NancyGormezano

The black background is the transparency PNG may not be an option in 10.5 It is an option in ver 15 (and some of previous versions)

There, there Vern. The swimsuit competion will show up on You tube pretty soon. You won't have to vote for her. Just make sure it's a legit website link you're clicking on, when googling.

She is even more of an unknown so far than Obama was ... The media has yet to "vette" her, and they will be sure to be doing some digging around...We just have to sit back and wait. I can hear them shoveling now. Sounds to me she's for drilling, and has no perspective on long term future environmental impacts, is focused mainly on the benefits to the state of Alaska, and does not have a regard for scientific evidence, nor have the capacity for critical thinking, and knows nothing about international politics, nor the Iraq war (yikes!). And that's in my first 15 minutes of reading, observing - so, of course - who knows what the truth is. Much more needs to come out. This was a political decision on the part of the republicans, they had to go with someone that seemed different than the old white guy. She will not attract those who were disappointed that Hillary didn't get the nomination.

Time to start focusing on McCain's VP candidate - Sarah Palin, 44, Governor of Alaska, wants to drill, drill, drill to boost Alaska's revenue, says polar bears are not endangered, former beauty contestant, evangelical christian, wants to outlaw ALL abortions (no ifs, and, buts) - She said McCain and she have only met once or twice and barely know each other - She claimed she hasn't been paying attention to Iraq war, is under investigation for something about having ex-brother-in-law fired or hired (forget which it is). In case McCain croaks, she would be next in line for presidency.

right click and save (firefox) works - but its 330mb

No one person has a clue. The goal is to pick an intelligent enough leader that knows how to pick the right advisors/specialists and be a critical enough thinker to know what to do with the advice. Baby Bush is an embarassment to listen to. He sounds inarticulate, and incredibly dumb. McCain sounds like an older, dumber version of Bush. He is embarassing also. The rest of the world regards Bush as an idiot, and is astounded that the US population elected him for a 2nd term. It is important to pick a leader that at least sounds intelligent. Obama is incredibly articulate, seems incredibly intelligent. I have no problem if he changes his views based on new information. I would have a problem with any leader who DIDN'T change his views as he learns new facts, as they become revealed. To not be flexible, and dynamic in this fast changing world is a sure recipe for being crushed. It is not an asset to "stay the course" regardless of the truth. It's a sign of true ignorance and stupid ego. The leader who gets us out of this disastrous mess the US finds itself in today because of the hubris and stupidity and criminal activity of the Bush/Cheney gang, needs genius-like qualities. That ain't McCain. And we need a President/leader/ambassador who the rest of the world might respect, as we need to rebuild alliances that have been so recklessly destroyed.

The video card does not influence rendering time, a faster cpu would have the most impact on render time, and depending on what's in the scene - more ram could help as well - What are the specs of your computer currently? It's hard to imagine that those frames took 1 hour (I'd have to go back and analyze the imagery) The imagery seemed very straight forward..what were your render settings? Did you have a lot of reflections?, light rays, passes? I don't remember seeing hair. Were you using materials that were complex?

Nope. I don't think so. No matter what you do - you have no control over how others have their monitors calibrated or not. However, after you read Yves' tutorial - could you please give us the real answer? Just a short yes, no, maybe will do (hee hee) (I have read that wonderful chock full of great info tutorial ... and always come to the same conclusion.... which is a very definitive "huh?")

Do you mean as a named folder in the chor? or do you mean animate the cps? (as a named group in the model). If you mean folder in the chor, I have found that I have to select the individual models in the folder (with ctrl or shift option) and then move, rotate them together as a "group" - But I am using xp pro - so don't know if there is an issue with vista.

that's very lovely - I can't speak for Robert - but I'm guessing he was looking for more of a wave action. I did this a very long time ago using an animated movie that drives the direction of the grass: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=a...ost&id=5540 However your method is much simpler and elegant, and works for me

maybe also try some motion blur?

Lots of compression should actually help in some cases - I've seen it act like sort of a pseudo anti-aliasing, blurring. And yeah I did notice it was 1 pass, shaded. I worked on real-time CIG systems for military flight simulators for over 12 years. The fidelity requirements for simulator imagery is different, but the one thing that is still the same is human factors. The human eye is particularly sensitive to any stray twinkle glitch (technical term). The attention of the pilots, like animation viewers, will be immediately distracted and disturbed by the phenomenon. Hopefully our audience is less critical (kids). Lawd knows, I try to get away with as much as I can. What twinkle? I didn't see anything twinkle? (my standard response during acceptance testing)

Perhaps a blue/grey haze or a haze color that fits the time of day, weather conditions and sky color AND YEAH - I forgot to say the motion dynamic does look very nice, very blowing in the wind nice

yup that thar is very scintillating. EDIT: I would think you would need different imagery for background plants, ie different representations for the further away - notice how the foreground grass blows nicely until it gets contrasted against the brown sand - the thinner the grass resolves to, the more problemos. the more contrast the more apparent twinkling. Some of the twinkling would be attenuated by more passes - but not all twinkling will go away probably. Double EDIT: I also just noticed its just a shaded render. Camera angle could also help horizon twinkles (where most imagery would be resolving to 1 pixel)

Fiddle is right. Many times I have tried this & I couldn't get it to work However, the trick is to use right click to copy a group of keyframes (rt click, choose copy or use ctrl c) and then when you move to the frame where you want to paste, also use right click, choose paste or ctrl v at that "empty frame". Using Copy/paste from the drop down edit menu doesn't seem to work in this situation (at least not for me).

