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Congratulations, that looked good! Link so people can get to it easier: http://amfilms.hash.com/search/entry.php?entry=1083

Wow, fabulous look!

The odd part for me is the sudden reorientation of his torso in mid-air right before the kick. It happens without any apparent force to make it happen. Up thru that point it works well.

That looks great! when you get a job at ILM... try to get them to switch to A:M.

If i understand you, no mod is necessary, swing the heel bone side to side and the foot will rotate onthe ball of the foot. Or did you want to actually rotate around the tip of the toe? you can alway constrain the foot to a null anywhere and swing the null.

Great looking map, Zaryin! It would be neat to have a map in TWO that rolls up like paper but when it's unrolled, it has 3D topography on it.

720x480 is for pixels that are about 0.9 the width of square pixels. (and this presumes you've rendered 0.9 aspect ratio pixels in A:M, otherwise your image is wider than 4:3) That's normal for TV but if the DVD authoring software can't recognize that then you'd have to compress it to 640x480. There's probably a setting in your software.

Hey, that looks so good I hit the T key while I was viewing the jpg to try and spin it around. Looking forward to animated adventures of your mascot.

Hooray! I'm glad you're having a good time. Nice lookin model!

Hey Rodney! I just want to thank you for your never-ending efforts to cheer on the new users who come to A:M. Thank you for using your powers for good and not for evil. Continue cheering for truth, justice and the A:Merican way! If only a certain former cheerleader were more like you...

How does the rendertime of the map as a displacement compare to the same map as a bump map?

Ha! That's quite amusing. And a nice looking render too! For some reason that sylized reality looks very "pixar" to me. You should add some aburdly huge landing gear to it. I'm thinking the decal on the wing might look "better" if it were aligned with the edge, but you're the expert.

Hard to know without seeing...you don't mention that you've set the starting pose. MAke sure that every bone you are setting at 18 has been been keyed at 0. Nudge them with the cursor keys. Try that

Every detail "costs" some render time. It'a matter of deciding wht you don't need. ray traced shadows and reflections, numerous ray traced lights, complex combiner materials, "roughness" on a surface... those are things that increase render time. Mapped shadows, simple lights, simple materials, smooth surfaces... they are quicker. If you just want to check the motion of an animation, test render it in shaded mode. That is very quick.

Looks cute! keep us posted.

You can have multiple chor in one scene, however A:M doesn't support making one continuous render, switching from one shot to the next to the next, to the next... In live action, they shoot all their shots separately and edit them together. In animation it's the same, they render the shots separately and edit them together. This has the advantage that you can render each shot when it is done and not have to wait for everyone to be done. You can tack shots together in any video editing app, or even Quicktime Pro. Exact procedures will differ so check their manuals for the details.

I certainly appreciate the good work you guys are doing. I'm looking forward to knowing how to make use of it all.

We will need some sort of all-in-one-spot documentation for the rigs. There are talented A:M users who are interested in animating on TWO who are not frequenters of this forum and sending them to peruse 25+ pages of a thread for info probably would discourage them. And there may be people here a year from now that are not inthe picture today. We want to make it easy for them to get on-board and up-to-speed.

Cool image. The source of the light from above is unclear.

Fine looking character! (yeah, move the tail)

The compression in A:M is the compression provided by Standard Quicktime or standard MS codecs. What ever their strengths or weaknesses are. calling up preset mouthshapes for lipsynch has pretty much fallen out of favor for fine animation. Good voice work is hard to do. AE is an ENOURMOUSLY powerful compositing program. It's the 600 pound gorilla of 2D motion graphics. A:M is intended as a 3D modeling and rendering program, and that it does VERY well. If you need more than 3D modeling and rendering then yes, you need some that does those other things. I can't imagine any 3D app onthe market being used as, say, a final audio mixer. We could just as well say you can't use AE for serious 3D modeling and rendering without some other app. But you knew that already, right?

Martin explains some here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&sh...ndpost&p=155031

that's quite effective.

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On the other hand, I used to use a computer with a 16MB ATI card driving two monitors and it worked just fine. There must be more to it than the memory or the brand.