Shelton

Thank you Robert Over the weekend I found a treasure trove of all my past projects. I lost a server in 2009 and I thought all these items were lost. I had made a back up on my wife's WD passport. Now I have access to characters I created from 2006 when I started in AM to 2009. I am still missing a few items but was excited when I found this folder. This is from a children's video I animated for called Papa FixIt. It was my first paying gig in the realm of character creation and animation. The characters were crude and I would have not have made it without the help of David Simmons. He rigged three of the characters for me! I created the background in Vue 4 and all the foreground in AM. I had two sets the tool shed and farm house and the field where the fence was being built. With that I created a dog, a cow, a horse, a talking pencil, and the main character a talking tool box. All the things in the tool shed and all the things in a tool box were created in AM. This was before Handy Manny, not saying they copied Papa Fixit, but I finished the video first The video was a thirty minute live action all filmed in front of a green screen with my animated characters interacting with the live characters. I said it was a paying gig, Well, I think I calculated one time all the cost in being the animation department for the the video and I think I got paid 1.65 an hour. The sad deal it was a good idea of a project and if the producer would have let me finished it would have been alot nicer. I actually had all the animations in block mode / pass when he stated it was good enough for what they were doing. It is still hard for me to watch the video today knowing all the issues. We tested with kids from 5-9 in age and was received well. Lowe's and Home Depot agreed to carry it in their stores but due to some legal issues they wanted some parts refilmed. The producer decided to sale it on the internet and maybe sold 500 copies. Here is Papa's Pencil from 2006 Steve

John I know i have seen the procedures on how to make feathers but do you have ptoject you could show? Steve

Found this while cleaning up the Drive. After the coffee shop I will begin to work back on Cupid One with the shield for Aries

You did a great job of putting him together. Were you able to use him throughout the classes?

Was that the character you created in AM or is that the rig from Animation Mentor. Very nice by the way

I have a copy and I am currently looking for it! thanks Steve

Excellent, once i finish this installation i will move on from this to finalizing the face rig/puesdo face rig! Thanks Robert

Thanks Robert. I had discussed with Chris on Tuesday about that very issue

David I was looking for the quad rig for like a dog and I could not find it. Am I looking in the wrong place? Steve

I agre. I raised the shoulder but, it still doesnt look right. I will explore that thanks Robert

Are you moving back into your house after the flood repairs?

I wanted to put Laurie in a pose that put stress on the rig and smart skins. I also wanted to test the pose slider on the face and look at the reworked hair. OK I am not a fan of the pose but it was able to accomplish a lot of the test. The face poses are in except for the phonemes. I am re working the brows now. I am trying to create a face rig that makes sense for me and Chris and hope to show that soon. Steve

Laurie doing her best Zombie impression. The poses are going in but would still like to get the face rig to use the pose sliders. Still working on that. Steve

Very easy fix. The mirror bones plugin was mirroring a new set of bones as i had not set the filter correctly. Deleted the extra bones, reran the mirror bones and viola cps correctly weighted. That in turn allowed me to mirror smartskins as it was weighted the area to the correct bone. I love the fact we get together on google plus. It was something so simple i was missing that Chris caught the error and Mack stated the solution. Thanks again to Chris and Mack for all their help.

Wow nice. Stian is a modeler!

We are getting closer to animating! It has been a long process and one that has been noted with issues and discoveries. Thanks to Chris and Mack for all their insights!!!. Stone's Rig is in place but having issues with mirror bones and mirror smartskins. As soon as that has been completed we will animate the first section and then render the test and so on. It is finally happening! Steve

Thanks David. Working on the rig and hope to have it done tonight

It has been a few days. I have completed the new Stone and the new rig is in place and should finish it shortly.

Extended support continues on win 7 until jan 14 2020. That is when it is time to turn win 7 to pasture.

Simon, Nicely done!!

Sorry Will about the google.

Awesome David! I was wondering when we would see one pop up

Just bought the program and will give it a try when i return home.

3d coat on steam for the lite version is 74.99 this week. Steve

I have already watched the videos twice and have started the process. Very well done. Thanks so much for putting this together and all your help.