johnl3d

good start ...keep having fun..you have 4 years of work to catch up.

Just trying out an idea with a tree and leaves and trying to seee if the controls get saved. All but the last frame .. saved fine... the last frame highlights a leaf and I noticed that after saving and looking at the frame it shifted slightly but I did have a random factor checked in the sprite window so that would explain it. If Vern says its okay I'l posted the project since he inspired part of the leaf Tinkering Gnome moneytree.mov

Just a thought when I have used the alpha channel I usually use no compression settings otherwise I've gotten mixed results. Was your quicktime compressed? Or do it as a targa series and use that in post. My humble experience ....with AM

I don't want whatever you had for lunch that inspired that...man...great characters...strange just a little..nice job on the animation

I find that trying things out from tests helps over and above the technical reference and often explains why something acted a certain way. Thought I'd post what I was doing to help someone else as well. thanks for looking

Varied from 1 to 900 this is V11 hair gone mad mass.mov

Varied stiffness from 0 to 100% over 30 frames with a preroll of 30 stiffness.mov

Trying to understand V11 hair so I am playing with settings to see what they control. Under Dynamic options, once it is turned on, is angle limit which can vary from 180 to 0. The qt below which is only 30 frames shows what happens to some hair when only the angle limit changes. Hope this is useful. Oh it starts at 180 and goes to 0 when there hair rises the most anglelimit.mov

enjoyed the animation and the note on the chart ..great idea

nice suspense...was waiting for a slow stretch or yawn...enjoyed it

great looking characters..i actually tried to turn up the sound twice thinking I was missing the conversation

I am working wiith V11 hair and was wondering how it would look in toon render simple example Thom volunteered but he looks different hair_test.mov

you could animate it by applying a turbulent material as an animated displacement map then have the material transform in the chor I did a quick simple sample with red water to show the effect the speed is controlled by the amout the material tranforms in the -y direction johnl3d fallingwater.mov

tried the idea om a simple test project and it worked quite well. Thanks johnl3d

wow looks great any hints on the procedure you are using

cann it be animated??

another talented modeler ...darn... where is that become talented button.... Nice face!

another talented modeler ...darn... where is that become talented button.... Nice face! johln3d

I think he looks alot like eeyore infact I hear the voice when I look at the model

great job

alternatives could also be http://johnl.inform.net/pages/roto1.htm http://johnl.inform.net/pages/10material16.htm probably better than this http://johnl.inform.net/pages/9particle3.htm

don't have any time to play right now so here is the project. just remember with gradients you have to adjust them for the model and in this case scale the turbulence too as well as "animating" then in the chor or by an action or even a pose would work if anyone gets a better effect with this please share johnl3d...the tinkering gnome newcloud.zip

While driving on vacation last week I noticed a lot of clouds unfortunately some of them attempted to wash my car. Anyway I got this idea for a new cloud material from watching them. Here it is applied to a flat plane for now with a little animation added to the turb on the gradients. Will have to try it on a "cloud" model also. this is the first render test johnl3d...note North Dakota has a lot of clouds newcloud.mov

try the sprite materials on cd or play with this http://johnl.inform.net/pages/10material12.htm or this http://johnl.inform.net/pages/10material11.htm if I find some more old ones not directly linked I post later but sprites are the way to go look around here http://johnl.inform.net/

looks a little different than Puff but in a good way