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3 hours ago, Rodney said:

Outstanding!

Thank you Rodney!

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13 hours ago, itsjustme said:

Very cool!  Great work.

Thanks David!

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14 hours ago, Roger said:

Neat!  How long did it take you to do a credible version of a certain nuclear plant worker? 

 

 

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. 
 

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2 hours ago, Fuchur said:

Perfectly executed commercial for donuts I would say.

Very nicely done.

Best regards
*Fuchur*

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

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

["Finish the Unfinished" Contest Results!]

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.

[Tiny Chef cancelled]

Too sad, feels like the state of the industry these days with so many layoffs.

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Great stuff Aldrich,

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

[Back from 10 year hiatus on this]

Oh also how appropriate to post this today,

Happy "World UFO Day"

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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.

[A:M Nostalgia/old projects]

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

 

 

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4 minutes ago, a.quaihoi said:

I think we had ( Art School ) Ray Dream first, then Moved to Infini D . . . then Lightwave, ( wasnt a big fan ), some of our lecturers were employed by companies and universities using Softimage on SGI gear I was like man can we go to your work and play to which they replied, only if you want to make 3D with command prompts - eeecch!!  I thought the isometric graph interface would be good transitioning from graph paper drawings for Ray Dream . . . but it was not and it was slooooowwwww on the schools Macs . . . I picked up AM when I started my first job in advertising, we had to produce some ads and infini d wasnt cutting it, one of the guys at our company told us about Dylan Perry from then Momentum, he made a call and Dylan dropped past with AM 96 / 98 I think, gave us a 15 minute quick start guide . . . I produced 2 x 30 second TVC's  like in a couple of hours, the modelling was exactly how it ought to be, the rendering, rigging was so intuative . . .  rendering, rigging, the works ! best app ever, ran fast on macs and pcs but it did crash a lot back then ha ha  . . . so did you eve use Bryce 3D or Poser lol   

 

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. 😜

 

[A:M Nostalgia/old projects]

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.

 

 

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On 5/13/2025 at 1:53 AM, a.quaihoi said:

 Ray Dream Designer / Studio  😂 . .  I remember that ! Infini-D too 

 

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. 

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16 hours ago, robcat2075 said:

More great-looking stuff, Michael! I especially like that fibre-optic fountain thing.

I wish i knew as much about lighting today as you already knew in 1999!

 

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. 

 

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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. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Roger said:

Wow...the nasal spray, phonebook and collection of bills look very photorealistic.  If I didn't know I was looking at a CGI rendering, I might have a very had time catching that they are CG.  

 

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

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

 

 

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18 hours ago, Fuchur said:

Wow, those look amazing. 

VERY well done.
I actually thought the first one was a real life picture or a product image before I read it.
Nice.
😍

Best regards
*Fuchur*

 

 

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

 

[A:M Nostalgia/old projects]

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
 

 

[Animations]

Great work Steve,
Look forward to seeing more.

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The Oakville Waterfront Festival poster design for 1999.
Reusing the models from the previous year made things quicker but looking back
wish I took more time to clean things up, making the models a little less lumpy.
Was a fun project nonetheless,

 

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Here is the project file,

Made probably using A:M 98 or 99 so some textures don't look 100 percent when opened in V19.5
feel free to pick apart and use the models as you like.

swamp_demon.zip

 

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Hi Tim,

I'll look through my old stuff to see if I still have the model for this guy.
If I find anything I'll share it here.