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At long last... the results of the "Finish the Unfinished" Image Contest! See all the entries, hear the winners interviewed and, yes... The Big Scratch-Off! Congratulations to the medalists and a BIG THANKS to everyone who entered! Get yourself a soda, fire up the big screen and... FINISH THE UNFINISHED! There was more than one winner in the Big Scratch-Off... you'll have to watch it to know who you are! Send me a PM on the forum and I will arrange to PayPal you your winnings! @Shelton @johnl3d @Goss @Roger @ChuckGram @R Reynolds @Vance G @wedgeeguy @Michael Brennan @svetlik @createo @Madfox @Rodney @Tom

Hi Guys, About 4 months ago I started working on a short animation (keeping up with the Mid Term Goals in my profile 😄 ) I'm getting close to posting the final video, so I might as well get the ball rolling. Will be posting some Time-Lapse videos here in the comings weeks as well. Cheers.

Thanks for all the comments guys, yeahh I like the topic of food and drink for an image contest great subject for still life. Finally uploaded my short to YouTube, after many months of hard work, I give you a whopping 1:4 minutes of distraction.

Once again I must remind everyone of the sage advice offered by my friend three-finger-Pete ... "If it's explodin' ... Don't be holdin' " ... Have a safe and happy 4th of July! [Mod note: Posted on behalf of password-unremembering forum member.)

Well done guys, great work.

Great work guys! Congrats to everyone for finishing and congrats to the winners!

Congrats to the winners! Rob, thanks for taking the time to run these contests.

Congratulations everybody. Very well done! And of cause thanks a lot to Robert too for hosting the contest and all the work you did there. Best regards *Fuchur*

The results of the "Finish the Unfinished" Image Contest are finally here! Watch the video at FINISH THE UNFINISHED

thats mad ! you got me digging the crates for old work lol , TVC for Doritoes

Been working on this little guy since AM 98 !! haven't had much time t work on it with workload and life stuff .. . 10 versions later in AM 19 . . some things screwed up but fixed now, new version of Momentum / Perry Animations Rig in place, love this rig, very simple and does the job ! we've got a local animation gathering weekly I think called loopdloop where you send a little loop animation, got invited to submit something by Perry Animation so doing a little 30sec one, more to come soon, need to work on the animation routine those skills have become super rusty

Your last comment is exactly my sentiment.... ( " there must be some reason we don't want to do this " ) Trusting Microsoft is a big leap of faith...

In 2001, I was commissioned by a designer friend to create a book illustration for a novel called Angry Young Spaceman. A few years earlier, I had done the back cover illustration for Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask by Jim Munroe. For this next novel, I got to illustrate the front and back cover and even created a short looping animation, which we made available as a screensaver. It's always so fun to work on book illustrations and then go into bookstores and see your work on the shelves. Proudly all made in A:M

[Mod note: Don't miss the many excellent WIP images above this post!] Okay, it took me a while...I think I worked the kinks out. Here is a test render that I'll probably watch a thousand times and second guess most of what I did (1920x1080 MP4 H.264). It's a quick pan around the room....it looked correct on a few players like VLC and Windows Media Player, but one it was washed out (I'm assuming it was the color correction in that one...it's more geared to viewing EXR sequences). If it looks washed out to anyone, let me know. BreakRoomFlyThrough_04_10_2025.mp4

Fun to participate! Although it concerned pictures and not animations it still was a joy to join. watching out for the next contest. congratulations to the winners and all who entered the contest!

Hi Everyone! I am enjoying the entries and interviews in Robs fantastic 'Finish the' production! Great work! Cant wait to see who wins... is it too late to enter?

Outstanding!

Found a workaround. Changed the map type to Legacy Bump instead of Bump

Very cool! Great work.

Neat! How long did it take you to do a credible version of a certain nuclear plant worker?

Perfectly executed commercial for donuts I would say. Very nicely done. Best regards *Fuchur*

Can't wait to see it. Ironically, I'm working on a scene involving a doughnut shop.

Mmmm! It looks good enough to eat. I'm eager to see what comes next! I have sometimes thought "Food and Drink" would be a fun contest topic but I'm not sure we'd get many entries.

Congratulations everyone! Excellent work.

Looks cool, can't wait to see it!

Congrats Everyone!!! Thanks again Robert for putting this together and for the added scratch tickets prizes. You totally went above and beyond what anyone would expect for an image contest.

Robert thank you for putting this together. It was a great project

Rob, that animation came out better than I thought. Thanks to you and all for the contest. So much talent in this competition.

Congrats all around!

Sage advice indeed I will follow that with a man BBQing on a jet board. Stay safe guys!

Great stuff Aldrich, So entertaining and now I'm craving Doritos, thanks! :P

test animation for World Industries TVC for Globe Skate comp over here, they originally started to do this in 3DS Max until they realised AM was the best for this type of work, dont know where these models are though that was a while ago, most of the work was left on the company servers as I only worked there freelance

Thanks fellas, its been a long time coming ha ha true about the animation thing Michael, finally getting there and def about to have some fun David ! Happy UFO Day ! ( didn't know this was a thing lol ! )

bluemeawaybird.prj

Please load the PRJ and tell me if "Happy New Year.wav" show its waveform in the Chor. Can you hear it if you scrub the chor timeline? Then import "slurp2.wav" and drag it into the Chor. Does it show? What version of A:M are you on, including the version letter? SoundTest001.zip

In 2002, my friend Paul and I started our own 3D animation studio using the old office that Streamline Media originally occupied. It was one of the most exciting yet stressful times of my life I never thought keeping a sleeping bag in the office closet would be a good idea until then. We were trying many things to promote the studio, Focus Chaos Inc. so I submitted my Valentine's Hash image contest entry to 3D World magazine and then completely forgot about it. It wasn’t until our friend Steve, who rented us the office came in one day and told me he saw my image in a magazine at the bookstore! I still have a copy of the magazine, 3D World May 2002.

Back when I was finishing college, a friend from high school started his own web design company. He pitched the idea of creating an online poker game and came to me to create some graphics for it. The game was going to have a top-down view of the poker table, but I still wanted to create everything in 3D. I had just started modeling some of the players before the project got canceled but I was still able to reuse some assets for later projects.

I was nearing the end of my third and final year in Illustration when my teacher approached me with a volunteer assignment outside the usual class projects. In Oakville, there was a summer festival that took place in the 1990s and early 2000s called the Oakville Waterfront Festival. It was a major event at the time, featuring live music, games, food, and craft shows. The previous year, my teacher’s studio had illustrated the festival poster, which featured a 3D rendering of an ice cream cone. Having seen what I was capable of modeling in A:M, he asked for my help in creating a 3D version of the festival’s beloved mascot, "Jake from the Lake." Over the next few weeks, I modeled Jake and his buddy, Fishy, and the rest is history. Below, you can see a screenshot of the final poster, along with the Photoshop revisions my teacher made, including the addition of the ice cream cone from the previous year. It was such an exciting time I had never seen my work in print like that before. The poster was displayed all over the city, featured in newspaper articles, and even printed large scale for bus shelter ads.

Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure is on YouTube now! The last of the film festivals I submitted to is over, so I've finally set the movie free. 😀 You can see it on my YouTube channel here: Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure