Roger

Neat! How long did it take you to do a credible version of a certain nuclear plant worker?

Looks cool, can't wait to see it!

Congrats to the winners! Rob, thanks for taking the time to run these contests.

Sage advice indeed I will follow that with a man BBQing on a jet board. Stay safe guys!

Nobody puts OneDrive in a corner, except maybe you:

Oh I'm sure there is a really a good reason not to do it. I'll try and find out what that is.

It was interesting to see the complex facial rig they had for their demo model. I'm sure you could do something similar in AM, but it looked a bit daunting.

Sorry for the late notice but there is a webinar that Animation Mentor is running today at 2pm ET on rigging: Animation Webinar Sign Up | Animation Mentor FREE!! You just need to register.

Welcome back!

OK, that's kinda what I thought. Thank you for confirming. Only v15 and later use the subscription system. The subscription won't activate anything earlier than that. For the v5-v14 era you need a serial number (found on a registration card) to install and the A:M CD to run.

OK, so you could still download v6 if you wanted to, but anything prior to that is potentially a pain in the butt. Would you be able to use something as old as v6 using a current subscription you bought, or would you have to have your serial number from way back when? It's sounding like the oldest practical version someone can access, and run via their current license, is v15.

So I had an interesting question from someone that has an interest in CG and used the program back in the Journeyman days. He's interested in exploring prior versions of AM. I told him that previous versions are available, provided you have an active license, although I wasn't sure how far back the archived versions go and he would definitely be using the really old versions without formal support. Assuming you wanted to use Version 3 or 4 or 5, can you go back that far? Or are we limited to say, v12 as the oldest version that can still be downloaded?

My thoughts: 1) If you don't try, you'll never know. If trying isn't going to financially ruin you, then there's no reason not to try. 2) There seems to be an insatiable demand for actual quality children's content. I don't think you can go wrong going after that market. 3) AI throws a wrinkle into things, but the things that I've seen done with AI all seem to have a very similar look. Either they have that hyper-realistic look (think of those alternate imaginings of movies set in different time periods that you see on YouTube, like a 1950s Star Wars on Cinemascope, that kind of thing) or they have a more cartoon-like Pixar sort of look. But I don't think you'll ever see anything *truly* unique out of AI, since it can only produce things that look like what it has been trained on. My gut instinct is that outside of certain narrow use-cases, it won't be the panacea everyone is making it out to be. That said, I could easily be wrong, the type of stuff that AI was producing just 3 years ago was fairly laughable, compared to what you're seeing now. But I still don't think it will be able to come up with anything truly unique. 4) As far as publishing your work, YouTube might be the best way to go as there is a pretty big kid's market there. However, in order to get promoted by the algorithm you'll need to produce shorts on a weekly basis, which is a pretty tall order.

Interesting, thanks for posting this.

Love the Mad Hatter, rabbit and walrus...I wonder what a horde of walruses in Quake would look like?