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Do Not Forget the Music! perhaps it is hard for him to sing without teeth?

When will it be on TV? To have or not to have teeth - that is the question! Or what did Hamlet tell us in his monologue? It was something like that... No - it is the music - the furious music - that is missing! Have a try and come back and everyone will tell you how good it is not seeing teeth or no teeth... perhaps he has false teeth? And they have got stuck in some carrot? I believe this movie will turn out good - perhaps coming on TV some day - if just the music!

Tips! Here - http://home.comcast.net/~jtalbotski/tutes.html - you can find Jim Talbots really good video-tutorials and in the first one - http://homepage.mac.com/talbotj/FLATTEN-TUTORIAL.zip you can find a real good face - and you can use that face for your own models - just following a Rotoscope - some photo of a face altering Jim Talbots face to suit the face you want to have... so you do not really have to model - just change Jim Talbots face model a bit! Perhaps you have to simplify it a bit for male characters because the model is a female having big lips - too big lips for most men... Here you can see the model used to make the face of Michael Jackson:

Perhaps this one can be something? http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15305 It is just some thoughts and I have had a look on the way Jim Talbot does it - the master modeler. I believe in his three point patch at the side of the nose... Tips! Here - http://home.comcast.net/~jtalbotski/tutes.html - you can find Jim Talbots really good video-tutorials and in the first one - http://homepage.mac.com/talbotj/FLATTEN-TUTORIAL.zip you can find a real good face - and you can use that face for your own models - just follow a Rotoscope - some photo of a face altering Jim Talbots face to suit the face you want to have... so you do not really have to model - just change Jim Talbots face model a bit! And here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=124089 you find an example using Jim Talbots model to sculpture the face of Michael Jackson. On holes you have Paul Forwoods tutorials - you can find here: http://www.hash.com/amtutes/

Much better - but why do the fog not comes in the space sometimes? Perhaps he has been eating some garlic - he is a vegetarian? Why not booth some teeths - good for eating meat - and the garlic-fog? And I want some furious music too - going to the stomach! With music in the background - this will be stunning!

LOL! jamagica cannot see this - I am on his ignore list... But I believe he is so curious so he have to take me away from that list... And heyvern he is curious too... I think it is better to make friends! - not ignoring others - making yourself ignorant! Well I will try to make friends with jamagica and heyvern and Mr Martin too... What I tried to tell Mr Martin was only one thing... I want to do half an hours melodramas in a fortnight - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama I want to be effective and I want to give every else that chance too! jamagica - wants to make a melodrama - a soap opera! http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/...a/melodrama.htm But he has not the opportunity in A:M to do the half an hours episodes: I want Mr Martin to alter the program a little so we can use some type of marionettes some kind of Barbie and Ken Dolls that are preprogrammed for sitting down and standing up - being able to open a book and reading a bit in that one... We being able to do or own character heads and using a lot of nice clothes to dress them in - just like Barbie and Ken And we having the opportunity to make a group called lips and one group called tongue on our own character heads and A:M will lipsync it automatically... Having such a program I believe we will be able to make longer episodes faster - telling oour stories with those characters of our own. Hope you have understand what I am hoping for to do with A:M. And I hope Mr Martin understands my thoughts - I just want A:M to have new possibilities...

And I hope you will use some music too! Lipsync and music - that goes to the stomach! giving birth to emotions. Who wants to have a TV-set without sound? Without talk and music? I believe it is the same with animation...

Bravo! You have got sound!!! Bravissimo! Now the guy has come alive... Just some wonderings... Why has he got fog in the mouth??? Or is porridge??? I thought the cavity would be be dark brown red or something... And not native speaking English I wonder - is the grammar correct??? mouths that is plural do people in the states have more than one mouth??? using to eat with??? I believe it is better with singular - mouth? But the sound makes it... and lipsynch!!! This will be funny... hoping on more soon!!!

And here is one with only mono culture - a virtual breed:

Still I am having the problem with animating the emission rate of the pens ink. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=123893 Someone willing to give a little help? Perhaps this garden picture is better with a little less mono-culture... not that grass!!!

