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Congratulations!

that's cute. It reminds me a bit of the short Hash did long ago of a dog that was constructed of cut out shapes. "Fluffy"? I didn't know you were allowed to cut the paper in Origami. I never was.

Much better!

I've been pondering a way to do the ring of objects with Fuchur's other suggestion, the Multiple Models on a Path plugin. The hitch is that Paths must be hand drawn splines in the chor and it is difficult to make a perfect circle that way. The work-around is: -make any arbitrary path in the Chor. -In the Modeler, make a model that has a true circular ring in it. -Save the PRJ -In a text editor, copy the ... stuff... section from the ring model in the objects folder to replace the same section in the Path object in the Chor. -Resave the edited PRJ (under a new name) and load it into A:M The old path is replaced by the new circle path and you can use the plugin on that.

I recall there is an alpha channel option the toggles "pre-multiplied". Making that one way or the other may be involved.

I'm not sure about this. Possibly "alpha channel" is turned on. You may need to post a sample PRJ and render settings saved to a preset to investigate this further.

Is the moving texture planned or unplanned?

>Post Effects>Import Post Effects then navigate to the Post Effects folder in your A:M folder and choose an effect Drag it from the Post Effects folder to the camera in your chor.

You can choose which one gets used during a render with the "Use settings from" dialog in the Render tab. If you choose "The Camera" you can/must make your settings in the Camera properties and they will be saved with your Chor and be restored even if you should use different settings in another project later. "This Dialog" is a way to override any Camera render settings you may have made, perhaps just to test something temporarily in the view window. There is some coverage of this in the Quickstart video on Rendering

The darker red is an improvement. Easy thing to try... perhaps eliminating the outer ring around the propellers would make them more identifiable.

I thought a dark blue might work well with the snowflakes. Or maybe there's a way to do an Aurora Borealis backdrop?

What if the background was not red?

Welcome back to A:M, Ian! Here is a brief demo of using the Dup Wizard to create a ring of objects... clip3865DuplicatorWizardDemo.mov

I recall that being the default chor when you first opened A:M

Aha , it's a propeller on the car! It is too hard to identify those as props at that angle. If they were actual helicopters I think we would presume a horizontal line above them to be a propeller, but we don't' have that clue in this case. My first gambit would be to move the camera above the plane of the propellers so they would have a more obvious silhouette.

that's gotta be from back around v8?

I like the idea but it's a bit too flat-square for my eye, I have trouble discerning out the various elements. My eye wants to see a more perspective composition. I looked at this quite a while before i realized there were propellers over the reindeer. The edge-on angle is diminishing their impact. small details... - move Santa's belt up or down so it isn't edge-to-edge tangent with the desk top. - the bow on the wreath is too similar to Santa's pants behind it. - what is the object in upper left? I'm not sure what it belongs to. Perhaps id the camera were moved higher to look down more the propellers and

Here is a quick example of color map and displacement map at work...

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If the large building will be seen at distances and sizes like these shots I think the windows might be done with bump/displacement maps and color maps.

I've never seen an object drift without having been keyframed to do so, perhaps inadvertently. If you can make a sample PRJ that shows it that would be illuminating.

I would say that every workflow has limitations or impediments, on one end or the other. Slippage? You may have to explain that more.

I'm sure a mirror photo would work fine, too, since he's just using it as a reference.

I have sent reminders to all three.

When you can show it to us perhaps we can assess the possibilities better. There isn't a way to do that inside A:M. When people are talking about instancing they talking about dragging the one model into the chor many time. It would be possible with text editing and a spreadsheet to automate that process. I will note again, my series on "It Can't Be Done: Painting With Light" explains the process of text editing quite a bit.