fredfrid

Need some help with the rigging. Here is the bird with bones. Perhaps the bones can be placed better? And which constraints to use? The wings how to? You are welcome to rig the bird! [attachmentid=14056]

Hope you will have a look on my BlackBird, nixie. Perhaps you can do something to the rigging? I am a man of one name .-. not many...

A BlackBird - You are free to use it - if you like to! Perhaps adding some better sounds to it. You are welcome to download birdmodel01.zip to help me with the rigging. [attachmentid=14035] [attachmentid=14036] [attachmentid=14037] birdmodel01.zip bird01.mov

Thanks for the tips! Only moving the lower beak - that is realism. I think it is nicer have the parrot move it´s upper beak. Perhaps not realism - but it is more expressive to have it move the upper beak - I believe!

I asked SeanC. for examples. Perhaps 3DArtZ and Paul Forwood also want to discuss on the topic - having some examples of animation you like. Perhaps something from AM Films? Animation as a language. That is the topic. So let us stick to the topic. Pro example - Is there some rules you have to stick to animating? What is the first rule? I believe it is dialectics!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic

Thanks for a nice reply! It is easier to understand if you have some example you like. Some example on AM Films? If you can touch the kid in the grown-up? And the kids grown-up? If you understand what I am trying to say? Perhaps you have some example you like?

Mr Strohbehn or what´s your name - I am namned fredfrid - try to remember it. KenH - thanks for a nice comment! PS This topic is about language - animation is also kind of language. Let us discuss the language of animation. I want to do it siimple and fast. I believe if we want to have more ones working with Animation Master we have to learn how to do it simple and fast. The clever ones do it a bit more complicated - I appreciate that too! Still I believe you can use a simple parrot to tell something - make someone think and feel!

Parrot: -Hallo [attachmentid=14016] [attachmentid=14017] Parrot: -Hallo again [attachmentid=14018] [attachmentid=14019] Parrot: -Comments? [attachmentid=14020] Parrot: -Comments? [attachmentid=14021] Parrot: -Comments! Nice ones most appreciated! [attachmentid=14022] [attachmentid=14023] Parrot: -To be or not to be [attachmentid=14024] [attachmentid=14025] Simple - Yes! but less is more and small is beautiful - hoping on some good response - some nice comments! parrot01.mov parrot02.mov parrot03.mov parrot03.mov parrot04.mov parrot05.mov

ConMyGratulations! to the interview but sorry to say I get TimeOut trying to read it: http://www.3dvalley.com/interviews/robert.shtml Perhaps you can publish it here?

Parrot: -Parrot [attachmentid=14012] [attachmentid=14013] Simple - Yes! but less is more and small is beautiful - hoping on some good response - some nice comments! To give you a clue: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subj...a&ci=0199279403 Humans never run out of things to say. We explain, we cajole, we gossip, and we flirt--all with the help of language. But how in the space of several million years did we evolve from an ordinary primate that that could not talk to the strange human primate that can't shut up? Everyone of us have got some ideas - illusions? - we have to express. We believe in something - parrots do not belive in something - I believe - they just repeat. Sure parrots have some beliefs but they cannot communicate their believs. They cannot make the connection between sound and belief/concept. They cannot use sounds as signs. Most people here and now have got their beliefs from some massmedia - from a specific culture. What to believe in? If we want to have peace and prosperity we have to look through those mediabeliefs. In Science you have to have a theory - a belief - and you have to prove it a bit and it cannot be disproven to be told to be true. Science is it just a word for trying to tell the truth - but not doing it? What has this to do with animation? In the world of animation you are totaly free! Or? You have got some animation concepts you try to use. Where have you got those concepts from? What do they express? What do they conceal? What is truth in animation? Or are you just trying to figure out your audience beliefs trying to make them satisfied? A friend to me gave me an advice: I always do what I belive in - there are always the once understanding and appreciating my work so I do not speculate about others beliefs - I do what I do.. I believe everyone is interested in this subject - the truth - but for sure it is hard to get at it - so many just want to stay in their beliefs - that is my belief - trying not to stay in it - staying in it.. Simple - Yes! but less is more and small is beautiful - hoping on some good response - some nice comments! parrot09.mov

Parrot: -Peggy [attachmentid=13983] [attachmentid=13984] parrot07.mov

The parrot saying money, money, money - perhaps it has something to tell - worth listening to?

Parrot: -Money, money, money [attachmentid=13978] [attachmentid=13979] [attachmentid=13982] parrot08.mov

Thanks for your tips - try to remember it for the next one...

Parrot: -What´s your handicap? [attachmentid=13968] [attachmentid=13969] parrot06.mov

Parrot: -To be or not to be [attachmentid=13945] [attachmentid=13946] parrot05.mov

The hinge on the bottom - I will try to remember that. Thanks!

More Comments! [attachmentid=13940] [attachmentid=13941] parrot04.mov

Parrot: -Comments? [attachmentid=13936] [attachmentid=13937] parrot03.mov

Parrot hello again! [attachmentid=13908] [attachmentid=13909] parrot02.mov

Parrot: -Hello, hello, hello! [attachmentid=13905] [attachmentid=13906] parrot01.mov

A parrot. [attachmentid=13901]