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I'm in the process of turning my organization's hundreds of books and other products into 3D models for easier implementation into PowerPoint slide designs and possible animations. I created a basic DVD case model (just using the cube from the library) and now I need the product cover. I have a targa of the DVD's insert, but how do I place it on the product to wrap around the front, left side, and back (just like an case insert would)? The same principle will apple to books.
Do I really have to decal each angle?
Thanks!
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AWESOME! These are the kinds of pictures that I'd use as desktop wallpapers.
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He seems very simple but yet quite unique. Looks like you've got a good character in the developments.
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Sounds like your memory could be the problem; either your physical RAM or your system's virtual memory. I often experienced crashes with test renders from my "March of the Rubber Duckies" until I maxed-out the VM. If you have the hard drive space, try setting the minimum to 2,048 MB and max to 4,096 MB. If you have multiple 7200 RPM HDs, do this for each drive; restart your computer and try it again.
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Just so everyone knows, I now have "March of the Rubber Duckies" on A:M Films.
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I need a good coral texture for a project I'm working on. I have Simboint:AM and Enhance:AM but I don't have the time to experiment for my texture.
In case you need to know, I want to texture the word "CORAL" with that texture and place on a background or use in other ways.
I need the opal texture because I just can't find any pictures to meet my needs for this project. I need a picture of artificial coral to illustrate that it doesn't take millions of years to form as previously thought. All the pictures I do have are old film and low quality. I was thinking that I could maybe accomplish the same thing with 3D. Artificial opal is usually solid opal rather than natural opal's mixture with other sediment.
Thanks!
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Oh man! This probably would have made "March of the Rubber Duckies" much more fun!
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Don,
What kind of class are you teaching? How do you plan to use the models?
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Keyboard shortcut for progressive render is shift-Q-click in the window.
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Pretty good. One thought: I expect the spider to have at least some motion while hanging in the air, but since you're planning a title to show there, it's probably not a big deal.
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A lot of noise, but still some good lighting.
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You're viewing the model in realtime render mode. Render out to file or preview-render the view to see the textures. A:M would crawl if it displayed all textures realtime.
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Good job! I'd also like to see you animate him. Maybe find one of his speeches and do completely opposite expressions to his attitude. Or just take multiple speeches and you'd have a great back-and-forth debate between just one person.
Any plans to do other "famous" people?
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A trilobite?! When you get that completed, please let me know because I am interested in any "pre-historic" models (even though there is no such thing as "pre-historic").
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So here I am, strongly considering spending $1,000 later this year or next to upgrade to dual AMD CPUs with 3 gigs of PC3200 RAM. Are you saying I'd be better to not get dual CPUs? I know Athlon MPs cost more than XPs, but I also found an article somewhere that gave a simple "hack" to make XPs act like MPs with just a slight performance loss.
MAN! And one of the main reaons I bought XP Pro to replace my XP Home was for dual-CPU support.
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Hash Forums really need a "quick reply" option like phpBB and numerous other community web software. This would be a small reply area at the bottom of the thread window that allows one to quickly type a reply and post it without going into another reply page. This quick reply area is very basic in features—it doesn't have all the smilies, guided mode, or normal mode buttons. An accomplished php-poster could easily type out a reply with their php code, and beginner users can quickly post a simple reply.
I'm sure there are hacks/mods for Invision Power Board to do this.
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Does this work with environment maps too?
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Nice! Looks pretty good! Adding some bubbles to the inside would make it look more like a carbonated drink.
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WOW! That's awesome!
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"Gratis use permission" is a free license strictly for non-profits with a tax-exempt number. I request this form of license since I do these videos for my church and I don't get paid.
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For the Animaster posts, just go to the archive and search for "DO YA Love ANIMATION MASTER?" in the subject.
The two Christian companies to which I was referring are just considering options. Majesty Music and Ken Ham's Answers in Genesis (AiG). I know AiG already uses A:M on some small projects. In fact, some made it into a recently release multimedia product called Tools for Teaching and are already used by several AiG international speakers.
