robcat2075

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!

Another option would be to have two knives, with one being Active OFF before and the other one being Active OFF after. But I think the decal percentage tactic is a good bet.

However, I've almost never used a keyboard shortcut for Make Keyframe. A:M auto keys anything you change yourself and the Make Keyframe button seemed to be conveniently located. None-the-less, you can detach any toolbar and drag it to sit anywhere on your screen if it's not conveniently located for your workflow.

CTRL+I is unassigned on my A:M. You could assign Make Keyframe to that. I recommend using a combination like that so you don't accidentally make keyframes by hitting a single key.

In Tools>Customize>Toolbars make sure you have "Show Tooltips" on When I hover over the Force Keyframe Button the tooltip that appears says "Force Keyframe (Insert)" edit: I see you've already done the above. The tooltip for every button should show if there is a shortcut assigned already. Pressing the "Insert" Button (above the Delete) button will do the same as the Force Keyframe button. On my keyboard the Insert button is above the Delete Key which is above the cursor keys. If you have a short keyboard it may be elsewhere. in Tools>Customize>Keyboard you can look up any button to see if it has a keyboard shortcut assigned and change or create a keyboard shortcut it you wish. There are still lots of possibilities to assign shortcut keys with ALT or CTRL or SHIFT

I have the 5-button Microsoft Intellimouse with an extra button on each side. I realized the two things I did most when I was animating was Rotate and Play so I put Rotate on the left and Play on the right. I love that and I like how the Intellimouse has the two extra buttons positioned. Using the center roller for Zoom and Move works by default and those are great also. For some reason, since v18 came in, I've noticed that the mouse buttons don't do anything until after I've used the keyboard shortcuts for Rotate and Play for the first time in a session, then they work again. I also am not sure of your question. Could you clarify?

It was cleverly hidden in the first post.

I haven't found a way for users to do "macros" in A:M. Plugins can be written to consolidate several steps into one but you have to be a programmer to make them. What is it you want to do? May be there is a way for that particular thing.

And you'll need to do that for each file type.