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Congrats, Simon!

Very generous, Kevin!

I've always thought of the flour sack like this setup...the "arms" can be thought of as arms or as ears depending on what is needed for the shot (and can be used both ways in the same clip in my mind). I made a very simple animation with this rig here: https://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33048&p=377570 Hope that helps, Paul.

Still working on the chimpanzee when I have a spare moment. I've got his face rigged and started to mess with his teeth, gums, tongue, throat and skin. I've still got some spline rings to add in other locations, but I wanted to see if I could get something decent. Here is the chimp without hair at the moment...still need to do a lot of texturing, I was just trying to establish a base.

Very cute, John!

I'm back in San Antonio after a twenty-two year stay in Austin.

It's been a very busy couple of weeks (changed cities and everything that goes with that), so I'll have to use a "stay alive" post. When I've had a spare few minutes, I've been updating the Squetch Rig while rigging the space chimp. I fixed a few issues and added a little more to the eyelid setup...still some things to go over, but I'm slowly working my way through it. If I'm lucky, I'll be able to show something in a couple of weeks.

Looks great, John!

Looks great, Paul!

Great stuff, Gerald!

Great stuff, Robert!

Great stuff!

Yessir.

I found this while looking for something else. Since it's not posted anywhere, I figured I would post it here. It's my contest entry from a couple of years ago for SciFi. It has its' problems, but there are some things I like about it. I knocked some of the color saturation out of it for this image.

I highly value your insight into these things so I'm curious as to when you think another contest might be ideal to run.... I can only speak for myself, but as one of several people who went right up to the deadline and still didn't get an entry done, I'm worn out right now and not ready for another one just yet. I do like the idea of contests with a subject. I think that encourages people to do something new rather than pull something off the shelf. That said, we've had so many "Christmas" and "Holiday" contests in the past that I think "Winter" is is a theme we've visited a bit too much already. I think it would be cool to see WIPs along the way and see progress on the forum rather than have everything just appear at once. I agree that having a subject encourages people to not just pull something off the shelf...which tends to keep the amount of time worked on each entry the same (usually). I'm torn about seeing the progress on an entry. On the one hand, the vote could lean toward the more popular animator (which is why they are currently anonymous, I think...although, I don't think we've run into that problem here), but on the other hand, getting feedback can help improve the final product.

Just an update to show that Rodney was correct...the chimps' hands were huge. Just to get an idea of how big, I tried a few poses to see where I needed to make changes. The left version is what the hands and arms were originally and the right version is where he is at currently. Still a lot to do, but it's getting better, I think. Thanks, Rodney!

Congrats!

He's going to be a mascot for something a friend of mine is doing. It's supposed to be a representation of Ham, the first chimp in space. There are a lot of places that I took creative license on the design, but it's not meant to be completely accurate. I didn't start working on him until very close to the deadline...just bad timing. Critiques are always welcome, Rodney. The hands may be off...I think the thumbs might be too big. I'll have to do more assessing. Here are some hands for comparison: http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/uploads/2/6/5/2/26529082/7750847.jpg?348 http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/24900/24973/chimpanzee_24973.htm https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&rais=1&oiu=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsimg.bbc.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2F47112000%2Fjpg%2F_47112338_human_ape_hands_spl.jpg&sp=0a2e06800bf8631cf1ef0f3a10e217c0

This character isn't done yet, but it's something I can show that I'm working on. I'm in the middle of rigging him and reducing/adjusting splines. After I finish that, I'll texture him, give him better hair and do a little animating with him.

I finally got the Microsoft store to work and played your game, Gerald. I liked it and gave it a good rating. Great job! Apparently, I'm not the only one with problems getting apps to download from the Microsoft store. It took trying every fix I read about to finally get it to work. In my case, it took setting my computer for a "Normal" boot.

Great stuff, John!

Looks great, Rijk!

Once again, I am using the dreaded "stay alive" post...but I should have something I can show in the next couple of weeks from a small project.

Looks great!

Looks great, Jirard!