John Bigboote

Radiosity will make for an extra long render too... how long was your render?

Yeah, weird. Maybe delete that klieg altogether from the chor and drag a new instance of it back in...'afresh'. Of course, you will need to re-aim it and set all it's particulars.

Here is that model, enjoy! SHOES_yellow_with_feet.mdl

Maybe Jason gave it to Rob... he's very quick with these things...

Wow, that's a GLITCH! So, you are speaking German to demonstrate to Stefan the dilemma? Cool! At least we get to see a little of your Bus Stop animation...

Did he see his shadow? Where was Bill Murray?

Well, yes...and NO! The 2003 version may be outdated- but if you are in the early stages of learning or reaquainting... it is still very pertinent. So with THAT said... your 2003 $300 is still very much money well spent. HOWEVER, if you know enough about the software to know it is outdated... then perhaps you will benefit from the 2011 V16 of A:M. You can now buy a 1 year subscription to the latest-greatest for only $79.99 @ hash.com Includes 1 year of 'hot off the press' monthly/bimonthly updates. A true bargain. WELCOME BACK!

She's wonderful! Something about that spline that runs under her nose and up to her ears... maybe if you can eliminate it...? Some things to try: -Sub Surface Scattering would be cool. -Maybe try Rob's Simcloth/Softbody trick on her hair to give it a little dynamic action. -TSM2 rig? In my little creepy mind... if you are going to make her 'that' voluptuos... you might as well give her some high-heels... need a model, choose from the attachment- I'll donate them to you(her)? Keep up the fun stuff! AM_high_heels.zip

No, I don't think you can apply your script toward the CD... use the script for a year, then make a more informed and accurate decision whether to own the CD or not. Remember, the CD may be permanent and non-expiring- but for the current version only- so when 17 comes along with all it's juicy new improvements and additions- it will be decision time again for the CD owners...

Great stuff! I really like the wrinkles in the PB Stand Leap movie around his upper legs... is that smartskinned, or perhaps a relationship set on a bump map....?

Very good, John... I would recommend throwing a TSM2 rig into him... it will even add an intuitive boning structure to the tail...

An entertaining 'watch'.

I have 2 in now... you guys are dead!

Happy Birthday, Largento...fellow aquarii!

You said CnC are welcome... after a second look, I think your 'paint' is really-really good, but would like to see a little more 'action' in it. I had good (in my opinion) results with a car recently when I pushed THIS image (attached) thru an ambient MatCap on the paint group... gave it a nice horizon/reflection so it's not so flat.

Aww MAN!!! I'm tickled. You all are the BEST! I celebrated my birthday by going to work for 9 hours... I pretend to work- they pretend to pay me. Came home to a wonderful surprise... Dawn got me a nice new recliner (Lazy-Boy-ish) a bottle of Jack- a pair of tickets to see the Wings play the Oilers at the Joe in March... THEN- I went to my adult ice-hockey game, scored a goal as our team won 9-2... drank a bunch of beer in the locker room after... THEN off to my neighborhood bar for some pub-n-grub... THEN- I come home and pull up the forum and see this thread... THIS makes my day- having a group of people FROM AROUND THE GLOBE cheering me on. THEN- tomorrow morning I am in the dentist chair at 8 am... THEN- back to work where I GET THE PLEASURE of seeing my overnight render for a project I am working on where I used the new Fast AO (free version... still need to buy...but I am SOLD) Then--- home to sleep in my new recliner! THANK-YOU!

Sh*t- the- bed. That car is AWESOME!!! and... GREAT renderings! Will watch the tutorial

Render as lines tends to get a little wonky now and then I've noticed.

Hey Tom- I did a 'dunk' animation once(attached)--- which is sorta similar. The net effect was SO fast that I decided I did not need to use any dynamic simulations and instead did it by hand. The netting itself was simply a decal or maybe a patch image (I don't remember) applied to a warped tube... hope any of that helps. BT_DUNKgoodyear.mov

Thats a great 'silly' style... are you working from a sketch or making up as you go. Try to keep that style thing going. Fun!

Hooks can not be turned off or on. They only happen when you move a 'dangling' CP onto another spline, A:M will 'hook' it in. A:M will automatically make a 2nd spline a continuum of a 1st... so if you don't want that result, connect spline 2 to spline 3 (the desired continuation) before attaching them to spline 1... hope that makes any sense.

I am not aware of a detach button... I will usually select the spline and hit the 'K' key (as in 'breaK') and if that does not do it I will hit DELETE to remove the entire spline.

Nice. Using SSS?

I just put one in! can't show you tho- tis a secret!

HEY JAKE! When we gettin together to do a project? You needed to make the 'not cut away' CPs and bone a CHILD of the boolean bone- THAT is the trick to specifying that something does NOT get cut into by the boolean operation. I made the change to your model. See YA! Screw_boolean.mdl