[the basic model Thom can change his appearance with a few decals This is him after apply decals to front an back]

That is some hard-core tattooing.

[Art lesson from Japan [Korea?]...]

Here is the full program that puts him in context.

Yup, he still screams a lot.

 

[Happy Birthday]

Thanks Paul, David, Dan and Tom! May we all have a good year ahead!

[HBD Robert]

Thanks, Roger and Gerald!

I hope I can be helpful for a while longer!

[HBD Robert]

Beautiful, Myron!

Thanks!

[Happy Birthday]

Thanks, Steve!

Another year... I never thought I'd be this old. We better get our projects done soon!

[Why 44.1 KHz is more than enough for CDs]

Here is another treatment of the same message...
 

 

[Why 44.1 KHz is more than enough for CDs]

Much digital audio is packaged today at ultra-high bit rates and bit depths on the premise that that reduces digitally induced artifacts and distortion. This video explains why 96KHz or 128KHz is unnecessary and superfluous and why a 44.1KHz sampling rate is all that is needed to accurately reproduce all sound for the listener.

(In another video he notes that this is just regarding the initial recording and end playback. Production between the end points may require higher sampling.)

What does this have to do with CG rendering? It seems that a big effort in reproducing realistic lighting and texturing has been in finding ways to sample the potentially infinite number of photons in a scene as little as possible and still have enough to get a visibly accurate result. With crazy math it can be done. That is just my analogy, however. This video is not about CG.

Most of this video is really someone else's video that he has excerpted and annotated. He includes a link to that other video on the YouTube page.

 

[Here WE GO AGAIN [solved]]

You don't really need to download a new install if you already had A:M installed.

delete the expired master0.lic file from the AM folder of your expired AM, then run it and it will prompt you for your new  key
 

[Load Layout does nothing.]

5 minutes ago, svetlik said:

Is it too late? Where is the link to get there?

It is definitely to late now. But for future ref you can always find the link in my signature.

[Load Layout does nothing.]

Is that computer on the internet? Can you bring it to live answer time?

[Old Telephone Pole]

Here's a variation a bit more organic looking...

 

[Old Telephone Pole]

Displacement experiment today.

[Load Layout does nothing.]

It also remembers the location of tool bars.

 

What is it not doing for you, Edward?

[Load Layout does nothing.]

Would you believe... I've never tried that before? 😄

When I  save and reload a layout it seems to recall a specific arrangement and visibility of interface panels like PWS, Properties, Poses... the things you toggle with ALT-1 through 7

It does not seem to recall an arrangement of model or chor windows within the view port

[Choke! - Animation Showdown Entry]

And here I am 20 years later with a new render and added sound effects.

 

 

This is a radiosity render. The scene is lit by one light pointed up at a white dome that covers everything.

If you'd like to try it with your character, put him in this scene and load this render preset when rendering.

RadiosityDome.prj

 

RadiosityDome.pre

[duck showed up while sorting]

Is that one of the ducks from TWO?

[Get Down From There! - Animation Showdown Entry]

On 3/7/2024 at 10:46 PM, Tom said:

Neat... looks like you are using your cool cloud effect!

Yes, dressing up these old animations was what got me on that track!

22 hours ago, Tom said:

Follow up question ...can those changing clouds cast shadows on the ground? ..or are they just projected on a plane without the ability to interact with the rest of the scene?

Yes, they could cast shadows on the ground, although you'd need the camera to have a much higher angle to see that and I'm not sure about the scale they would have.

["Cow & Chicken" storyboards]

Some of you are wrestling with storyboarding your animation projects.

Here are some real production storyboards from the Hanna Barbera series "Cow & Chicken."
They look quite different from the storyboards that one might make to present an idea to non-film-makers, such as the clients of an ad agency who want a commercial to advertise their product.

Here the artist has drawn just enough to identify the setting, the characters, the camera angle, the action. These are for creatives to talk to creatives.

But LOTs of drawings. Each one might account for only a small slice of screen time. The whole 150 drawings might cover three minutes?

While each drawing is not highly detailed, the sum is very detailed... there isn't much doubt about what is seen and what happens.
 

if clicking on first image below doesn't work, try this link: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0k972sE2df2kEF9i4447mQSXkJy6wo5TkLQSivKnvWZWtNGxN7ZToqyhHnZv1Piool&id=100005239264503

 

[I'm sorry again]

Glad you're still here!

[Get Down From There! - Animation Showdown Entry]

A new render of my March 4 2004 entry in the Animation Showdown, now with scenery and sound.

The animation is an Action cycle, repeated three times. I was excited when i got that to work.

 

I made the sound effects of the foot thumps and the cubes landing by hitting a cardboard box in various ways and shifting the recordings down an octave.

[Gear shape experiment]

This is the profile of common "spur gear".

The edge where a gear tooth will contact the tooth of a neighboring gear has a special curve called an "involute," designed to allow the gear teeth to smoothly slide over each other as their gears turn on their axes.

This curve varies depending on how many teeth a gear has (and other factors) but the tooth overall tends to have six landmark points that are easily distinguished, which I have marked in red...

 

A spline made with six points per tooth can approximate this shape. Here I have fit six points to one tooth and used the Duplicator wizard to copy that around the remainder of the gear...

 

The resulting A:M spline shape closely matches the intended contact interaction..

 

Possibly a wizard could be made to create proper gear outlines (for any size gear and any number of teeth) in A:M for 3D printing projects. I realize dedicated CAD programs usually have some tool for gear design but it would be fun to be able to create working mechanisms with native A:M models.

[Ancient Tyrian Purple Site found]

Today it is easy to mix RGB for almost any color we want but in ancient times color wasn't simple to come by.

NY Times article:

In Israel, a 3,000-Year-Old Purple Factory

Quote

Archaeologists have revealed a major production site for one of history’s most luxurious, and smelliest, colorants.

The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a weed, but by drawing out a slimy secretion from the mucus glands behind the anus of murex sea snails — “the bottom of the bottom-feeders,” the historian Kelly Grovier has written. The common name of the dyestuff, Tyrian purple, derives from the habitat of the mollusks, which the Phoenicians purportedly began harvesting in the 16th century B.C. in the city-state of Tyre in present-day Lebanon...

 

...Tyrian purple was the sole colorfast dye known to the ancients; fabric tinted in the color grew brighter with weathering and sunlight. Shades ranged from bluish-green to a purplish red, depending on how the dye was prepared and fixed in textiles. The most vibrant tone was the deep crimson of “clotted blood” tinged with black, the Roman historian Pliny reported...

 

 

[Links to Earliest Web Pages with Hash AM Training material]

I agree that Wayback machine is your best path for recovering old user-written tutorials.

I recently reconstructed Jeff Cantin's splinesmanship tut from that.

If you know an old URL, it is a place to start. Note that the Wayback Machine may have archived a site many times, but not all of them may have the same resources (like JPGs, files to download, etc.)... so you have to check many of them.

Some may be incomplete in every instance.

 

[Pink Floyd Animation]

A worthwhile effort, none-the-less!

I like that you had an artistic vision and followed it!