DeeJay

Cool.

My ultimate advice: buy a bling-bling mirror! Althoug your family might think you're addicted to cocain now it'll definitely improve your facial animation. Definitely. Cheers, David

Rusty, works fine! Thanks for all helpers here.

Looks good! Thanks, I'll try it ... David

Correct.

That's top secret! I just implemented a TSM spine for the Jimbo model (aka The Snake) but the head-movement needs to be boosted. That's what I'm looking for.

Ok, I'll clarify this. Take the picture below, the blue bone is "orient like"-constrained to the red one. To achieve this kind of acceleration its "orient like" must be higher than 100% (something like "take the orient like value and multiply this with 2"). Another way to get it is to constrain the red bone to the blue bone with 50% (and some help of another bone) but this becomes unhandy for me. Cheers, David

Hi! I'd like to constrain a bone with the "orient like" constrain to another bone but with more "enforcement" then 100%. Is it possible that a bone moves twice the speed (or anything higher than 100%) than it's "parent"? I bet it can be done with an expression, but that's a locked book for my brain ... Cheers, David

Greeeeat!

At the first look: Hey cool, great model!! But then, after a few seconds you get aware of the "unsmoothness" of the car body. Well, this is some side-effects of spline-modeling. Maybe it'll look smoother with porcelain? Anyway, I'd like to see you straighten the contours. If you do this: Perfect!! Good job, well done! Cheers, David

@Jim: You're cheating again!! :-D Her fingers doesn't intersect the staff anymore ...

Bravo!!! I'll stop working on B&J ...

The textures look supergreat!

@Nancy: It's just frame 506 of the animation. @KenH: Although I don't plan to change the final layout of B&J I'm eager to know what exactly do you mean with "more curves"? Some Popeye style? Or a smoother blending of hand and wrist (regarding the texture)?

You would grap your head in tremendous pain after loading these super-low-patchy props!

Atomike, I'll write down a little making of the next days if you like, but not today. Maybe tomorrow. In short: I use two grass-bitmaps for two hair-emitters, including some maps for length, density and direction. Cheers, David

Ken, the length is something I have to tweak, you're right. But it seems that the length-map I'm using is not so "tweaky" as I thought it would be. I'll check it. For dynamics and gras: I have to check rendertimes. Maybe I have to trick a little bit, don't know. Anyway, there'll be not so much interaction with the feed. /edit: Ups, killed the last picture with the new version ... :/

Next shot:

Dude, you're ... a loonatic!! Outstanding model, Stian!! Unbelievable.

So, the next test is ready to go. At the moment I'm building the setting for my short. There's still a loooong way to go, the szene is still missing background props (small hills, trees & stuff) an tweaking of the front things. Also the lighting is not final! So there's plenty to do right now. The main intention for this shot was to test the look of grass. It's some sort of "mass" right now and I'll give it more contrast in the future. Anyhow, here you go:

Great stuff so far! I'd like to see more of this, concept designs etc. Is it possible? Cheers, DJ

Great! Cheers, DJ

We need more infos about your person before we start telling you what we really think about this animation: - How old are you? - For how long are you fiddleing about A:M? Cheers, DJ

Jeeez!!! I just slipped over this thread, how could I missed it?! Fantastic model, can't wait to see more (especially with textures!) Cheers, David

Alright, as so many people got problems with this hand-moving, I'll change it. Thanks!