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Just a small question. I tried earlier and wondered why I couldn't upload a movie of 9 seconds I made with the animation Master. The first time, some months ago, I thought it was my computer with virussscanner and firewall. Now I tried again and I can only fill in the description, and then I come to the thumbnail page. I can push any button, nothing happens. Is it my computer or is it the protected area I'm bouncing on? Not that I worry that much, but I thought I would let you know. Thanks, MadFox.
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I get the message saying Im not allowd to upload this type of file ,but its an mp4 h264 codec 5.7 mb I don't have a clue whats wrong .any ideas
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When I go to the stills galleries, I don't have the option to upload anymore? Is it just me?
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US Mail Box
by Dhar- 4 replies
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I needed a simple US mail box, couldn't find one. So I made this to share with everyone. Has a bone for the mail slot door. Logo included in the zip file. [attachmentid=14363] Mail_Box_Model.ZIP
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Still playing with dup wizard this time with a few blcoks made and duplicated with the wiz I applied some metal and glass materials on the the new 12 cd and did a quick render adupbox.mov
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Animating a walk were the figure is carry some flowers. I'd like the flowers to have some secondary movement to the hand and arm carrying them. What would be the best way to do that ? At the moment the flowers are separate from the figure. Should they part of the figure model or constrain them to the model in the chor. Or another method altogether ? regards simon
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This is to anyone whose work belongs to a label, or anyone who had used pre-recorded music from a commercial band that is carried by a label. Now, in the past for some film work, I have used commercial music and had to go through the artists, their label, ascap, and bmi to get written permission to use the music for our production, along with paying a one time fee (or in some cases no fee as long as we listed everything in the credits). So, here's my question. We are doing a videogame. A popular band asked us if they could do music for the game. In this case it would be all new original music that has not been featured on any work they have done for any label. So, th…
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I've always liked the squash and stretch look of the Veggie Tales character's eyes and wondered how to do it in A:M. There were several posts on this forum showing how it was done with distortion boxes so I gave it a try. Very cool... then it made me wonder if the same technique on a generic round character head would make it easy to generate a bunch of unique characters very quickly without having to do any rerigging or remodeling (other than a new distortion box). After a little experimentation I came up with a design that works pretty well in most deformations - except for really extreme stretches. The example video shows one model instanced three times in t…
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I am producing a Trek parody as a safety film for a local business interest. Here are some pictures of the models in progress. I am a beginner but A:M makes it so easy. What a worthy investment! Where ya been all my life A:M??? http://www.eventhorizonmedia.net/am/am.html
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Hi, I am trying to render an image that looks like fairy dust emitting from a simple ball object. I used a sprite and when I render the image(with alpha) it looks great. Fairy dust is emitting off of the object and it looks like a comet. But it only looks good when I look at it in quicktime. When I bring it into programs like an AVID or final cut all I can see is the object and not the sprites. I need to render it with the alpha because I want to use this comet as a transition between shots(a lot of shots). I am posting two images. One image is what I want it to look like the other is what the exact same image looks like in an editing program. Any help woul…
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Iv been trying displacement maps on hair and it looks promising ,still a bit like a rug at the moment but still messing
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Here's a technique for quickly laying a surface texture over an irregular object without first needing to decal it. The various projection map types work well for regular-shaped objects like sphere's, planes and cylinders. For irregular rounded shapes a projection mapping type which is based on the surface normal is often a better solution. AM doesn't currently have this option but for stills you can use the environment map to project a texture. Just add an environment map material and select an image. A spherical projection is ideal because it avoids pinching at the poles, but even simple photographic textures work well. On larger flat areas the texture will stre…
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Since I have been off (from work... ) this week I been pushing some ideas I've been thinking about on my commute to & from work so here is another one. I used an expression to move a series of bones on a plane to make waves. The actual expression was applied to each bone with a simple copy and paste and a tweak. It needs adjustment since it is a bit fast but I wanted to try a render. So I grabbed a boat off the cd, a darktree material, for the water, added a null following a spline on the grid, to contrain the boat's position and rendered. Its only a single multipass to speed things up ( slow computer) and a litttle jaggy but here it is wavetest.mov …