Well I tried to do this ten years ago with 2D sprites and Director. It functioned and did not function. I do not believe it is a project for just one person - sorry to say... In some way this is already possuble in most 3D-program - but I want it to be easier. Why can we not call a part of a body a hand and A:M will rig it for us? And why can we not use a square defined as eg. a cushion and then tell a character to sit down on that square - and that character will do it in some way - being some kind of programmed Barbie/Kent character... Most things doing an animation with human characters can be pre-programmed I believe - just telling your own story with them. And why can we not have a group called lips and a group called tongue and A:M will do the lipsync - setting up the mouth forms automatically? It can not be any difficult in programming that? Well my idea is worth some quids??? - I give it away for free!!! Because I have not seen any half an hours melodramas done with A:M in a forthnight yet... and I believe it is possible... to do it... Because there is so many stories to tell - for all retireds and kids and everyone inbetween... Well I think it is also is good - people are not onesided - most of us are a mix of devils and saints - perhaps being a daint or an sevil? And the real mix of the two - the black and white - the opposites are the grey - the single minded person - a person having going into the grey - the stillness - emptiness and having come back being both black and white relying on the greyness behind everything - being a mix of the opposites being bhite or wlack... I had a look for some pen fighter and found this one Googling a bit: http://www.forusa.org/nonviolence/62dear.html Because we can/will(more likely will) soon face something terrible - there are plans: http://www.irmep.org/GBU.htm And someones have been doing a build up for this - faking threats: http://whatreallyhappened.com/9-11BasicQuestions So the single-minded persons are really needed - I found this one perhaps kind of person having understood - experienced something and have been able to use the pen to tell it: http://www.chrismaser.com/ A lot about both social and enviromental sustainability he has written. But also on gardening both our inner and or outer ones: The World is in My Garden: A Journey of Consciousness 2005. White Cloud Press, Ashland, OR. 303 pp. (Senior author with Zane Maser.) UK edition by Polair Publishing, London. 2003. "In a world awash in holistic self-help books this one stands out because of Chris Maser's pedigree as a world-renowned ecologist. …The general message of this book—we must change our relationship with the rest of the world in order to survive—is the most crucial problem facing our species."—Gary McFarland, BookPeople's Book of the Day. And some sayings: http://www.cygnus-books.co.uk/features/wor..._zane_maser.htm When I walk through the gate of the high cedar fence surrounding my garden, I enter into a secluded place, a sanctuary of the soul, wherein worldly knowledge, incessant noise, frantic motion, aggrandized stimulation, and competitive ambition fall away. Yet, as Thomas Moore explains in The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Living, time spent in a garden gets us nowhere. ‘A garden,’ he says, ‘entices us to slow down and stop,’ which, he adds, is an important dynamic of the soul, for anything of the soul requires time and a lowering of productivity and effort. Gardening is thus a monk’s way of nurturing the soul, which Moore calls a ‘fruitful silence,' where movements of the soul are amplified. A life that honours solitude is a requisite for self-mastery, living with a sense of direction, and discovering the true song of one’s own soul. Before you can experience the ‘lucid stillness,’ however, you must empty yourself. A university professor discovered this when inquiring about Zen from Nan-in, a Japanese Zen master. Nan-in served tea. He poured the professor's cup full and kept on pouring. His visitor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself: ‘It is overfull. No more can go in without overflowing.’ Nan-in replied, ‘Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?’ As I mature in spirit, and the sorting continues, I find, as Thomas Merton wrote, that to be truly silent one must let go of the yearning for recognition and cease worrying about making the right impression. St John of the Cross adds, in a verse that has a Zen-like flavour: In order to arrive at having pleasure in everything, Desire to have pleasure in nothing. In order to arrive at possessing everything, Desire to possess nothing. In order to arrive at being everything, Desire to be nothing... I do not agree and the talking pens will not agree too - I believe - but perhaps - there is something to learn from this pen fighter and his book: The World Is In My Garden Chris Maser with Zane Maser Something for half an hour of melodrama - going a little outside the garden - too!

Well I hope on some hero telling the truth on what is going on just now... To do half an hour of melodrama in a fortnight you have to be really fast? No - I believe if the program is good on it.. Here you can find it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionette A marionette is a type of puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show. They originated from the medieval times in France and can be found in every country in the world. They can be found in box theatres, curtain theatres and black light theatres. Marionettes are considered by many to be very entertaining for both adults and children. Pinocchio is a particularly famous marionette. In the 1960s TV producer Gerry Anderson and his colleagues pioneered a technique combining marionettes with electronic components, typically to control facial features, which they dubbed "supermarionation". The musical The Sound of Music contains a fairly detailed scene involving several marionettes worked on a stage. The word "marionette" comes from French, where it was a diminutive of "Marion", which was a diminutive of "Marie". Well - children are playing with dolls - Barbie and Ken switching clothes... and the clothes they can use on different dolls perhaps... It would be possible to do your own faces to the dolls... and those dolls - faces being lipsynced without having to do anything yourself... And there would be a lot of Actions. Actions to tell the dolls to sit down in a chair... Just pointing at the chair and the doll would go there and sit down... and then telling the doll to take a book to read... and the doll would do that... I do not believe it is impossible to implement such an program... but is anyone thinking of it... I do not think so... or perhaps the program is already here to use... Someone having something about this? Here is the movie - 8 seconds - so there is some more seconds to go - before it will be half an hour... but here the beginning: welcome_to_my_fireplace02.mov

