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I'll try to make the live answer time. It's 10 AM for me, PDT,l and I've been a musician for so long that it's difficult for me to get up before the crack of noon.

I have a video "Happy Birthday" Card save as a PNG sequence. I would like to add various names as the occasion calls for. I can make animated names. How do I add them to the generic birthday video? Thanks

Thank you Rodney, that will save me some time.

Is Woot's Mom available anywhere?

How would one go about acquiring this CD? or at least the model?

Does anyone have a "Little Old Lady" type model that I can borrow-rent-buy? I need two versions: 1. A Tweety Bird's owner Granny type 2. A Mrs. Santa type Perhaps we could make a "Model Swap"?

Rob, Here is the model I used.There is no material.I did it with Surface attributes. I welcome any suggestions for an improved Bottle.Standing Bottle and Cork.mdl Here, have a glass of beer.Glass Of Beer.tif

The "Pinot Vista Tasting Lounge" where outr band has been playing every Wednesday (for 3 years) is giving us our own "Label". Yamhil County, Oregon, has become a tourist destination due to the fact that it is now "Wine Country" Now people can take home a souvenir. A bottle of "Twisted Knickers Private Reserve" Pinor Noir. Here, have a bottle. . .

Thank You, Robcat, Once again you come to the rescue like the Cavelry, full speed ahead, trumpets blaring.

In past models I have seen in a model's User Properties various Folders that contain Pose Sliders. Such as: Face. Or Hands, or Rig etc. How do I do that, and how do I put various Pose sliders into it's respective folder?

Show off!

Rob, I imported your head model into my project just to see. I had to se-set settings, color etc. but it won't let me increase density above 100%. leaving for gig. I'll check when I get back

Thanks. I've downlowded it. Today is gig day, so I won't be able study it till tomorrow. Edit: I gave it a quick look. The shield: What? Why How? Which tutorial covers it?

I watched the tech talk video. Also found an old Matt Campbell PDF tute in my files. Could you possibly zip the above project for me to download for study? That's the hair I'm after. (Or show screen shots of the Material and emitter settings)

Thanks again for your help, Rob.. I've gotten this far on the character.downladed the hair tech talk, but haven't been able to watch it yet. Got involved with expanding my Happy Birthday animation for one of our weekly fans..

There are already 4 patch groups: light left, dark left, light right, dark right. How do you control the angle and intensity as to how it comes out uf the mesh?

The hair is kind of like this. Is there a tutorial on how to control the hair. How make it like this? Robcat, as far as the live session goes, we are in different Time zones, and I've been a musician for 50 years.

I'm creating a new clothespin character in my Twisted Knickers series, and I'm having hair problrms. Her hair is parted in the center and hangs down mostly straight all the way around down passed her shoulders. Here's what I'm getting: Charity's Hair29.tif How do I get from here to there? Charity's Hair29.tif

Robcat suggested that I post these on the Forum. This conglomoration of musicians and I have been peforming at a local Wine tasting lounge every Wednesday for two years. This is a test animation. The Sax player has quit coming so I made a new "photo". Our motto is "Don't get your knickers in a twist, have a glass of wine!" More animation to come.

I can't remember if I posted this or not. Sorry if it's redundant. It's a WIP commercial for a friend of mine. First Draft.m4v

How do I add a sound clip to a video?

A few years ago I animated a promo for a friend of mine who had the "Mike Branch Band" I recently updated it to promote the band that I'm playing with now.

OK. I reconfigured my menus to make sure I could see the animation button. I' still not clear if it's the red "A" or the black "A" that means it's on or off. There is a checkbox in "Tools" that can reverse the'warning' mode. I turned on the animation mode in the shortcut to each model manually (one by one). Turned each on again in the timeline. Set my Invisibility to 100% at 0 and every 15 frames set successive letters to 0% invisibility and the timeline shows it to be so. I rendered both with the red A and the black A. All letters are suppposed to be at 100% at zero, so they should not be seen. Here are two screenshots of the rendering of frame one, as well a a shot of the timeline and keyframes. Whassup?

Thanks Robcat, That should fix it. And thanks to you, too, Rodney. I'use that hint as well.