robcat2075

The out-of-focus fence is a complication. If everything was sharp it would be easier to cut it out, but it's not undoable tiger.zip ( the psd file) that's cut by hand with a fuzzy eraser brush, no magic wand or lasso selection.

multi-pass divides each pixel into x parts and renders each one separately, the adds all x passes together at the end. The more passes you set it to do the longer it will take. multipass is usually unnecessary. The anti-aliasing in regular render is about the same as 16-pass multipass. some effects like accurate motion blur and shadow jitter need multipass. But usually you can use regular render for faster results.

All i meant was... whatever you were using, switch to the other.

try multi-pass/not multipass.

Photoshop won't load a photoshop file?

duplicate the whole image into another photoshop layer. Hide the background. Use the eraser to carefully erase all but the fence on the top layer. Put your A:M image on a layer between the above two. Turn your background back on.

make a material... then Attribute>change type to>plugin>Hash Inc.>environment map

All of those are possibilities but I think there is more than one DarkTree material that does wooden floors.

Why do you have Nipsy Russel pretending to be President? Actually, the only amusing Obama-cature I've seen so far is what Tom Toles does in the Washington Post. And that's just a few squiggles. It won't work in 3D. I don't think anyone has nailed it yet. He's a bit like Gerald Ford in that he presents no remarkable features for exaggeration. He's black and that is novel for a President but the cartoonists who try to derive their satire from that seem to be the most unfunny. It's not the defining attribute. It's not that essence that makes for caricature. Richard Nixon had a unique nose and jowls that became iconic, but Obama being black... well, him and 40 million other people in this country. I saw some video of the new Obama robot in Disney's Hall of Presidents. It look nothing like him. It's like they decided "Will Smith is close enough, right?"

go to render something

are you on a mac? TSM2 works on PC

The "frameburn" post effect can now be sized absurdly huge by setting the "font scale" property. Post effects can be loaded by Post Effects>New>Post Effect on the new Post Effect>Change Type to>Hash Inc.>Frame Burn Drag the new Post Effect onto your camera in the Chor To show up in your renders you need to have "Apply Camera Post Effects to Renders" ON in Render Settings>Output>Buffers

yeah, i laughed at the singing skulls too!

Those look grand!

that looks wonderful. I'm eager to see him animated.

yes, that's it. although I suppose when you do the other side that might as well be a CP instead of a hook. Slide it to about half way between the other splines.

no, the other top spline.

Yes. We stopped because it was done. A short version is on Youtube. A DVD is being made of a somewhat longer cut.

I avoid two hooks on the same spline. I'd carry the top one thru to be a hook on the next spline. That will make both hooks end in the middle of a spline which seems to work best. Hooks can attach at the 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 point of a spline but 1/2 is best.

ok. good to know! My knowledge of lighting is microscopic.

make sure the Key Model filter is ON at the bottom c/p/m also requires that the spine/neck bones of a character be exactly x=0 at both root and tip in the model. The Rabbit may be off on that. You can fix him and resave him.

I got an email from Caroline. Her gainful employment has distracted her from A:M pursuits but she hopes to get back to her projects sometime in the near future. I was worried there was some sort of crocodile-related mishap.

There are such things for the camera view but they dont' seem to carry over to lights. But sliding the mouse on the values works pretty well.

KEyboard 3 will cycle thru the POV of the lights in your chor. (this feature is sometimes odd. make sure nothing is selected while you do this) When you get to the one you want you can click and drag on an XYZ parameter value in its properties to adjust while looking thru the view of the light.

The model isn't embedded in that prj do Project>Embed all