Shelton

I saw Zootopia on Thursday night. I went in with mixed feelings, but really enjoyed the movie. I was amazed at the number of characters and what it would take to rig them. From a technical aspect I think Disney did a great job. Steve By the way I go to all the 3d animated films, well I did not go see Norm of the North

Robert and Roger I have set up and dismantled and rebuilt three different render farms. Believe it or not an i5 4700 series processor runs great for the money. Jason1025 has a new mac pro and i think i had just as good of results with an older intel 920 I7. I have 3 amd bulldozer chips and above 8 core systems and they did good but an older 6 core 1190t amd outperformed the 8 cores. All of the zeon systems i have were 4 and 6 core and performed about the same as the 8 core amd fx chips. I guess what i am saying, do not overspend for wizbang because cost per performance is not there in my opinion. The important thing is memory in the individual machine. I have built all my machines on the standard of 4 gigs per core. Here what i have for my current farm. For am server i have a dell poweredge 300t 24 gig system. It has 4 generation zeon 2.5 ghz. Intel 5930 6 core 32gb, i7 920 24 gb Four intel I5 4700 4 core 16 gb of ram. Three amd fx 8350 8 core 32 gb ram, amd 1190t 6 core with 32 gb of ram, which give me currently 56 cores. Now i still have 6 dell modified 4 core poweredge 840 that have second gen zeons, hand full of core 2 duo quads that still perform 85 of the i5. Any way if i had the upgrade am i could have close 100 cores in the farm. The next thing that really needs to happen is some fleshing out of netrender as there are still some problems. Also look at gpu to make sure it supports open gl 3 and above Really just as important is the backbone for the render farm, gig switches a must and the network running with the basics. As i ramble along if you have the money the super system would be great, but look at how much you will use the farm and your cost to get there. I sold a great deal of my last setup after rendering three projects and watching it sit for a year. I had purchased alot of nice equipment and did not get much use from it.

Yes. I loved Johnny Quest.

Great stuff as always!! Loved the whole thing. Lighting was great! Steve

thanks Robert. It was my setup on the new machine. Once I made the changes in windows everything in AM worked Steve be looking in the mail.

Very unusual! When I look at the sound mixer within Win 7 the volume drops to 0 when I select play in AM. edit I changed the out put from 5.1 to stereo on the mixer reloaded and now AM seems to be working. Steve John I might try that as well Thanks!!!

I have brought in some of the audio as a .wav file. I can play the wave file from the project workspace sometimes. But when I import the audio into the chor I get no sound at all. Am I missing something? Steve

Great stuff!!

Awesome, looking forward to this! I love the look of the models. Steve

While cleaning out the storage are of the theater room, I found an old PC. Not being sure about the PC, I placed a monitor and power cable on it and started it up. It is an XP box and much to my suprise I found several acts and scenes from TWO. After investigating the machine it is one that I set up for Steve Sappington to use Web Render on. It was fun seeing some of the TWO files. Steve

Really great stuff!!

I loved. Just now had a chance to watch it. Great stuff!!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you!

Congrats!!

Awesome find and a good read.

I was good in Algebra, 35 years ago. My 12 year old is in 7th grade and is bringing home Algebra problems and wants help. OK, I remember alot of procedures to solve problems in Algebra. To bad the procedures I remember do not apply to the problems he is bringing home. Really, I dont remember anything. I am having to re learn and learn the new procedures in solving Algebra. My brain hurts.

It was the best 3d movie i have seen in a while. Most 3d movies do not impress me but this one made me feel i was in the environment

Wow, go see this, if nothing else, for the scenery. Actually it is very touching. My wife was crying. Lots of fun.

Happy Thanksgiving

Matt, before you run the plugin make sure the pelvis, spine1 and 2 neck and head are on the 0 axis. And remove the y and z rotation. Use macks settings on the plugin. I did not realize on several installs the center geoms were off the x and had errant rotation and my mirror results were horrible. But once i checked those and reran the plugin all was well.

No physics clothing. Just wanted to keep the models in tact. I will keep playing with the relationships Here is Angie as I begin to weight her cps and Kate with her dress and work clothes and just about finished the weighting of the shoulder and legs and moving to the torso area. Also I work with the lighting of scene a little based on something Gerald put out.

So sad... I will miss her updates and really loved her toon shaded characters. RIP

Good stuff!

Something I have been struggling with the last couple of evenings is relationships. I have struggled on my cash register and finally got it working again, but the next item I would like to complete is something I think should be simple. Several of the characters are modeled with mesh under the clothing. I have done a pretty good job of the skin not poking through the clothing with weighting and rigging but there are a few areas that still peek through. So I want to have the skin under clothes hidden and so I created a pose to hide those portions of the skin mesh. Doesn't work. Nothing I try will hide the skin. Any help is appreciated. Steve