Shelton

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

Rodney, at the Hash Bashes is where I learned a great deal about the program. Just like you said you see something and they would take the time to show you. Steve

Excellent start

Loved it. Congrats, great work Steve

I like that John.

Starting to animate. here is the shot of the movement of PM. Just learning again Steve

Sorry, it has been a while. Been working on a side project and just finished and customer signed off on it. I love how fast you create something in AM. Now back to Cupid Steve

David Very nice splinage. I would not call him vanilla as I think he has a lot of character!! Steve

Mark I really like the look that you have created. The lights are great. Steve

Great job to the both of you! Steve

Hey Will your timing is perfect. I had just posted on cloth and clothing and you update Tar. Excellent start. This encourages me to begin to look further into cloth. Great job on the texture as well. Looks like the cat was just skinned. Steve

Great job. You guys can do it all, rigging, modelling, animate etc.... Really looks good David! Steve

Happy Birthday Steve