Shelton

Happy New Year! Steve

Congrats Gerry! That was wonderful. Style, color and presentation - excellent. Steve

Chris Daily and myself are collaborating on some things and I would definitely be interested. Steve

Nice Paul. Just saw this. I love a skinny Santa Steve

Nancy, I forgot which rig did you use? Steve

Thanks Rodney! Here is the last sword I will do. Shield is almost done and so is the spear. The head of Ares is almost done as well. Armor and greaves along with tunic and arm covers. This has been fun portion Steve

Uploaded the wrong one. Metals are hard to remember how to set up. Steve

Hoplite sword, helmet inspired by immortals Steve

Well, you see, Ares god of war, is Cupid's palace neighbor on Mount Olympus. Just outfitting him now.

Starting on side elements of the short Steve Corinthian helmet

She really looks good. Pull the background ambience down a little and she will pop in the foreground. Great work!. I love the wings as well, and she looks like she will have a great deal of personality! Steve

Work has been keeping me busy the last few weeks. I have, however, been doing notes and timing of movements and videotaping movements to help get a flow of the animation. What I have found is my little animating practices have been very slowww. When I render them out there is no fluid movement of the character, but when I am animating it feels right. I will begin to upload more test animations to help me get a better feel for the timing of the movements. Thanks for your help in advance Steve

Nice modeling on all the characters. Good movement. Steve

Happy B day

I have had fun re learning the dope sheet. The graph editor makes it easy to adjust and tweak. I hope to have the first pass done this weekend and from this i will begin to build the bow and arrow sequence for cupid. There are still so many things to do, but will keep plugging away. My wife advised that if i would give up some other interests, maybe i could complete something. Steve

Rodney I am open to any thoughts. Just a small update. Oh and by the way of love net render. Also when I created the mov in after effects I had the settings for 30 fps instead of 24 which had the timing off. Steve swordmovie.mov

Very Nice Stian. Steve

Thanks Robert! I should have some updates to give later today. I have an additional 2 secs on the end so I uploaded the wrong block. But it is a start. Steve

Just starting to block in the animation. Steve Sword.mov

Thanks Mark! It has been so long since I have tried to do anything. Took the day off today and found I have forgotten so much and have really been struggling it getting anything to look right. I hope to post a vid first of the week. Steve

Well, rebooted the machine and constraints orient and translate like worked. So I am happy to say I am animating again. spent three hours this afternoon trying to get PM to hold the light saber. I had restarted AM I thought. But once I restarted the machine it was ok. I was switching from 32 and 64 bit programs. Dont know if that caused the issue or not. Thanks Robert Steve

Tried that as well and the saber stayed in place Steve

Thanks Robert that is what I thought. The sword is simple. (I have removed null and all other bones for testing) I have one bone right now for the entire saber however it is at the handle position. So I have constrained with kinematic and orient like. I think it is my understanding of the process of placing the bones. When I try to move the saber in action screen by moving the saber bone it leaves a shortcut to the saber at 0,0,0. After constraining to the hand the saber will rotate but not move with the hand. Steve

I have a couple of animating questions. I am doing an action and want to rotate the entire character. How do you do that? Also he is holding a light saber and I have constrained the saber to the hand but when I rotate the torso the saber stays at the base with the null I created and the handle tries to follow the hand. Any thoughts Steve

Excellent! Steve