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I have a nice car, but my wife likes to shop at Dollar Tree (everything in the store is $1).
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Well Done!!!
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That's pretty cool... does it render smoothly? Can you set it to generate less-dense geometry?
Yes, you can set a target poly count! What would be cool is to be able to bring it in with the UVs and easily use the higher res version to generate displacement. I think I will still be able to do that, but it may take another step...
I'm thinking that I could take a textured version from A:M out as an .obj and bring it back into Zbrush and use the high-res details to generate a displacement map. Or maybe TROER might be a way (but it wasn't able to open this one...)
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The last udate to Zbrush has an automatic retopology tool that will analyze the sculpt and remesh it to quads. Here is a test using the .obj import in a modeling window:
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Oh! Well, good luck with that!
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If the bones are driving facial animation, why won't weighting their influence suffice? A bone doesn't have to be snapped to the same position as a CP to move it. A limited number of bones could account for ALL of the CPs in the face (you might even auto weight them).
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What if you were using a face rig like ZignTrack on your characters? Since it is, or can be, bone based animation, the facial animation ( or poses) from one character will work on another with the same rig. Just like other actions in A:M.
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Here is a Yoda head from Thingiverse.com printed in natural PLA.
First picture is it with the support material on the build platform. The second picture is it cleaned-up next to one that has a coat of primer on it. The primer fills in some of the stair stepped look. I think a little putty and sanding would make it pretty smooth. This was printed at standard quality
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It does give you pause when your kickstarter falls flat. Especially when you are raising money for a film, because that film is intended to be shown/sold to an audience (right?)
So after my kickstarter, I had to wonder if TAR was such an awesome project because the response was very tepid as I wrote about here.
I have continued to work on it, but I have really spun out... I am at a loss for meaning, I can't answer for myself "why" I am making it, and I can't even delude myself that an audience is waiting for it.
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All doing different stuff now.... It's kind of depressing to me. most of the people that I knew in the beginning, from the creators who made the software, to the dreamers who were creating awesome things with it are gone. [not everyone, but most...]
Martin used to get mad when anyone saw A:M as just a "tool"--it was something more than that. But that dream does seem to be over
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I think the Makerbot would handle it. You could also look at a service like Shapeways, which has a lot more material options including metal!
[edit] This bolt and nut are samples from the Replicator2 and are printed at 250 microns
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Is there enough work to put together an A:M showreel like this 2013 one for Blender?
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Congratulations!
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I'm curious why you signed up...? I guess you "pin" stuff that you like so other people can browse it
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Here is a break down of mine:
http://zandoria.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/v...-at-ninja-pass/
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Try using Ambience instead of Flat shading. You could make your ambience 75% and still pick up the shading in A:M
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I think leave it as is--the mascot changes pretty frequently, not on a calendar year, so we could just have more contests
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It would be cool to rotate around the camera target from the camera view, in the same way as other views. Sometimes the camera navigation can be tricky--because it is analogous to traditional camera moves (but why keep be limited to that?)
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Toon! --and I like the simple background too
I've been learning an app called Procreate on my iPad to create digital paintings to use as backgrounds for TAR of Zandoria. When I look through the "Art of _____" books that accompany many CG movies, one of the things that I find is that I like he look of the 2D concept paintings much more than the 3D scene in the movies...So I thought I might be cool to just paint everything and layer it all together.
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I'm ready to see the entries!!! I keep hitting "show new posts"
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This isn't what you are after... I don't know the answer to that... but I'll off this:
For the mobile commuter I recommend a sketchbook (with accompanying pencil or pen).
You'll be amazed with the amount of ideas that will transfer from that sketchbook into A:M later.
There is another aspect to this suggestion and it is that unplugging from computers/electronic devices from time to time is a very good thing.
Exercising different skillsets will refresh and heighten creativity.
The real benefit: Once you get back to your computer you'll have a concrete plan to follow when using A:M.
Great suggestion!!!
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nice!!!
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I just sent mine in!
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Congratulations and good luck! Create Space looks pretty interesting--I see that they do DVDs and video streaming too!