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I just assigned a bone to the whole prop, then rotated it once in an action
In the chor, I applied that and adjusted its speed and # repeats to fit the
the loop...
Thanks James,
I'll try that. I also just watched the tutorial on walk cycles and wheels. It looks like I might also be able to animate the propeller as a wheel (Euler limits). I'll try both, but your way sounds easier. Thanks.
Bruce
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James/Bruce,
Fine job! If you get a little extra time make sure you try an animation of the plane on a path to really make the creation of that plane worthwhile. Nothing like seeing your plane fly for this exercise.
Will do, Rodney. As soon as I figure out how to make the prop spin.
Bruce
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Name: Bruce Winn
Date: 7/27/06
Exercises completed: 10
Here is exercise 10.
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Name: Bruce Winn
Date completed: July 24, 06
Exercises completed 9
Here's exercise 9. I agree that those tutorials are really helpful. In every exercise there's something in the book that I just don't get, and the tutorial makes it clearer. This time it was the duplicator wizard.
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Thanks Rodney,
I see what you mean about the dent.
Bruce
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Name: Bruce Winn
Date Completed: July 23, 06
Exercises completed: 8
Here is exercise 8.
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Name: Bruce Winn
Date: July 23, 2006
Exercises completed: 7
Here is exercise 7. "I've Got A Secret"
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Good luck with the dictionary, Teresa. I'm going to make a handwritten note about that button in my "Art of Animation Master" book, or I know I will end up asking the same question again in a few months or so. (My memory could definitely use an upgrade.)
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Thanks a lot. That was it.
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I'm working on exercise 7 in the "Art of Animation Master", and I'm having a little trouble. When I open the dopesheet in the new action, it appears in the project workspace, but not in the timeline. In the manual and in the video tutorial, the words can be moved around in the timeline. I can only do that in the project workspace. Is this a difference between PCs and Macs? I've included a screenshot of what I'm seeing. Thanks.
Bruce
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Thanks, Rodney and Teresa,
On to exercise 7.
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Name: Bruce Winn
Exercises Completed: 6
Date Completed: July 8, 06
This one was a lot more difficult than the others. I think it will take a while before I feel comfortable with constraints.
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Thanks, Dhar.
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I'm trying to understand the effects of using different render settings and codecs and found this suggestion in an archived discussion.
DON'T choose your codec right in animation master. Render to .tga files (or if you want to go direct to an animation file use the huffyuv lossless codec) and get the animation on your hard drive in as high a quality as possible. THEN you can go expiriment with codecs all you want withouth having to re-render. Load the animation in A:M's image folder, right click, and save the movie as, which will let you re-compress into whatever.Can someone tell me what "load the animation in A:M's image folder" means. Is this something I do from within AM, or am I supposed to move the tga folder into one of AM's folders? The closest folder I see to an image folder is one called ImageIOS, but I doubt that's what I'm looking for.
Thanks.
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Looks really good, Jason. I like what you did with the lights.
Bruce
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Name: Bruce Winn
Exercises completed: 5
Date completed: July 6, 06
Here's a link to my Exercise 5 file. He's walking a little fast, but he had a lot of distance to cover. The file would have been even bigger if I had slowed him down more (I think). He's rendered in "shaded" rather than "final".
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Hi everyone,
My name is Bruce Winn and I'm busily working my way through The Art of Animation Master. I'm an editor during the day, and AM gives me an escape after work. I can't say I have a knack for it, but I can say I have fun with it. I'm really impressed with how helpful everyone here is. These forums are one of the big plusses of AM.
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Name: Bruce Winn
Exercises Completed: 4
Date Completed: July 4, 06
Comments: I am still having trouble keeping the file size down to 1MB. I'll keep experimenting with the render settings. Thanks for the help everybody.
I'm really enjoying seeing everyone elses projects.
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Thanks, Leo.
The original choreography is 2 seconds longer than what I uploaded. The pause you see at the end of the uploaded version was actually a pause for effect before Shaggy waved to the audience (You can see that he has come out of the "cancan" action and dropped his hands). I cut off the last couple of seconds (the wave) to make the file size smaller.
A still earlier version had "Eddie" sneak in behind the dancers, wave to the crowd, and then do a dramatic death scene (all from library actions). The dancers kept dancing, oblivious to Eddie's antics behind them. That was way too big a file size, but it made me laugh.
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Oops. I didn't realize I was supposed to pose the rabbit in the three poses shown on page 34. I submitted only the one on page 37. I'll get on it today. I'm enjoying this.
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Name: Bruce Winn
Exercises Completed: 3
Date Completed: July 3, 2006
Instructor:
Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: The little guy is supposed to have his fingers crossed behind his back while he is being scolded by adult rabbit. I think in an animation the camera could move through a place that makes it more obvious.
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Name: Bruce Winn
Exercises Completed: 2
Date Completed: July 3, 2006
Instructor:
Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: I had to play with the rendering parameters to get this under 1MB, but I guess I learned a bunch in the process.
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Name: Bruce Winn
Exercises Completed: 1
Date Completed: July 3, 06
Instructor:
Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: I have had this software sitting on a shelf for longer than I care to admit, but now I have to try to get up to speed. This seems like a great way to start. I don't know why I used toon rendering. I thought I'd try it. Thanks for doing this, Rodney.
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Exercise 10: FW-190 Fighter
in TaoA:M and the A:M Technical Reference
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Hi Rodney,
Sorry for the lapse. Life got in the way. Your last suggestion to me was to try putting the plane in a choreography, so here it is. I'll try to get back in the routine again.
Bruce
http://www.thebeatnews.org/flight.mov