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I have now seen the first season of "The Walking Dead" I look forward to seeing "The Wobbling Dead" and will indeed be impressed that you have been able to make something amusing out of this.

I suppose that's the touted advantage of Adobe's Cloud subscriptions? You can use it on whatever machine you're on? I'm not sure it that is the deal or not...

Hope you have a fine birthday with minimal worries!

As Martin used to say, "It's possible, like going to Mars is possible." If it is a series of baked frames with each one containing all the information needed to render that frame, I think that is more possible than transferring rigged characters that respond to animation keyframes.

A worst case scenario I see is that so many companies exit the desktop PC market that they become expensive items again, sold as "workstations".

You now have three weeks to get your sci-fi contest image into shape. I better get to work!

My thread for Birn's book

I like that one too. In the edition i have there is actually some A:M coverage but he was using an early version of A:M that didn't have CP weighting so it was abit obsolete inthat regard. However, even without any A:M coverage his advice on what parts of the face need to move and his approach to doing lip-sync work are worthwhile.

If you're wanting to animate characters, "The Animators Survival Kit" is solid information about posing, timing, keyframes and workflow. It has zero information about using a computer but if you can pose and keyframe bones it's really all the same. For CG lighting I recommend Jeremy Birn's "Digital Lighting and Rendering". I have a thread on the forum that translates its terms to A:M terms. ILM's "The Art of Special Effects" is about old-school 1980's pre-computer VFX but most of those ideas transfer to modern tools. Used copies are cheap. The have a follow up about their digital era but I haven't seen it.

I don't know what that means Their page sounds like a lot of techno babble to me. ??? I can't find any other reference to this term other than their page.

They have an option for "Also show archived* software" on their driver search page. Even that doesn't have it?

Happy Birthday, Martin D. Hash Esq., where ever you are!

I think either Holmes Bryant or David Simmons have tuts on face rigging that cover doing eyelids. Have you looked at those?

I'll note that the percentages of the fanebones can vary. Sometimes more or less can work better in a spot but i start with an even distribution.

I also use second and third bones in my eyelid rigs. I do them as regular fans. The second bone is 66% orient-like to the first and the third is 33% orient-like to the first. I don't try to lag them. They are always in fan mode and they always keep the eyelid from sinking into the eye.

Best Birthday wishes to you!

For people like me who don't know what a Logitech G13 Gamepad looks like, it's a beast! From the pic I'd think it IS a left-hand model. Wouldn't you move the joystick with your thumb? Or would a left handed person want the opposite?

Looks like an acupuncture chart

I tell ya, what they lacked in animation they made up for in models. I'll have to look at that. From Netflix:

I'm going to guess 15% represents one of your 8 hyperthreads (four cores plus four fake cores) fully committed to A:M plus whatever else the system is doing. A:M uses one core. I don't know what you're rendering so 5 mins may be fast If you are rendering animation, NetRender will put frames out to all available cores and use them all. NetRender is great for using all of a multicore system.

That is amusing.

from the Jeckle-to-Hyde transition in "Hyde and Hare" (1955)

that's a beast!

I've finally gotten the original series on DVD and am watching the first episode. It is indeed grim. I'm glad you've made a parody.

I hadn't caught this one. As always, that looks like great work!