johnl3d

here's the project file it'll ask for a picture which is on the cd ...oh and i added a spin and slight wobble expression to the quickly made saucer. this was a multipass 1 quickrender so there are a few artifacts project 11.1b metal.prj

was adjusting metal material and messed up the pose but it gave me another idea so if you need a cloaking material for your flying saucer this might wwork metal.mov

I liked it alot good animating !!!

sort of a camera view camera follows the path and rotates 2/3 the way through camcenter.mov

made a block then use dup wizard to made a wall 5 by 5 pick center 9 blocks and group decorate blocks made second object slightly larger than a block decorate new chor turn off gravity put wall in chor make path through center of wall add second object constrain to path select block wall in muscle mode click on group in model in chor right click cloth wizard crank up stiffness ( more than i did) goto chor in pws right click simulate spring system you get object 2 knocking out center blocks adjust gravity at point of impact..(this feature is new to this idea) render yes that is my ugly mug on wall wearing hash t-shirt old hash t-shirt center.mov

When a person has played with AM for a long time.. I think my first AM cd was AM 98 ... and mostly with getting effects you have a good working knowledge of what it AM can do and since my modeling skills are very limited I have a tendency to play with these parts of AM. Nothing I do is amazing its just stuff that you haven't tried yet. And even the stuff I do post can be improved by people with some artistic skills and even better knowledge of what AM can do. So no genius here just someone not afraid to try to push all the buttons But I still haven't found the make dragon button this is the as close as I got to that http://johnl.inform.net/pages/material2.htm

not sure if this will help...one camera multiple views http://johnl.inform.net/pages/cameraview.htm

project SPINMAT.prj

here is a material applied on groups rotarting around different pivots will post project SPINMAT.mov

ah thanks...this actually was an answer about the perlin material ..presented in a slightly different manner johnl.3d

the project file could be bad reception on your tv perlin.prj

This is a perlin material applied to a plane I applied a rnd()*5 expression on some of the material settings and rendered if you are bothered by flashing lights do not watch if you scroll the bar you can get an idea as to what perlin can do this was just a test not to be necessarily useful perlin.mov

forgot a setting or two can you figure out whats wrong spin.mov

project file different effectors duel duel.prj

threw this together just for kicks boolean cutter comes in from the left material effector from the rear duel.mov

not sure why just tried it in 11.1b

this was just a quick trial no tweaks in case people wanted to try and use things they have right in front of them and never thought of using..a fun project..i post these once in awhile when i'm working through an idea. So try it and better yet improve it later 7uo1h0z16cn4u7an

just remembered I used this plugin for this contest http://www.hash.com/animationcontest/Q0302/Q0302gallery.asp top center john lemke

heres project file 11.1b canyon.prj

reviewing whats on cd and readily available...quality of render poor to be small enough to post here canyon.mov

Ideas how to find a new friend among all the new strangers is the teacher as nice as my mom/dad will I learn to print my name when will mom/dad come back to get me where to i put my coat when i come in what do i get for snacktime I know that song will the furry animal in the cage bite hey look at the fish in the tank

Great cat looks like it would have one very large hairball though.....have you tried to animate it

the light in the first image is mostly from the windows at the front entrance. The wall behind is reflective as there is a wall of water flowing on it. But I can see that there should be more of a shadow as you suggested on the desk.

I tried to do something similar here but not sure how to make the feet look right. Any suggestions. This is the view from the loft area where I usually eat lunch with the common area between lofts a great place for the t-rex but this is hard to blend in. I need more help on this one

I have a digital camera and took a few pictures of the office where I work and tried to add the free t-rex to a couple of pictures. This was the dino rendered in Am on black background ,cut in out then added to a layer in PS. In PS I copied just the desk to another layer then put that in front of the dino layer . Added a shadow layer effect and tried to do a reflective layer of the dino on the desk area. Is there any suggestions on how to do this better This seemed to work okay