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Having a look on the one having done caricatures with A:M - Jim Talbot - you can learn he always uses a triangle by the nose - and some flow to connect the forehead - cheek - chin. Modeling in A:M you have to know how to make the splines flow - or stop the flowing of them. Or what is the secret behind modeling in A:M - I really do not know - just trying to think about it...

Dialectical modeling - what is that? Dialectics is an old method on thinking - making concepts - words out of reality. Most known for: Thesis - Anti-thesis - Syn-thesis Dialectics for kids - What the Heck is Dialectics? http://home.igc.org/~venceremos/whatheck.htm Telling a lot - telling this: One--Every thing (every object and every process) is made of opposing forces/opposing sides. Two--Gradual changes lead to turning points, where one opposite overcomes the other. Three--Change moves in spirals, not circles. This is the principle used by Marx, Hegel the old greeks - Herakleitos and the book of changes - Chou Yi: http://ecwberlin.coolfreepage.com/index2/e9.htm Everything is one - making divisions - glueing the parts together - Oneness - Religion - Science- Everything uses this principle - but being an artist you have to go behind the words - the different ways - do - in Japan is practising it - drinking and eating - living it - sitting and standing... Lookin at a face - it can be modeled like a sphere or a box or something inbetween the two. And the box/sphere is in a space. And they are materia - space/box/sphere. The head has some openings: Forehead extruded - holes extruded - neck(1) - ears(2) - eyes(2) - nose strils(2) - mouth(1) How to grasp it? Making a caracature? more or less exagerated - simplified - photo realistic... A forehead and a nose - extruded backwards - putting some splines on it for the holes and connecting it - will it do?

Caricature - what do you think of? Goya´s paintings? http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/goya.htm Honoré Daumier? http://www.honore-daumier.com/ http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/daumier/ http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fcs195/realism.html

I had some looks on caricature modeling. Not much of that sort with A:M. It is so difficult and you have to be so clever. Jim Talbot has modeled two examples Lincoln and Clinton: http://www.hash.com/stills/thumbnails.php?...arch=caricature Douglas Ferrin has made an animation with sound - lip synched speach - Cozy Chat With the President - http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=1051 It is really telling a story - not being just an image. The caricature has a big mouth and a photo? to make it look like the character. For sure you can try to model something realistic - but what is realism? photorealism? what kind of camera? X-ray? No, also cameras are making simplifications of reality - just capturing some parts of it. Caricature it is something exaggerated - simplified - stressing just some concept - this is the way we are functioning - just taking in parts of the reality - the total reality it is unable to grasp. You just are it - and you are part of it - realizing it - realized by it - trying to grasp it - you kill it... but good caricatures have the flow - the soul - they have it! Modeling in A:M you want to have som simple 3D model to alter - one simple one is the head of Gala. Can you use it to make caricatures? Or which way to go?

Trying to model a caricature for a cartoon from Hustler and finding it really difficult to model a 3D caricature - I ended up in a fast and easy method. The cartoon and the article belonging to it you can find here: http://911truth.org/docs/drgHfull.pdf And the tutorial on making caricatures fast and easy you can find here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15248 It is not really modeling in 3D space but it is a way to do a caricature! Trying to say something in a humorous way - trying to solve conflicts with humor - a good laughter - instead of using violence - hoping on some peace, love and understanding on our sun-satellite. But how to model a caricature in 3D? I will try to answer that question using a dialectical method. Here is a result of a fast and easy method: bushjoke01.mov

Project caricature_tutorial_project.zip

Part 3 caricature_tutorial03.zip

Part 2 caricature_tutorial02.zip

Part 1 caricature_tutorial01.zip

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. This example is inspired by an article in Hustler about 911: http://911truth.org/docs/drgHfull.pdf The article called "What if everything you know about 9/11 is wrong?" is an interview with David Ray Griffin, emeritus professor, Claremont School of Theology. He has written the book: The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. He has something to tell! A conspiracy theory or not - you have to find out for yourself - reading the article and Googling on it. The article in Hustler has a cartoon a possible start point for an animation.

