John Bigboote
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I really like that noise material set to displacement!
Hey Rob--- I went looking for the post for the 'Summer' image contest, it was not where I imagined it to be- which was in the 'Current Contests' forum...
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THAT is the million-dollar question. Any animation job-shop I've ever worked with has had salespeople with connections and can generate leads. They drove the nice cars while animators drove beaters. Online, you can try services that connect people who need work done with people who can do the work... like Elance dot com. My experience is that for every legit job there are 100 animators bidding on it, and there are talented teams in India that underbid everyone every time... and end-up doing a full TV commercial for $100 on low-end systems running warez software.
I suppose our business has become like singing or acting.
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Usually, when I think of loops, I think of gif animations. The best software I have found for authoring gifs is Adobe Photoshop, but sometimes you need Adobe After Effects(or other moviemaking software, like A:M) to generate the animated content...
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How fun, and easy topic everyone can relate to. I will shoot to get at least 1 entry, I hope many others do too. The prizes are great- and EVERY ENTRANT is a WINNER??? That's new! Imagine your excitement as Rob scratches-off your $1 ticket from the Texas lottery... everything in Texas is BIGGER!
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Finally got a moment to appreciate the high degree of detail and attention Rob has put into my award. The videos were informative and entertaining... he even dons a suit for his on-camera appearance! Every detail has been considered, and the pewter coin... is heavy and perfectly made! A true memento! Here is my award front and center with some other knic-knacks picked up thru the years... THANK YOU ROBCAT!
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Great study, Rob. When used in NetRender with multiple renderers, the time-savings really adds UP! I have been putting V19 NetRender thru it's paces with some test projects- working well!
NOTE: I made a test project with 2 instances of SSS, and it did'nt crash upon render... so nevermind on that. I have so many belles and whistles turned-on in my renders- playing detective is no fun.
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Thanks Rodney- that helped! Here is another for testing... may be a bug...When you have 2 objects with SSS in the same scene the render crashes...
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A monitor like that would be very helpful in the business I am currently involved in... tradeshow presentations. Our typical video/animation resolution is 7460 X 1080... sometimes even larger. This is why I am enjoying using Video Copilot's Element 3D in After Effects. It can take an A:M model or animation (obj seq) and render it live in AE at full-resolution complete with AO, reflections, DOF, fog, IBL, shadows at about 3 seconds per frame- along with all the other filters, layers and compositing that goes along with an AE job. Attached is 1 frame from a job I am currently working on, 6640 X 1080 and 90 seconds in length. It is not all 3D- but I use 3D extensively thruout... to render full-res 90 sec file... 1.5 hours.
I want this monitor!
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Hey- sorry to change topic back over to V19... I have installed it and am toying with a old project- is anyone else having trouble selecting keyframes in the timeline? It is not always predictable but about 50% of the time, I drag a rectangle around a group of keyframes (see image- arrow at bottom) and the keys will 'maybe' become selected. I can workaround by selecting a different bone in the PWS then reselecting the bone I want and trying again which resets my odds at 50%... is there a new feature or setting I don't know about? Seems like a bug.
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Those cartoons are embroiled in the memories of my nieces and nephew and us... lines have become household sayings like 'Crackin' toast, Grommit!' or 'Get yourselves sorted down there!' and of course, 'More cheese, Grommit?' I hope future generations will enjoy what could be considered the pinnacle of claymation... and keep Mr. Sallis's voice being heard.
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Excellent Chinese Kung Fu animation!
and interesting making of:
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Truly looking forward to it. You go above and beyond for this forum, BIGTIME!
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Nice LOOP!
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The Haven wedding story got my stomach in knots!
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Impressive list, great work Steffen! Lots to read here! Happy to see my request:
- 6772: Feature Request: Weight Menu Undo
the weight dialog has now a "Cancel" button , which reverts the changes done in the dialog to the state before the dialog was started. Weighting has now also a general Undo/Redo , if the dialog is exited with the "Done" button.among the additions.
Got a chance to update today.
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appears to WORK!
Trial is limited to 500 frames- doesn't seem to be a time limit. There is a little bit to learn about it... and you need to install ffmpeg which AfterCodecs is built upon... but, I just successfully encoded a Pro-Res on my PC! Happy Day!!
