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Great stuff, Nancy!

Still dinking with Sam...trying to get things to work like I want. The past two weeks went quickly, my schedule hasn't slowed down very much yet. So, another "stay alive" post.

Still nothing to post, but I've been eliminating some of the unnecessary things I added to the rig and doing some re-modeling on Sam. Once I get Sam the way I want him, I can finish the update to the rig.

There is a Mel script called "Monkeyshuffle" for Maya that I think is also ported for Blender as "BlenderJam!" that converts timing from MonkeyJam to something that Maya and Blender can use in Actions. Something similar for A:M for either MonkeyJam or OpenToonz might be useful.

Great stuff, Nancy!

Unfortunately, another "stay alive" post. My free time has been minimal recently, but I'll have a little time this week, so maybe I'll get something done worth showing.

Congrats, Mark! Cool self portrait model as well!

Looks great, Cronos!

Things have been even crazier than usual for the past couple of weeks...so I'll have to use a "stay alive" post for this thread. I'm going to try to accelerate work on Bertram's stuff though.

Great stuff, Tore!

Looks great, Simon!

Great work!

Okay, now I'll have to reverse my opinion on making the tutorial. The files I edited with AVIDemux have something wrong with them at the edit points, so trying to transcode them after editing didn't work very well. I decided to transcode the OBS output with Handbrake, edit in Da Vinci Resolve 12 and then transcode again in Handbrake to bring the file size down...that appears to work well and the final output doesn't lose very much quality from the original captures. I still have some things to consider about the look of the tutorial, but the basic workflow went without a hitch. Thanks for the help, Rodney!

That is going to be a very nice looking medal, Robert!

It turns out that Da Vinci Resolve doesn't like the files made with OBS. You can transcode using Handbrake to get the files into Resolve, but for tutorials I can live with using AVIDemux. So, I recorded my desktop with OBS, did limited editing with AVIDemux and then ran the result through Handbrake to bring the file size down. I thought about adding a banner or intro splash page, but decided to be lazy and just go with it as-is...warts and all. I like Fusion 8 and will probably use it for some compositing and I'll probably do more testing with Resolve, but I may end up editing in Cinelerra for big projects...eventually I'll be dual-booting Linux, so I'll wait a little while to see how feasible that workflow will be. Now, I'm thinking about not doing a subtitle file for this tutorial. I haven't heard of anyone using the ones I made for previous tutorials, so it might be a waste of time. If anyone has been helped by having the subtitles, let me know and I'll take the time to knock one out. Before I post the finished tutorial, I'll see if I can get some input on a few things. If you want to spend the time to give me feedback, send me a PM through the forum and I'll send you a link to the tutorial and a list of questions.

I've gotten everything up an running on the new laptop and I'm doing a bunch of testing...so not much to show at this time. I've been working on a tutorial to give everything a good shake-down and have come across something that I might end up having to report. When I can get a little more time this week I'll be able to get that figured out. For the tutorial, I think I'm going to go about it differently. This time I'm going to do a full screen video capture at 1920x1080 with OBS (https://obsproject.com/) and do any editing with the free version of Da Vinci Resolve (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve). There won't be much editing, just some cleanup, but I wanted to start getting used to the program. So, just another "stay alive" post...way too many of those lately.

Looks like he's doing good!

Incredible work, Rodger!

The only thing I can think of is that you might have Mirror Mode turned on...is that turned off when this happens to you?

Great stuff, William!

Okay, I know this is getting ridiculous, but I'm posting another "stay alive" post here. I'm still working on the Squetch Rig updates, which are making me reassess the modeling on Sam. So, lots of tweaking, watching reference videos and more tweaking. I replaced my old broken small Wacom tablet with a medium "One by Wacom" (CTL-671) tablet (http://www.wacom.com/en-in/products/pen-tablets/one-wacom-m) that I picked up at Amazon pretty cheap (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013STQI50/ref=s9_simh_gw_g147_i1_r?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=1FCZ29A3GDBP1YC5DY7F&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop). It'll come in very handy when I get to texturing Bertram. I'm liking it so far. Also, I should be in the process of a system upgrade over the next week...I'm finally able to replace the laptop that was destroyed a little over two years ago. I'll make sure there's nothing wrong with the new laptop (to be sure I don't have to send it back for replacement), replace the hard drive with two SSD's (cheaper to do it myself) and then migrate everything from the old laptop. Once all of that is done, I'll be able to do a few things the current laptop can't handle, like make tutorials. It'll be good to have a dedicated graphics card again.

Looks fantastic, Rodger!

Another "stay alive" post. I'm starting to have a little time, so maybe I'll get more done. At the moment, I'm trying to get some modeling tweaks worked out on Squetchy Sam and testing the rig additions. Still a lot of work to do...a lot of variables to think about.

I'm sorry for your loss, John. My condolences to you and your family as well.

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.