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Yeah - but who's 4 hrs? Not everyone is online at the same time or even in the same timezone! I would try for a competition once a month and keep the 'effort' expectation on something to about 4 hrs effort (or maybe a bit longer since it would be over a period of a month). If people want to do more effor (or less) then they can.
Of course this does not have to be limited to just animation as such. You can always have a simple animation set up and then have a lighting competition or a camera shots and moves competition. Hell the animation could be as simple as a bouncing ball and see how effectively/creatively people can light it/shoot it!
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Guys, it's an animation contest, not a modelling contest, its not a lighting contest, it's not a rigging contest, its not an effects contest. Don't make it any harder than it has to be!
If you look at the 11 second club, a lot of animation is completed with stock characters. Its the animation that brings them to life and exposes their character - not what they look like. It would have been just as easy to grab Thom, rig him and animate him!
I think we want to go beyond the basics Just pick a theme and let people animate to that - long or short depends on the animator, complex or simple depends on the animator. I like sound bites - but that's very much like the 11 second club. No reason we can't have our own of course.
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The opening sequence made no sense to me. I assume it is the 'object' in which your character is located heading toward earth or is it just your character flying through space? For an establishing shot show this object moving through space rather than a sweeping camera move of background stars. The a cut to a shot - a fixed camera showing the object streaking toward earth (wide view). Then cut to a closeup view as it enters the earths atmosphere - at an angle. Then perhasp a shot from the earth surface watching the 'burning' object streaking through the sky with a distant 'explosion'.
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Hi all,
Thanks for the votes everyone - it was fun playing with the Oz product set again. Re the Animators survival guide - already got it so happy for the prize to be donated to an aspiring new Hasher
How about someone who joined in the last 12-24 months - best run and jump action - do we have a default character, already rigged, that everyone has access to?
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David
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I have a collegue at work who writes great short stories (well I like them anyway) and I attempted to make an animated short about one of them a couple of years ago when I took 7 months off work. The story played out great in my head and I tried to write a 'screenplay' from the story and do an animatic. But alas - I do not possess that skill (of telling stories) so the project fell through.
I have to say that telling the story appears to be the Directors job (moulding together the talents of the writer, cinematographer etc) and it is a rare skill.
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People are raving about this tool: http://www.crazybump.com/
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Water is more efficient at transferring heat than metal is. In the first example, heat is being transferred from the cold plate to the exchanger via copper. In the second, water (or a liquid) is doing the transfer. If the former was more efficient then your car would have a liquid filled radiator!
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higginsdj - the pieces with "Higgins" in the title.
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The wires are simply spines rendered as lines - no geometry there for normals. I have FakeAO but haven't really tried it yet. I should point out that the Rhino's and Speeder models belong to A:M user Chat_Hunt. Not bad as basic models but will need to be redone with bevelling.
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Marine eye view with 35mm lens....
Interesting, possible bug is that the wires on the right hand side did not appear to render - they are there in the wireframe and rendered in the other view!
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If you 'play' WH 40K games like Dawn of War etc you will know these are standard heavy bolter turrets. They are typically ground mounted (dropped and 'bolted' into place) like most other Space Marine equipment.
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Latest version (probably the last) - "Preparing to move out"...... Only took an hour to render out with A:M default AO.
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Its amazing what you can throw tohgether with a lot of bevelled primatives
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Next iteration with some vehicles and Marines for scale.....
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Yeah - its 32,000 patches so far......
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Starting to bring my laptop to it's knees and only 2/3rds complete.......
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How does one find out how many patches in a model?
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Did I miss the vote or hasn't it happened yet?
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OK, didn't get far rigging - need to do a little more research into the various rigs and find some tutorials so started work on the set..... Here's the Armory/Bunker so far....
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Not quite what I had in mind. After something a little more realistic (I have the smoke nailed). I was using a Darktree effect (burn through) that works nicely but need to reverse the effect from the halfway point rather than let it proceeding all the way to transparent (I don't need it to reduce the length of the cigar just go from dark to hot red - under the ash - back to dark ash)
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Looking for advice/tute on animatable material to make the ash of a cigar 'burn'/'glow'.
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Decided to play with and update then re-render my Space Marines project (image). One day I will fully rig these models and animate them.....
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I am suspect about Adobe. Here in Aus, with the $A above parity with the $US, we were still being charged 3 times the cost of the product as sold in the US - for the download only version. Thats when I first started subscribing to it as it was less than 1/2 the price of the 'boxed' version as sold in the US.
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Well I copied my master0.lic file from my external drive back over to my laptop, and I get the error "wrong host for license -4". Which confuses me as it is the same darn laptop, just with a bigger hard disk.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need to request a new license/activation key from Hash?
New Hard drive = new hardware. You'll need to contact Jason/Hash Support.
The new Mac Pro?
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MacPros have always been way overpriced (at least here in Aus, they have aways been 2-3x the price of their Intel/Windows counterparts). I can't imagine this one would be any different! But it is an intelligent design and I like how thye are trying to make it so it could sit anywhere - like next to the Smart TV in th eliving room and not look out of place.
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