Michael Brennan

Thanks!

My job is done here! 😄

Thanks Roger

Some tasty donuts for ya, My inspiration for the animation came after going through the Blender donut tutorials. Blender is a great app, but I always have the most fun making stuff in A:M. Also, I have a friend who does a spot on Homer impersonation, so I wanted to use his skills.

Thanks Robert!

Thank you Rodney!

Thanks David!

Hi Roger, Spent about 2 weeks modeling Homer, just used the 2001 rig when it came to animation Will post my time-lapse of him here when it's together.

Thanks Fuchur, Many donuts were consumed in the making.. I needed reference for textures and then didn't want them to go to waste.

Thanks for all the comments guys, yeahh I like the topic of food and drink for an image contest great subject for still life. Finally uploaded my short to YouTube, after many months of hard work, I give you a whopping 1:4 minutes of distraction.

Hi Guys, About 4 months ago I started working on a short animation (keeping up with the Mid Term Goals in my profile 😄 ) I'm getting close to posting the final video, so I might as well get the ball rolling. Will be posting some Time-Lapse videos here in the comings weeks as well. Cheers.

Congrats Everyone!!! Thanks again Robert for putting this together and for the added scratch tickets prizes. You totally went above and beyond what anyone would expect for an image contest.

Great stuff Aldrich, So entertaining and now I'm craving Doritos, thanks! :P

Oh also how appropriate to post this today, Happy "World UFO Day"

Nice character and rig Aldrich, Look forward to seeing your animation (you will post it here?) I know how you feel about getting to do animation always feels like it takes so much work just to get to the animation part of projects, but is like the icing on the cake when I get there.

In 2001, I was commissioned by a designer friend to create a book illustration for a novel called Angry Young Spaceman. A few years earlier, I had done the back cover illustration for Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask by Jim Munroe. For this next novel, I got to illustrate the front and back cover and even created a short looping animation, which we made available as a screensaver. It's always so fun to work on book illustrations and then go into bookstores and see your work on the shelves. Proudly all made in A:M

It's cool to hear other peoples stories, all roads lead to A:M! I played around with Bryce and Poser, but the novelty wore off when needed something other than a procedural landscape with clouds and water. 😜

In 2002, my friend Paul and I started our own 3D animation studio using the old office that Streamline Media originally occupied. It was one of the most exciting yet stressful times of my life I never thought keeping a sleeping bag in the office closet would be a good idea until then. We were trying many things to promote the studio, Focus Chaos Inc. so I submitted my Valentine's Hash image contest entry to 3D World magazine and then completely forgot about it. It wasn’t until our friend Steve, who rented us the office came in one day and told me he saw my image in a magazine at the bookstore! I still have a copy of the magazine, 3D World May 2002.

I tried Ray Dream Studio 5 recently for the nostalgia of it and it made me realize why I was so happy to find A:M. just moving the camera around alone was so tedious.

Thanks Robert! Guess we all have our strengths, I've never been good at making tutorials or explaining things for fear of going off on a tangent, playing with features for hours before getting back to what I was trying to explain.

Also some old animations created while at Streamline Media. A website header and an animation for a touch screen console. converted to animated gifs so has a bit of dithering.

Thanks Roger, Yeah maybe Radiosity is overrated, we were able to render some decent things without it back in the day.

Some more A:M product renders and graphics created while I worked at Streamline Media.

Thank you Fuchur, The first one was lit with the Yves Light Rig.

In the early 2000s, I was working with my friend Paul and his roommate, also named Paul at his web design company called Streamline Media. It was a fun little place to work filled with multimedia artists, sound engineers and programmers. We did our fair share of 3D work for websites and print. One of our bigger clients was a local company that made CNC router tables. I had the opportunity to model and sometimes animate their tables using A:M. It wasn't until they asked if we could import some of their CAD files that I realized I needed to start learning a polygon modeler like LightWave 3D. That took me down a different path for a few years. Here are some renders I did for the CNC tables using A:M