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I'm not sure I understand the story point being made. Or is this too small a segment for that? The sliding feet bother me but maybe that's intentional?

I have a circular saw and a table saw! A 1950's era Craftsman tablesaw, inherited from dear old dad.

I'm thinking of making stool out of plywood that I can sit on when i practice on my porch. Regular chairs are too short and typically have a rear-ward slant that is uncomfortable. It needs to be something cheap I can leave out there and not worry that it might disappear. I also want it to be adjustable. I'm testing out ideas in A:M with simple shapes. I gave each piece a bone so i can rearrange them in Action 1 to see if I might be able to cut them all from one 2' x 4' piece of plywood. Action 2 is a test of the geometry of a ratchet mechanism for the adjustable seat. RatchetA000.mov Much revision remains to be done, however

If this codec can will make me look 20 years younger, I'm all for it.

After witnessing many episodes moderator-induced calamity on the forums I visit, I definitely appreciate Rodney's calm and thoughtful guidance.

Hooray! I'm glad to hear you are back on track. We expect to see lots of cool work from you now!

Welcome back to A:M!

Update: I haven't forgotten about this, but I will need to clear out a number of non-animation obligations before I can put proper attention to this endeavor. Watch this space for future news!

Nancy has a lot of fans!

That is surely a disappointing series of events have to endure. I had no idea the stakes were so high that people would do such things. None-the-less, it is good to hear from you again!

Welcome back, Martin!

I will grant you that the difference in the way Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects work with alpha channels is a source of frequent confusion.

It looks like the "remove green" has worked well. However, I'll note that if you are adding animation on top of live video you can get the same result without green screen by rendering with an alpha channel.

That's fabulous, Roger! A little urban noise and wheel squeaking would go well with that.

Looks like a good result!

I hope you'll bring this to Live Answer Time. i think it would be easier to do this interactively. I haven't read the Paries or TAoA:M recently so i'm not sure on the distinctions between the two.

Yes, contact hash. i believe Jason has created an additional .lic file for Mac users who run windows.

I've discovered that unless you explicitly pick a forum in the drop down list you will get no results. Maybe Rodney or Jason can shed more light on that.

Now if there were some way to export the small details as displacement map and place that back on the A:M model...

Short version... First you make an image series of random gray scale blobs. It should have as many images as a multi-pass setting. (9, 16, 25, etc...) Apply that to your model. Set it as a displacement map. In the chor, Set the frame property of the image sequence to cycle through the series in the first 0.2 of the first frame and set that to repeat for every frame Render with multipass, 20% motion blur All the different displacement maps blurred together make a fuzzy look. sample PRJ... scratchWhiteTest.zip

Hey Serg, if you were looking for fuzzier look for the cloth parts of your character there is a multipass technique using displacement maps that the SoulCage guys showed a while back. These are some experimental tests I did to try it out. With the right pattern and right settings it might give a good felt look. FuzzyClothMultipass Sampler.mov

that is very cute!

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I don't think you need to change rigs because that won't change the need to weight CPs or use smartskin appropriately. Come to Live Answer Time! i think it would be useful to talk about this interactively.

This would be a good case to bring to Live Answer Time.