johnl3d

the word Elmo swepted across spline drawing on Elmo's face elmo.zip

Added material effector and sprites and got pretty good effect with very little effort beamup_a.mov beamup_a.zip missiing shaggy decal and spots sprite in zip

Thanks plan to play with this a little more maybe have shaggyy dematerialize and the particles go up the beam

Great Models David

just a rough idea beamup.mov beamup.zip shaggy's decal not in zip

quick trial but touchy AM would stop responding if I tried to make changes in chor by clicking on flock of birds birdshipslight.mov birdshipslight.zip

they are posted to be shared take them

Happy Birthday Paul

made a quick bird shape in photoshop made path around it converted to ai file imported into AM model decorated it a little made quick action and rendered gives sort of a handdrawn look I thought shapeduck.mov shapebiird.zip bird.zip

There might be something not quite right with the flocking in 16 did another test with another picture and got strange birds (spheres) crashing into each other it might have ben there before but noticed it on this one toward the end reflectbird_B.mov reflectbird_c.zip here is the project file you'll have to select a image file and use it with the material to line the inside of the sky model

Wonder if the neighbors enjoyed watching that ..nicely explained

reflectbird0.mov now going to try with a "moving" background reflectbird_A.mov looking better ?

nice

Thanks Matt but I think since the actors have minimum patches is part of the issue son will have to redo the quick models dance_3.mov dance3.zip Dandelionseed_alpha.tga

dance_2.mov better but my grass isn't reacting enough if at all

dance.mov quick model circular path and standard sprite dance_1.mov some tweaking

swarmsprite.mov swarmsprite.zip

shagtest.mov This was first pass after setting up sync and a few key frames

this was on lower patches that were 4 point patvhes that were 5 split line patchlines.zip Just tried an example in 16 found that group image does not like 5 point patches but works fine with 4

aliennew1.mov trying to do quick model rig it and animate in an hour

gridtest.mov newanimatedmattest.zip StarshipForceSeal02S.zip darksim material above in animated version

robotfly7.mov robotfly7x.zip just playing with expression and material in case you interested included the project

flyr5.mov rigged this a little and added speed control to prop and pose for pinchers flyr6.mov added volumetric light to be exhaust and moved arms a little

flyr2.mov wasn't sure about the prop so here is another idea that material on the robot is a dark sim animated Techno_Borg.zip

flyr1.mov this is one version roughly finished