robcat2075

I defaced this one... That probably isn't an HDRI image you've got for the sky so the bright spot in the clouds isn't contributing as much as it should and reducing the overall contribution of everything else as it should. A really hazy kleig light from the direction of that bright spot might fix the balance.

Good scene. I think the ground is picking up too much light. I don't know why. The other objects seem to be responding appropriately. There isn't ambience on the ground is there?

It's like the problem I have with anime. In a Disney movie the backgrounds are a few splotches of color but in anime they're hyper-detailed. I'll be watching one and wonder "is the inspection sticker on that breaker box in the upper left corner a plot point I should be paying attention to?"

I shall be curious about the story that involves such detail!

more great looking stuff!

is your object on a ground plane? The light may appear to come from above because that is the least occluded direction for the all-over light to come from. The ground plane blocks all ambient light from below. Show a picture if you're doubtful, but that's generally the way AO looks. If you want a hazy light source that really comes from a direction, create an "area light" by putting a light on a a path constraint that zig-zags across some shape that you want light to come from. Render with multi pass, set your motion blur to 20% and set the ease on the path constraint to go from 0% at 0:00 to 20% at 0:00.2 (that's 1/5th of a frame)

If you post the project with everything embedded someone might have an answer. A different someone than I since I'm not up on lipsynch.

I've never done much with dopesheet lip synch, so i'm not sure about a cause. But why not go back to a previous saved version of your project from before something went wrong and retrace your steps? I hope you haven't been resaving over the same project all along...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!

Which do you not see? I loaded it and was able to move the arms and legs. Turn on the Arm IK and Leg IK controls if you want to pose with IK. Turn ON "Hide Extra bones" to hide the stuff you shouldn't be seeing.

If you have the v15 cd you can get the v15j+ version

It's a bit of a too-much-whisky-and-cigarettes look. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

ah... non-glowing hair! The left one would work well for animal fur. Is that one image mapped hair?

I'm not well versed in that rig, but my first suggestion woudl be to place the origin of the Foot Placer bones closer to the physical heel so the movement of the foot on the ground will be easier to animate. Your character doesn't really have a sharp heel point so whatever you choose will be a bit of a compromise. What you have might the best spot, but it's something to keep in mind. I don't know it setting up the arm and legs bones not-straight is a problem with this rig.

Yes Convert the clip to a Quicktime or TGA series (better) and import that as a rotoscope into the view you are posing your character in. >New>Rotoscope TGA series works better because A"M doesn't have to work on the codec stuff while you scrub back and forth. Quicktimes compressed with "Photo JPEG" work well, also.

CP tolerance too low?

What Ken said. Your decal will look something like this There's a link to a tut on how to apply a cylindrical or spherical decal here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=332917

You dont' need a mo cap device. You just need the file the mocap device made. That's what you will use with A:M.

I just caught that, looks wonderful!

I bet he did that with some stock mocap files. I looked at the "Spiderman Hamster dance" and it looks like the same moves. Those dance moves are probably in mocap files available somewhere. Somewhere on the forum there are several tuts on how to use mocap in A:M.

Motion capture? Since it's a realistically proportioned character, motion capture seems like a feasible route. Other wise, since it's a dance you might get away with hand animating a few cycles and cutting between them

Big cottage!

one pass could do it if you light it right This is out of the box glossy specular with no off camera reflections.

That would seem to be a mostly transparent surface. I'd do the regular lighting in one pass and another just for the reflection which would be of a white surface placed off camera to reflect in the right places. Everything else would be black.

Welcome to the Forum! A good rule of splining is that you should never have more than 4 patch corners at any CP. The spots where you have a spline dead-ending into a CP where two splines are already crossing... that makes 5 corners not 4... that's always icky. Fuchur's alternate splining shows how to avoid that.