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Cindy checking out the newest character Bob Steve Still got a lot of weighting to finish on the hips and face.

As someone that has used both and supported both, both have their pros and cons.

Well just about got Frank rigged and ready for action. Cindy is checking him out

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Hi Robert No, working in the middle of it all. As a claims adjuster for property damage I got a chance to get up and personal with all the damage. While I was there, I was able to be in the middle of the next go round of the tornados on 5/31. Unbelievable. I have seen the Alabama and Missouri tornados and believe this outbreak ranks with all the others. When you are standing on a street where there is nothing left of the homes you have to wonder how only 24 people died. I know here in OK and especially in Moore, a great number of people have storm shelters. But to see the wake of the storm can humble anyone. I have a week off and then I will return for a few more weeks, but this time I am taking a computer so that I can work on AM at night in the hotel. Steve

I am heading home tomorrow after being in and around the tornado damage for the last three weeks. It will be good to get back to AM and create something after being around so much destruction

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I will be out of pocket for a few days as I head to Moore OK to help with the tornado damages. Just wanted to post a keep alive blog Steve

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That looks great David Steve

Thanks! I am a little spline heavy on the feet but i will come back to that later. I have always started with the head but decided something new. I have had issues with proportions in the past and that has manifested with my rigging of the characters. Any way working on the torso now should have update later. Thanks for looking. Steve

I like it Decided to go ahead and just model the whole thing Steve

Just to keep things active I thought I would post a note tonight. I have been weighting and riggin on Laurie's face until I am blue in the face. So I decided to model a little bit. One thing that has always killed me was feet. So here is a run at modeling a foot and leg. Who knows where it will go? Steve

Very cool Mark! Steve

That looks fantastic! Steve

Awesome start. I have been looking for more on this from you. Keep going Steve

Mark I like the look you got going. Not just the hair Steve

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Sorry Robert that was not clear. You are correct that was what I was doing switching between the modes to see the affect. Thanks Mark. From now on I will only use it once. I was being lazy and thought I could shorten the time in weighting. Steve

Douglas Will's video and tutorial were the ones that got me over the "hump"! His explanation of how to model and model something smoothly was the push I needed. Steve

I ran into something weird last night. I have been working on the Laurie model weighting the face area. I would switch between model and action file as I weighted the face. I also would adjust the cps if needed and had the mirror mode turned on. I decided to run the mirror weights wizard. After a couple of days of weighting I jump into the action screen and began to notice the bones I had mirror the weights with were showing in the action. Then I noticed that I had cps moving on the right even though I was moving the pose slider or null on the left. I assumed that I had weighted incorrectly the cps on the right and changed them to the correct bones. I tried to the pose slider and nulls and same thing. I then removed all weights from the cps and tried the slider and nulls and found the cps still moved. I dug down into the relationship of the pose to see if I had created a smart skin or corrupted the file. Everything seemed ok. I closed AM restarted and had same results. Restarted the machine and still this model seemed to have issues. Unfortunately the back up copy had already been overwritten with this file. I had not included this in SVN yet as it was a test. If I had included it in SVN I could have reverted to the last file committed. So I really dont know what I did to corrupt the file. Nor do I know how to correct the model. I don't know if had to the do with mirror weights or the mirror mode and all the changes I was making on the fly. Anyway at this point I have gone back to the SVN model and lost two weeks of work on the face weighting. So I feel I have gotten behind Steve

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Happy Birthday Mark. Thanks for all you do! Steve

As Chris stated life gets in the way of some things What have I gleamed from this process? I think you can burn yourself out if the only thing you are doing is one thing! I have 5 models in a project that I am rigging at the same time. So for a treat this weekend I am planning on modeling a character or a background building or the street scene or something!! Of course after that it will be back to rigging!! Steve