robcat2075

In A:M it means using one shape to cut out a portion of another shape. Kind of like the bite out of an apple. A:M's booleans work in renders, meaning they dont' actually change the mesh of either object.

And if you haven't rigged a character before, I'd strongly recommend installing one of the already-invented rigs that are around for your first time out. "The Art of A:M" shows how to install the AM2001 rig

the "ground" the is in the default chor doesn't have enough patches to make an interesting terrain. Better to make a denser grid and deform it. Someone around here made a terrain wizard plugin. Perhaps someone will pop in with a link.

What do you mean by "assigning nulls"?

I sort of prefer the second tortoise look. Why didn't you like him?

that sounds like the bones have the wrong heirarchy (the bones of one finger are mistakenly children of another finger bone). you can rearrange that in the project workspace window. Objects>your character name> bones

post a closeup wireframe with the bones or some animation showing the bones, ask some specific questions and someone will probably jump in with an answer.

hey, that's a pretty good godzilla.

I am curious to find out what the punch line is. I think the dramatic pauses may be a bit too dramatically long.

Good looking shot! I think more, smaller particles, and more than one kind would help the smoke. Real smoke would have a billowing effect that would be hard to do with particles. You've matched the lighting real well. Even though the camera is panning slow, you could still have it crash faster. It would just go out of frame a bit more before the camera caught up.

definitely do all the modeling exercises in "The Art of A:M" and then ask specific questions here when you have them.

Great looking characters! Kelley is right, those are models of economy!

Looks wonderful!

I found it. Good looking characters! Now I know what Spanish with a Transylvanian accent sounds like.

The best roach poem I've heard all year.

I'm pretty sure the 2001 rig isn't supposed to have the hand nulls as children of the hips. It's not that way on theThom model.

Sorry, I guess I missed the Thanksgiving Special.

If you weren't here three four years five years ago this will seem brand new! Just change the 05 at the end to an 08 an 09 a brand, spanking new 10. Those Holiday Memories

Hey, that was charming! Nothing says "Christmas" like a pirate with a missing eye.

Teh intrnts r well roon speln,

That's a disadvantageous angle to see them in that last pose. I'd show that "leaning over the edge" pose in profile or 3/4 to make it clearer. edit: now that I look at it closely I see they're not looking over the edge. So something needs to be clearer there.

The "Timeline" (the window actually called the "Timeline") usually shows only what is currently selected, which may be why it looks like it's changing. But there's another timeline that shows everything all the time even if it's not selected. This timeline is visible on the right side of the "Project Workspace". Stretch your "Project Workspace" window out to see it. You'll see all your bone keyframes and everything else in the project listed there.

If you rendered that movie a 2x the res would the dots be the same relative size or the same absolute size (the same number of pixels across)?

Showing things that cycle faster than the camera can capture them is a classic animation problem. The sharpness of the white section is working agains the impression of speed, I think. I suppose that white part is a patch, but you might consider applying a decal that has been pre-blurred in a circular fashion to build some "motion" into each frame.

I guess by day 200 Shaggy and Thom had already been eaten. The classic cannibalism on a lifeboat story: The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex I'm surprised that sort of mishap didn't happen more often.