thejobe

Thank you!

you are awesome! i just gave up then i come here you save the day! emailing you now! Thank you!!

first problem i ran into was the body null that he says to move is in the bone menu but does not exist on screen (the eye is on for the bone to be seen) Edit: Never mind that statement. im finding the missing bones since they are microscopic on the screen. im moving along steadily now Edit 2: i officially give up, after 3 hours placing every bone in the right position i go to install the rig and the program completely crashes. i lost everything.

For the 2008 Rig? I don't think we're talking about the same thing...where are you reading that in the instructions? There's more to it than just moving the bones into place. i guess so. thats one thing i was never ever good at was rigging and this one is just confusing me. i been working on this for like 2 days and cant figure it out at all. i about ready to pay someone to do it for me.

here is another character in the short- the elf hes also the model im having trouble rigging.

yea its a run cycle. it was perfect i did it sort of quick, these are mostly tests anyway. it will be perfected in the end. trust me lol. im still having a lot of trouble with the rig. from the instructions you showed me its basicly just placing the bones where they need to be one by one. i might as well build the bones myself if i have to do that.

heres a question. anyone know how to install the 2008 rig? Im thinking that might be easier than me trying to figure out bone systems for a month.

How can anyone go wrong with Ninjas? Congrats on taking the leap into animated film production. I am excited for you and look forward to seeing your progress on the film. I know it is far to early to crit but based on your first image I'll postulate a question/consideration. Please note that there is no right/wrong answer here. Shouldn't the ninja be more of the iconic black or at least darker color that is normally associated with ninjas at least at the beginning of the film? With all that snow it might help with the instant recognition, silhouetting and constrast against the (lighter) background. Disclaimer: I have never actually met a ninja so I do not know what colors they prefer to wear. that character is actually going to be an Ice druid of some kind. i dont know all the details yet (since my friend has the script and isnt sharing much with me yet.) but that is pretty much what my friend wanted to look to be. they are called Ice men.

Hey Guys, after many years of building and animating practice, its time to put it into Action! we start our production today of our first short film Santa's Little Helper. its going to be a 3-4 min (now over 8 mins!) short about Santa as he tries to get toys ready for Christmas but is has some obstacles to overcome, Ninjas. sets are all designed by me and my friend BBB3D here on the forums,some characters are models found in the contributor cue (just modified a bit), we are shooting for a November release. Now June 2013! hey could go for christmas in july we will also be using this page as a guide so we remember where we are at on the production. Production List Story board: 100% complete! Character list: Santa: Done Elf: Done Ninja: Done Ice men: Done Deer: Done Penguin:Modeled, DELETED! Sets: Santa's Workshop: done Cave entrance: done Bathroom: done (turned into outhouse) Outside workshop: done Winter Forest:done Ice Men Cavern: Done scenes intro elves dancing: DONE! elf walk from bathroom: DONE! elf reenter workshop: DONE! building of ninja: DONE! Santa sleigh drop off: DONE! ninja enter cave: DONE! ninja in cave: DONE! ninja finds elves: DONE! ninja vs icemen: DONE! exit cave with elves: DONE! outro scene: DONE! Post Production editing: 50% music: 60% Voice recording: 50% Sound effects:15% Post rendering:0% color grading:0% Join us as we go through this production journal in the making of this short film. i have already started doing some rough blocking and animating, and testing of rendering time vs quality. iceguy_run_shaded.mov please feel free to comment and give suggestions as we go along. Thank and enjoy the fun! Jason -

from what people have told me. they are round pixels and the resolution suppose to start around 4K. but that's all i heard. that would put in the range of today's professional movie cameras

too bad i live on the east coast... usually nothing close to here

i could never figure out how you do that high spinning stuff. looks awesome! love the reflectivity!

extremely professional looking. A:M does so many amazing things so easily.

Interesting concept, nice lighting. Hard to tell what's really going on. Is that the same image as was entered? yes mine was the last one on the page. heres the image again took 14 hours to render this image believe it or not.

here ya go i did kind of crappy job skinning him but it wouldnt show in the final image that i entered so i didnt care too much

i really thought my shark wearing a thor helmet would win peoples curious side. hehe

Congrats winners! Hopefully next time I'll win something.

i did this a couple of times in the past. this was my best result i made a material for ya from that group. plastic.mat enjoy

Dear lord man! Geez I heard of going to extremes to get peoples attention but yeessh! And that looks like its going to be a good looking project. Keep us in informed!

Man I can't wait to see what everyone did! I know mine was wacky lol.

oh yea i forgot i entered this months ago lol. cant even remember what i did lol

i think we went over this before when i was learning the jump motion. Jumping

A-MAZ-ING man i have to finish my coding classes

Happy B-day! you brought us together so lets celebrate!

another 7 hours of rendering and i should be done.... yes! man i need a new PC lol