BrainLock

An idea for some added bit of interest/complication: The animators could attempt to coordinate their exits and entrances. Example: If Animator Andy has Thom leave a room by stumbling backward through the door, and Animator Jimmy has the next room, then Jimmy has to finish Thom's backward stumble/fall in Thom's entrance into Jimmy's scene. It would be a good way to practice teamwork and continuity. But it may be a level of complexity that can be skipped for a fun exercise like this.

Looks like it will be awesome! and reminds me of the old 20,000 Years Under the Sea Ride at Disney World, not to mention the movie.

looks good!

I've seen a variety of materials legally distributed by torrents. Torrents allow you to spread the bandwidth load among all the people downloading a file instead of having them all try to get it exclusively from your server. That said, I suspect the majority of torrents are used for illegal downloads.

you are mr. wizard with this software. Next up, cumulonimbus with rain and lightning and maybe a tornado?

Got it now. Thanks much!

The ZIP for the last one, "Ogre," appears to be corrupted. Two un-archivers refused to open it for me.

I wonder if you could sell it through Lulu.com or another such print-on-demand service.

read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald

Strange... the larger ones looked more real, more natural. The smaller ones look like implants.

Interesting that it's blocked in Germany. Perhaps it is copyright. Meanwhile, when your video plays for me in the U.S., a window pops up offering me a chance to buy the song on iTunes or at Amazon.com.

Just as I was really starting to get into it, I had to bow out early last year to handle a crisis in the "real world" (and I'm still dealing with some fallout from it). And my main computer broke down. But I hope to pick up the bat again soon. Nice to see that TWO is finished and another movie is on the way. I'd like to change my screen name. Can anyone advise me on that?

Great job. Looking forward to seeing your live action scene with it.

Stian is amazing. However, Tralfaz, I believe that the background environment behind the airplane in the image actually is a photograph. It's a testament to his talent and skill that his model is so real looking that he can seamlessly mix it with real-life images.

looks great! Are you doing the interior, too?

I think that's called the Hollow Face Illusion. In college I saw something similar. A woman made a mold of her face. Then she then photographed the interior of the mold and achieved the same effect. When looking at a 2D representation of a 3D object, the brain translates the clues to see what should be "normal." Sometimes it's wrong. There is another illusion like yours that people make with paper dragon sculpture and video cameras. Someone duplicated it with AM. When the camera moves around, it looks like the dragon moves its head. Read about it and download it here: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...6&hl=dragon

He seems to be on a Mac - OnyX is a Mac utility.

The tech reference is handy, and nice to have. But for a novice learning the ropes and trying to understand the basic concepts, David Rogers' "Animation:Master, A Complete Guide" is the best I've found. I'm more than a little shocked that it's not available through the Hash online store. Frankly, Hash ought to work out a deal with Rogers to make a package deal of some kind with his book and A:M original purchases and upgrades. Or, perhaps, make a deal for Rogers to freshen the book for each new upgrade to the software and then package the book with A:M and upgrades instead of TAoAM. Even if it forced a $25 or $30 price bump on A:M and A:M upgrades, it would be well worth it. Rogers explains things far more clearly and in more depth as he takes you through the program.

Someone made a model of the original Enterprise a while ago that solved the problem. I'm trying to find a link to it. Google seems to have lost it. I have the model somewhere, but can't find it right now. The model was very detailed and even included details inside the bridge.

I don't think the guitars at the pawnshop are in a format that can easily be imported into A:M...

same here.

A:M does not output to GIF. You can use other software to convert A:M's output into GIF.

Congratulations. Well done.

FWIW, the camera controls are documented in the new Technical Reference Manual. But there are a few errors in that section. Some are Mac-related. The others may or may not be Mac-connected. I haven't tried it on a Windows box in quite a while to see for certain.

It's an amazing piece of work, on par with some of the best we have seen out of Hollywood. Do you animate for a living or is this just a hobby? Couldn't you show the trailer to a producer to get financing to do a "full length" short or more? I had a question about the plot - is Briar Rose supposed to be smart or a bit dim or absent-minded?