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That looks wonderful, Kevin! (for some reason I've been calling William "Kevin" for ten years)

Great to see you back Jeff! She looks fabulous. Hey, you still have a couple days to get in on the image contest!

Jason has provided some examples of the Hash jackets from Siggraphs past. Not all styles are available in all sizes, in fact, most styles are available in only one size. The first place winner will need to discuss their choice with Jason. And maybe that winner will be you! You have three days to finish and submit your entry!

Terribly clever, none-the-less. I wonder if it is in any way similar to how our minds filter out the thing we aren't interested in when we look at such situations.

Very impressive. The limitation seems to be that the camera must move and must create a pretty substantial parallax change among the images.

In the prize list above I forgot to include... -Seven certificates of runner-upness, awarded to the fourth through tenth place finishers. ... now added. You have four days to finish and submit your entry!

On the back of the lottery cards it says "Please play responsibly." Buying 10 at once probably didn't look good.

Final rules and how to submit your image for the "Insect" Image Contest: 1. Your image should be primarily about and show an insect. 2. Your image must be modeled and rendered with Animation:Master. 3. Your image should be 1080 pixels high and can be any width you choose. I will resize images that don't fit that dimension. 4. Submit your image, your email address and your physical mailing address in a PM (private message) via the forum to me, Robert Holmén (AKA robcat2075), by going to my profile and choosing "Send me a message". You can attach the image to a PM in the same way you attach an image to a forum post. 5. Submit your image on or before August 9 2015 (or August 10, who's counting?) 6. The submitted images will be exhibited in a thread on the forum for one week before the voting begins. 7. The voting will be conducted on a page created by Forum Administrator Jason Simonds and will begin on or about August 16 and will be open for one week. Prizes: -One Hash Siggraph Jacket, awarded to the first place finisher -Three Medals, one awarded to each of the first, second and third place finishers -Three Caricatures by Mark Largent, one awarded to each of three entrants randomly chosen from the top ten finishers -Seven certificates of runner-upness, awarded to the fourth through tenth place finishers. -Ten $1 Texas Lottery Scratch-Off Game cards, one randomly assigned to each of the top ten finishers. The Big Scratch-OFF of the game tickets to reveal the winnings (if any) and the random drawing for the Largent caricatures and will be conducted by me on a YouTube video to be recorded and posted after voting has concluded and results are known. Lottery Game winnings (if any) will be sent via PayPal to the winners. If anyone should win a large prize I reserve the right to subtract 10% to pay the income tax I will incur since i am the legal purchaser and redeemer of the game card. Any further interpretations or decisions about the rules or prizes or the conduct of the contest will be made solely by me, Robert Holmén. All decisions are final, unless i change my mind, and then I get to make a new final decision. The Texas Lottery game cards are ready and itching to get scratched! You have five days to finish your entry! Don't miss out!

You can attach it to a PM on the forum.

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If you can send me the model I'll look at it.

I'll note that "lighting" is the area of 3D where A:M is most like other 3D programs. Almost all concepts in other programs will translate well to A:M. If you have a doubt or question about a detail, ask us here. For a great explanation of 3D lighting that is non-program specific I'd recommend Jeremy Birn's "Digital Lighting and Rendering" I have a thread where I translated the general terms he used into A:M terms and explore some work-arounds when what he is talking about doesn't exactly match the way A:M does it.

Looks cool! Tell us more about the projection.

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I don't use After effects enough to warrant getting into the subscription pricing, but I use it enough that I don't want to give it up. I'll have to stay put on Win 7 for now. Did you have to reinstall all your old programs or did they get brought along automatically?

Official Prize Announcement: Jason Simmons Simonds has graciously donated a Hash Inc. Siggraph jacket to be awarded to our first place finisher. I'll get a picture of it later but I recall it is quite ostentatious. You still have two weekends to get your entry pulled together and polished up. Remember, there are prizes for the top ten finishers so you don't want to sit on the sidelines and miss out!

OK, I didn't see the first post was in May. I'm still on the fence. I'm think I'm going to image my Windows 7 first and then try 10 so i can revert back easy if too much stuff doesn't work. I don't want to lose After Effects.

I meant, why did it work today and not yesterday?

So i wonder what changed.

I will probably just have people message the images to me and I will set up the exhibition page.

My suggestion would be to render with SSAO, then turn out all the lights and render the glow as a separate pass and composite the two with either "lighten" or "add". I dimly recall a similar problem with glow in my "painting with light" series and I found that compositing the glow an easy fix.

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They did a lousy job at that but you can't curve the "2001" image onto a Cinerama screen because the camera did not shoot a wide angle of view comparable to what a Cinerama screen presents to a viewer. The woman in pink and the red couch on the edges of the 2001 frame are probably only 20-30° from the center axis of the camera. Everything in that frame is more in front of the camera than to the sides. Nothing in that frame can be properly placed on the side area of a curved screen that would wrap around you On the other hand, the left and right edges of a Cinerama image are 70° off the center axis. To actually sit in a Cinerama movie is not seeing something that truly looks like the smilebox. What you see is a wall that curves around you. The middle of the screen does not appear shorter than the sides because the middle is just as close to you as the sides.