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Hey, Mark, i didn't see the part about your brother being sick. That's not good. I hope you're not the one who has to supervise him through this, that would take a lot out of you. About 10 years ago my doctor told me I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma and sent me to a cancer specialist. That guy operated to take a big lump out of my neck, but after they got done looking at that they found it wasn't cancer at all, it was a bartonella infection... AKA "catscratch fever". I wish it were that simple for your brother but it sounds like he's a more certain case than I was. I hope the treatment goes well for him.

You can point the camera anywhere. There are directions on 3D frame distance in the video. I recommend testing novel ideas in advance.

You can point the camera anywhere, but don't move the camera to a new location.

The new deadline is September 30th.

An aerial shot will not fit in the concept, however there remain many things you can do within the concept.

I feel your pain. It seems like the more I learned about animation, the more I dreaded embarking on the long journey. One of the Nine Old Men said "I don't like animating, I like having animated."

It would be sad if Paul Forwood left us this great-looking set... ... and we didn't have FUN with it. So don't be sad, join the"Rear Window" project and have FUN with A:M! You've got three months (until September 30th), even a tiny little gag or blip will be a welcome addition. Hop on over to the Rear Window launch thread where you can download the set and see the instruction video in post #2.

Best Birthday wishes to you, Gerald!

I'm glad you're still making progress. That's crazy detail you're putting in!

There are several of those I'd like to see animated. Good entries! Next contest, let's try to have twice as many people entering.

What are the lines?

My big problem is the irregular geometry of the back of the house. It will be difficult to drape anything over it and cover the things that leak and not create a potential collecting area for more water than the structure could hold.

I've got two entered. I think that will be it from me.

I've needed to put a new roof on this house for years I need to rip off the old roof first and I need to be able to cover the house while I do that. The largest tarp Home Depot sells is not large enough to cover the whole roof at once so I'm using A:M and Simcloth to test out various placements and to see where likely places to tie it down will be. this is a somewhat accurate, full size approximation of my roof and a 60' x 40' tarp:

v17 is still "beta" (save frequently), but it is indeed faster. Ya know, I think back in v14 they did have the renderer using multiple cores but it was unreliable so they dropped that.

One day to go! Get your entries in!

Upgrading to v16 64-bit would probably shave at least a third off that. Many speed improvements in the last few years. Yes, A:M's renderer uses 1 core. However, V16 includes Netrender so you can task all your cores with rendering.

I'm not real big on perfect teeth. When I can get away with it I just put a white semi-circle in the mouth to take the place of the row of teeth.

Welcome back to A:M! Glad you are still with us!

Wow!

Basically, animators pose and keyframe things to be where they want them to be (on a table) and not where they don't want them to be (in the table). If you are having trouble keeping a hand from going thru a table there is some fundamental basic mistake happening and we want to identify that sooner rather than later so you aren't hobbled by that.

Newton Physics

I don't think Ken looks in here too often, but happy birthday, none-the-less!

Look for tutorials on "Newton" physics. That can do what you want.

And thanks for all your work in testing A:M! Zurück zum Geburtstag!