Gerry

Sassy!

this one looks pretty dark. I know there were some issues with the lighting on "TTR" but that looked fine to me. Most of this image disappears into the shadows.

That's a beauty of a model, Eric! Nice work for a "contributor"!

Targa files are indeed individual frames and are extremely usable by Animation Master. It's a *little* freaky the first time you work with them to find a folder full of two or three thousand files! But like Rusty sez, import as an image sequence and AM will be happy. It's also a good way to do final renders, as you can stop the render mid-way and not lose anything.

Lots of good info here. rob thanks for the screenshot and movie, very clear and informative.

Stunning Stian. Are the roof/roof tiles a decal? Surely you're not modeling each tile are you? (Though I wouldn't be surprised!)

This is my favorite, the "Skylark" tutorial. I've recommended this one many times and in fact just used it myself this week. It's a little creaky but still a good work process for splining faces. You should also have (or create if possible) a side view of the head, though the tute doesn't mention rotoscopes at all. http://www.hash.com/users/jsherwood/tutes/SkyLark.pdf

Actually that's *normal*, as AM prj files are plain text. Normally what you would do is copy and paste into a plain text editor (I use Wordpad on a PC, but TextEdit or BBEdit would work on a Mac) and save with a .prj extension. But when it wouldn't then open in AM, I looked at the code and there appears to be large blocks of gibberish text that look like they don't belong. Not sure what to make of it. Maybe it should be zipped before uploading.

Ya know the bark material that made the face disappear may just need to be scaled down. that's a swell model and character. Even the roots seem to have attitude! Remember though that trees don't *need* to be brown, and you could lighten up the bark color quite a lot and not lose anything. I think it would improve actually.

Great to see a new one of these, mark!

Steve, if you have QT pro, position the playhead where you want the audio to start, and under the edit menu use "Add to Movie". this will layer the sound over the video. It may take a bit of trial and error but it will work just fine.

Hey jason, I downloaded this prj and saved as a text file to a .prj format, but it doesn't want to open. There's some big blocks of code that look a little strange as well. Anyone else download and open this okay?

Hair movement is looking good.

What I'm sayin.

I like the new hair. Will you have some dynamics on it to, ya know, wave around and drive the girls wild? On the guitar solo you posted earlier, strumming the chords needs some simple movement on the left hand, and there was something about the way you've constructed the shoulder that, in that piece, makes it look like a weird elbow. But overall nice progress and I like the stylized facial features.

Gee we never would have guessed!

Gene this is really wonderful work. Sure it can be improved but that applies to most of us here, and your progress is simply amazing. I posted a comment on YouTube but I think it was appended to your last comment instead of the main list. But the sentiment is the same!

Very nice job. What is "book matched"?

Wow, that's great. Thanks Gerry.

Two more cents to add...I believe acoustic guitars have a seam at the bottom, where the strap peg would be. So having a seam there wouldn't be a drawback. What I mean is that if you were to go the "flatten" route you could do it in two halves and save some heartache trying to flatten or unwrap the entire side section in one go. EDIT: Yikes! I wish I'd seen this before I did my dinky little decaling tute! Brilliant!

Wow, I feel like I'm in some good company. I'm just working on cp weighting for the first time too. Great work on these hands, Stian.

Steve, thanks for posting that tutorial (and of course thanks to Jim Talbot for doing it)! Some extremely handy tips in there. Are there subsequent segments available?

Got it! That is awesome!

Yeah, nice work!

Hey Spleen I don't know if this is a problem but your YouTube link from Tuesday doesn't seem to work. I can log onto YouTube, but if I click your link it just hangs, then the error message. Can I search by your user name or account over there?