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Fan Bones fan_bones_in_AnimationMaster_aTutorialMadeWithWINK.zip

Expression with a pose percentage slider expression_with_a_pose_percentage_slider.zip

Expression with a Pose expression_pose1.zip

Part 2 part2_alpha_channel_and_layers.zip

Alpha Channel and Layers part1_alpha_channel_and_layers.zip

How to make a Dynamic Constraint dynamic_constraint.zip

These tutorials(most of them) are made with free WINK A FlashPlayer-plugin is needed in your browser to take part of them. Download free WINK to make your own WINK-tutorial: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ And learn: How to WINK a tutorial BASIC Teachers A:M Tutorial 1, Learn A:M basics in half an hour Four Basic Lessons to learn and teach A:M, to tell stories on the WWW with lipsynch How to make Guides for all subjects, ContinuationCourse to Four Basic Lessons Making a Walk Cycle Walk, Exercise 5 NEW! MODELING Caricature Modeling, the fast and easy way NEW! Dialectical Modeling Building a room from a photo - using Rotoscope and Front Projection Target LIP SYNC The Talking Pen - an easy to use character Lip Sync in Muscle Mode Lip Sync with a mouth bones rig Lip Synced Beak President Lincoln LipSynched, Do it yourself tutorial Jaw synced caricature, from a 911 Bush Joke in Hustler LAYERS Alpha Channel and Layers Using Layers instead of Modeling An Animated Ball on a Layer Looping a Movie on a Layer EXPRESSIONS Expression with a Pose Expression with a Pose Percentage Slider LIGHTING Radiosity SkyLights RIGGING Smart Skinning Fan Bones Using Nulls for a SteamEngine Using Null for Rigging Hydraulics How to make a Dynamic Constraint Model, rig and animate a wheel VARIOUS About Hair and Grass, a WINK on it! BitMapPlus and TreeZ plugins To Make a Jump Action

Here you can find Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/ And if you want to download the tutorials here is a link: http://www.indeavors.com/services_wbt_ivtutorial.htm

Why not use Flash to build that interactive tutorial? Some buttons to click - some ActionScripts recording the clicks - and then telling the result.

Thanks for the comments - people are different - having different opinions! that is my conclusion - but most of us like something to drink - a cup of coffee? I am just trying to make some images with some silence in them - because I believe we have to search for the silence - letting our big mouths be shut for some time - mine too! We are living in a media society and the one - the ones - having access to media - owning them - are the ones setting the story - stories. And we have to serch for something common - silence - or do you perhaps have some better idea? And to me silence is just not an idea - it is a practice - to sit on your ass for some minutes and calm down a bit - hearing the silence roaring! The wireframe is not much to see - it is some photshopping done to the third one! It is the result that counts - not the program you are using - that is my opinion!

Well it is a stoned pot lacking lustre. Everything has not got specularity. But you can speculate yourself using your I to break and glue the oneness - crack the pot to find some peace to stir things up from. The pot is it´s crack - as all mystics have told us through the ages. It is about using your mind to quiet your mind - not drinking to much coffee - or whatever - trying to find the balance lacking. The question is the answer having understood that your mind can rest... sometimes!?.,

Coffee Pot says Coffee Break - things can talk without lipsynch for sure?

Thanks! And I hope you will do some WINK tutorial... Just a little one... take something you like to tell something about in A:M. You do not have to be very serious... Shit happens... I believe your tutorial will be very good. Come on - Do it! And I hope everyone will have a try - WINKing - documenting all the different ways you can use A:M - not letting all the good advices be forgotten after some weeks - being lost in all the topics on a forum. WINK it is FREE! http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ easy and fast to do - making small files - and the tutorials are easy to navigate! And thanks again for your nice reply - trajcedrv!