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http://aescripts.com/aftercodecs/
I figure these guys are going to make a million dollars, then lose it all to an Apple lawsuit.
For the last 5+ years, Apple's Pro-Res Quicktime compression has been the standard in video playback and delivery in the pro world. And Apple being Apple- they made it so that Windows users could read, but not write Pro-Res files. Which has been a royal pain to Windows users (most just keep an old Apple around for conversions)... 3rd party solutions have come and gone, most simply don't work, or were too complicated command line stuff. An article I read explained that Apple had tied part of the conversion to something inherant in Apple hardware that is not found in PC's... whatever, it has been quite a roadblock... until now. I am going to test the free version and will report my findings.
AE Scripts is usually a pretty reliable source for erthwhile plug-ins. $55 not too bad- they could charge $300 and sell a ton of them.
They also claim a Mac version is coming soon... which begged the question, WHY? from a mac user. Here is 3 good reasons- they claim:
-faster ecoding(for Pro-Res and H264) in the AE Render Queue than After Effects can do.
-smaller file sizes than AE writes.
-better image quality/less artifacts than AE produces.
We'll see!
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Resurrecting this old thread to show some E3D stuff.
This was a nifty little combo between A:M and E3D (Element 3D, a GPU renderer)
Client is International, they make semi-trucks. Their logo has a very particular hi-light to the letters that are cutout of the metal... 1st thought was to simply use a boolean to cut out (reverse) the letters in C4D, but then, that would ignore the particular hi-light- I know how these corporate clients are sticklers for the details of their logo (it is very important.) So I knew I had to MODEL this particular little offset highlight(it is the white edge around the text)... C4D's modeller is easy for simple stuff but I don't know it well enough to get intricate like this. But I know A:M's, and it was pretty straightforward. I also used Photoshop to prepare the images to be used as the 'metal' from the logo itself and applied them as decals in A:M. Once I had the bar with the text modelled- I used the mesh-mode deformer to put the 'bend' into the bar, and exported the model as an .obj WITHOUT using the 'generate model maps' function (when I used it... it had seems around each patch image... no good.) But, when I opened the OBJ in C4D- there were the images (now considered UV's) I was then able to send the file out to the other animators working on the job who were scratching their heads as to how I did it (ancient Chinese secret...!)
Whatever new changes are coming in V19... EASY REQUEST... don't change anything with the obj exporter! It rocks!
Once I confirmed everything was looking good in C4D I saved it as a C4D file (yes, I used C4D as a very expensive file-converter...) and imported the .c4d file into Element 3D- which resides as a filter inside of After Effects. Element has some nifty render features... on this, I employed DOF, AO, shadows,glow, and set some E3D physical materials onto what were once my A:M groups. As a quick test, I used E3D's replicator to duplicate the model 8X and gave it a spin... an AE camera and 2 AE lights(AE is SO clunky in 3D!)... the lens-flare was another AE layer with Video CoPilots lens-flare applied. RENDER at 1920 X1080 took 2 seconds per frame- 10 minutes to make a :10 loop. I am using E3D more and more in these corporate jobs and A:M is a perfect model generator and animation program for it. (as far as animation goes, the graph editor in A:M just plain ROCKS! I struggle with C4D and After Effects graph editors and come to realize... they just don't GET IT.)
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I hope your vision in your right eye returns! Dannng! What a STORY! My brother had macrodegeneration... sucks!
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Yes- tis! Have you seen the real-estate scanning solution 'Matterport'? Turns your whole house into a 3d tour with highlight and bullet points called out. Camera runs some $3-4K...
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There are some cheaper ways to do similar... the kinect cameras for Xbox do 3D scanning, don't they? And there was an app I had on my iphone... 123Dgo or something like that...
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I am seeing people 'in the biz' turning to Jpeg2000 or even GoPro codecs lately, as the Animation Compression seems to have gone wonky on us.
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Best Animation Tool Of 2017?
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If you see Animation:Master on any of those Warez sites, let us know- we'll go after them. The only thing you get from 'free' (stolen) software download sites is bugs and viruses... beware. The only place to acquire A:M is thru Hash.com