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robcat2075

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  1. Yeah i think if you make it less spherical it will look like an elbow hinge. Unless you really do want it to be able to swivel in any direction, but probably not. I guess I shouldn't say it's ALL in the body language. But you can do a lot with that. Animated faces never have the same life that real faces do so getting the body to help is useful. Good taste should rule, it can get corny either way. Watch some silent dramas made before , say, 1920 (like Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik") and you'll see some pretty ghastly body and face acting. On the other hand someone like Clara Bow had an amazing face that could say sentences without speaking. We don't think of her as a pantomimist like Chaplin, but she knew what she was doing. I just looked at that Bow clip again and it occurs to me that between the lighting and the makeup her face has been simplified down to not much more than the mouth and eyes. Geez, in that last shot she's practically a panda bear! If she can work with that I suppose our robots can too. If you have a chance to watch a Clara Bow movie she is a real study piece even in the weak ones.
  2. that's a cool looking figure. I have one suggestion... flatten the ball that is the elbow joint, to make clear teh direction that it hinges. When we first see it it looks like the elbows are turned wrong or could go in any direction It's all in the body language and the poses he takes on. The face isn't always needed. Chaplin liked to say "I can show any emotion in silhouette" There are "weight" issues in that animation but as a test of the rig it shows you've got it working.
  3. thanks! Not on this one, I have a hard time just drawing legs consistently.
  4. Ich wunsche sich ein frohliche Geburtstag! Und viele mehr!
  5. It's the most recent that David Rogers has written. Some new features have been added since then of course, but I don't think anything that's new would invalidate the advice he gives on the features he does cover. As always, you can ask on the forum when you have a question. New features tend to have gotten some discussion here in several threads.
  6. I've been trying to animate something like this in 2D, so i made this little study in A:M to better understand the timing and poses. I've written some notes on it so you can see some of my reasoning in working thru it. X = extreme poses B = breakdown poses. These are added after the extremes to add overlap between poses or to make arcs better stuff in green is extra polishing things jumpnotes.mov
  7. I didn't even know there was an 8 core mac! Are you able to run windows on that? Faster or slower times?
  8. extremely beady eyes on that troll.
  9. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something in Animation:Master this forum is right place to start.

  10. It is... maybe it will... best place to start is the tutorials in "The Art of Animation:Master" booklet you got with A:M. You can post your progress and questions in the "TAoA:M" sub forum.
  11. Personally, my iMac has 2 - but I think the answer is "as many as we can muster up". For a small number of CPUs ( under 8 maybe) that you have physical access to I'd say Holmes suggestion of splitting the work among several instances of A:M is the best one. Last time Martin spoke of NetRender he indicated he'd only sell it to well- known customers who would absolutely not need support in using it largely because they have no way of diagnosing someone else's network problems and they don't have the resources to fix a netrender specific bug if one were found nor do they have the resources to test if it really is a bug with netrender and not simply user error. Net render is probably not an immediate solution for you. Running multiple instances of A:M is a good work around if you have the CD version which allows you to install on any number of computers. Alternatively, check out this thread. I have not tried "RenderDone" but it sounds clever whatever it is.
  12. Welcome to A:M! I presume you bought the CD version... yes, you do want to update. you can download the V15e update here It still need the CD to be in your dirve each time you start A:M 15f is coming soon for the CD version. watch that space.
  13. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  14. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  15. If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  16. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  17. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  18. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  19. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  20. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  21. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  22. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  23. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  24. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master this forum is the right place to ask!

  25. Welcome to A:M!

    If you have questions about how to do something with Animation:Master thsi forum is the right place to ask!

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