Thanks Kamikaze for your nice words! I am myself searching for the salt. To me the salt is the silence in my I - my shaker. So animating you have to have some breaks - making the animation so much better. Making a 3D model you have to have some space - making it so much better. Doing a 2D image you have to have some void parts - making the image better. Making music - you have to have some pauses - silence to be heard all the time - making the music - the magics so much better - so much more balanced - having something to balance around - the mystic silence. Googling on Yoga I found this: A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION First Edition: 1939 Eighth Edition: 1999 (2,000 Copies) World Wide Web (WWW) Edition : 2000 WWW site: http://www.dlshq.org/ This WWW reprint is for free distribution © The Divine Life Trust Society ISBN 81-7052-098-3 Published By THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY P.O. Shivanandanagar—249 192 Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, Himalayas, ndia. 3. Who Am I? I This is a world of diversity. Intellects are different. Faces are different. Religions are different. Sounds are different. Faiths are different. Colours are different. Faculties are different. Tastes and temperaments are different. But one thing is common in all. Everyone of us wants Nitya Sukha (eternal happiness), infinite knowledge, immortality, freedom and independence. These things can be obtained by knowledge of the Self alone. Everybody wants eternal happiness that is not mixed with sorrow and pain. Every effort is to achieve this happiness. But he does not know the place wherefrom he can get this supreme bliss. If you want to enjoy supreme bliss you will have to realise the Self, or get knowledge of Atman. The best means to acquire this knowledge is the enquiry of ‘Who am I?’ This enquiry has the potentiality of producing the quiescence of mind which will enable it to wade through this ocean of Samsara. It demands a subtle sharp, pure intellect, bold understanding and gigantic will. Enquiry of ‘Who am I?’ is the Vedantic method or Atma-Vichara. This common place ‘I’ that everyone is glibly talking about and relishing acutely every moment of his life, from the babbling baby to the fabulous old man must be clearly analysed. 4. Silence 1. Once the disciple Bhaskali approached his Guru, Bhava, and asked him where that eternal, the Supreme Infinite, the Brahman of the Upanishads is. The master spoke not. The disciple asked him again and again but the master did not open his mouth. He kept perfect silence. At last the teacher said: “I have been telling you again and again but you do not understand me. What am I to do? That Brahman, the Infinite, the Eternal cannot be explained but by deep silence know it. There is no other place for Him to dwell in, but the one eternal deep silence! Ayam Atma Santah—This Atman is silence.” CHAPTER VIII Yogic Exercises 1. Yogic Alphabet Asanas make you strong and healthy and eradicate many diseases. Bhastrika Pranayama develops lungs, destroys the germs of tuberculosis, augments lung-power and lung-capacity. Constipation is removed by the practice of Bhujanga, Salabha and Dhanur Asanas. 2. Padmasana You must be able to sit in an Asana quite steady at a stretch for full three hours. Then only you will get mastery over the Asana (Asana Jaya). Without securing a steady Asana you cannot get on well in meditation. The more steady you are in your Asana, the more you will be able to concentrate and make your mind one-pointed. If you can be steady in the posture even for one hour, you will be able to acquire one-pointed mind and feel thereby infinite Peace and Atmic Bliss inside. Four Asanas, viz., Padmasana, Siddhasana, Svastikasana and Sukhasana, are prescribed for meditative purposes. Rishis like Gheranda, Sandilya and others speak very highly of Padmasana. This is highly agreeable to householders. Spread a seat on the ground and take your seat facing North or East. Spread the legs forward. Take hold of your right foot and keep it on the left thigh and then place the left foot over the right thigh. Place the hands on the knees. You can make a finger-lock and keep the hands over the left ankle. Sit erect, keeping the back, neck and head in one straight line. Close your eyes and begin your Japa and meditation. 6. Peace Chant Peace be to the East! Peace be to the West! Peace be to the North! Peace be to the South! Peace be above! Peace be below! Peace be to all creatures of this universe! Peace be everywhere. 7. Halasana Spread a blanket on the ground and lie flat on your back. Keep the hands at the sides on the ground with the palm facing the ground. Join both your legs. Lift the legs slowly up as in Sarvangasana. Do not bend the legs. Do not raise the hands. Then slowly lower the legs until the toes touch the ground above the head. Keep the knees close. Remain in the Asana for 5 seconds and increase the period to 5 minutes by gradual practice. Then raise the legs slowly and come back to the original position.

Well, the pot is not spout synched yet!

*************************************************************''''''''''''''''' How to make a cartoon with a character with a recognizable voice? Well, if you are really talented you can try to imitate the character... ******************************************************************************* On A:M Films you can find Douglas Ferrin´s Cozy Chat With the President http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=1051 How the voice is made you do not get any information about - perhaps it is Douglas Ferrin himself imitating Bush... You can find a link to download the animation here: http://members.aol.com/knowewetwo/ Or you can download the animation from here: http://members.aol.com/dontbugmeimwrkng/cozychat/ ********************************************************************************* Imitating that is not so easy... But if you have got the money or think you can get it - you can hire an imitator. JibJab - http://www.jibjab.com/ - having made the famous This land - http://images2.shockwave.com/afassets/flash/this_land.swf - hired Jim Meskinen to sing and imitate the president canditates. ******************************************************************************* Another famous cartoon is FuzzyMath - you can find here: http://thebots.net/FuzzyMathVideo.htm http://www.thebots.net/FuzzyMath22.swf They have a voice archive you can use trying to find some useable sentence: http://www.thebots.net/GWBushSampleArchive.htm Perhaps that is the way to go - sampling gigabytes of speech from the character?!., ******************************************************************************* Why not try to use the computer to synthesize a voice? You can read about speech synthesis on wikipedia and find some programs to use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis There are free programs eg.: Festival - http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ - is a freely available complete diphone concatenation and unit selection TTS system. You can also take a look at: http://festvox.org/ telling you: The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systemic and better documented, making it possible for anyone to build a new voice. ********************************************************************************