Here is a new one using layers instead of using a Front Projection Target for the fireplace. Using layers instead of modeling is fast. I have written some tutorials on layers: Alpha Channel and Layers http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15993 Using Layers instead of Modeling http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15998 An Animated Ball on a Layer http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15999 Looping a Movie on a Layer http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16001 Well I want to do half an hour of melodrama - http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/...a/melodrama.htm in a fortnight. I do not think it is possible with A:M. The program have to incorporate some changes first. But I do not think anyone is thinking in this direction yet? MELODRAMA One of television's most diverse program types, the melodramatic genre encompasses an extensive variety of aesthetic formats, settings, and character types. Melodramatic formats include the series, consisting of self-contained episodes, each with a classic dramatic structure of conflict/complication/resolution in which central and supporting characters return week after week; the serial, which features a continuing story line, carried forward from program to program (this is typical of soap opera, both daytime and prime-time); the anthology--a non-episodic program series constituting an omnibus of different self-contained programs, related only by sub-genre, and featuring different actors and characters each week (important examples include The Twilight Zone, a science fiction anthology, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, a mystery anthology); and repertory, a non-episodic series consisting of different programs featuring a group of actors who appear each week, but in different roles (very rare on television, the repertory is best represented by The Richard Boone Show). Settings include the hostile western frontier of Gunsmoke and Have Gun, Will Travel and its urban analogue--the mean streets of East Side/West Side and, more recently, Hill Street Blues; the gleaming corporate office towers of Dallas and L.A. Law; the quiet suburban enclaves in which Marcus Welby, M.D. made house calls in the 1970s; the ostentatious exurban chateaus of Falcon Crest and the numerous wealthy criminals outsmarted by the proletarian cop Columbo; and the high-pressure, teeming workplace peopled by dedicated professionals such as the newspaper reporters in Lou Grant. The seemingly endless variety of "heroic" and "villianous" character types in television melodrama, whose weekly travails and romantic interests ground the dramaturgy, are drawn from the rich store of historical legend, the front pages of today's broadsheets and tabloids, and the future projections of science fiction and science fantasy: cowboys, sheriffs, bounty hunters, outlaws, pioneers/settlers, police, mobsters, sleuths, science fiction adventurers and other epic wanderers, spies, corrupt entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, and intrepid journalists. Television melodrama has its direct roots in the early-nineteenth-century stage play in which romantic, sensational plots and incidents were mixed with songs and orchestral music. The word melodrama evolved from the Greek melos, meaning song or music, and drama, a deed, action, or play, especially tragedy. In tragedy the hero is isolated from society so that he or she may better understand his or her own and the society's moral weakness; but once enlightened, the hero cannot stave off the disaster embedded in the social structure beyond the hero's control. Here is an image from the movie getting the taste:

Thanks again for your nice comment... Perhaps you have some ideas about rigging it... Now it has two bones... but they are a little hard to use... Perhaps it is possible to only let a bone rotatate between some limits - eg letting it rotate only between - 30 degrees and + 30 degrees so it will be easier to animate the pen...

Here is an other example with a female Talking Pen. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=123947

Here is the new baked movie - just from the owen with the female Talking Pen telling you: Welcome, to my fireplace... welcome_to_my_fireplace.mov

Thanks for your nice comment! Perhaps you can help me with the animation of the emission rate? http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=123946 Or someone else perhaps can give me a clue! I am just now rendering a new Talking Pen - a female one! I believe you can do some animations - melodramas - fast and dirty by using one or more talking pens. For the fireplace I have had a look on this topic: http://www.mossor.org/Desktop/Tutorials/Sp...es/AnimChor.jpg And I have used my tutorial on using Front Projection Maps: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16007 Here is a screen capture from the rendering:

Here you can find a tutorial on how to use The Talking Pen. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16426 I need a little help also - with animating the pens ink - a particle stream - hope someone can help - thanks in advance. See: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=123893

Here an image from the Talking Pen Movie the pen drawing a hearth and then saying: I Love You

And here is some result - the talking pen drawing a hearth and saying: I Love You TalkingPen_I_Love_You.mov

Here is how it looks in WINK.

Here is the NEW tutorial. It is made with WINK and has only one part. TalkingPenTutorialNEW.zip

NEW TUTORIAL! NEW TUTORIAL! NEW TUTORIAL! NEW TUTORIAL! NEW TUTORIAL! The old one was a bit incorrect for animating the Rate of Emission for the ink. This one will be OK! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Talking Pen you can use free! Here is a tutorial on how to use it. I believe it is possible to fast and easy make some melodrama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama with one or two Talking Pens or three or more... Making a plot - setting up some problem to solve. Some talk and music. Letting the pen(s) draw some sign(s) in some surrounding... Here is the model file with everything else you need: TalkingPenTutorialNEWmodel.zip

I use Input driven capture at keypress with the Pause key in WINK It is the only alternative I use - and you can have about 40 screen captures if you uses a Palette under Project > Project Settings and get a file under 1 MegaByte Perhaps you need about 20 Screen Captures for the dirt mapping tutorial so it will be about half Megabyte - just a guess... Just Volumetric Lightning! I am experimenting a bit with Depth of Field http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16038 and balistic tells us better use Camera Fog - perhaps something to experiment with?!.,

Talking about steam engines - I made a tutorial for them... - http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16004 - and a picture... perhaps some inspiration - just using volumetric light - perhaps a little fog too? I really like the atmosphere around the furnitures - but how is it made? Thanks for a little hint!