[Video captions]

Does anyone know if there is any present or planned future support for overlaying text captions onto movies as they are rendered? If not, what would be the easiest way to do this?

[BMW Z4]

Here's some wireframes :

 

 

I probably won't have time to work on it much today... way too much english homework to do.

 

BTW - My rotos are getting scaled WAY down in quality by A:M - as you can see, they appear very blocky and pixelated. When I render the viewport, however, they appear smooth as the original images. Any ideas? I tried several video drivers from v28-v52 (geforce 4 ti 4400), but nothing keeps them at a high resolution. I even tried scaling up the images themselves, then re-loading them into A:M, but that didn't work. I'm not sure how long this has been happening, but I notice it in A:M v 8.5 all the way to 9.0 (which I'm currently using)

[BMW Z4]

Hullo

 

I've been modelling a BMW Z4. The front is almost done. I'm rather excited because this is the first time I've been able to actually model something that looks like it is supposed to!

**creases in the middle because its just a copy/flip job

 

 

(Im using the Rooftop Mayhem scene because i like the lighting and i'm lazy.)

(ignore the stuff inside the headlight hole)

 

Here's a reference picture i'm using:

 

 

Any comments?

[Anyone remember this guy...?]

The only purpose to me building this is to gain experience. I'm very new to hash, and I find modelling to be very difficult still. I probably spent 2-3 hours on those yellow kneecap things.

 

"is there more to it" - well obviously its only half of the model. I'm still hung up on the head, trying to neatly direct splines into the spike things.

 

I like the hand best myself - up close it looks neat. I can hardly believe that I made it.

 

I'll do some more tomorrow...it's kinda late and I still have to do all of my english homework... English bites...BTW, Where can I get chapter summaries of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"....

 

Just kidding.

[Anyone remember this guy...?]

When I was 8-11 years old, I used to purchase Sonic the Hedgehog comic books every month. I picked one of them up recently, and realized that even though 99% of the comic was extremely dorky, there was one character that stood out.

In a certain issue, Sonic was Mechanized by the evil Doctor Robotnik, and this new Mecha-Sonic actually looked pretty badass.

 

Has anyone else seen this guy? I decided to start building him, but I'm having troubles with his head - those strange big pokey things on the back are inconsistent in almost every frame, yet they seem to have some order to them. I can't quite figure them out.

 

Here's what I got so far:

 

 

 

Its got no textures or anything, but I think that yellow thing on the arm needs some mechanical-looking rectangle bumpmapping.

 

What do y'all think?