NancyGormezano

great character!

I like it too! I also like the new sun - they now look like friends/companions. Howie gives me the impression that he's younger than 5 - probably more like 2 or less age - it could be because of lack of hair with just the 1 strand. I like the style - but maybe a few more hairs on top would do better (5 year olds aren't bald) - Not sure it's important, and might wreck your look. What I meant by color palette and age - Really young kids/babies - like the primary saturated colors, with high contrast. While their parents (aka people with the bucks) prefer more pastelly, softer schemes - as indicated by the abundance of soft pink, pale blue, green, yellow choices in baby clothes, blankets. Older kids and their parents can handle more sophisticated, wilder palettes, as well as the less saturated. The color scheme/characters that you have are youngish - sorta reminds me of the teletubbie style. Kids seem to like characters/stories resembling themselves or older. I wouldn't put too much creedence in what I'm saying - I have no pratical experience with selling to the parents of kids. Go to the book store perhaps - browse and see the range of styles/stories for different age groups. There's also the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - you may find more knowledgeable resources there I repeat - I like what you've done!

That does look terrific - would be interesting to see if one could have a small "crowd, flock, swarm" of clouds (crowd of sprite emitters?) Or perhaps a crowd of some Image emitter HAIR clouds, that are dynamically "groomed" by an animated direction map, animated hair length map, color map, as well as animated hair emitter transparency... (EDIT probably easier to do multiple hair clouds on a path than to try a crowd - more controllable)

OMG! OMG! OMG! That makes it so much easier to read the file and see what's going on ! (and yes then edit in a text editor) Thanks for that tip. Me neither. It seems to be related to using rotoscopes when modeling, and saving some other type of file while having the model file open. For example saving an action,material, chor, prj, and then saving the model. Or having a chor with a rotoscope, as well as a model (in the chor) that also has a rotoscope. I thought it was taken care of in some version of 15 (past ver e)? But maybe not?

I ditto "Good ideas!"

I think it has a nice style to it, cute looking character - Questions to consider: What's the age group ? (might determine your color palette) How old is Howie supposed to be (toddler?) Howie looks like he's wearing a dress (of a different era) - and his ears look a little funny - I as an adult don't have a problem with the design - but your best bet is to kidnap a kid and get their response - they might not have a problem with it either. The style may not be overly important in the end - the story, words will be important. There are books on creating characters/stories that kids will love - you might consult them if you haven't already. It used to be that an editor would match a writer and an illustrator - because they usually had a better handle on what works/sells. Those were my uneducated, off the top of my head, first impressions

weird - I could view Marcos' video just fine - both seem to be using h264 codec. I don't know enough about codecs - but it is my understanding/misunderstanding that mp4 is really a streaming media type file? (for ipod, itunes etc) and mpeg4 whatever phase, part is a compressing codec, standard ? h264 is a compression codec - for mov's from the wiki: for mpeg4: and from wiki about mp4: So my conclusion, given the above is a firm, and decisive, and unequivicable "huh? I dunno". And don't try and convince me otherwise. (probably camtasia mp4 ain't compatible with my qt player ver 7, but is compatible with windows media player, but my video camera mp4 is compatible with my qt player. Duh) Nice video's by the way

I wonder, if for another trick - (probably wouldn't work so well for animation, or flat surfaces) - if using AO rendered plain sphere image for a matcap shader, if one might be able to obtain a pseudo-ish AO render. Matcap is plenty durn quick.

Just in case others (xp pro, firefox, qt7) can't see your video (I may be the only one?) - I saved it to my hard drive and changed the extension to avi - and was able to view it in windows media player. When I tried to view it via the forum - I get the ? from embedded QT player. When I changed the extension on the saved file to .mov - qt only displayed a white screen. I can view other mp4 movies in my QT ver 7 player (created from flip video camera). There is something funny about the way the screen capture Camtasia? encodes these mp4 files

This may be the problem? 1) check that you have the correct files/folders for tsm2 under the correct A:M hxt folder and 2) check that you have the correct path to the correct hxt folder under tools/options/folders/extensions (hxt) 3) restart A:M after correcting

I am reminded again of how good those soulcage guys are - that's such a great, funny clip. A:Mfilms site looks terrific as well - inspires me to do some animation and bring down the neighborhood.

FYI I was able to watch the 2nd video because it is in a true QT movie format - The problem with the first movie - for winders people, is I believe, that (according to your tut) you record to mp4 format (flash? friendly) and then just change the extension of the file to .mov. Unless I misunderstood, or do not understand but: I believe you would have to run thru a conversion process, instead - either using qt pro - or some other software to export or convert to a different format - ie qt movie. Just changing the extension doesn't usually work for winders. Especially if embeded in the hash site. Windows people don't have qt 10 - we've seen before in your other tuts that regardless of browser, qt player version, or os version for PC people, that your process as described is not reliable for many on this forum in producing a viewable movie that has been uploaded to hash site. If you want to continue uploading .mp4 files to the hash forum with the extensions changed to mov - viewable by some, then my guess is that you will have to continue to also upload a converted qt version, as well, to be viewable by all. I also note that your recording size of 1280 x 800 is too large for my normal old persons 1152 x 864 screen res. Hitting control 0, etc does not work for those qt movies that are uploaded to hash site (to reduce view size). I would have to first download and then view it in the standalone qt player. The content and quality of your qt movie - the one I could view - was great. And certainly the video quality was better than a youtube posted version - but I have no problem (usually) with watching youtube quality tutorials.

Happy Birthday a day early in Japan!

yes - very appealing characters! Good personality

What ???? - you mean you're not done yet? - I go for my walk and fully expected SpaceEyeBall Boy to be completed when I returned. I want my money back! Looks terrific

I believe people are referring to the mesh density used for your clothing (number of patches per whatever) when referring to cloth density - The art of figuring out the correct density for your model (sleeve) is a trial & mostly error process - sometimes more dense works better, sometimes less

After you've saved your action with the action objects - then right click on the action in the PWS and choose EXPORT to mdl

very nice Myron - quite beautiful

or animate at 12 fps instead of 24 -

again I say CUTE! again I say I like it! Fun and appealing design

Malo - you are terrific at distilling information in a logical manner - But I think it's the "." key for option Cb ? EDIT: of course robcat beat me to it, and explained why

Yes - when you select the spline (which is part of a model) to be used as a path - I believe you will have to use a shift click with the eyedropper, or something like that. The spline path can be animated

My goal is to not make any predictions about what I'm going to do and just keep going where the wind blows me according to whim and mood...that way I'm sure to keep on track. However today's whim feels like I want to animate to this piece of music that's been hanging around on my hard drive for way toooo long.

uh yep ...it sure do...good start - I like the situation and camera changes

I have qt pro 7, I use firefox, I also downloaded it (the addendum via save as - get a 2plus mb file) - I can not view it in any way shape or form (QT player says downloaded version is error -2048 the file is not a movie file) - when try to view on forum by clicking on link qt comes up with a question mark. what codec are you using? what are your compression settings?