Roger
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Very cool!
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Nobody puts OneDrive in a corner, except maybe you:
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2 hours ago, Tom said:
Your last comment is exactly my sentiment....
( " there must be some reason we don't want to do this " )
Trusting Microsoft is a big leap of faith...
Oh I'm sure there is a really a good reason not to do it. I'll try and find out what that is.
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1 hour ago, robcat2075 said:
I'll look for the replay. that's a subject I've been wishing they'd do!
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.
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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.
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"Ah look here come the Borg from Wolf 329. There goes the neighborhood..."
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Nice buildings, very art deco looking.
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The best part is when he says "I'm reading this ad copy under protest! Never have I seen such horrible writing!" (paraphrasing)
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Welcome back!
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Random bit of silliness:
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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.
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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?
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9 hours ago, robcat2075 said:
Here is what purports to be a frame from the upcoming Andy Serkis-led "Animal Farm".
I haven't read the book but I understand it is minimal in cheer.
Note the difference in treatment of the ears of the left and middle pigs. Both pigs are back-lit but the middle one has a very visible "SSS" in the ears. The piglets at the far right have it too.It could be as simple as an ambience map they turn on and off
You do have a knack for understatement on occasion. Yeah it is a pretty grim tale.
The SSS on the pig's ears looks neat, though.
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15 hours ago, Rodney said:
Robert and I were postulating this exact thing happening where behind the scenes real people supply results for ai.
This company burned through a lot of money doing just that kind of scam:
https://www.unilad.com/technology/news/ai-startup-actually-powered-by-people-975483-20250603
The short version:
AI startup valued at $1,500,000,000 collapses after it's found to actually be 700 engineers pretending to be bots
I mean... I'm kinda not surprised. Anytime there is as much money getting thrown at something as is being thrown at AI currently, you're going to have shenanigans.
The question is: how much of this type of fraud is going on?
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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.
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Interesting, thanks for posting this.
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Love the Mad Hatter, rabbit and walrus...I wonder what a horde of walruses in Quake would look like?
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Ahhh the tongue sandwich...the only sandwich that can taste you back!
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I can't imagine anyone buying this thing unless it was only a few hundred dollars.
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Jason, just want to say thanks for everything you do to help maintain the forum.
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3 hours ago, Xtaz said:
Video cards have long since ceased to be used for gaming, now the focus of production is on cryptocurrency mining and AI. Hence these extravagant prices.
I had hoped that with crypto mining no longer being practical on GPUs (at least for the big crypto currencies) that things might return to normal, but then along comes AI which uses the same cards. I've just accepted that I am probably going to die with whatever computers I am using now, I can't ever see myself spending that kind of money on a GPU, regardless of what I'm planning to use it for. Not to mention, most modern computing seems to be trending towards taking away your freedom of choice.
Half Of Hollywood’s Top 10 Most Profitable Films Last Year Were Animated
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Seems like a bit of a stretch to call Deadpool and Dune Part 2 animated movies. It would be more accurate to say that they are very heavy on the CG imagery.