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Thanks I have cleaned up the cheek by removing two unnecessary splines. I wanted to do a spin avi in 16 beta4 but as I create each frame I receive an error stating am could not connect to the avi stream? Any thoughts? Here is a shot of the revised character. Steve

Kat. Wonderful stuff! Steve

Here are the newest render with wireframe and the cuffs and edges of clothing Steve Thanks everyone! Edit: Why can't I get the the eye color to show?

Here is the new character Steve

What are the enviromental settings? Wonderful work Steve

Thanks Robert I will pose another walk this evening. I wanted an exaggerated walk by lifting the legs high, but i think a simplier walk is in order. I will re watch the tutorial this evening. Is there a way to place markers in the action? Steve

Here is a test. I know its large so Sorry about that. I having problem with the popping of the leg. Any help would be appreciated Steve walk.mov

I love the blog. Keeps me inspired!

Wonderful Nancy. The AO render does look great. If needed I have a 20 machine render farm that needs a project. I know time is a problem. Steve

Wonderful! Steve

Holmes Even though I lost a huge amount of items in the water damage the worst was the hard drive crash. I have put off buying anything for myself (computer wise) for three years. I have bought small items here and there but no major purchase for a while. I tried three times to rebuild the machine in which the the hard drive crashed but after every rebuild something else crashed. I have a money paying gig that needs to be completed in Jan and well it was time for a new machine. It is totally devoted to animations and graphics. Steve

That is way to cool! And way above me! Steve

That is awesome Mark Steve

New computer in and did a comparison: Alienware Aurora Intel I7 960 quad core 3.2ghz 12 gig RAM 1366 Windows 7 64 AM v 16 beta 3 one frame rendered with hair and sss reflections and the works 55 sec / frame Old computer AMD 5000 DC OC 3.2ghz 4 gig of RAM 1066 Windows XP 64 AM v 16 beta 3 1:57 / frame WOW I can not get v 15j+ to load yet on new machine. Gives me a runtime error. Steve

I really like the look of the rendering. Very nice job Steve

After several days of recreating the model I have the Elliott character almost back to "pre-hard drive crash condition". I have to redo the hands and gloves tonight. After that I can start rigging again. Cupid characters will have to wait until after a trip to WDW starting saturday. Thanks for the encouragement! Steve

Thanks all. I have three servers and I was looking on one of the servers a few minutes ago. I found a folder that was a backup from March. So I restored and I have some more files to add. I wish I could get lucky and find more. I am looking on every machine I have in my network now to see if by chance I made a copy some where else. I did one thing tonight, boxed up a workstation that was supposed to save me time. I may open it later but for now I am taking my vengence on it (blaming an object for my lack of deligence to ensure the back ups were completing correctly). Makes me feel a little better. Steve

After finally getting back into things I have lost all files since the first of this year. I installed, what I thought to be a safety net, back up system. I started building a new machine (water damage) and when I pulled the files back they were corrupted. The drives in the back up raid system corrupted the files. I have bits and pieces I will be able to use, but needless to say hours, days, weeks and months have been lost. I will keep you posted. Most of the Cupid files I have masters before rigs were installed. Some of my Elliott files I can piece together but will take "several" evenings. Even someone who is an IT guy gets hit. This is twice this year. In January we have a water loss that affected the network and several computers, and now after installing "safeguards" I am hit again. Today I have order new back up drives. I have asked a friend who is a data recovery expert to look at the drives but after his initial inspection he does not have much hope. It may be awhile before I post any updates. Steve

Excellent! Very Nice Steve

I love it! Steve

Excellent! How did you do the brick? Steve

I found safety glasses ranged from black to clear and from dark to light lenses osha approved. Steve

Finally got the safety glasses on. Not sure but I may not keep them Steve

Very Nice David! I am thinking the same thing Steve

Mark I thought I had it at the highest settings / best quality. I am unfortunately out of my house as the final coat of poly was put on the wood floors today. Should be back home by Wednesday and I will check. Thanks for thinking of that Steve