Shelton

Here is a pic of the 5 new rigged characters with the Saucy Rig There is no weighting at all on the new rigged character. Laurie has Mark's 2008 rig. I have about 5 more I need to install the rig and it only takes about 2.5 to 3 hours to get the rig into place and installed. Steve

I will look at that Robert. Thanks! I have had a good week. I have rigged or rerigged 5 characters. No weighting as of yet but the rig is installed. With each character that I rig it goes faster and faster and I learn more about modeling in regards to the rig. I will post a group shot of the five later today. Steve

I have been working with the Saucy Rig this week and have been able to get several new characters rigged. Here is Frank with the rig in place but not installed.

Love it! Great work.

Thanks Rodney All those things help in the realtime world and I use them. But from the youtube video the hair and all were rendered in realtime. That would be cool. I thought you had stumble across something that I was not aware of. I figured out my rendering issues. Well to some degree. I had turned on SSS and did not realize I was rendering with it on. For whatever reason it was throwing a wrench in the gears. So here is a shot of the final position of arms, hand and shoulders of the three. Along with the rendering issues I was able to correct Laurie's hair issue.. Steve

Rodney how do you adjust? Are you talking density?

That would be awesome on the fur to tender in realtime and the light and shadows. Pretty cool

https://youtu.be/hnFSVx7NhmM Pretty cool

All these characters are rigged but going to re do them since i have remodeled the upper bodies. Now i can incorporate the face rig as well Thanks David!

Clean up has begun on all the characters. Stone has received arm and hand rebuild as well as the leg area reworked Conner has received arm and shoulder rebuild Angie has received hand sizing and body sizing Laurie will receive new hair as each new version of her I have to redo the action pose of her hair. I am going to remove her pose hair and groom hair into place. Alot of rendering issues. One character render fine in one setting but all the other characters will have issue. I will change settings and bring one or two into workable renders and then the others will have issues. Rigging continues. Getting ready to install three rigs this week and next. I will be on vacation in a couple of weeks and hope to use some of that time to complete these four.

Really awesome

Rewatching these. Awesome

Robert i will look at that issue this afternoon. Good catch.

While we are looking at the set and issues with netrender, I have been going through the models the last couple of nights and getting them ready for the street scene or the end scene. There is a "lot" of things to do!! Here is a shot of Tony with his hot dog cart and will be on the sidewalk. Steve

Awesome!!!!

I love animated movies. And in every movie there is a scene that captures me. I was rewatching The Croods tonight and the top of the tree scene captured me.

As we begin rendering scenes we are having issues with net render. All the buildings and props are set as action objects, the ability to turn on and off the objects with a pose. The objects render fine in AM but when we send the project to the netrender farm none of the objects render. We also notice that the time to load the files on the net render slaves are way to fast for the size of the project. This is a huge problem. As soon as net render is involved then no rendering of the set is possible. Steve

I really like this. I could use something along this lines later. Thank you

Excellent stuff David. The room looks great!!

Thanks, the studio is really my theater room converted temp until we get the voices done. I have contracted the local sheet metal union to build me a light weight sound proof area. I saw a mechanical room in a high rise that they had recently sound proofed, it was incredible. And with the way they can bend light weight metal into a strong wall it will be interesting to see what they come up with. The walls will have the backing board and the walls will be perforated and then 2" of sound foam. Basically it will wrap around the artist as they read their lines. I have a eight foot by 7 area off the back of the theater room that will house this feature. Right now it is housing the render farm. I have a climate controlled shop in the back that will soon become a host for my render farm. As my son's ability and talent, music wise, evolves the "studio will evolve into a music studio I am sure. Steve

Recording voices for the project today. It has been fun setting up the "studio" and bringing the folks in for the sessions. Here are a couple of shots from the gopro Steve

Thanks Robert Did you get me email?

Re ran the test after installing correct drivers 1:48

Rodney in my face rig I did as you suggeted. I think David does as well

I finally got the new machine stable. I loaded AM and check it on the About Screen what does 18lAVX mean? Of course 18l is the version but what is AVX? Advanced Vector Extensions, is this better than the SSE4 Steve