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Since we have forum projects fresh on our mind maybe we could brainstorm here on what form the next one might take. What's been suggested so far... 1) Next Room. A character walks in to a room, does something and then either he or some other character exits to the other side. Then the camera shifts to pick up what happens in the next room. (I'm not real keen on this one anymore) 2) Rear Window. Peering into rooms in a hi-rise office or apartment complex. Things we've done before: 1) Ani-Jam. We had some limited success with where you pick up exactly with whatever the last animator did, but many people found this difficult. 2) Pass the ball. I think we've done this twice before. Other ideas I've had: 1) Commercial block. Everyone makes a 10 second commercial. ( or 5? Or 15?) 2) Who dunnit? I've been watching mysteries lately and they're all basically a bunch of seemingly unconnected events until they get wrapped up at the end. Is there a way to make a collaborative pot-luck project out of that without prescripting it too much? 3) Previously... on "Dynasty". Everyone does a scene that is like a recap of what happened last week on a soap opera. 4) Olympic event. Everyone's character does the same event, like the shotput, or high dive or... Other ideas? Fire away!

May your next year be bright not dim.

Somehow that didn't sound Scottish to me.

You can set "Draw Camera Cone" OFF in its properties.

That was cute! I actually laughed out loud. It was more of a snort really, but it was an audible reaction.

Hi Steve, It's hard to judge the legs from the front but I can tell the arms are too rigid. Here's a brief example of how overlap will loosen up a shape: Arms_H.mov The left arm is holding the same shape through the whole cycle, much like yours. That looks very stiff. The middle arm is has a different shape for the front and back keys. This looks a little better. The right arm was keyed in the same positions as the middle arm, but the rotation of its Upper arm lags behind the translation of the shoulder, and the Lower arm lags behind the Upper arm and the Hand lags behind the Lower arm. Every bone is a bit behind the bone it is attached to which is typical for a chain of bones like the arm. If there were fingers on this arm they might lag behind the hand. I've exaggerated everything here but without overlap CG models look very stiff and weightless. The mass and inertia of a bone (in real life) is what makes it resist any change of motion by the bone it is attached to. The animators challenge is to move the character as if that mass and inertia was at work even though a CG model has no mass or inertia.

I'm looking in my description for where I may have said that... I guess i misread the text at the end

I'm looking in my description for where I may have said that... I guess i misread the text at the end

I'm holding off for any remaining corrections on names, then i'll put it up.

One of the things you can all be proud about is that all the segments are visual stories, there's no dialog needed. Anyone around the world can watch BUS STOP and understand it. In screenwriting they say "don't say it, show it" and everyone did that!

Another fine Spleen-imation! In the shots of the speakers blasting it would have been cool to have the other props, like the guitars, rattling too. The band doesn't like it? Oh well. I went to Youtube to see if they have any other videos already. I'm guessing they're not

Someone needs to teach those giraffes about silhouette and composition.

That looks like two-headed giraffe in Nancy's post.

Getting rid of the tangent helped. I'd suggets some further rearrangement that gets the horizon at the 1/3 or 2/3 level and perhaps moves the lion out of dead center. the mane seems a bit dark, is that based on a reference?

How do you use the data-folder in the libaries? Objects in in the Data folder MAY be part of a library, BUT you dont' need to use Libraries for anything. Just load and use and save files the regular way like all other programs do.

Suggestion for his left foot... either turn the foot to point the toe more away from the body and have a more likely line from the leg to the foot (and have it not exactly parallel to the right foot) OR tilt the bottom of the foot so it isn't flat on the ground and making the ankle look so bent. OR some combination of the two.

That looks wonderful mark! The A:M CD image I have only has SmokeOne SmokeOne.tga (try it, but it's obviously not going to look the same as mark's movie)

Yes, I will have to GetTime() This is only the first step in a more involved problem with expressions. Eventually I want to do crowd simulation but the first step is getting something predictable to happen each frame.

Thanks for coming back to show it to us! You can upload models to the Shared Resources thread and I bet someone would find them useful.

I guess the problem is that expressions are continuously evaluated and not once per frame?

If i want to have an object decrement its Y position every frame I should be able to do a standard value reassignment like Y=Y-1, shouldn't I?

When I on that link in Firefox i get "Save link as" in the menu. "Save as source" sounds like something in the Quicktime viewer.

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