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    Update to Windows 10

    in New Users

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    1 hour ago, strato said:

    The interface of Windows 10 sucks in my opinion. You can't customize the 3D objects, which defines the look of Animation Master, so everything is white, the tracks in

    the Project Workspace are hard to see, single windows have a curved blue border, it's like back to MAC OS 9. There is no performance advantage. I use V12,13 and 19 on W7.

     

    Something is wrong. I'm on Windows 10 and I am able set the color of animation channels in Tools>Customize>Appearance...

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    And my windows don't have a curved border. The blue is a windows setting that can be changed in Windows Settings.

    Winking Tchaikovsky

    in Work In Progress / Sweatbox

    Posted

    I was part of a trombone forum collaboration this year, the sort where everyone records their part individually and then it all gets edited together. Since we were playing a jazz arrangement of a Tchaikovsky piece I thought it would be cute to have him drop in at the very end and wink to the camera.

    It would work like this...
    (the bit of music in this demo is not our group, it's is previous recording of the piece)

     

     

    Alas, it didn't get used. But, of course it was done in A:M.

    I edited four versions of the painting... for the brow, the upper eyelid, the lower eyelid and the eyeball behind them. I added splines to outline the moving parts and did a muscle Pose to control each one individually.

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    I stacked the layers in the Chor, animated the Pose sliders and shot them with an orthogonal camera.

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    Update to Windows 10

    in New Users

    Posted

    I suggest you make an image of your Windows 7 OS drive in case you need to go back. And, of course, you've backed up all your data.

    Is this an in-place update... Windows does the update and keeps all your old programs installed?

    Maybe you won't need your A:M license rewritten, but i don't know.

    La Maison du Pastel

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    Imagine if you needed a different mouse for every color you wanted to use. That is pastels.

    The story of an art shop that has been around since the 1700s...

    The tiny Paris pastel shop that changed art history

    click on this link...

    https://t.co/vUpuFCKxiX

     

     

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    Behind an old wooden counter in a shop in Paris’s Le Marais district, a woman in a light-blue shirt stretches for a shelf behind her and slides out a box. She places it on the counter and unstacks three hidden layers. Inside are neat rows of colourful sticks, cushioned in cotton wool and held in tonal formation. Although firm, they appear sweet and doughy. Each is individually wrapped in a loop of branded paper that reads “Henri Roché”.

    The sticks are handmade pastels, fine enough for Édouard Vuillard, Edgar Degas, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Odilon Redon, Richard Serra, Winston Churchill — all customers of the oldest pastel maker in the world, La Maison du Pastel.

     

    James Cameron's "Avatar"... forgotten?

    in Off Topic

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    Here is the full NY Times review (by a different writer)

    ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: Big Blue Marvel

    James Cameron returns to Pandora, and to the ecological themes and visual bedazzlements of his 2009 blockbuster.

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    Way back in 2009, “Avatar” arrived on screens as a plausible and exciting vision of the movie future. Thirteen years later, “Avatar: The Way of Water” — the first of several long-awaited sequels directed by James Cameron — brings with it a ripple of nostalgia.

    The throwback sensation may hit you even before the picture starts, as you unfold your 3-D glasses. When was the last time you put on a pair of those? Even the anticipation of seeing something genuinely new at the multiplex feels like an artifact of an earlier time, before streaming and the Marvel Universe took over...

     

    James Cameron's "Avatar"... forgotten?

    in Off Topic

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    I guess in a week we'll find out.

    The early reviews, at least the ones excerpted here, are are very positive...

     

    Avatar: The Way of Water First Reactions: We Never Should Have Doubted James Cameron

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    Critics on social media say the long-awaited sequel is a visually astounding technical marvel (as expected), but also a complex, emotionally resonant story with breathtaking action.

     

     

     

    On 12/9/2022 at 4:37 PM, Roger said:

    Nobody wants to go see a movie where women are just magically good at everything because "girl power!".

    But isn't that pretty much how the Hollywood male heroes worked?

    What ever expertise is implied by their job title is at not use in the movie and they just somehow know a mavericky thing to do instead.

    Dirty Harry doesn't follow police procedure, he shoots up the town and it all works out.

    Captain Kirk doesn't follow Star Fleet regulations but always tops Spock, who is the resident book-smart guy.

    Luke Skywalker has actual magic that tells him when to swing the light sabre.

    MacGiver?

    Almost every Tom Cruise movie imparts him some superiority that places him above all the others for no reason except that he's... Tom Cruise.

    Superman has no merit for his powers other than the rays of the Sun. Likewise for the other comic book supers.

    I think the male heroes have been benefiting from story conventions that are mostly unexplained magic.

     

    Video clip Playback

    in New Users

    Posted

    Quicktime is deprecated now as a security hazard but I still use it. It can load image sequences. Quicktime Pro (extra cost) can compress them in a variety of formats.

     

    It is the only player that can reliably step through video in single frames.

    James Cameron's "Avatar"... forgotten?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    On 12/1/2022 at 3:45 PM, Wildsided said:

    I think blockbusters are disappearing because Hollywood is far more interested in virtue signalling than producing anything decent.

    Prior to COVID the  problem was too many blockbusters.

    Only films that studios hoped to gross $100 million or $200 million or more at theaters were getting green lit because small films were hard to promote and wouldn't pull in enough ticket buyers to pay it off.

    Now that theaters are open again it looks like... mostly blockbusters again. Superheroes, action movies and big-budget animation on screen at the mall. The quirky rom coms  and dramas are getting just the token theatrical release before they go to streaming. They are still getting made (by and for streamers) but they may never have the theatrical presence they used to have.

    The old Hollywood formula used to be to make mostly cheap movies and hope for one to be a runaway hit like "Jaws" or "Star Wars". Hollywood accounting made the successful movies pay for the losers and those losers helped the studios from having to return much money to the investors.

    Now, the investors who finance movies want home runs every time. The blockbuster is perceived to be the safe choice, somehow.
     

    Resuming a Netrender Fail

    in New Users

    Posted

    Yes, but I need to try that again before I write directions .

    For now...

    First, look in your frames folder and see what the last frame completed was.

    Then start NR and start a new job. Making the new job will be easier if you use the Preset you made for it initially.

    Set the frame range to start one frame later than the last completed frame. This will be dramatically easier if you have NetRender set to display time in frames instead of seconds:frames

     

    Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century artist

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Extended piece on a recently re-appreciated female painter. Check out the expressions on the boys in her "Five Senses" series.

    And in the large "Bacchus" painting, I presume that is her, looking at the viewer? :D

     

    For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More.

     

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    Wautier had been largely forgotten for more than 300 years when Van der Stighelen came across one of her paintings while rummaging around in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where she was trying to hunt down a portrait attributed to Anthony van Dyck.

    “A curator took me along corridors that had ‘second class’ Flemish paintings,” she recalled in an interview. “When I was leaving, I saw a monumental painting — about nine feet high and twelve feet wide. I didn’t recognize it. He said, ‘Not much is known about it, but it is painted by a woman.’ ”

     

     

     

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