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Thanks David!!!! I will check in the face rig tutorial. I have applied the pose slider on the eyelids but the slider has the lids going way past the meeting of the lower lid. So I tried to adjust the slider in edit relationship and I could not get them to work. So do open the relationship and then go to muscle mode and adjust the eyelids? Steve

Vern your idea worked and I can render the animation and the frames. Hoever I can not see the video in realtime so that i can animate to it. What I am trying to do is have a animation playing and have my character move to the animation. the video is a handwriting on a paper. I want my character who is a pencil to follow the scritping. Do I need to put in a rotoscope of the video and then make it as a decal? Steve

In the face rig what are the bones in the lip area that are tied to the lip geometry? I am trying to get all the lip movement with sliders. Steve

I am working on a scene that I want a video playing on a screen inside the animation. I have tried to import the mov file and assign it to the page but it will only show the first frame of the video and the image is flipped and and there a four images pasted on the screen. Any thoughts? Steve

David I think you are right. AfterYou helped with the rig on my character, I have removed and started over at least three times that I know and care to remember. But Mark's suggestion about Thom was a big one. I have learned more from him in how and whys of the setup. Now to get things smooth movement. Steve

David Something happened last night. The techtalk by Bob Croucher was excellent advice. I had watch a tut on weighting but thought the process of weighting was going to be so hard that was more inclined to try to smart skin. Now i have three joints moving smoothly and working on the fourth. I will u/l video of the movement tomorrow. Steve

Hi Steve I really have made life difficult for myself. Jumping ahead then having to go back and start over and then I jump ahead. This rig helped me get the hands smoothed out. Now if I can get teh face and arms I'll be in business Steve

David I am so thankful for all that you have done. It is just me, as I am must have a roadblock or something. It is just not sinking in like I had hoped. Keep up the good work Steve

Hi Mark Thanks man I have been going nuts with this. Steve

Hi Mark The installation version? I have d/l all the tutorials is there something else I missed? Steve

Does any one have a squetch rigged character they are willing for some one like me to look at? I am struggling with the installation and weighting of the cps. Not to mention the assigning of the cp to the bones as well. I have two characters I need to get rigged and would really like to use the squetch rig on them as well. I have pestered David to death already. Steve

David After installing the rig, none of the eye movements, lips etc. so I thought the assign bones did not work for the installation. I thought I would have to reassign cp to the bones, however, after installing the rig I can no longer find the bones to assign cp to. Help Steve edit I found the bones finally. But the sliders are not moving the bones. Do I need to edit the relationships? Steve

I am impressed. I have wanted to model a container ship and with what you have accomplised so far You have motivated me to pull out the plans for my ship. Keep up the excellent work! Steve

I am embarrassed to say that I have a few models that have never come to life due to the fact that I am afraid of the rigging process. I have two characters I would love to complete but felt I could not do them justice in the rigging. So any help would be appreciated. Steve

Rodney I think that would be wonderful. I am still having problems with rigging. Steve

Thanks for the suggestion about the hands as I have increased them from 1.5 to around 2.5 times normal and it looks a lot better. We have been shooting a video since first of March in front of a 40 x 20 green screen. Our live action will be completed June 21 at least that is what the schedule states. The video is a children's video and the characters I posted are some of the important ones as they will be interacting with the main character. The web site has been built and I am not sure if it has been turned on yet. www.papafix-it.com. Each one of the videos will be based on "how tos" for children. The first one is "Becca and the Fence". It is the story of Papa (granfather) teaching the children how to build a fence along with his helpers toolbox, pencil and the other animated charcaters. The target age for the children is 3-6 year. This has been a real challenge as we have had to shoot our video with the understanding that every shot will have some animation in it. Either as a background moving or a small animated character interacting with the children or papa. Most of the back grounds will be props and not much interplay with it, except for the large animated tree and fencing. Working with kids in the age of 4-12 has been tough. Even though I have a 3 year old it has been difficult in getting them in position and lines ready and then filming then in front of a green screen and acting with a animated character that is not even there. Our hope is by the third video all characters will be animated, we have propsed this as the children change som much in just 2.5 months of shooting. Steve

I have not posted anything in a while. We have been working on the video and the modeling and animation have now started. Here is one of the characters in the video. Steve I have already increased the size of the hands. And here is one of the other characters as well

I am working on a project and decided to create an object in Version 13 beta one. I have created a face and began to work on the mouth portion of the character. I tried to extrude the inner lip and then scale. The extrusion will only scale on one of the axis. If I create a extrsuion outside the character's face the extrusion and scaling will work correctly. Also, after I copy/flipped/attached the face, the mirror mode works only some of the time. I have sent a report on both but wanted to know if anyone had run into this or do I have a setting wrong after installing beta one Steve

Sounds like snap to grid is turned on. Under the options and I beleive modeling tab there is a check mark for snap to grid. Remove the check mark and you should be good to go Steve

I have started working on a new childrens video. I have the responsibility of putting the animation sequences together. I have created most fo the models but I am looking for a good example of a cow. Has anyone put a cow model together? I saw the one on the TWO project and it is wonderful but I need some guidelines or directions. Steve

Thanks Guys. I was working to late last night and nothing was working out Steve

Ok this should be an easy one. I am working on a children's video and I decided I would quickly add a animated pencil. I started working on this thing and I can not get rid of the crease around the mouth. I now this is basic stuff but no matter what I do I can not get rid of it. Its late I know but any help? Thanks Steve

Very nice model! Her face has really transformed! Steve

David Had to start over again. That is the beauty of saved copies on the network!! Anyway when I started and imported the model into the rig, the model changed to a yellow color even items that were textured! I then lost all control and I am starting over again. I will keep you up to date Steve

Very nice!! Excellent work! Steve