Wildsided

Decided I needed to post something so here's the first 20 seconds (Well 19) of the first episode of season 2. I opted to kick things off outside the castle and then head inside to bowser on the throne. The lava (although you don't see it much in this clip) is MTPeak2's ocean rig with a lava texture and some glow. The rain is made using Robcat's suggestion of using a streak emitter and the castle, mountains etc were made by me. The Ace.co presents text is a place holder for timing and like everything at the moment, is subject to change. first_19_secs.mov

I do live in Canada but I'm English born and bred. Moved here to be with my wife Nicole. As for Allsorts I can't say I've seen Basset's brand but they have equivalent. Mum and Dad usually send me a box around Christmas time though which is nice. He's a nice looking model though dude and I hope you have some luck with Bassets when you approach them. Just had a quick thought. You could try finding a video of someone dancing to the tune and then apply the video as a camera rotoscope. Then you can match Berty's movements to the dance. It's how Funimation used to do He-Man

Nice one dude, wish you all the success in the world

Have a great day dude

That's a damn fine looking bird you've got going on there. Can't wait to see her flying.

Bertie Bassett!!!! not seen him in forever

Thanks for all the comments guys. The torches are on my list of stuff to do. I want to get the sprite emitter to do the flames properly first before I toy with the light flicker though. That's been a real pain the ass so far. I`m diggin`your thinking on the fingers though Rodney and David I`ll deffo add in some shuffling. Right now I`ve been focusing on getting everyone in that scene in place and roughing out the timings. It`s quite funny to watch them all in T-Pose drifting along. And lastly just for robert here`s that clip at a higher res with brighter lights. boredbowser.mov

rough test of bowser sitting in his throne being bored. Couple of frame jumps that I need to repair but otherwise I like it BOWSER_bored.mov

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Okay made some serious modifications and played with the lighting, here's the throne room in its 'finished' (Nothing I do is ever really finished I always end up tweaking something) state.

Quick update shot to show you guys. This is the current state of the throne room, I'm still adding details but thought I'd stick it up here anyway.

Nicely done John, very nicely done.

Quick update on this guys. It seems to be the act of clicking on the object that causes the shift. If i go through each instance of the model in the project workspace and set the positions that way then everything stays still. But if I click on the objects directly then they shift a little. Maybe I just have jittery hands and have never noticed until now.

Individually. Like I said though it's not a big issue for me, I mean when I put a ruler next to the edge it still looks like a straight line. I usually just eye ball things anyway but for those guys who like to be 110% exact it might be an issue.

Also yes. I have a feeling you know exactly what's going on here

It is indeed Mr. Robcat sir

Hey guys, I don't know if this is a bug and worth reporting, but just recently I've noticed objects aren't staying where I tell them to be. Let me explain, I've been building a throne room and I want a row of pillars running down the centre of the room. I've positioned a pillar and then to make sure the next one lines up I go into the properties, get the x co-ordinate and enter into the next pillar. I repeat this for say the next 5 pillars with just the z co-ordinate changed. So here's the weird thing. Say I set all the pillars to x=90 all along the row. If I then click on say pillar 2 its x co-ordinate may have shifted to say 89.89 or 90.12, just a random shift to the left or right for no apparent reason. Does anyone know why this is? I mean its not a big deal to the naked eye it's still in line but if I set something to a specific number I expect it to stay put.

Funny ha ha or Funny er that's a bit weird?

Every King needs his throne.

I'm confused Rob, you were making puffy clouds of cheese? Or was it supposed to be vapour coming off the cheese? Nice cheese model regardless......Said cheese 3 times now....crap that was 4.

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Needed a 'Cover' for the show's Facebook timeline Page (apparently they changed the show page over to timeline without mentioning it to me). It was a good excuse to start thinking of some promotional art for the new series so here's a 720p version of the image I used for FB (The Facebook one has a slightly different aspect ratio). If anyone wants to follow the show on Facebook the address is www.facebook.com/therealepicgamin

Love it. Dragon kicked that Fokker's ass

New E.G comin' soon. It's a whole new game

gotta agree with Simon on this. It depends what effect you're aiming for. They both work well though. If I had to throw out a personal preference i'd say number 2, just because like Simon said it sells the go cart.