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Bertram has come a long way and he looks great. I still remember that telephone conversation many years ago when you told me of your ideas for him. I think the body shape is perfect for an old gymnast. Great job David. I look forward to more updates and I am sorry it it has been a rough year.

Thank you Gerald. Robert has helped a great deal. His guidance is invaluable.

Here is a Hans after a long day at the church. Believe me I know how he feels. This Christmas season has me worn out.

Here is the animation. I use this for the class I am teaching. Hanswalkin.mp4

Thanks Gerald and Michael!! I will upload the animation as soon as I get it re rendered.

Forgot to load the frame

Getting set to start a new set of renderings Did a sample render on my two machines. Here is what I have Machine 1 ---Animation:Master 19.5b 64bit AVX ---Windows 11 64bit Build 22631 ---Hardware information: Number of processors : 12 Number of logical processors : 24 Processor description : AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor Processor speed : 4691 Mhz Installed memory : 32768 MB Processor features : SSE ,SSE2 ,SSE3 ,SSSE3 ,SSE4.1 ,SSE4.2 ,AVX ,AVXI ,AVX2 ---Graphic driver OpenGL3 Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. Renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Version: 4.6.0 Compatibility Profile Context 23.20.01.10.230811 ---Frame 75 finished Memory used 1352 MByte ---Frame 75 finished Memory used 3398 MByte ---Frame 75 finished Memory used 7466 MByte ---Render finished 686.776 seconds Machine 2 ---Starting Log ---Animation:Master 19.5b 64bit AVX ---Windows 11 64bit Build 22621 ---Hardware information: Number of processors : 16 Number of logical processors : 24 Processor description : 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K Processor speed : 3187 Mhz Installed memory : 32768 MB Processor features : SSE ,SSE2 ,SSE3 ,SSSE3 ,SSE4.1 ,SSE4.2 ,AVX ,AVXI ,AVX2 ---Graphic driver OpenGL3 Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070/PCIe/SSE2 Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 546.17 ShadingLanguageVersion: 4.60 NVIDIA ---Frame 75 finished Memory used 6225 MByte ---Frame 75 finished Memory used 33298 MByte ---Frame 75 finished Memory used 37993 MByte ---Render finished 846.691 seconds Rendered one frame (75) with all the bells and whistles. You can see the AMD machine beat the Intel by 2 minutes and 40 seconds. To be fair the AMD is the newest generation processors while the Intel is two generation old now, but still a powerful machine.

Looking forward to seeing them as well. Steve

I love it. Nice work!!

Over the course of the last 6 years, Robert Holmen has allowed me to gleam some of his knowledge about AM. He started reviewing some of the animations that Chris Daily and myself were working on. After just a little while it turned from reviewing to teaching. I have enjoyed our time and have been able to get some animations done under his tutelage. Here is one of the first one I completed titled "Fly Trap". flyfinal.mp4

Great character. I love that sway back.

Guys. we just got word we have family coming tomorrow and staying for a couple of days. I am in a dilemma. We just got power on day before yesterday and I have been cleaning up this mess. It was significant storm. They said at first straight line winds but now they are saying that two tornadoes touched down and one was 1 mile north of us. We got debris from trees being thrown. Everyone meet tomorrow and what I think of if it is ok, on Tuesday, Robert we can meet for our animation and review of week one and two C++ and then next next Sunday I will be back to my regular schedule. I will have the next two up for review and will be caught up. Sorry about this, there visit was supposed to have happen before we started C++. They postponed and now here they come. Cindy is running around trying to figure where everyone is going to sleep. Probably have to put some in a hotel. Anyway you three meet and I will work on my stuff when everyone is in bed.

My world is upside down today. I will leave the house in a few minutes and will be gone until Thursday. I am sorry I will miss this week. I was looking forward to this evening even bragging a bit. I will be back in touch later this week.

Wow, I missed this. Robert told me to look. Very nicely done! I love the style and the movement of the chararcters.

I saw it on YouTube before seeing this link... Very cool and thanks for uploading it.

Welcome back!! Cant wait to see that bear dance around!

Three of my favorite characters

I have fun exploring with Hans

Ok finally, Hans is now rigged with TSM2, weighted, and ready for the contest. Video was horrible so I will reshoot this weekend and try to get started applying the video to the character.

Very cool

Loyd joins the fun

Through the years I have created 60+ characters, animals, props, autos, buildings, landscaping and trees, mythical creatures, and many other models. It has been a fun adventure using AM. Here are some of my favorites with Tornado.

I had created a number of Supers for the Cupid Sick Day Mythos Agency. Mythos is the staffing agency for super heroes when they can not work. Here is one of the supers, Tornado. Being from OK, I thought he was appropriate for the theme. He was rigged with the 2008 rig and this is without weighting.

This rig has kicked my butt. From starting over twice to duplicating bones, to goofing up the concept to flat out giving up a couple of times. Robert has encouraged and coached all along the way. Add in travel and illness, a house that flooded from a washing machine malfunction, family events, I have forgotten how I did a lot of things. For now the rig has been a valuable lesson but it is time to get the contest model ready, I am watching several helpful videos to complete the contest but for now enjoy a happy Hans.

Here is an update. Rig has been flipped and weights still have a long way.