johnl3d

v12 beta 3 EXNEW.prj

Based on the squashy bones post I added a rand() expression to the X,Y,Z scaling properties and imported multiple copies and turned on the pose to use the expression in each . Now will have to try to add a simcloth ball to the mix with the original model as a defector but not tonight EXRANDOMSIZE.mov

Great very entertaining loved the whole composition

do a search for clouds there was a lot of discussion on this in the last 90 days or so. for non sprite clouds http://johnl.inform.net/pages/10material16.htm http://johnl.inform.net/pages/roto1.htm again other examples click on search (upper right ) do all forums clouds

Nice job for quick idea

The project file 11.1h included the tga file for the "Wheat" image hope this helps wheat.zip

Thought this might explain what I meant Also Matt alias John Bigfoote is really good with hair he might be able to help wheatfield.mov

I googled for wheat stalk and found a piece of jewelry that had wheat stalks which I then reduced to a few stalks with erase then alpha channeled the remaining stalks and saved as a tga file. Set up hair material used the image for the hair set it to I think 5cm wide and applied to simple model. I think I spend about 20 minutes on this and most of that was setting up the tga file. Hope that helps oh color with alpha channel Oh Pixel Dust is this you found it in old collection of AM stuff remember it was a great face model and thought it was yours

quicky idea wheat.mov

Animating picture is easy with AM and Photoshop. I grab the picture quickly got rid of the background made a path around the remainder exported path as Illustrator path Imported into model in AM with IA wizard applied picture as decal did a few adjustments and rendered like here http://johnl.inform.net/pages/pretend.htm

looks like it would be fun to animate fast.mov

tried the frog I was trying to model and rig with an action and toon render defaulttoonfrog.mov

Mike I think that is part of problem I'll have to adjust the positioning of a few bones since the head and shoulders meet thanks for looking

Not a real problem just takes a long time to get it right. And there is a lot of tweaking to do the test doesn't really show the quirks. I did a few hours and many restarts to get what you saw. So any suggestions on rigs welcome

and this is a quick test of the TSM rigged made to fit the weird model...no real head/neck copperfrog.mov

I'm posting a composite view..just don't laugh too much at the wireframe the hands/feet really need redoing the most but for a learning tool .... anyway here is the diagram and below I'll post a QT of what it can do now after working on it last night before I posted Figure this might help other model gene deprived individual and semi riggers Oh the eyes are the free Uber eyes added to the "head" bone in the rig along with the tongue bones

looks refreshing always thought that that was a great tut you've proved it

Tutorial Make hair on object and set the way you like your hair but hairy object in chor animate by adjusting force in chor...see pictorial tut attempt and ask questions tutorial ends or dowload project file annd study settings

Attempting to finish the creature a started I decided to rig it well it needs a few tweaks but I'm too tired now

11.1h project file fanhair.prj

adjust force in chor

here is an invisible wind moving hair left then right fanhair.mov

now have some hands and feet but not sure if they'll stay

Thanks you Dave.... and my others friends who are so supportive He can see now thanks to uber eyes but he decide to change his outer appearance I've got to decide on the feet/hands now ...maybe some tennis shoes .... or maybe hook him up and turn him into a sprinkler

Saw this creature while waiting for my wife to finish shopping and thought I tried to model it. Not done needs eyes and hands/feet and tweaks but this is what I got in a little over an hour. Threw on a simbiot darktree texture to make it interesting