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So I do not own a program yet that saves in "AI" and so I downloaded a demo of corelx5 draw to try out and make some shapes to use the Illustrator file import wizard in AM . It seem to me to be a pretty nifty way of saving some time on certain kinds of modeling. Especially for buildings, walls , windows , things with holes etc. I was kind of curious what others thought of this process. Do they use it often, seldom , never ? Are there any pitfalls , or issues . The splines it created so far for me seemed decent when imported and need little fixing but I have not really done a lot of this. So woul…
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I've adding bones and contraints relationships. I must be doing/missing a step. When i reopen the saved project they're all gone. any ideas? Im using version 19.5a
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viewA bit of a copy of Emilio's road realy ,but its good practice wmv 450 k I added a lot of volumetric lights
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I'm working on a continuous 2 min. "shot from a drone" clip of my locomotive traveling for 1 mi.(1.6 km) to check for smoke and steam dynamics/densities and various lo-res cheats on the stone ballast that embeds the railroad tracks. It begins as a long shot, moving to a close-up and ending as a "running along beside" medium shot. The surrounding countryside is made up of twenty-one instances of the same one tenth of a square mile mesh arrayed along either side of the track. To add variety to each landscape instance I plan on applying a different pose to each one. The left ten instances shown already have some poses applied. While I was styling another pose, mostly usin…
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vlight.mov Trying an idea for something I'm working on V14_alph4 project vlight.zip
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Hi, Here is my most recent render of the USS BB-33 Arkansas. i haven't finished the modeling, decaling and texturing yet because i haven't been able to find any close-up images of the front and middle of the ship. Comments appreciated.
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It's been a very long time since I've posted....well anything (2007?). I've been logging onto the forums pretty regularly for inspiration and have been working on this for couple months. I present to you, the USS Evenstar.....a work-in-progress.
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USS Midnight 1 2
by Darkwing- 2 followers
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Over the past week I've been working on a model for a friend to go in his Star Trek fan series, Red Squad. Anyways, I'm at the texturing stage now and figured I'd post what I have. I've beveled everything and for the most part, it's actually all one piece, at least the main hull, saucer and nacelles are.
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Hiya folks! Here is a new piece that I worked on in collaboration with a number of people. AM was used for the basis of the metronome and related effects (so hopefully I can post it in this section, instead of the OT section). You'll need quicktime and its 19mb: http://www.iliadic.com/ut.mov Comments and criticism are welcome! Check out the rest of my site at http://www.iliadic.com Enjoy!
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Today, in a fit of boredom, I made a 3D Thom icon for A:M on my desktop, because it's silly for a 3D app to have a 2D icon. And then that project mutated into this:
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UV-map weirdness 1 2
by Tore- 2 followers
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Having experienced some strange behavior when handling UV-maps in A:M, I am wondering if I am doing something wrong, or this is a bug. It goes like this: 1. I make a (in this case very simple) model in A:M. 2. Exporting the model (without UV's) as an .OBJ 3. Importing the model into 3DCoat. 4. ...and gets this automatic UV unwrapping. 5. Still in 3DCoat I then paint something on the model. 6. And export the model as an .OBJ with enclosed Targa color map. 7. Back into A:M I import... 8. ...and gets this distorted result - even if I render the model. The projection bulges and weave, and t…
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Hi all, Here's a WIP of a hair style on Lady Goodbody using the v.11 hair system. I call this one "the Miss America look". The renders are pretty speedy if you use lights with z-buffered shadows. And the hair looks better with those lights, too. Thanks Hash guys, especially Randy and Ken for bringing the Mac version along so far, and for the great hair system. Jim
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I notice that there's a built-in [?] offset when V.13 pastes a copy. Every time V.11 pasted the copy directly over the original, I half wished it wouldn't. Now that it doesn't, I find that I have need of the old way, particularly when making multiples that have to sit on the same baseline...like the engines on the Junkers flying wing, like the tank bogey wheels I'm trying to align. Can the offset be disabled, or re-set to a known figure, so that 'X' number of cliks up, and 'X' number sideways will put the copy back on the baseline?
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took the model from here http://johnl.inform.net/pages/light&material.htm added some hair and got the attached light_mat_hair.mov
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another attempt to play with hair using an animation this time with 2 qts hcreature.mov
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been working with v11 hair...thanks Collin for the tut..anyway wanted to see how well the dynamics work so I set up thom with the skip action from the cd added some hair and got this. the skip action didn't like thom's arm though test.mov
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This is a test to see how v11 hair could be used for eyebrows and eyelashes. The result is conclusive. I'm pleased with the results. What do you think? I'm not quite completed with the eyebrows though. I spent most of my time on the eyelashes.
