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What is Costco's return policy? How much would you be out if you ended up with inside-out graphics and wanted to return the cheap laptop?

That has the Intel graphics however... which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't for A:M.

Now that I see it's an Intel "Pentium"... that seems pretty primitive. I didn't know they were still making Pentiums. What are some other options for a cheap windows laptop?

I dunno... I used A:M for years with 2GB and twos core including all my AnimationMentor exercises and all of my TWO scenes and I rarely felt the computer was under powered.. That was with Windows 2K. About ten years ago I moved up to a quad core with 4GB and windows 7 (because A:M wouldn't run on Win2K anymore) and that was fully functional for A:M. Now I have 8GB in it but I never really went past the first 4 until I tried rendering things for huge resolutions or with huge bitmaps. Does the Mac have a system monitor so you could see how much RAM you are using when you are doing your A:M things?

Computationally, they should be no problem since we were doing A:M on way less back in the day. The wild card seems to be the graphics. Roger had a laptop that worked fine for A:M until Windows updated something and then the shaded mode was always inside out. 4GB RAM out to be plenty. An SSD of 128GB ought to be fine You'd want one that doesn't need a power brick when you want to plug it into local AC power. A monitor out so you could potentially use any available larger monitor. Two USB outlets so you can plug in both a mouse and full keyboard. Pressure-sensitive pen input, because you might like to draw on it, too? Can you show an example of what you are looking at?

Personally i think the screen size of a laptop and the lack of the numeric keypad are counter to the task of using A:M

I think you should print a life-size one that you hide the button for the secret lair in.

You are wanting to convert a numbered image series to video, right? Quick question... do you have QuickTime Pro installed? Quicktime Pro will show enabled options for Export and Export for Web under the File menu when you have some file loaded.

It looks like solar wind aurora sort of thing

Back in 2004 A:M Justin Barrett created a video tutorial set on facial animation in A:M. He has now re-released it on Youtube for free! Check it out! Thanks, Justin! Animate a Face

What is that made out of? It looks more granular than I imagined.

Happy New Year to you, Serg. May you continue to have many happy splines in 2019!

And on a happy new year note... i got v19h to test today from Steffen. There will be more A:M in 2019!

A fine New Year to you all...

That does look like some expertise has accumulated over the years.

The whole Easter Island history is staggeringly weird and unhappy, i find. Nancy went there a few years ago and got some great pics also.

Contact lenses maybe 😀

It's hard to distinguish against the eyeglasses.

Hooray!

My first guess is that a pose that turns on needed constraints is not yet ON. How old are we talking about? What version?

Yup, that got it back. But why is there no combination of settings that will produce a normal display? Don't worry about it tonight. It will make a fruitful LAT topic. Merry Christmas , David!

Doing the "Custom" and "1" gets me some change but now everything is either very very dark or totally black. Even if i go back to "none" I can't get back well-balanced range of light to dark I had before.

I don't get anything like that. It looks the same either way.

If "Current Gamma" is about making the preview renders appear in a certain way then i should at least be seeing a wildly different on screen appearance between the highest and lowest possible settings for "Current Gamma." I can't see any difference in the appearance of the gray scale produced by a 100% "soft" kleig light at either end of the settings.

The disconnect between the explanations and my practical results has always confused me. FYI, when I use the "Current Gamma" tool in the Render Options I find that my Cintiq is about 1.8 while my rather bargain LCD monitor is more like 2.2