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I think we should all use the same ball. beach ball tennis ball bowling ball croquet ball circus ball super ball kick ball whatever ball The characters can be different sizes, so could interact differently to it, such as a mouse, a man, a mammoth. If the balls are different, perhaps when one character gets a ball, s/he could decide to keep it and pass on the another a different one that s/he has. Of course this would take a bit more planning for continuity. A story board would be in order. The easiest would be to all use the same ball, get it from the viewers left and pass it to the right.

How about June 1st to really get it prime, and lots of critiques along the way.

I think the proportions are very good.

I'd like to take a shot too.

This is going very well! Looking forward to watching this develop.

Wunderbar! : )

Wow, that's beautiful! How about bump mapping the keyboard.

That was so much fun to watch. Thanks for lightening the day. : )

Beautiful craftsmanship! Looking forward to watching this progress.

Man, this is gorgeous! And I love Bill Mauldin's low key humor. You've got a nifty combination going on here.

Soccerball.mdl Here's an old soccer ball that someone made.

Cool! I'm looking forward to seeing the results. : )

Because a treadmill track is fairly flat, just animate the texture moving around it, not the tread itself. You don't even have to worry about having a seam on the texture because a treadmill has one. You can make the track frames (including a pre blur) in an image editing program like Photoshop. Save the files out as sequential targas or a Quicktime Movie (animation compression) and bring those (or it) in as a texture on your treadmill track. You could have two layers, one for the texture map, another for a bump map. Here's an old file with a moving texture applied. topSpinning01.mov

Thank you Mr. Holmes.

Thanks a lot Michel!

Wow, you aced it!

Using Ken's view above . . . I've found that if you have some things that don't move in the shots, you can get away with a high number in the "key frame every" box. Try 200 if that's the case, and watch the file size drop.

I really believe in modeling with clay before modeling in A:M. There is more of a one to one relationship between the two than drawing and A:M. You can also bake clay models (Sculpey) and draw splines on them before modeling them in A:M. You can erase the spline marks on the baked model to try different ways to build your model before going into the computer. Good modeling to you!

Who needs luck when you've got the skills. And you do.

Thanks for doing this Caroline.

Beautiful! Thanks for putting these together.

Just went in to this post for the first time. What an amazing example of dedication to a large and intricate project. Wow10 You are an inspiration!

Caroline, Thanks especially for that last link. http://hashlinks.wordpress.com/ Lots of very helpful information for becoming a better artist/animator in there. Thanks for gathering it. And of course Rodney's great contribution to the cause is legendary. : ) Thanks Rodney.

"I pulled the cp back away from the center as suggested and it gave the palm a better look" This should be done on the knuckle side, not the palm side.