Roger

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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?

Ahhh the tongue sandwich...the only sandwich that can taste you back!

Jason, just want to say thanks for everything you do to help maintain the forum.

Wow...the nasal spray, phonebook and collection of bills look very photorealistic. If I didn't know I was looking at a CGI rendering, I might have a very had time catching that they are CG.

That might be the case if he has a lower end HD display that outputs a max of 720p, but if he has a 30" or larger 4k TV shouldn't it show text just as well as any 4k monitor? I mean, it might not be as good as some of the best Dell or Apple displays but seems like it would at least be legible. Or am I mistaken here?

Good job, Steve! I really like that character design.

Very creepy character, love it!

@Michael Brennan Very nice work on the character in the blue jumpsuit, he looks a bit like Jon Bernthal. The model below him is very well done, also.

AM has always been capable of doing the same quality of work, it just doesn't get the press. Sometimes I feel like we should make Rodney Dangerfield our honorary mascot.

Good point, forgot about VLC. I'll give that a try.

Hmmm Windows Media Player doesn't support the encoding you used for that .AVI file. Anything else I should try to view it?

I like the caterpillar. Is he morphing into a butterfly?

Wow! Very cool. I can remember seeing that box on display back in the late 90s at the local Best Buy

Thanks for sharing your work with us, it is always nice to see what other people are working on.

I wish I'd seen this when you first posted it, this is very cool.

Funny! Oddly enough, we had a very warm day today in my neck of the woods: it was 55 degrees.

Happy New Year, Rob! Happy New Year, everyone!! 🎉

Very cool watch. Sometimes when I see stuff like this, I wonder how far we are from a point where you can make your computer function exactly the way you want it to. Was your favorite environment something like 4DWM, OS/2 Warp or maybe Amiga OS? Just reskin your boring OS internals and away you go. Probably not terribly practical in reality, but it's interesting to think about.

BTW what is the name/handle of the streamer? Looks kinda like someone that is in the music space on YouTube.