Madfox

It was just a silly attempt of me trying to change the catterpillar into another shape. When I had the model with pose it suddenly came to me to copy the keyframe of the baseframe into the first animation. First time I tried the original pose was shattered, but after some smart keyframing I could reach that baseframe. Then it was a question of positioning of the vertices and negleckt the bone hierarchy. h01kbah.avi catterpillar.zip

Here is another one. Inspired by the illustration of Lois Carrel's cover of Alice In Wonderland's Catterpillar. I'm beginning to get intrigued by a way to change the mesh of the model into another shape.

made another squidward for quake. It felt like a spagethi monster. funny to see them come alive after modelling them! sienna.mp4 chtulu.mp4

wait.., it looks as if they are still saved in the original file. forget the question.

I made a model with lots of loosing ends coming out of it. My goal is to use it several times with use of dynamic constraints. So I added all loose ends with several dynamic constraints with different weights and saved the file. After using this file in an action with succesful weighted effect I saved it under a new action name. When trying to use the start action with the saved file all my dynamic constraints are gone. Is this a common fact, or isn't it possible to reuse a file that has the dynamic constraints already confirmed?

Hey thanks Robcat and Rodney!!! Hillariously I just finished a hand constructed rotoscope of a fonts I imported with a bmp picture. I was searching in the choreograph view for the import font's but couldn't find it. So easy after all, but well. ., it was too long ago. I forgotten, must be my age.

I might be a bit absent minded, but I forgot how to obtain fonts scripture into Animation Master. I know there is a restriction for only Ariel fonts, but for now I can't find a way to reach a way to access fonts when I'm in AM. For the good of all I would reconstruct scripture fonts myself, but I know there was a way. At least I did in the past. Thank you.

I served myself a bit of a hazard job by trying to convert a *.stl file to a low poly object. It obtained about 3 milion verts and 2 miljon faces. The file I needed had a 2000verts 1000 faces limit. So I tried to convert it with MeshLab back to that low count, but as expected there was hardly a form left. So I used Furcher's retopologize methode (thanks for that!). Still a bit of a whirle as the object prop was so dense I could hardly trace the outline. To keep the relief right I know that exporting .OBJ files from AM: to .3DS leads to the half outcome of the model. This needs some clarification. When exporting models from AM: like this OBJ one:2680v /5563t. Importing it in MeshLab and exportin it to 3ds I get a file with 1007v / 2045 tris. And that's precise the limit I needed. Still a bit confused why this works that way. Then I could import it to Quake and give it the right texture. 🐘 calendrius.mp4

I was surprised they made a remake in 2000. All characters were changed into video personalities. The movies were exciting and well tight on script. That's what I tried to explain in my insight about the tv serie and the new movie. For some reason the original is so inhibited in my imagination I was realy stunned by the video's. They go much faster and are more placed into this time SF experience. I was impressed by a BBC print thay made in that time I chose to make a look_a_like.

Yeh, you're right. My mistake. I assumed that his name was James. As a kid I had two models, two and three. I was anxious to have the first one too but they were sold out. It had a little motor in it so it could ride on batteries. Yes, I'm still fond of them, although I don't have them anymore. Reason why I can't resist to this "guilty pleasure". What do you think of the modern version of the Thunderbirds video?

Some new models I made lately. For some reason this fidling with game options keep me facinating.

I'm not realy sure. I once made a "sprite" for the game Quake. I searched on internet for a good looking skyligntning. Once I had it I spend houres on redrawing the UV's and alpha's and it had become a good looking result. Later when this AI question came to order I saw some results with exact that skyligtning. The impression was quiet a shock to me, as it cried : "No, that's mine skylightning!" Then the rare awareness that it was the photographer's source and not my property. From then I have a strange unballancing feeling when it comes to ownership, or licenses. 🤨

Yeh.., that sure looks good!!! Scares the universe out of me! ..,but I tend my ambition to the old animated results. Not that I have a bad relation with AI, but it comes to me as , well..., there is no soul in sparkel on a worldwide spooking on peoples contribution. 🥲 Not sure what happened. I can't find my entry on the site page anywhere. It has vanished from the board. If I hadn't made a screenshot I would be on the run for ever. Let's say: participating is more convienent than winning! 🙃

You might not be so familiar with his first name James Parker. I can imagine. There are five Tracey's for each Thunderbird. While working on these I can't escape to the somehow "vintage retro" I get, because of the new video's there are nowadays about the subject. They go really fast and extensive, much more than the animations of the 60's. Of course it are computer assigned cartoons that take grip of once attention immediatly. If I search at my consious of attention it reminds me of screenshots of early movies it seems to me everything is much faster. Normally it takes thirty seconds to interprent what is going on in a scene, while in cartoons it takes just four or five seconds. It must have something to do with my age, and knowledge of the TV2000 scene.

Oh... well here is the file. 🙃 AM_TB6_Jamez.zip