Kamikaze

Gee ,sure looks like a fella I saw down at the white river fireworks display last night, that sort of thing is big with rednecks, ya know ,explosions and the such. Cool idea for a character!!!

I had to download it to play, had to see it sense robcats comment about Arkansas, Where I live, LOL... More like West Virginy, if you ask the small dick chaney... Ill never eat cornbread again....LOL

Well I didn't vote for either one of you fellas , I voted for mine even though it doesnt compare...LOL... I gatta get at least one vote. (have you heard that one before?) And even though I liked both you fellas entries, I would have voted for the Tank if I had more choices. Think Ill enter a well endowed female killer robot from the future next time...smile.. a sure winner...!

It works for me in 14c..

John, Yea! I checked out the link to some degree when you posted it, I had thought it was a place for those who wanted to advertise, (the businesses), to look for premade advertising spots, But Ill look it over again, Thanks for the info.. Mike Hey Mike, thanks. I started out in 1987 multi-exposing film on an oxberry. A:M is the best thing that ever happened for my career. The jobs don't come easy, but when it rains-it pours. I posted a cool link in the 'Jobs' forum for anyone interested in getting into they're local TV advertising business, for fun and profit.

Wow! I see you do a lot of commercials ,how did you get started in that line of business? How do you come by your jobs? Cool work your doing, Mike

3 for hip 2 for mean

Great job !Like the perv I am, makes me want to become a 3D character and meet her in person....

That sure looks nice to me ! thanks for sharing..... what type of project is this, that is if your free to say....

Been slow going, all sorts of troubles in other areas, but I have manage to redo the dust a bit, I have put an emitter under each hoove and it is activated via an action object, emitting when the hoove hits the ground and not when hoove leaves the ground. I have the buffalo on a path comming in from a distance towards the camera, I added some scenery for the halobit. Its a shaded render not final... Kinda hard to keep the path going the way of the hilly ground, that is a curvy path...... Mike Trot_Test_edit.mov

Im using v14 and on some 5 point patches I have problems with grooming, you could try and select the jitter option and see if that helps, are you using multipass?

I protest ! :D

Well freak me out again John. I felt like that last night at work.....

Thanks for the replys guys, Hey! that rhymed. The emitters, 2 of them are placed under the hooves but not precisely and they have an action applied to them to attempt to come close to matching the leg action. I like the idea about turning them on and off as needed, thanks for the tip...

Thank you, the dust is sprites, each buffalo has two separate areas emitting dust sprites.

This is going to be a very detailed model by the start you have here, keep er up!

Thanks Rodney, you know I hadn't even thought of that stage coach, man! you got my wheels a turning (and thats a good thing) I might even find a spot for my Conestoga wagon too, weird, I had completely forgotten about those models..... LOL Ill keep that suggestion on the dust from off screen in mind, good one!

Ok here is a very quick animation test of what will hopefully be a stampede of buffalo. Right now everything is in sync but this is just a test of dust kicking up, the render was not a final but shaded with particles. The project Im working on is a music video of a song I wrote with a little help from a friend in the UK. The song titled "Buffalo Song" is about the slaughter of the American Buffalo / Bison. Mov file appx 2 mb P.S. Im looking for a version 13 (and latest release of) of A:M obviously used is fine, I eventually want a collection of ALL A:M releases, even when it was not called A:M.... Thanks, Mike Dust_test_3_Buffalo.mov

WOW! this is super cool!! love the models. I can just feel their personalities.... Keep eR up........

Whats the film going to be about?, nice model BTW.

I couldn't make much out of it, so I think not?

Man! I feel like I could just climb in and level my driveway..... super model, as usual....

Looks like its all falling into place nicely, I took a little Spanish in High School , but that was ,Hummm! 30+ yeas ago, but I can still count to Ten and say , "My house is your house", (please, don't take that literally friends, still, I do have one very small spare bedroom though) in Spanish.... Wait ,my wife should be able to do some translating for me, she took some Spanish in College....

Looks cool, will there be an english language version?

That is beautiful! Love the movie also, veery inspiring as a child.