the_black_mage

well you've got to try....see if you can make your own. i do, even if it turns out bad of average. you always get better.

well in the ot section of the forums, i was introduced to cgsphere.com.so, i thought that i would start on mine imediatly, so i did. i chose to do somthing with the earth, then there was an ant jeet man had made and i knew what i was going to do. i made an A:M verstion of the required sphere set up, and started with a dirt material(turned out nicly). then added some grass(im still working on it), then added a rock(witch needs dirt on it), after that i added some ants. what i plann on doing is haveing and ant under the sphere trying to carry it. be up to seeing the update soon!!!

yeah, i loved the movie too. soon i'm try some thing similar but much diffrent. hope this helped in some way.

lol nice punch, but if you wanna see painful punches check this out... Tiffas battle or even this if you ever plan on using objects cloud vs sephiroth

i fell like the dog walking should be a little looser... maybe the tail needs to wag. nice animation but...wheres he ball...i got it!!! you could use newton physics on the ball when the dog nudges it.

you need to peak it, select the spline you want and click the peak icon to the right, theres one curved and one like a triangle.

true true...but its better than having to squench to see every thing...try diffrent gradients...just make shure that all the chacters are visible, the back ground you can care less. if you focused on the action(witch it seems you are) then have the background look as if it a dark glomy cave. btw, i noticed in you running animation that the shots keep going throught the leg...are you planning on useing cloth? another btw great work on that vid, i like the camera angle. the runing is cool to you just gotta work on the characters smart skinning some more,

well heers a run cycle for a project i'm doing...its a dalmation running, that should help. p.s. I WANNA SEE IT IN FUR!!!! i've been wanting to model my puppy but i don't have a digital camera so i can take pictures.

you need to put all the models in to it as well, goto www.box.net upload it there in a .zip file and link it...ok. btw heres an example gradient that im using. [attachmentid=22309] put it in the gradient file in the A:M main file. also its not the light intesity that counts its the type fo light. me, i always use a klieg light with z-bufferd shadows, it also wise to have the light shadow dark ness under 40%,depending on what mood you want. also cheak out this post i did a while ago http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24228 soft_anime.zip

light intensity dosn't effect a toon shaded character, its the gradient that matters. show an image of what the gradient looks like.

yeah there right the gradient you used is far to dark, if your going for a night scene mabe you should have mage the gradient a mid-darkblue color. and btw the bat goes throught the hat. great recreation of him.....i never beat that game......

when i first read this it sounded to me like you have all the splines locked....

as a quick verstion of my description, it simulates real light, as in light bouncing off the the objects in the scean. but theres more to it than that

no, i was saying that you can't use more than 1 light on a toon shaded model, the other lights will have no effect. plus light colors don't effect a toon shaded model eather, its all in the gradient(this is kinda off topic).

nice better than my first!!!! but then again i made my first model befor i read the manual and every thing....it was an apple made of 3 diffrent models, one for the apple, on for the leaf, and one for the stem....i didn't know what groups were.

there should be a plugin for that.

wait a minute,...what?

well, what i do is i just jot down letters to see what kinda of name i get , if i like it i stick with it. and case for the verstion i have mutiple lights don't effect toon shaded characters. only one light will have effect.

no hes not mean, he just looks it. he actualy a good fun loving guy. and always ?????, i didn't tell you(thought i did). any way it looks great, but still needs to look more like the drawing. also, wanna come up with a name for him?

nice, you draw noses better than i do! i'm real good ith drawing females and outfits if you need help with the body pm me.

yeah i dicovered you could move it in bone mode a while later, also this works very well when your making a city!

i discoved somthing so cool, you can put lights in the modeling window!!!!! i shacke when i did it and did another test to see if the light in the modeling window would effect in the choeography, and i dose!!!!! i know how to have specific lighting on a model in an animation. thats exactly what they do in the show jimmy nutron, no mater where they are there is always 3-point lightin on the chatacter. man this is so cool!!!! all you have to do is rightclick ( import-> lights ), then all you have to do is possition the light useing the poperties(you can't do it any other way)

heres one of the newer characters in the story, hes the dominion of shadows. but don't worry hes a good guy :wink: , got nothing more to do but waste time, he actualy has hardly anything to do since the shadows work baisicly by them selves O.o . so, hes sent to keep an eye on aaron. hes also known as the shadow elementalist due to the people that have seen him. the grin on his face isn't a sinister grin too, hes just happy . but being the dominion of shadows and having showdows effect him more then a regular person its hard to seem happy with out looking soo....scary . his full body picture will be posted soon. Meet Revo

i think the kid could have some kinda logo on his shirt, other than that they look great!

i currently don't have any props yet, i'm will drawing up some of the cities and sceanery. but when i have some i'll be shure to pm you the rest of the story will be posted later edit: actualy if you want you can model that sword, but i'l need to explain some things about it first. for instance aaron holds it in his mouth so the shape of the handle isn't exactly round. i'll talk to you later.