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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

Happy Birthday

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

Happy Birthday Gerry!

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

Pledged and shared the link on facebook. Steve

I am a novice at Facebook, so how do you share the link? Steve

Happy Birthday Will. I was wondering the other day if you are still driving trains? Have a good one Steve

I am going to throw my two cents. Rear window was a great opening to working with someone. Chris Dailey and I worked together for the first time and have to say it was one of the best things I have done in regards to animation. Not that my portion of the project was great, but the learning process, working together to create something, and making a new friend. I was nervous at first about working with someone else on a project. I worried that my skill sets were not up to par, but Chris was patient and pulled me along (encouraged me) and we were able to get the project done. I did not work much on TWO or SO. I rendered and textured a lot. I went to the hash bash and learned how to animate but nothing I did animation wise made it to the final versions. So for a large project like that I can not comment on. Chris and I are working on a short right now. It is his story and he is the director and we are using some of my assets from Cupids Sick Day and I am happy to say this story line fits in perfect with what I want Cupid's Sick Day to show. We meet weekly on Skype to discuss progress, work on story and eventual we will get to rendering. Sometimes we just talk about issues of life. But the collaboration can work as I feel it has for us. I would love to see another community project. I will help in whatever way I can. We got to get "We Bought a Coffee Shop" done first Steve

Thanks! I am currently enjoying my birthday by rigging one of the characters of Cupids Sick Day!! Steve

Happy Birthday!

Glad you figured it out. By the way good looking model. Steve

Welcome back David.

Awesome work! Steve

Matt they will part if the work boot and will not animate Robert extrude ok I will give that a try

What is the best way to make showlaces? Can you lathe around a spline path? Steve

Welcome to the 5-0 club! Happy Birthday Matt Steve