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I had a problem like this once. It seems to me it was a sort of bug that every time I opened an infected file it duplicated. I'd have to search it out, but I believe I had to go back to the files I'd made and open them in a text editor and delete something. Once I'd gotten them all, everything was fine. Here's the thread: https://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=37592&hl=rotoscope

Awesome! Thanks!

Just a head's up. I installed the SSE 4.2 version for OSX and it results in my NOT being able to open the application due to a missing library. I was able to re-install v19C and that works fine. I've made a report.

Thanks, Robert. Sounds like the fix I'm looking for.

With 2018 starting, it's time for me to make another short and it looks like I'm doing a parody of the Lone Ranger. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time now. I've reached the point that I'm really just making these for myself, so I'm not worried about trying to find an audience anymore. :-) I've got an enormous amount of work ahead of me, but I think it's going to be fun creating stuff for the Old West. Here's some of the progress so far...

Thanks, guys. I'm not sure if the guy was thrilled with it. He said he liked it (repeatedly, like he was trying to convince me). :-) ...BUT, he hasn't shared it on social media. It could be that he's waiting until closer when the film will be released, but I suspect he might be one of those people who doesn't have a sense of humor and may be embarrassed by the caricature. I hope my intuition is wrong, but if he didn't want funny, he came to the wrong fellow. :-)

A guy who does Star Trek fan films (and I mean a LOT of them) caught me at the right time about doing a poster for one of his movies. I expected it to have Star Trek stuff on it, but no such luck. :-) I wanted to make something that looked decent, but not require too much work. I'm not sure how much I succeeded on either aspect, but I think it came out pretty cool. Since it was an evil-twin scenario, I only had to model one figure and I actually just used the same model and changed the jacket and hat color in the Cho. I ended up doing two poses and liked the heads in the first one and the bodies in the second, so I rendered out just the heads with an alpha channel and the bodies without heads with an alpha channel and put the heads on in Photoshop. I ended up not making the hands part of the model. I just made one hand model and placed them in Cho to approximate where I wanted the hands to go. When the model was rigged with arms, I positioned them to connect with the hands and adjusted the hands where I needed to. I swiped the hat from the Glenn character I made for "The Wobbling Dead." :-)

Not only brings the X-Men characters (and the word "mutant" that couldn't be used) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also, the springboard of the Marvel Universe, the Fantastic Four. Also makes me wonder if they might stick the Fox Fanfare back at the beginning of future Star Wars films. Just doesn't seem the same without it.

I'm not positive, but I don't believe so. I had stopped using JPGs (in favor of PNGs), so I didn't notice when the problem first occurred. It was only in instances where I tried to use old materials that had jpegs in them and eventually figured it out. I can't speak for every image type, since I rarely use anything but PNG files. The workaround I used was just to change the images from JPGs to PNGs and work that way. It was annoying since I still liked to grab images off the net for reference and I'd have to convert them before I could place them up as rotoscopes. As far as I've tried, everything seems to work fine in v19.

Simon, are those images jpegs? I want to say that v18 was the one that we noticed couldn't open jpegs on the Mac. It was fixed, but I think it was fixed in v19.

Congratulations to the caricature winners, too! Let's see if I can get them done in less than two years like last time. :-) Steve, John, & Roger, if you'll message me with a photo I can use for the caricature, I'll see if I can't knock these out in the near future. (Roger, it can be your dog, if you like.)

That was terrific, Robert! Hearing everyone's explanation for their entries was great. Next time, you need a musical routine at the beginning. :-) Thanks so much to all those who voted, I'm super-thrilled to get one of the Summer Memories medals!

http://www.berlinscifi.com/winners/ I almost fainted, but apparently it's real ...Stalled Trek: Prelude to Ax'd-We-Are has won BEST FAN FILM at the Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest! I honestly didn't think it had a chance and I'm really blown away. See what you can do with A:M and a dream?

Does this mean you're one day away now instead of two? :-)

Just today, I was able to buy a sub for the company I'm doing freelance work for. Nothing better for me to use to do some 3D mockups and obviously, no complaints about the price.

Paul, I saw them advertising on Macbreak Weekly this week. If you do want to supplement with some existing footage, there's this site called Storybloks. https://www.videoblocks.com/macbreak That link gives you the option for 84% off of the monthly price, meaning you get a whole year's subscription for $149. Unlimited downloads and royalty free. Don't have any personal experience with them, but when I heard the ad, I thought of your post.

Very cool, Paul! Your own Christmas theater! Going off the witch, making an animation that showed Santa or snowmen or something waving like they are standing on your front porch would be cool.

The suspense is killing me! 😀

I think I've finally figured out how Trump's hair looks like that. He obviously combs it back on the sides, but the magic trick is that he combs the hair from his part across the top of his head (from his left to right). Then, he has a combover from the back that is combed forward, over the hair on the top of his head at an angle and that hair is feathered the opposite direction and hidden under the part (on his left). I had to go back to younger photos, because his hair is so fine now, that it's hard to define.

Coolness! Great job, everybody!

Its Voltron, right? If it were me, Id put them all together in an action and add some control bones there. If that didnt work, Id put them all into one model and re-rig it as a single unit.

When do we get to vote on the image contest?

Thanks, guys! I am on imdb, although I've never updated it since Amutt Time. I should do that.

Kinda' thought I was done with this, but pleasantly surprised and excited to announce that Stalled Trek: Prelude to Ax'd-We-Are has been named an Official Selection of the Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest! Stalled Trek in Germany! The fest is being held in Berlin on November 17-18.

How did we do? Looking forward to seeing all the entries!