the_black_mage

yes there are shadows just soft shadows, in real life shadows can be extremely soft.... if fact i'm looking at one now....

dude nice, looks like people are making tutorials left and right! even i was considering making some!

soooo, that means your better at A:M now and white devil will look better than ever!? and you have more of a team?

booleans normally don't add to render time.... how did it drop to 8mins?

dude thats awesome, i gonna do that right...(opens A:M)....now!

heres a tip; its called a sphere not a circle lol

right click the light click add constrint then click aim at...after that should be obvious...

Teach me your rendering ways...O.o(seriously)

the render time doesn't need to go down, its just fine, theres no way your gonna get render times down with out sacrificing quality. unless you want the video to suck then thats whats gonna have to go down. unless render times reach 20mins theres nothing to worry about...10mins is very good, accept it. and lighting isn't the only thing that cause render times. materials and texture play just as big a role in render times.

no that won't change a thing.....A:M renders only what the camera is seeing nothing more, unless your using radiosity....

dude were did you come from! sweet stuff! if theres anything i can say is that theres no fire coming from those missiles....and if it matters the sun behind the clouds should glow more...

try turning on the plugin shader "oren-nayar" that might help... but if you want the movie to look good and not like crap then render time goes up... but 10mins is very good to me, did you know that most professional movies take 6hours per frame!!! but after you add the toads it might go up to 13mins. its not bad, really. also i like how you added the glow.

wow man you rock! not offten i see that much detail(modeling wise), normally people take shortcuts. but you don't i admire that!

sorry i can't do'it now, i'm having some problems right now...in fact i might not be on for some time.....

treeez could help with it..... http://www.hash.com/Treeez/ what version do you have?

here it is! i just thought of something...do i need to model a mouth? Toad.zip

lol that would be funny man

so nuns is elliot in?

Here it is sofar....now the hard part...the hands.... btw does the jacket look ok?

i gotta tell you man...that is the best ear i have EVER seen lol.

ooh A:M paint nice, i'm sure nuns would be glad to have you! pm him....

i'll model a base of the toad, color and every thing else will be up to you guys.... reference image:

you've done it, you made me proud , see it wasn't that hard was it? yeah add some kinda stool on there, maybe just a stack of stools or something, what ever you think is best. you know....i toad would be an easy model....hmmmm....i might do a base model....then you guys do the rest if it speeds things up? hey tanner try a diffrent angle, make it so that people know the oil thing was the emphasis of the image. right now i does look like land scape....

what do the hair editor lines look like? did you increase the size of the wings in the model window?it looks like hair is the just ver small.... once i upgrade i'll be able to figure out things quicker....and there will be no version reformat problems...

taking that extra mile for detail i see...nice man, can't wait till you start rendering images!