigital/videoclips/pumpanimation.mov
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Some very dear friends of mine are getting married this Saturday and they asked me to produce a special video to be played during the ceremony. I gladly accepted and decided to offer it as my gift to them. I had previously requested help on this, and thanks to all the assistance, here is the final version. Visit my 3D Animations page and watch the first video "Kori & Jeff" (1.53 MB QuickTime). The stuff before the animation is actually longer, but I cut it down to make a smaller file.
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HEY! I don't know why I always have to make my floors reflective. There's a lot of effects in this test...V11hair...V11 dynamic constraints...V11 distortions within distortions...sprite material used as smoke...volumetric klieg lights... Anyways I used a 5X multipass render (at D1 res) and I think the klieg lights glitched-up the reflective floor. Other than take the reflectivity out of the floor, any suggestions? I'll post a full frame from the sequence in the next reply... Warning: Over emphasized female anatomy. takeoff.mov
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Got a chance to play with the latest version of AE so I combined that with the newest release of AM..v11r This is one place I think animating in the chor would be necesssary Oh AE attempt on a layer in the chor just a goofy PS file with a few effects Tinkering as usual Gnome testae.mov
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Thought I'd show how last weeks test ended-up. No matter what I did I had anomolies in the floor from the klieg lights I constrained for headlights si I rendered it without lights and without floor reflections separately and half mixxed the two in AfterEffects. Thought I would put it in the 'showcase' section because I am DONE tweeking on it. This clip shows Miss D. interacting with the car, with V11 hair, dynamics, smoke via streaks which I could NOT get to get any bigger, and distortion/box poses on the car. The animation was rendered at D1 30fps but I have to shrink it to 400X270 12 fps with LOTS of Sorenson Compression to get it under 1 mb. takeoff.mov
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this is a bit rough but uses the same idea as the fast water bones and expression to controls psoition of patches need to slow down the waves to make this look good but here is a rough idea scrub slowily and it looks okay qt ~500k rug.mov
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Here's a link to some of the work I've been doing. Its primarily all industrial applications. http://www.dustinproductions.com/robotics_2.htm I've converted them to flash to keep the file sizes down. David
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I tried pasting with bones and it showed up like so:
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I was bored, so I tried modeling ym computer. This is what I have so far. I plan on doing the keyboard, mouse, and tower next. Yes, I realize the speakers have no grates yet . And yes, I realize the wire for the right speaker is hovering over the ground a bit, I was too lazy to retake the pic. Crits pls!
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Yea, so I was playing around on A:M and I made a 2d character. Just thought it ould be neat to share, and I think someone started a post on wanting to do something like this?
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Finally got the effect I was looking for. It's a sensor to detect a pallet moving into position. d Pallet_Sensor_w_dp_logo.mpg
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New to AM: I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this, but I know this is the only one I can post a pic. Usually after saving and then reopening a project will this glitch occur. Upon reopening, I may see some artifacts or slight changes in alignment that I want to correct (another glitch?) When I try to move the CP's or the CP Bias points, the Bias handles jump way off the working area and can't be brought back in line. I have to shut down, not save and start over. In the attached pic, you see a sphere that I wanted to tweak in a very close view around the bottom where all points converge. When I clicked on a Bias handle, it jumped to the…
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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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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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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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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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Looks like I landed another animation/automation project. This new one is for a $500K Automation project. The company doing the proposal is having a hard time conveying the concept to the customer (that's where I come in). I'll animate the proposed line. Wish me luck, I'm goin in. David
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McKnuckles right before the new Hair style restrictions came down in the police force:) sorenson3 about 3megs http://www.3dartz.com/WIPs/McHair3A.mov Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com
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v11.1 fonts all one model all "letters" have a bone translate to constraint with lag based on position then model constrained to path fontline.mov
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did a quick palm tree in v11.1 palm.mov
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hi gang, here is my latest lip synch attempt. this about the 3rd pass. it isn't as lifelike as i want it to be, but it is definitely the closest i have ever come to breathing some life into one of my characters. i guess i am my own worst critic, and i've heard this dialogue so many times that i want to pull my hair out. i love bruce cambell, but i think i have ruined this quote for me....damn. note to self: don't lip synch with something you really like, you will learn to hate it! anyway here it is, let me know what you think! LipSynch Test (645Kb quicktime) -dieter
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hey i´m modeling my friend jane, my 1st realistic character ever! check it out and let me know what u guys think. oh and thanx for the feedback. ps. the hair is real, not made in AM (yet!) ;-)
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I'm trying to make an opera scene, and all is going well, but, I don't know how to go about making good curtains that can open and close like real ones would on a stage. Does anyone know how I could go about doing this? Thanks! -Robert Lazzarini
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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'm not planning on working on this much more, but I thought I'd post it anyway. PROJECT There's the project file if anyone wants it. I used an enhanceAM texture for the clouds, bout you might be able to use a standard noise combiner instead.
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Ok, I'm doing a scene where the kat walks up to the beach and see's that his make shift house has been washed away. You'll notice that I haven't done any work on his facial expressions but I'm wanting advice on the movement. Is the motion big enough? Also, do you think everything is timed right for realism and comic relief? Thanks for any C&C. Here's the link http://www.camzilla.net/animation/practice.avi
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Hi! I have this character maybe some have seen in a couple tests i posted. Anyway i put up a fair amount of work in this head ( and i am pretty slow), and made a lot of muscle poses for the face. I made what i think is a common mistake by not so experienced users, the range of my poses don't go extreme enough. I have to go back in the poses and exagerate way way more. I would like comments and crits before digging in again. Also i would like tricks or advices on making poses with scaling included. I mean by that having the whole jaw area scaled up with an extreme smile, or a very exagerated drop jaw, or one orbit and eye area scaled up when questionning.…
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Hello folks, Recently I have embarked on working on my modelling and animation skills, so I decided I would produce some animations and models based off of something I'm big fan of. Basically this is a head of one of the robotic heroes (Toa) from the LEGO toyline "Bionicle". www.bionicle.com Enough about what it is, here it is! Its not much, but for a beginner modeller this is a big step up for me.
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Hey everyone! I finished something in which I had an idea to do but really was doubting I could pull it off. I made a checkerboard plane and just added fur to it make blue fur come from the blue box on the checker board and the red fur come from the red box on the checkerboard, etc.. Now how I got the animation was I just pulled the guide hairs from left to right on keyframes manually. Now I learned alot from this seeing as I've only been using AM since December 16th and this is my first animation done with AM. It 3 seconds long but what the heck! Ahh, well I hope you all like it! Checkerboard Fur Also, once you watch the Animation you will see how the h…
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Here's a screen capture of the problem. I just can't seem to figure it out. As you can see the right bicep rotator is not orienting like the right bicep rotator target. I'm just wondering if anyone else is having this problem. I've tried it in versions 10.5, 11.0 and 11.1 and I get the same thing. Thanks.
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I'm working on a movie called Squirrels, but it isn't an animation feature. I'm going to be using Animation Master to create all the killer squirrels in the movie, but it is a live action feature. Its about a chemical waste spill in a local forest, infecting the squirrels living inside it. They become violent and homosidal (sp?)...a group of people have to sneak in undetected and nuke the forest before the infection spreads. Summer 2005 Squirrels 2: Apocalype COMING SOON!
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Made everything in 5 days using version 11. Was my first character as well. That is 256 passes and took about 1 hour and 15 minutes to render and I know I probably could of gotten away with less passes but I was going to take a nap while it rendered so what the heck . Hope you all like it. Please let me know what you all think. Paul
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