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Fantastic work Millingen! You're a class act! Well done on finally getting it out there as it was definately worth waiting for!!!

Hey Ken, Being a born and bred melbournite... thats a nice job you've done there!!!

LOL!!! You're making me laugh Stuart. Re: animating lip sync. I can't remember how I did the tute, but I basically do lip sync by constructing each mouth shape to suit the audio. So I don't really use phoneme shapes as such. I base my technique on the book by Jason Osipa 'Stop Staring' which is GOLD jerry... GOLD!!! Thanks for the kind words chaps.

I don't know about that chaps. Do you have QT 7? Kenh.. re lipsync... I actually mentioned previously why it was a little out.

Hi Jim, It is a matte painting and rendered using A:M's 'layers' tool. I didn't paint the painting. Sharky mobile had it done by another company 'Stenarts'.

Hey peoples, here is the latest mobile phone animation I have completed. This time for a company called 'Sharky Mobile' who have since sold it on to Jamster. Once again all done in A:M. http://amfilms.hash.com/search/entry.php?entry=1084 Just one note. The lip sync is slightly out, this is because of a timing issue in the music after the animation was completed (they found the music was about a half second too long after it was all put together and had to re-edit it).

LOL!!! Very funny!! Great stuff as always chaps!

Hey Chaps, My latest Jamster project is now online. I can't show the full animation yet, but here are some images from it. Jamster mouse project Cheers Shaun

Hey Kevin, I rendered it in v11, although hair looks better in v12 now. It took two weeks to render running a render farm of 6 x 2.8 gig machines. Each frame was about 1 hour. I rendered out one image of the background and comped the shadows and monsters in on top. If I had rendered the whole thing (ie. the background, monsters and shadows all as one pass) it would have been a much higher render time. I love my render farm. I wouldn't have been able to render this with my one machine.

Hey David, I just noticed your signature wishing you could render smoke with your render farm. I've just discovered that sprites are now able to be rendered effectively via netrender. WooHOOO! Thats a win for everyone.

NO wonder that car crashed! He was driving on the wrong side of the road!!!!?????

Hey Chaps, Thanks for the comments Damn right, And many that I missed, but I ran out of time and had to be happy with what I had. Nope. Not my music, they gave me the music and I animated to it. I'm more of a 'Maceo Parker' kind of music guy

Jamster! International have since given permission for Hash Inc to show the clip on A:M films, so if you follow the below link you can have a look at a higher res version of the complete clip. http://amfilms.hash.com/search/entry.php?entry=1077

I thought people might be interested in having a look at some of the work I have done for Jamster recently. I'm working on them to let me show it on A:M films, but in the meantime...... http://www.jamster.com.au/jcw/goto/graphic...802749795S11111

As soon as I get a moment I'll post a decent explanation. In the short term though: I basically modelled a static wave, and a static foam model (at the point where the wave meets the ocean). I created moving animated bump and displacement maps using the techniques outlined in the babbage patch tutorial and stuck them on. I made the wave transparent with a refractive index of about 1.4, I made it reflective (mybe 20-30 percent), and then stuck in an large sphere with an environment map applied to give the water something the reflect and refract. I then added some sprites for the spray. And I got my wave. The original water was just following the babbage patch tutes. When I get a moment though I'll outline the process properly. Cheers Shaun