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I'm seeing this problem and tried the solution to no avail. I load the project again after deleting the ROTOCONTAINER tags and they just come back. You can delete the folders from the PWS. I haven't been able to narrow it down much, but it does seem to be related to bringing in older models into the project. Anyone else figure out what's going on with these rotoscope folders? Bob

Thanks Bill!

Yeah, I knew that question would come up. Unfortunately, festival submission rules for many festivals require that it not be on the net. I'll be posting it after festival season, but it'll be a little while because I am submitting to several through the year. That is definitely the downside to choosing the film festival route. Glad you liked the trailer, Bill. Bob

I just posted a trailer for my recently completed short "Skeeters". You'll find it at my site http://fleebagstudios.com. The cool thing is the film itself is showing Labor Day weekend at the North American Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival in Seattle(http://www.cascadiacon.org/Film%20Festival.htm). Show times are Friday, September 1, 11 AM; Saturday, September 2, 4 PM; and Monday, September 5, 10 AM. I will present my film at the Saturday showing. And of course Skeeters was made using A:M! Enjoy.

Very fun. For some reason I especially like the coin falling on the ground next to the closeup of the foot. It's cool to look back and see how far we've come.

I laughed out loud when I first saw it. Thanks for cranking a large version. Totally fun.

YAAAAY!!! Hope the bandwidth holds... It was just that. I made an action that moved them up and down at about 30 frames per second. (which gives 15 flaps per second) Then I would drop that into the choreography and kick up the repeat so they would do that for the whole scene. To add some variation I would take the whole repeated action and stretch or shrink it some. Each mosquito would have it at a slightly different length so they wouldn't flap like a drill team. I also varied the start a little, too. Finally, at render time, I used multipass rendering (9 passes) and turned on 20% motion blur. Voila!

OK, I removed the coral link modifiers and you can get them right from the site. Be sure to refresh your browser so the links are updated. Sorry for the confusion. Classic "It work on my machine" scenario. Here are the direct links: Main site Windows Media, 20 Megs Quicktime, 20 Megs Any success?

Short answer, try it again, it should be better now. Long answer: I've been trying a new distribution technology called "Coral" or the NYU Distribution Network Here is their web page. In short they provide an internet caching service that a site can take advantage of to prevent the "Slashdot" effect where a site goes down because of sudden popularity. You add a string to the end of the domain in your links and it will get the file from the network instead of the source site. The issue I just learned about thanks to your post, is that someone has to completely download the file once so it is copied into the network's cache. From that point on you get the files at a good clip because they are on the Coral servers. I just downloaded the whole movie here at work (slowly). Now that I did it once, it comes down quickly. I'm still learning about this network service and hope it will help me not exceed my bandwidth at my site. Thanks for letting me know what was going on.

I have updated the Quicktime version of the movie to one that is 20 Megs. I hope that will mean that more people will be able to view it. There hasn't been much commentary on it, so I assumed the file size was too big. Is that the case? Here's the link to the download page: Skeeters Page

Thanks Guys! Glad people are enjoying it. It started as a single episode (now episode 2) and it took on a life of it's own. My voice actresses live on the other side of the state, so after I decided to add some more episodes, I went over there, setup a little recording studio in a motel and did all the voices in one go. I could only hope that the voices turned out and I didn't have to re-record anything. As it turns out, there were only a couple places where I had to do some creative sound editing to make something sound right.

Hello fellow AM'ers, I've been working on a short for a couple of years (calendar time) and it is now ready to show everyone. Without further ado, I present: Skeeters Comments welcome, of course. Enjoy. (The web site is new, too. Feel free to look around.)

Nice Sci-Fi/Industrial Feel. The navigation seems clear enough (without having the actual site to confirm, of course). All the controls seem very clear. I'm assuming that the little sliders are for volume and progress, but would be easy enough to figure out. I really like your metallic looking envelope. One comment is that the image is very wide compared with the width of most peoples browsers. If the image is a static one, you will need to decide how wide a browser window you want to support and crop it. A reasonable value for current browsers if you want to target people with smaller screens is 800x600. You will want to allow a little for the browser frame, too. It will be nice to see it live.