What Christian organizations were you thinking of?
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Oh, wow! I didn't get all of these forum-only replies! Let me try to answer all the questions.
First, thank you very much for the compliments!
Music: The music is "The Chickens are Revolting" from John Powell & Harry Gregson-Williams' Chicken Run soundtrack. Because the animation is for my church and I'm not getting paid for this, I am covered under "gratis use permission" of the music. However, considering this piece's great success and review, I'd like to use it to promote D.Joseph Design, enter in contests, and list on my website as more than just a "personal project." For that, I'm applying for commercial license of the music.
There are 1,914 rubber duckies in the animation. These are not simulated with special trick-videography, and they aren't calculated by a flock. All 1,914 rubber duckies are "individually animated" meaning each one exists in the choreography as an individual model-copy with it's own action. I can select and ducky and do whatever I want with it. The choreography file is 5 MB uncompressed and contains nearly 90,000 lines of code. Unless I'm wrong, I believe I hold the record for the most individually animated models in a single choreography.
Combined total for render time was 1,100 hours rendered by Mike Ulrich with RenderMuscle. Half of that time is re-rendering an eight-second section at 9x multipass where single-pass motion-blur just didn't cut the peanut butter.
This took about 300 hours to model, animate, test, time, compile, and place.
Are the duckies symbolic of anything? No. It was just a crazy idea my father and I had after getting sugar-high from ice cream and watching a movie with my mother(sorry, I can't remember the movie).
I am rather pleased with the camera movement. There are a couple flaws, but you wouldn't catch them unless I point them out to you.
Concerning the squeak. I decided against the constant squeak because it just got so annoying after much longer than I already had. Fading out just didn't seem to work because the duckies were still right there.
BTW, that Camera2 scene at ground-level with the marching sound was inspired by old World War II movies that showed marching troops' feet down the ranks.
Last year's opening animation? That was my first A:M project! This is my seventh animation. That's including little title sequences I did for last year's video.
So what's next? Sleep. After that, I'm working on some fun ideas that involve less than 20 models.
I'm working on a thorough document on how I did the animation. If for no other good, at least it gives me something else to put on my website.
As of 11:53 PM EST, Thursday, February 5, I have had 596 unique visitors to my website, and over 3.4 gigs transferred since I announced the animation Thursday morning, January 29. Half of those numbers were the first two days after announcing the animation just to some friends and the Animaster Mailing List.
Anything I missed?
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Actually, there have been several replies, but they seem to only show in the Animaster Mailing List. Below is my reply.
My big question in the scope of all this is render quality? I would love to see an example of work done in HASH that rivals the render qualities that I see some feature films out there. I've got to be completely honest about this. I haven't seen that.You haven't seen Dusan's "Perk" character. While I dislike the animation and the character itself, it is one of the best characters I have ever seen from A:M. Just look at the texture quality! Consider Anzovin Studios' animations. The quality exceeds that of Pixar's first Toy Story.
I know two Christian organizations considering an animated series for families and children. A:M is near the top in considerations for CG.
Maybe Hash should better arrange the gallery content so all the professional productions and eye candy are featured on the homepage and throughout the website. Let the "second-rate" animations (like my own) have their own galleries. This could also help visitors see, "This is what AMATUERS did!" and even better, "Wow! Here is what the pros did!"
Faithfully,
Daniel J. Lewis
President, D.Joseph Design
www.DJosephDesign.com
Decal Help?
in (2003-2004)
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But I want to cover three of the six sides. I assume the application method works great for decals smaller than the model. What about decals larger than the model that have bleed off to cover the entire three sides but not stretch onto the other sides? This would be like a book that has print on three sides (front, back, and left), and just pages (which would be another decal) on the other three sides (top, bottom, and right).
I thought of creating the model to be an actual DVD case or book in its ability to open, but that adds a level of complexity I do not yet wish to approach.