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Dude that is freaking awesome! Congrats

I did that for 9 years...decided it was time for a new job when I began to bad mouth the boss, showed up for work late, dress code went down the drain...

I received a "Platinum" award, $500 bonus, then an "unfavorable" annual review. Sadly, I'm still there. Any paycheck in a storm I suppose.

A brand new bottle of Cardhu came my way last night....enjoyed it under the stars in the hot tube with my bride of 26 years... ah what a life! Thanks for all the B'day wishes, this forum never gets old! As a side note.. Pappa Bear Studios is about to come back online....this asp.net project is nearing delivery, so that big ol monkey, while not gone, will at least be off my back and sitting quietly in the arm chair next to me.. (Of course I've got to renew my subscription....and dust off the projects I dropped...and...and....have a wee dram o Scotch!)

Thanks folks!

I noticed it...thought it was something I was just missing on setting up lights (a weak point of mine). Good to know I wasn't being a loon about it though!

the good news is, the other parks, especially in the middle of the week, will be fairly light!

I'd stay away from Hollywood Studios if I were you! With the Star Wars weekends starting, the re-opening of the Star Tours ride, rumors of G Lucus being there, the place is going to be wall to wall bodies. My daughter works in Toy Story mania, they have her on 75 hour work weeks form the next month...Not the time to be on vacation in Disney.

no....the narration should be written by the animator/story teller as part of the creation of the story...they go hand in hand. Think of writing a script to drive the animation process....the script would then become the narration to be read. Good practice for us all.

This theme would also need someone with a good voice to provide a consistent narration in my mind, that would be what ties active animation together. The animator provides the script with his submission, the narrator records it. I'm liking this one..got a couple of ideas already!

Sounds like a grand plan...I'm in

Aye, I'd definitely be interested in a bouncing ball boot camp.

Thought I'd put my laptop to the test. Render Time 6 minutes 2 seconds A:M 16.0RC 64 bit Dell Inspiron 7010 Intel Core i3CPU M370 2.40 ghz 6 gb ram 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium

I'm partial to the Olympic events theme, something along the line of the "Goofy plays baseball" theme. Exaggerated, over the top animation.

Yes i got it from the extras cd..complete with actions. It took a lot of experimenting to figure what each action did.

Awesome mug, don't think it'd go over well on desk at work though!

All I've got to say is your perseverance will serve you well down the road..makes me want to do this exercise as well!

My daughter did a video for a High School class project. She used a partial soundtrack from Wizard of Oz I believe and posted it on youtube...I went back a little later to watch it and get a niotice that it had been removed at the request of the copyright owners... It all depends on how draconian the copyright owners are. I'd take the melody of the music, run it through a sound mixer (hand type it if you have to) change a little here and there, and it is a new music piece, yours to own, even if it is based on somebody else's work. Not entirely kosher, but that is how the copyright law is written, only the work, in its original form is protected. Takes more work, but it saves headaches down the road.

I'll have to go back and look tonight....

My one complaint/comment about the on screen face rig was that I was constantly grabbing the wrong null to move the part of the face I wanted. I still had to "hunt and peck" to find the one I was look for. It could very well have been my inexperience with the rig, no denying that. What would be nice is if a label could be displayed when the mouse was floated over the null, to show what part of the face it effected.

Just looked at Skype.com, seems that screen share is part of the app out of the box. Even the free version has it. Just might load it up when I get home tonight.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail comes to mind...

Now that brings back memories! When men were real men, women were real women, and photographers took real pictures!

Possibly, but animating the motion of all the bones that have to move to make a walk via math expressions would be a very daunting task, rather like CG animation was done 40 years ago. I admit that I'm not nearly knowledgeable on what the full extent/purpose of expressions is. I can't help but imagine a plug in that could record a bones motions and use as the basis for the expression, much like a spreadsheet macro recorder.

Just wondering...is it possible to use expressions to create a walk cycle, instead of using an action and path constraint? Sort of like walk to this xyz coordinate, starting at this xyz, take so many frames to get there....