NancyGormezano

Just posting to keep myself honest & off the streets - Have started animating (will be about 3 mins)- slow, slow going - here's a still of Marlene & the Pwofessor in Concert - Heidi will probably make a cameo appearance. I'm using this an exercise in lip synching & working with multiple personalities (other than the ones in my head). Piano is from Hash free model library - Amazing Job Dylan Perry, thank you - I've created the bench, curtains, & candelabra - will donate them - but they are nowhere near the quality that Dylan did... (I skimp & take shortcuts - so I don't know how useful they are to all the meticulous modelers I see out there...)

Ah yes - John now has a new victim to set on fire, disintegrate into particles , deform & maim, and inflict whatever other evil unspeakable cruelties, yet to be - Thom is free!! Long live Thom - poor poor Opus... I look forward to the inevitable mayhem. Good Job John.

Like I said before: I love what you're doing - but given that you've now revealed some details of what you had in mind - I can say I didn't catch on, perhaps it will read better seeing the whole thing. So for a critique: 1) It wasn't obvious to me that the pink guy is really a gal ... and 2) Not obvious what that "thingy" at the end popping up is supposed to be - I think I know now. My husband noticed and asked "what is that?" I didn't even notice it. Might be a guy thing. I just thought it was the body deforming, from being squished. I repeat - I loved it - & perhaps the sequence read's better in context with the rest of the movie.

that is so funny - I love love love it - great animation - absolutely adorable loveable characters - cute cute cute - this is such a winner - destined for fame! can't say enough about how appealing it is...

You're doing it again. Great demo of things to come. Saliva is forming.

it really is quite beautiful - I am curious tho , as to why there isn't symmetry in the area between the "globe fixtures" - is it because of camera angle or fov? - looks odd to me ... love the rendering - reminds me of architecture very similar to Lick Observatory on Hamilton Mountain - in the San Jose, California area. Is your building an imagined place?

Very much like the look - it definitely shows what an experienced animator can do, regardless of medium or tool - good old fashioned fun cartoon violence - Yayyyy!

That is a great description of all the short cut tricks you used - worked wonderfully - I wouldn't call it cheating - I'd call it SMART.

It doesn't really matter if the decal doesn't appear pinned. Once you have applied the decal and a stamp appears - you can go into the uv editor to line your patches up any way you want - To get into the uv editor - In the model DECAL data, right click on the stamp you want to fix and choose edit. The uv editor window should appear showing you the patches and where they are stamped - move the cp's of the patches to wherever you want on the decal image - by selecting them - You are doing this all in the UV edit window. If you have another window open (model or action window) - you will actually see the decal change - Hope that was sorta clear - (Will does show this in his tutorial)

Beautiful - so what kind of project is this ?- ie where/how/when will it be shown? EDIT - saw in your first post - destined for musuem kiosk - which one?

wow - how did I miss this - beautiful - fabulous !!

again & again & again - very very interesting - how did ya do it? (it is so great to watch & learn from your mastery of special effects - thanks again) EDIT: Never mind - I see the project file has been posted

Looks Idyllic - Why just the perfect setting for Marshmallow mangling, mutilation & eviseration - Poor little things squashed between two graham crackers, suffocating under melting chocolate, crisping in the fire. Oh wait - in the background, one can hear the chomp chomp chomping of Fire ants feasting on their sweet gooey flesh (for those that foolishly thought they had escaped from their Tupperware tomb) - hee hee - Uh-oh - Is that angry Momma bear looking for her lost cub whose's about to break into into the Killer Bee hive perched above the table ? As we say in California: Have a nice day ! (I just love cartoon violence - good old fashioned fun for the family)

Actually I do already have pose sliders to animate the whiskers on the mouse to express emotions - I've been focusing on her more, as she will probably be the star in my next flick - will also add them to the cats...whew.

Thanks for the feedback Mr. MM - I agree - Eyes should be more prominent on the cats - usually I do focus on eyes - so that has been bothering me as well - and yes I was wondering if the whiskers were too prominent . But, but - waaaaaaa - I like them - sniff - sometimes we have to give it up. Not sure what I will do about them. So let me see: Nose Job, Eyelift, facial hair makeover - ok...BUT no Boob Job, I definitely draw the line at Boob jobs (sorry Mr. BigBoote).

Thanks Dean for the feedback. You are soooo right. I've been struggling with that. At first I thought they might be Mr. & Mrs (you guessed correctly about the "too many years together") - The problem is: I don't have my story straight - not sure of their relationship, yet - even so - I agree they should look more different from each other - I've been staring at them for too long and have lost the ability to "see". However - Perhaps I can see a nose job in somebody's future.

Thanks for the feedback Ken - I forgot to "compress for the web" - so I've resubmitted a much smaller jpg. Threadbare, hmmmm.... I was trying to go for a stylized look - but I guess it didn't come off that well. My choices for density & thickness obviously doesn't show the full extent of what AM is capable - I was sorta going for comedic. Might be better in an animation - but then again it might not - will have to consider Rogaine therapy.

Just about finished with tweaking of my characters, going to start animating a short silly thing next - tho I am finding it hard to work with 3 hairy creatures in 1 scene. Sorry I don't have something more controversial to present. Family photo of all three - From left to right: Heidi Fleece, Marlene D'Eeeektrick & the Pwofessor.

Excellent technique, idea - a 3d rotoscope - simple, elegant, clever - I've never considered modeling in the chor. until now - have wanted to redo some of my own models from scratch - will try this the next time.

Gerry from what you are describing, it looks to me that you didn't really apply a decal to the desired patches of the model - but that you did a rt click and selected "Add image" to one patch (or a bunch of patches) - then each patch will have the QT movie - If you want the qt movie to span patches, then You have to rt click on the model and add new decal - then choose apply - and a decal with a stamp for the QT movie should appear under the decal section of the model

As a curiosity John (Matt...which do you prefer?) - haven't played with the files - but does it appear that the collision detection is better with the cube or pyramid than the sphere? Its obvious from the movie that the cd is not quite right with the sphere - but can't really tell with the other objects.

very pretty - very promising

It's not her ears that are a problem - it's those big oversized, out-of-proportion thighs. The thighs get all twisted when she does an arabesque, or any high kicks - need to work that out...I have been so negligent in figuring out fan bones, smartskin, cp weighting - I know the answer lies somewhere in the tweaking of those features. I hate iddly-piddly-tweaking. (I'm hoping for that tutorial from the Mr. Amazingly-Brilliant Tight-Defying Colin Freeman.). As for THE Marlene - I've already downloaded a few of her original songs in mp3 form to spurr me on - especially "Falling in Love, Again" from "Blue Angel", I believe it was the first talkie made in germany in the 1930's.

Looks terrific John - amazing work for 2 days - also love your style in your other works

Rodney - I haven't revealed anything, yet - BUT... I am thinking about the moooood animation contest ....hmmmmm.....perhaps I shouldn't say anything - it's so long off tho.