MJL
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Very well done!! Great Look & Great Animation!
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I'm so impressed with the improvement my co-conspirator, Mr Spleen
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Having viewed your many tinkerings, I was under the impression that all your ideas were bizarre.
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He looks like a very fun robot, like a kids friend. He also looks like he could express a wide range of emotions.
Nice Job.
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Here are a couple of models I made for my Pass The Ball entry. I ended up not using the Lampost.
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Thanks to Gene "The Spleen" for starting the "Ball" rolling, and Matt "Bigboote" for taking the helm.
This project has pulled me into A:M like nothing else had.
I'm past being intimated, and will be doing a new project of some sort or other fairly soon just for the fun of it.
Unless I have a relapse, I'm done tweaking and this my absolutely last and positively final, this project is complete, over, done, fini, ain't no more, no way-no how, render.
Thanks Again to all who helped when called upon. This Forum ROCKS!
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(gasp) . . . .feeling faint....... . . . . . the symptoms . . . getting . .. stronger . . . . . Must . . . Tweak . . . . . . have to . . . . . . . can't help myself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Can't Stop . . . . . . one . . . . . . more. . . . . . . . render . . . . (gasp)
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Evidently if you hang around this forum long enough you become susceptible to "tweakit" disease.
I changed a couple of things and warmed up a light to give Nigel a little more color. then when setting up the render, I decided to render directly to QT. I'm going to render this clip to AVI and convert it to QT just to see if the conversion program is messing with the color. A sure sign that I've contracted the disease.
Is it terminal? Here's the new render:
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I learned a tremendous amount of various things doing this project, But I had to do it, I wanted to legitimately be eligible to buy and wear one of those damn T-shirts.
The colors in Nigel's face were a lot warmer in the avi render, but the conversion to Quick Time washed them out and made him look grey.
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Thanks Rodney,
Is that percentage animatable? X% at 10 frames and Y% at 20 frames?
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It's interesting, when I hit the keyframe button when I made a change in the "shortcut to" transparency the object became transparent but the image did not. But when I made the transparency change and did not hit the keyframe button, the object and the decal became transparent and a keyframe was entered in the timeline below the window.
Regardless, it is now doing what I wanted it to. On to moving things around.
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I'm learning a ton on this project.
I made a backdrop and put a jpg decal on it, constrained it to the camera with Translate and Orient Like (with offsets) and got the effect I wanted. However I want it to fade out to invisible for about 60 frames then fade back in. How do I go about this? Do I use transparency in the object, the shortcut to the object or something else entirely?
EDIT: I got the backdrop to become transparent in the "shortcut to" but the decal itself does not become transparent, and I can't find anywhere to make the decal transparent.
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I'm not sure how the Kudo's should be distributed, but distributed they most certainly should be. Great animation. I think SO is shaping up quite, quite nicely.
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I was going to post with a problem, then I had a thought, went back, found out the cause and fixed it. Now I'm dancin in the street like I had two scoops of raisins!
It's a newbie thing. 
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Good lookin' Bug. I think I saw a couple of those down by the creek, carrying off some small mammal.
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That's the way I feel after a night of Single Malt Scotch!
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That's the way it usually goes here too. When I go fishin I end up getting more bites from the insects than the fish.
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Any articles about prehistoric fish?
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Please don't stop looking. And please also, let us know when you find it. Nice work in this vid and nice chicks in the other post.
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Okie Dokie, I'll figure it out. thank you Robcat and Nancy for your faithful replies.
I shall overcome.
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Edit: (read your description again) Unless the movement only happens during that second point of view... where we never see the movement between the body and hand. In that situation I'd constrain the camera to the ball. then the ball would appear motionless even though you were actually moving the hand closer to his face. you could do that in either FK or IK
You would only see the movement in the reflection in the ball. the camera is already "aim at" constrained to a null which is centered on the ball. The camera is also constrained to a path ready to begin a "sweeping dolly pan" which takes place after Nigel takes a closer look at the ball. Nigel holds pose form frame 0 to frame 10 Only the camera moves. Between frames 10 & 1:10 only the ball & hand are in frame. During these frames, I wish to be seen Nigel's reflection leaning in for a closer look, then moving back to his starting point, just as the sweeping dolly pan begins.
His movements will only be seen in the reflection of the ball.
0:00:00 Begin Pan
0:00:10 End Pan Camera still until 0:01:10
0:01:10 Begins sweeping dolly pan
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I'm working on a pass my PTB entry. I have Nigel in this pose. I've successfully stretched out the keyframe sequence to give me a two second pause, during which I want Nigel to hold the ball steady (camera"Aim At Constrained to Ball) while in the reflection we see Nigel lean forward for a closer look, then move back to his original position. How do I get His hand and the ball to freeze in position when the rest of the body moves? Thanks
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Happy Birthday! Thanks for the cake. Enjoy your Antiquity!
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So who's the handsome actor you hired for the film?
Largento Passes the Ball
in Pass The Ball!
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As usual, excellence abounds in skillful hands.
There's really only one thing to say: AAArrrrrhhhhhhtfully done!