If you want to listen to David Ray Griffin, emeritus professor, Claremont School of Theology here he is interviewed of Michael Wolsey from http://www.colorado911visibility.org : http://911blogger.powermediahost.com/audio...dRayGriffin.mp3 "Guns and Butter" - http://www.gunsandbutter.net/ - a weekly program broadcast on KPFA, 94.1 fm in Berkeley, California has also an interview with him: http://www.gunsandbutter.net/archives.php?si=82 And you can have a look and listen to him speaking on University of Wisconsin, Madison: http://www.911blogger.com/2005/04/proper-r...in-madison.html And here you can look and listen to the result of the tutorial: bushjoke01.mov

You are always right Master SandGroper being wrong is right or perhaps it was the opposite?!., You can follow all the advices - but having learnt the basics you can start experimenting - just having a feeling... form, materia. light, sound changing slow-fast or perhaps changing slast or fow - you never know - no concepts - no words - just look and listen to what you got... different01.mov

Having had a look on and hopefully having learnt something from: Four Basic Lessons to learn and teach A:M to tell stories on the WWW with lipsynch YOU HAVE SIX MORE TO DO!!! Learning a little more - getting something to practice yourself!!! To tell your own stories - ANIMATING them - for the WorldWideWeb Public! --------------------------------------------------------------- How to make Guides for all subjects, ContinuationCourse to Four Basic Lessons http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15190 There is always a need for guides - to tell the story behind! This guide is a continuation course to the Four Basic Lessons to learn and teach A:M: --------------------------------------------------------------- Lip Sync in Muscle Mode http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15215 Here you will learn how to lip sync a simple mask in Muscle Mode. The tutorial is in four parts and there is also a project file. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lip Sync with a mouth bones rig http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15214 Willi - Wilhelm Landt - THE SOULCAGE DEPARTMENT - has done a simple mouth bone rig you learn to use for some lipsyncing. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lip Synced Beak http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15213 A humorous one - beak syncing Leonardo da Vinci´s La Joconde-Mona Lisa --------------------------------------------------------------- President Lincoln LipSynched, Do it yourself tutorial http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15081 You can use some photo and lipsynch the person on the photo having recorded some sound to use. Here is an example on how ot lipsync President Lincoln! --------------------------------------------------------------- Jaw synced caricature, from a 911 Bush Joke in Hustler http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15248 Modeling a caricature you have to be very clever and lipsynching it will take some time. Here you will learn how to make it simple and fast! And you can tell your own jokes to a world audience on the Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------

Someone was missing this one. Here it comes! You can use hair to make grass! This WINK-tutorial describes how to makes grass in a simple way. A more advanced way you can find here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ffave/e_herbes.htm To learn more about hair you can listen to this tutorial: http://www.s1.hashmirror.com/ftp/pub/movies/RandyHair.mov And a web page to learn about hair: http://www.hash.com/am2004/Modeling/Hair/ Hair can be used in many ways so moore tutorials on hair is needed to describe all the possibilities. cfree68f introduced the topic - experiment in Paint strokes, or pointillism? http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12985 Here you can find the Hairbrush program and a tutorial: http://www.colins-loft.net/hairbrush.html NancyGormezano has posted this about hair and artistic rendering: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...indpost&p=93576 http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...e=post&id=93576 And about toon rendering of hair: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13501 http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...t=0entry96670 And here - the WINK-tutorial on making grass in a simple way using hair: hair_grass_tutorial.zip

Modeling in space - how to do it!

Perhaps a way modeling without creases? A triangle patch and some flow-work...

Sometimes you can wonder - do you need to model a face - it is only to take a good modeled face and alter it a bit - moving some CPs. You can use the Gala models face to make a male out of it! Still I think their is a need for modeling. The thing is A:M is inexact. The splines having a life of their own...

I am thinking of WINKing a tutorial on modeling... Perhaps there are others having thought of modeling faces - caricatures - which way to go - how to think? You are welcome with suggestions - and you are welcome to do some tutorial yourself - I am just now just thinking loud...

How to model in A:M? Someones saying - start with the profile! For sure - it is a way - but there are so much other things then you try to characterize someone - and it is 3D conceptions - the cheeks looking like hamburgers? the chin like a potato? the nose - a banana? Traditional sculpture - is not learned or teached by making a profile - a contour - they have other ways of thinking - conceptualizing - doing it in clay or stone... I believe it is the same thing in A:M - you have to have some 3D-model to work with from the beginning - a simple one and then trying to get the big forms and the small ones and letting them talk with each other - dialectics!