MasterFunk

Wow. How did you animate the scroll unrolling?

Good point. I was thinking about that as it was rendering so I think I will just have him laying on top of the sheet like he fell asleep on the job. Thanks for pointing that out.

Here is the next scene when the samurai wakes up. 4_1.mov

cool

There are seven scenes total. Thanks

Looks really good. The only thing I would do is color the face a little differently because it is hard to differentiate between it and the rest of the body. Or maybe it doesn't have a face.

Here is the third scene third shot. This isn't the best angle, but he kicks the door open. 3_3.mov

I think your talking about 'Flip for Mac.' It is very usefull for viewing .wmv files. Just search for that and it should work.

Here is the clip with the dummy constrained to the ninja's hips. 3_2.mov

Word.

Good idea. I constrained the dummy to the hips and it works great now. Thanks

Very mysterious. If you "translate to" constrain that object to the character (to his hips, probably) it will follow him a bit better. I used IK arms setup and constrained the arms to the dummy. Then I animated the dummy to follow the body.

finished shot 3_2 3_2.mov

Finished a Scene 3 shot 1. Needs a little work on the turn around. Crits are appreciated. 3_1.mov

Cleaned up my hard-drive and restarted my computer and now it is fine again. That was weird.

looks good! Make sure to measure it so the character can fit in it.

radiosity isn't on. The wall is just roughness. there are no particles. I am re rendering it without roughness and it is 10% at half an hour so far. My computer is really new. Only like a year old.

I rendered out a still JPEG of one frame of animation. This took 3:36:30 (hours, minutes, seconds). Why did it take so long to render only one frame? here are the settings, no advanced, just regular final.

I would make it a little lighter with a tint of orange. With lens flare it should look fine either way.

Thanks for all the responses. So basically normal maps have more accurate lighting. Neither change the actual mesh. Is that right?

I just learned how to make Normal maps in another post. Now that I know how to do it I am perplexed as to what the difference is. What is the difference?

What the heck is this?

I downloaded the model and it looks awesome! Great job, I cant wait for the instructions.

Thats weird here is a newer compressed file. ninjashortscenes1and2.mov.zip