Hi,
I have been using A:M since about August, thereabouts and this is easily the most fun I have ever had with a computer!
I have to say though, I am overwhelmed with all the different things that a single person can do with A:M and all the thousand little things that need to go in to even a simple animation (i.e., lighting, models, perspective, sets, backgrounds, music, sound effects, etc...)
Having said all of that, and after these last few months of trying one thing, only to give up on it and move on to something else new in A:M and then back again... I have FINALLY mangaged to keep myself focused on one project and have put together something longer than one of the exercises in the A:M manual...
The backgrounds were created using the Universe package and a free-ware landscape generator called Genesis.
The model came from www.Animationpitstop.com and the music is of course, all John Williams. I assembled all of it using Vegas Studio.
So...while the hardest work by far was done by the extremely talented people who created the model of the xWing and the people who wrote Universe, and of course, the composer John Williams, I did do a little bit on my own by creating an actual sequence of four separate choreographies and putting them altogher.
Anyway...here's the first "major" animation I've done.
http://www.turbogorilla.com/Quest.mov
Brutally honest feedback is welcomed as there is no better way for me to learn!
Thanks!
Shannon O'Donnell