Here's what I really think of your animation/video: I think the dialog/script is quite good, funny. I think your McCain voice, acting was very good, and the same with your Cindy voice - very impressive. Music was perfect for the situation and was used well, ie. inserted at the right spots, with the right empathsis. The little animation that was there (camera moves) actually detracted (IMO) from the good script and acting, except for the ending where he walks out. You could probably skip the pulling back from the house in the beginning and just have a static image of the house as the dialog is heard - until he walks out. Then pull back to show some kind of comical arrangement of houses, cars, servants? scene - as it stands now - the design, style of the houses doesn't add comedy. I thought the walking part was funny - I don't care if the walk cycle is stylistic, or rough - it adds to the comedy. The way I perceived the walking, was that he went to the wrong side of the car in a senior moment and then realized he needed to drive from the other side. If that was your gag - it worked - If there were other gags - ie with the number of cars - it wasn't clear if those were cars that McCain had, or what the joke was that you intended. I don't have a problem with it being a South Park style of animation. As it stands now, it seems more of a radio piece - except for the ending. I know you don't consider it done, but I think with a little more very simple polishing - it really could be stylistically good. The satire is already good. You could even add hand drawn background elements. And yeah - 'tube it as Robert said I even more so hope Obama/Biden wins, as I want to see you on Keith Obermann's show.

lovely & bucolic , nice peaceful feel

Has a wonderful feel to it, with very nice, interesting imagery for a heartfelt, moving story. I really enjoy seeing authentic personal style come thru.

OOOO....Brilliant as usual Vern I must say the arcs, the arcs! I've never seen such beautifully done arcs, so sublimely and perfectly done. The camera work was amazing - the anticipation, up the kazoo - magnificent holds, sophisticated, expert follow thru, with gobs and gobs of overlapping action. And need I mention the walk cycles? You need to patent? trademark? copyright? those walk cycles. There is one thing that I didn't quite get, and most likely because I am naive in the ways of symbolism, as I was a repressed math major, and thus sadly have no aptitude in that airy-fairy-grey-area-up-for-interpretation stuff - BUT just what was the meaning of those mysterious markings in the lower left hand corner. I could make out an "X", and I think there was a "Y", but the other symbol escapes me...Are you perhaps a scientologist? Oh wait ...I just got it...It's Tom Cruise's phone number coded in holographic Froot Loops. I'll have to go get my stereoscopic goggles. I repeat - BRILLIANT. ps. who is this McCain fellow?

I think the first half of your critique of Bruce critiquing Mike's critique was helpful but in the second half, you too allowed yourself to get pulled into the larger topic. Well Harumph...I believe I did say I wasn't that smart...Are we now going to dispute that indisputable and well documented fact ? C'mon, c'mon... Bring it on!

Martin constantly has deleted "free speech" on this forum. He owns it. He determines what is "free speech". If I see something HERE I don't like I can scream bloody murder about it the same as the person who posted it. The difference is there is no free speech on a corporate sponsored software forum and I just might get my way. Nanny nanny boo boo. That's so funny - I actually edited my last comment...it was originally: "Free speech" for everyone, except no one can say what I and Martin don't want to hear ... I felt I shouldn't speak for Martin. Nanny Nanny Boo Boo? OH yeah? Well...then...umm...er....Verny Werny Ca Ca Poo Poo... That's the best I got.

Because I am not smart enough to stay out of this, and love the ridiculous, I will critique your critique of Bruce critiquing your critique. I thought Bruce's critique was an insightful comment - giving you a complement - "I know 3DArtz knows how to critique animation in this forum, he is better than his comment. ", Mike's comment being "That is bad animation". I think Bruce's critique was spot on. I think my critique is "pot stirring". I wonder, of those who are objecting to this animation, if they also reject the very provocative, satirical, yet wildly aired animations produced by jib-jab? Time for campaigning -JibJab Aside from the style of this animation, Is it that those people objecting, disagree more with Bruce's political commentary and personal view ? Perhaps avoid viewing a topic that says "Political Cartoon" Ok. That was my cowardly "hit and run" for the day. Oh wait..."Free speech" for everyone, except no one can say what I don't want to hear ...

I've had that happen to me as well - in trying to render a qt mov - so I don't think this problem is related just to rendering jpgs, or stills - I can't figure out what causes it to happen, as it doesn't happen all the time. It would render all the sequence and then never write the .mov. If I repeated the render, it would then write the mov. I believe when I closed down A:M and restarted, that the problem then went away, for the time being.

oh groan - I definitely feel your pain. So very sorry to hear this. Try not to stress too much about it. It will work out. I hope it is very minimal effort to recover. (and now meself tries very hard to remember when I last did a backup - Yup, I've been playing chicken with the thin ice Gods)

Try it and see. Whatever you do, keep the aspect ratio the same as the resultant image you want to use for the final decal. You might want to make a proxy image (with same aspect ratio) that is simpler, and has "alignment marks" that are clearly defined and visible, to help you line up your decal before applying. After applying - you can then switch it over to the image that you really want to use.