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I recently changed my Avatar to a clip of one of my 'gurlee gurls' unleashing her hair, it worked pretty well for a test...thought I would show the gang. In the model, the character's hair is 'down' with dynamics ON...then I made a pose with hair 'UP' and dynamics OFF... and as I animate I turn the pose from ON to OFF and the hair falls and becomes dynamic, which I thought was purty cool... I plan to further explore the ability to use grooming mode in poses and actions. To see the clip, simply roll-over my avatar and a button will appear to see the QT sample.
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post your comments please! -Mike
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Hey- Meet Harriet. Good Side: V 11's hair modelling tools are quite nice, and I love the way they react to your characters motion...I'm having fun and look forward to rigging Harriet with TSM and the new CP weights... Bad Side: This model keeps crashing the renderer. On this test I was lucky to get 69 frames rendered, but it was a 150 frame chor. I set it to render overnight, usually, and come in to see A:M has crashed. Today I came in and saw it had crashed so I figured maybe I should download the latest version, 11E. So I did, and then went to open this project. Crash. So I uninstalled v11 and cleaned out the registry. Reinstalled, open proj-crash, open model-…
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Just to try it I rerendered the sprite follow path thing I posted with an alpha channel and used it as the hair "sprite" to see how it would look growing and moving at the same time johnl3d weirdhair.mov
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setting color thickness kinkiness over time really great idea f11_.mov
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http://johnl.inform.net/pages/111btest.htm animated displacement material trial with a little hair project file v11_1b available 111btest.mov
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did a quick palm tree in v11.1 palm.mov
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decided to play woth hair and rigid bodies in version 11.1 no decasl used straight hair modified per the latest tut for thickness and color over time sort of an alien turkey rendered fast p11_1.mov
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I've been toying with v11's hair and collision-detection and came-up with a test scenario you may find helpful should you wish to experiment with this feature. In my opinion, it works, but could do with some improvement. Here's a movie...project will follow in subsequent post: CollDetect_test.mov
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I spent wednesday playing around on what you can do with hair, and just barelly getting into it. Selecting the mesh for hair emitter of my model (Erica) from my old V8.5 project. The new hair adds so much life into my model. Its almost like a barbie doll as someone pointed it out. The Hair emitter came with direct manipulation tool, and a comb, and lenghtener tool. I choose 3 point sectional hair, and in hindsight I would of maybe go for 5 for better shaping. I wanted to basically know how the toon render would be with the hair. For the life of me I had a couple of render that render the hair out to toon, and not really knowing what I did to make that render not render…
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heres a test with alpha 7 but noticed that materials or decals disappear with simulation start these are basic settings no tweaking v00001.mov
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Lightest color less friction test render drip.mov
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someone asked about this so here is my normal $1.98 response testitem.mov
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Sorry in photoshop and got an idea for a displacement map using chrome filter and a few others any way I tried two ideas with a material on two large single patches added a material then to finish the scene on one more patch [attachmentid=13958] project file with front decal and the two darktrees [attachmentid=13959] v13disp_a.zip
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quick test but its late will finnish later [attachmentid=15227] have to tweak the distortion box [attachmentid=15252] Will have try this again later eddis.mov eddis1.mov
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two materials translate y and rotate y over time [attachmentid=13400] had to render something while watching the news [attachmentid=13401] again.mov v13again.zip
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While talking to a friend I put this together..a v13 doodle [attachmentid=15113] [attachmentid=15114] With a tagsequence and PS (plastuc wrap/glowingedges) even more fun [attachmentid=15115] reflect0.mov reflect.zip reflect0ps.mov
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Since there are so many still examples out there, I thought I'd post myself up a moving version. I think others have shown this technique before, but here's my thinking and set-up behind this particular scheme: You have the overall muscle bulk laid out (arm/leg masses, chest, etc). To add definition, you set up complex AM models (which would animate only with difficulty if part of the main mesh) as 'plus-ups.' These models would be good for structures like triceps, all those back muscles around the shoulder/spine area, tendons and whatnot. You could either paint these and try to animate them - or - you could build them out of splines, animate the splines …
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snowed tonight so after some exercise (shoveling) was doodling with PS and made a weird sprite . here is the result [attachmentid=13498] oh the project file and sprite [attachmentid=13499] v13sprite.mov v13sprite.zip
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tried a darktree in v13 worked fine [attachmentid=13547] might try a few more v13darktree.mov
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