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Robert Just wonderful! Thank you so much for doing this! I took away a great deal of information! Steve

Off to Disney World!

Very nice David I tried to play with this and was not able to get it to look good Well Done and thanks Steve

I love that feeling as well. Thanks again

Thanks Mark! It is amazing how fast things go together when you use primitives, and the copy and paste feature! Steve

Completed the exterior, besides the paint. The glass is from one of the materials from the enhanced AM collection and has a nice reflection. You can see Ian on the top floor in his soon to be office. Steve

Building going in next door, this will also host Mythos Staffing Agency for Super Heroes and Mythical Creatures

I received an email from him, I believe the first of last year. He was in New Mexico.

A view of the shop from the other side. Steve

Thanks Robert! Rodney We are developing the background and establishing the characters of Cupids Sick Day. We used a couple of the characters in the Rear Window Project and will be introducing a couple of more in this short. The next will begin the run at Cupids Sick Day. I am not ready to animate a short what I see in Cupid. So Chris and I decided a short such as this to develop our skills and workflow. Rodney I am ready to get him, PM, in front of the camera but I know it will be a bit yet. The good news is also that with Mack and Chris' help I am learning how to model, rig, and well I lot of things I did not know how to, better than what I created in 2010. The character shape and forms and movements are looking a lot better. The best thing is what I learn in our google plus meetings. Chris, Mack and I meet and discuss issues, problems, achievements and well, life. I have found two pretty cool guys in them and hope to bring in a couple of more before it is all finished. The meetings are an excellent way to push a short such as this forward. Steve PS I have found a pool of voice talents in a local theater group. I had another session scheduled for this weekend but the main two have colds and after hearing them hacking on the phone today decided to cancel the recordings. It is amazing of what goes into all this. But sure has been a lot more fun with help!

It has been fun playing around. Now back to work

She looks great

I placed the coffee shop on the corner and render a quick shot. Well it was not quick using AO. I will get the decal on the roadway to dirty it up and start putting other buildings on the street. Steve

I got started on the street scene Steve

Bravo!! Very well done. I loved the part about the glow differences. Netrender I see at the end is causing some issues. Steve

Happy Birthday Steve

Me too! Steve

This is great stuff. Would love to see the work flow. Thank you for sharing Steve

Hi Tim Good to see you drop by. Give a call sometime. Steve

I wanted to give a shout out to Dan and the pose he was able to do with his "Disney" inspired character. Quite frankly I did not know if the rig installed in my Disney influenced character could bend in the same way he was able. Here is Laurie in Dan's pose. Steve

Wonderful work as always. Steve

Thanks guys In fact with Chris Dailey's help we have a SVN server off site. So everything we are doing is being backed up. Steve

Laurie's face rig is going in quickly. It is a combination of bones, poses, weighting etc. Steve

Will, very cool shot. I would to see the light settings. Excellent animation Steve

Over the last few weeks I have been busy with hair on the characters. I then looked at how many models I have completed while working on the hair and I have to say there have been several. Anyway I put together the three main ones I have completed hair on. I rendered this shot and found that the poodles hair was messed up in the shot I began to look and the model's hair, in v18a is messed up. What I mean some of the options are gone?? So I will go back to a back up and come forward As for now I am actually rigging Laurie's face again. So I will be posting some facial expressions over the next few days. I have taken some time off this week and plan to have the poses in place. Thanks for looking. Steve