robcat2075

10 years ago i got the character animation bug. I put this together for the bright New Year of 2005... Those Holiday Memories I'll note that subsequent scientific inquiry has shown that holiday turkeys do not have an especially large amount of tryptophan. Please disregard that portion of the video.

Happy New Year, to you, JackDrama! I haven't seen much Animator Apprentice footage so that is interesting in itself.

And a Happy New Subscription Year to you!

Hey, that's spiffy , Matt! Looks like those two got married!

All you really ever have to do is copy the master0.lic file from your old v17 folder to you new v18 folder.

That sounds like ABBA although I've never heard that one before! Here's my New Year's contribution... Fireworks! fireworksH1000.mov Here's the PRJ ChrysanthemumBoomFireworks08c_sounds.zip

I'll add that Smart skinning is something you might add after you've done CP weighting or Fan-boning and still don't quite have what you want. Sometimes Smartskin is easier to do if you already have the joint mostly fixed with CP weighting or Fan-boning.

Real bear fur isn't just sticking straight out from the skin, it bends over to flow more parallel to the surface. Morcos' anteater on the splash screen is an example of that. You'll need either groom it or use a direction map. I'm not sure you need hair for a cartoon bear, it will make render times quite extensive. But if you want more real hair, experiment on just a square patch first and try different things.

It's not necessarily something you are or aren't. It is something that can be learned. I was going to say something like "there's a reason they have a thousand employees and take two plus years to get one done" but even Pixar and Dreamworks don't always get things done on time... ‘Good Dinosaur’ Delay Leaves Pixar Without 2014 Release The movie may be better for waiting but on a business level it's a catastrophic gaffe that someone is probably having a tough time explaining how they got to this point. It happens to the best of them and you have the advantage of not losing your job over it.

On my monitor I just detect slight blockiness in the shading. I guess there's no dithering in that render?

Speaking of projects not done... I should have had those intro tutorials for A:M done a year ago. I gotta get that done. It has a "scope" problem much as making a film does. How to file a topic down to a size that is doable and yet still communicates useful information.

That's looking good. That will be a cool challenge for Hair. I don't remember that old dog thread of yours at all! That was a good-looking dog too.

Hooray for Nancy! Who is #2? I voted for that one! Thanks to everyone who voted for my Christmas Fruitcake! That was one procedural material that makes the fruits, the bread and the crust all together.

In FK mode, yanking on a CP will not move any CPs that are closer to the root. In regular mode, the whole spline can be affected, even by pulling on the very end CP.

Has nobody won this contest yet?

Thanks, everyone! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I really didn't think I was buying a tuba when i bought that. Here's the story: check out post #4 and #12

The daunting thing about CG is the number of things you have to have "done" before you can "start"

I know the feeling. Something have a funny way of looking easier from the beginning. Don't feel like it's a tragedy, it's a bump and you'll recover from it.

Peaceful and beautiful!

I hope you all have a fine holiday! My 2013 musical Christmas card. Gustav Holst's "Cranham" also known as "In the Bleak Midwinter" uy26H7oMGZg

Fabulous!

Welcome back! I seem to recall a "gonzo" from long ago.

How interesting! i have never in my life rotated an object 90° by typing in that number . I've always been using the rotate manipulator and turning it manually which works fine since the angle snap is large enough to hit 90 exactly. When i do it by Rusty's method I do indeed get those crooked splines in both v17 and v 18. Rusty, i suggest you make an AM Report of this (for v18). For now, manually turning the Rotate Manipulator will get you what you want.

On rare occasions the cutplane wizard will make a very odd ring that twists in places. Save that situation and consider submitting it as an AMReport.

The SplitPatch Wizard will add a subdividing spline in both direction on selected patches. If you selected two adjoining rings it would add a new ring between them and you could manually delete the crossing splines that are also added that you don't want.