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The original purpose of this feature was to help recreate morph targets from imported polygon models as keys in Pose sliders in A:M. But there ya go... someone's found a new use for it already!

Have your tried uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop? (Make sure you still know your complete serial # before you uninstall)

Remember "Jot"? It was the Southern Baptist's answer to "Davey and Goliath". Jot was a little boy character but they never animated him walking, instead he'd change into a bouncing ball to go places.

Is there something you think can't be done in A:M that it ought to be able to do? Is there something you'd like to see figured out and explained? Perhaps A:M does it already but no one has tried it yet! Here is your chance to nominate a topic or task that you would like to see someone figure out how to do with A:M. I will choose one and make a WIP thread out of it in February 2014. The nominator of the chosen topic will receive some fabulous prize, possibly a copy of one of Martin Hash's "Memoirs" books. (Did you know there's three of them?) My Rules: -Task will be something reasonably appropriate for a full-featured 3D app like A:M. For example, "Word processing" would not be appropriate even if Blender happens to do that. -Task won't require new programming of A:M. I need to use A:M as it is, as-shipped. -Topic will be something reasonably appropriate for one person to do. "Make a feature length film" is beyond my scope. -Some nominations may be referred to already-existing how-to-do-it information. Those are not winners. -"Finish those damn New-User tutorials" is already on my to-do list. No need to mention that. -I am the sole judge and task-chooser of this contest and sole judge of whether I have accomplished the task and even if i don't figure it out, that's OK. Make your nominations below. I will pick one before February starts.

It's like he's walking on tip toe. I guess I've seen too many Tarzan movies and National Geographic specials where they just slide around in the mud. Or maybe it's because they are shaped like salamanders? The legs-to-the-side idea is has been around for a long time.

Where I got my first CG job they had something called Infini-D on the Mac and outside of making 3D text, primitives were about the only way to make anything. You couldn't deform them really, you just stacked them together like blocks to try to make shapes of what you needed. Character modeling was unthinkable. That's how A:M caught my eye about a year later. Apparently you could make ANYTHING with those splines, so that's when I got on board around 1996 or so.

I find this on an Adobe forum... Which Photoshop 7 are you using? If you are on 7.0, have you tried the plugin Rodney mentioned?

What is the "Save as a copy" for?

Welcome back to A:M!

Happy Birthday to our perennial mascot-making master!

No, the Snowflake was a convenient decal.

Welcome back to A:M land!

Hipsters...

I have trouble discerning between the good twin and the evil twin.

I've noticed in anime movies when they are showing someone running from the waist up only and the character is against a panning background, they will jostle the body forward and backward as if that were the running motion happening. That may be where the idea of he stopping and starting motion is coming from, but that is a limited animation convention that doesn't really translate to more 3D representations.

I'll note that real walkers, jogger and runners have a very consistent forward speed of the hips. It is not slowing down and speeding back up with every step. It's not possible to run or jog like that and people who walk like that have some significant mobility problem. Check out this reference footage http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=376617 What little variation there is in the forward progress of the hips is probably due to the hip marker being on the outside edge of the hip rather than in the actual center. The marker is catching the rotation on the axis of the spine as the legs sweep forward and back.

The reality of market forces in the media in the US (and apparently everywhere else) is that it seems to create fewer choices rather than more as the businesses are consolidated under fewer owners. The cost of setting up yet another internet provider that can somehow operate without the backbone of an ATT or a Comcast is so high that it won't happen. Remember that the phone companies and cable companies that carry the internet got their pervasive scope to be in almost every home because local and national government granted them protected monopoly status. They didn't want the free market operating when they were building it all but now that it's so big that no one else can step in to compete they say they want the free market. How convenient!

Recent US court ruling in favor of ISP allowing them to favor some traffic and disadvantage other. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/n..._n_4597831.html I don't know where an independent presence like Hash, Inc would fall on the favored/disadvantaged line. I'm going to guess that Youtube might go into the disadvantaged hole unless Google starts paying ISPs to favor it.

A:M will really work best in cm. i don't think any of the plugins will use anything but cm.

this doesn't look like you are doing the zero and scale in the properties like in my video.

It's an odd run! I think the most missing element is that to get moving he would need to lean into it at the start of the run.

that is loading into your photoshop differently than it loads into mine. When I load that targa i get just green and white in the RGB channels plus an alpha channel with the smiley face in it. No transparency in the working space like yours shows. Rodney mentioned a plugin to make it revert to the old behavior. have you tried that? And... you can't save to .PNG? PNG is available in v16. It should be importable.

I got my third place $50 gift credit today. Thanks, Jason, Thanks Hash, Inc. and thanks to all the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and everyone else who voted for fruitcake!

I'd say make a screen cam of it happening and make an A:M report of it. I just get a regular zero when I type a zero, but since you are not... document that and show that it's a real thing and then there's some place for someone to start on figuring out what is wrong. What if you enter 0.0? What if you copy a zero from another field and paste it in? Have you done Reset All Settings?

I doubt that is true anymore. The CPUs are quite different now and A:M is coded to take advantage of them now. On a straight comparison of equal CPU speeds the intels are doing better. Making a cost/benefit comparison is a bit more complicated.