The project lipsync_mask_prj_file.zip

Part 4 lipsync_mask_part04.zip

Part 3 lipsync_mask_part03.zip

Part 2 lipsync_mask_part02.zip

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. Donald Duck and Mickey the Mouse animated without sound and lipsync will not get very much attention - no public! And animations have to have two characters to show the conflicts in the characters and between them. But animations have to have something more. Silence makes the music. The same in animations. The Choreography has got a silent, unmoving horizon between heaven and earth. Let us break that horizon with a lipsynched character. Having learnt to lipsynch one character - you can lipsynch another. Creating conflicts - problems - to solve! And have a good laugh afterwards. Part 1: You learn to model a simple face - a mask - with lips. Part 2: The mask gets eyes and a cavity with a tongue. Part 3: Nine shapes - poses for the mouth are created for the lip sync. Part 4: Recording the sentence: You´re welcome to the land of masks. And the animation is created in the Choreography. Part 5: The project file (Altogether only about 3 Megabyte to download) The tutorial is NOT for the advanced ones. It is for the NEWBIES. It just a simple face - a mask - a mouth and a tongue but no teeth. The lipsync is not perfected but you learn how to model a basic face step by step using extrude and lathe - you learn how to make nine poses - naming them in an action with a dopesheet for the lipsync. And you learn how to use that action in the Choreography. Part 1 lipsync_mask_part01.zip

The project files lipsynched_clown_project_file_and_sound.zip

And the second part lipsynched_clown_part2.zip

Willi - has done a simple mouth bone rig: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11326 Here is a tutorial in two parts on his mouth rig to learn to lip sync a clown or someone else! And the project file for the clown you can also find here. lipsynched_clown_part1.zip

And here the project file lip_synced_beak_project.zip

A tutorial on how to Lip Sync a Beak lip_synced_beak.zip

Natural Sciience and Technology taking a break - man having a moratorium on it - medtating on what to do - meditating on the image of the future - can be good - but is not that simple - meditating on the future in an eternal now?!., Why not learn a little about meditation? Learning to practice it yourself! And practice it to learn something about your I and your Self. This is the do it yourself "religion" - learning about the mystic and the magics - the things you have to know if you want to make artistic animations!!! By sitting on your ass??? You have to test it yourself - sitting down - to find out if it has some worth or is just worthless... Hara - is the center of breath - four fingers below the navel: http://www.seido.com/01_about_seido/meditation_breathing.htm Hara - something to concentrate on - sitting down meditating some minutes each day perhaps bringing some peace, love and understanding to our world - some fresh breathes!

Why Tesla? Tesla is best known for the invention of AC - alternating current electricity: http://www.teslasociety.com/ac.htm Modern society is really built upon scientific discoveries - electricity - the new fire(electric power) - the new wheel(electric computing). 1583 Galileo Galilei - 19 years old - sat in the cathedral of Pisa taking his pulse to learn how the lamps were swinging - connecting time and space with a formula - Natural Science was born. http://galileo.rice.edu/chron/galileo.html Man is seven million years old: http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2...-man050406.html Having lived in small groups - some hundred in each - most of the time - up to the agricultural revolution just 10000 years ago. Living like in Papua New Guinea having 800 languages: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/png/48039.stm We are now six billons on our sun-satelite earth: http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculato...dPopulation.asp How to handle Natural Science? The good and evil of its discoveries? Genetic Manipulation: http://www.linkny.com/~civitas/page88.html Nano Technology: http://www.zyvex.com/nano/ Tesla can be a doorway into a discussion of what to do with modern science and technology - a moratorium - to let us sit down and meditate on the future? http://www.crnano.org/PR-shutdown.htm http://www.techcentralstation.com/073003B.html http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display...ocument_id=5417 Tesla a short biography: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Tesla.html Teslas all papers: http://www.tesla-coil-builder.com/known_te...ublications.htm The earth quake machine: http://www.freeinfosociety.com/science/earthquake.html

Look and listen to a very short guiding - just the start: Hello and Welcome to the Lincoln Memorial guide_to_lincoln_memorial.mov

How to make Guides for all subjects - Project files guide_to_lincoln_memorial_project.zip

How to make Guides for all subjects - Part two guide_to_lincoln_memorial_PART_2.zip