Vertexspline

Hey Thanks you guys too !! I have been very happy to share and celebrate with my Animation Master friends it has been really great fun for me since I have refocused my energies with AM and this forum has much to do with that feeling indeed. So thanks All of you for your BD wishes .

Hey guys --thanks for all that feedback and information. So i guess like a lot of importers one has to still do a little thinking and planning and sometimes nothing beats the good AM modeler and your own splinage. But the botton line was glad to hear it was used by some of you guys and looks like for me I may add this to my tool pipe at least for somethings. The one man circus needs all the time savers one can find. and Rodney special thanks for that detailed response and examples!

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 would be appreciate any thoughts. I know is it always better to keep working on making your models in AM to improve and I do ...but saw this as a time saver of which as we all know is always good.

Rodney, Not really been back long enough to voice much of opinion but I think you may have some logical points here with the 2011 timeframe. (Now personally really great idea to push to 2012 as gives me some more time to learn so that i can particpate in a better way.) One could think of maybe a user show reel type production for remaining 2011 gleaning scenes from the best of the projects here ...and or have folks submit their own small 10 -15 second item for possible inclusion---in a 2011 user show reel. I think a good user show reel posted about can bring some new users. Just random thoughts. The one thing for sure the 2011 project set being worked on is uber cool looking and I cannot even wait to see what some of the amazing scenes that will be created - no matter the year.

Thank you all....very kind of you. And always nice to see another one. (BD) . Think I am going use some gift money and add another ver 16 subscription so I can maximize my free time on Animation Master-- now that would make it a Happy Birthday for sure .

Steve---my thoughts exactly looking at these ---great job Nancy ---so cute a character pair indeed!! and great lighting for sure. Plus the test was illuminating as well....and I think indeed for animation you can often get away with less passes as all that motion one does not have a chance to really focus on the subject so easily. Thanks for doing this ---so we all can decide for ourselves what makes sense.

hey JohnP --welcome to AM and the forums. And Robert understates the fact for answers being right here --This forum has more experts who are so willing to help new folks than any other I have seen. And no matter the skill level they are always friendly. I might suggest to try a quick search first in the forums before posting 1. because the question may have been addressed before and secondly because when i do that I find all kind of other cool things to learn at same time. This forum is like gold mine of information. But--that said ---if you are stuck or getting frustrated just post away --These guys will help and help you fast!!

Pinballwzd ---cloth systems are pretty complex and lots and lots of tweaking always required. Its one of the most devilish items in any 3d application that has it. One nice thing about Animation Master's Cloth sim --its pretty fast. So tweaking can happen faster. Anyhow enjoy and keep working at it. The results can be very nice.

Ilidrake-----nice job and both but for me I like the girl better as well.....and I think Rodney's thoughts are spot on for the other dude. To me he is close to being as good as the girl but she just looks ready to go.....(and i wish I could do either as well )

yes Thumperness ---i thought the flower one really brought a nice combination of items to learn and in a doable fashion. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Love to see these older threads rise to top and get a glimpse of what some folks can really do with Animation Master----------Gene-----wow ---just so inspiring --your modeling is awesome man. And I know why ---one you have talent for two people and second I noticed on one of your screen postings it was 330 am ----That's burning the midnight oil .......You obvious work hard at this and show the way its done ---- great work!

smiles--- i just did the flag tutorial which looked pretty nice and then did it again and changed the size flag and then changed the texture of flag - then tried experimenting more and things started to get a little wonky and then I ran out of time and did not get a chance to dig into the tech reference stuff for help. but I must say i was pretty impressed with the speed of running the simulation on a simple item.

Thumperness and Chris -----have to agree with you completely. Plus a video has voice and image working together focusing on the item to be focused about. Sometimes a written tutorial with a few images -its hard to tell sometimes what you are supposed to be looking for ..plus as Chris points out --with video you get those little tidbits thrown in( sometimes off topic ) that help so much ... Now that said --because of how my free time rolls --written tuts that i can print are very helpful for me as well as sometimes do not have access to a comp.

Yes bobby--hope you solved that issue as I really like the looks of this scene --- that house rocks. Can easily see something pretty cool happening there.

very nice model and animation --thanks for sharing.

Johnl --that was pretty cool looking----any longer and might have been able to me into a trance......smiles

hehe --looks like a winner!!!

Hey robert---thanks for posting the software for screen capture.. Might come in handy in future to post things. Awesome. AM forums go beyond great.

really nice work indeed !!! and btw ----- Sonic the hedgehog rocks !!!!!!!!

Nice demo Robert....very informative once again!

chris ---- I do hope to be able to "jump into" the next forum project . I have been spending most of my time relearning alot of AM and in particular trying to get lots of practice modeling -i guess I should throw in some practice with TAOAM (I have reread it if not practice it all yet) (Also going through the David Rodgers book) --and some Barry Zunder videos . The joy and struggle of Animation Master is ---its all you. Its starts with a blank screen. Now that can be extremely fulfilling for the more adept and more than slightly frustrating for the novices. But Thumperness I can tell is undaunted and marches forward ---go Thumperness Go!

Had never seen before and was completely drawn in....wow and wow again.

Thumperness-----if it makes you feel any better I have many frustrating moments daily but also have some aha moments too as I am sure you do as well. This stuff is not easy.....if it was everyone could do it. I think you ended your post with the key words Practice ...practice practice........ I feel beginners think all the time " we are not getting it ". But imagine of what you knew four weeks ago and now know.....Its a big application...lots to know and more to practice ---but keep it up....you are making progress I am sure just not as fast as you would like !! (that's how I see it at least for myself).

MJL........hey nice music video indeed!! Very cute and a pretty large project to do --kudos on successfully finishing this. ...I also would add I liked the whimsical approach it works well. anyhow --I registered and voted for your justly deserved video .....Love seeing these AM jewels !!

hey rusty----welcome on your return (can relate well to that). The model is first off super . I feel odd giving any comments to someone who is well above my skills here but i guess i know what I might like even if cannot make it yet . To me the skin has a certain rubber like look and maybe if the lips had a little more pink/red/purple etc that might be good. But gosh ---as it is right now ----mighty nice !! Rich