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Nicely done video, Rob. Congratulations to Mark, Matt, and Bruce. Mark I will be sending you a photo for my caricature prize. Maybe I could have you do one of my fuzzy dog.

I got a Chick Tract once.

Candy corn is pretty horrible. Also Necco wafers. And black licorice.

Any luck finding those renders? We are officially in October now. Anyhow, looking forward to seeing everyone's stuff.

And one of the Hash people was a parrot keeper, i recall. Jeff Paries, I think. I remember the parrot featured in one or more Martin's Minutes posts.

African Grey is a type of parrot. I think that may be what the color is referring to.

Yep, that's something I will never un-see LOL.

That seems like that would be impossible to do without some very expensive engineering, or materials that we don't currently have. Also....there are trombone forums?

Is it Weasel Stomping Day already? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76IGLi6jWI

Clever. I always like seeing the "behind the scenes" stuff.

Did we do robots already? Robots could be cool.

Looking very good Rob. Nice work.

Is the Loosh creature your character? If so, he's interesting.

Do you have a way to make square cuts? This will be critical for a functional piece of furniture. If you don't have a circular saw, you may want to rent/borrow one. I don't think I'd want to try cutting plywood with a handsaw or even electric jigsaw, you could cut it quickly enough with an electric jigsaw but it would be difficult to get a perfectly straight edge.

Oh I realize I am unlikely to make money off YouTube with my videos, for just the reasons you listed. I'd probably have better luck if I had had a camera running the time my dog came running at the couch and tried to jump on it and bounced off the front. I'm doing what I'm doing more for self-actualization at this point than any other reason.

Hello to you Martin! Glad you are back. I've been here off and on, I was either really busy with work or had something else going on during the TWO days because I honestly had no clue that Robert was the voice of the Scarecrow until just the other day. But I've been working on my film off and on. However as I've now reached "man of a certain age" status, I need to get more serious and actually finish this thing. Hard to believe I am 42. I was even going to do a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy themed b-day blowout with a few close friends, since I did nothing for the big 4-0 but did not get round to it due to other things coming up. PM me if you're interested in hearing what is funding my film-making aspirations, and the adventures (or misadventures, more accurately) surrounding said source of funds.

That reminds of the stories about DC Comics noticing in the 50s or 60s that issues with gorillas on the cover sold better, which led to tons and tons of gorilla covers. :-) 40K is a large number, so I'd agree that at some point it must have gone "mini-viral." I got excited about my view numbers last year (significantly less than 40K) until I noticed that a cat video that had only been up for an hour was in the 100Ks. It makes it frustrating when you realize that the effort-to-views ratio is greatly skewed against animation. But really, it's cool to know that you've made something that even a few people have enjoyed. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to start working on a project with a gorilla in it. :-) Hey man at least you have more than I do, I have a whopping 56 views for my Christmas card I did (most of those being people that are related to me somehow).

Martin, Very glad to have you back. Sorry to hear that things were so difficult. I guess I don't see what they had to gain by trashing AM? Although it also sounds like others were trying to pass your work off as theirs? BTW I bought the Kindle version of your book on Amazon, it was an interesting read. Anyway, good to see you around again. Still slogging away on my project, which reminds me I need to update my WIP thread.

Interesting. I've been thinking of exploring something like this for my film. I would probably go with animation on 2s for a smoother effect, though, this looks like you used 3s maybe?

Don't know how I've missed you in the years I've been a forum member, but welcome back!

Version 5 was my first "proper" version of AM after MH3D. Can't find the damn manual for love or money though. I imagine it will turn up when I'm looking for something else.

So what's the earliest version of AM that you'd consider "modern AM"?

I've sent my availability to Rob in a pm, M-W-TR-F I can do 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm CST or I could do basically anytime between 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Saturday or 10:00 am and 3:00 pm on Sunday. Since it doesn't sound like mornings are likely to be good on weekdays I've modified my availability a bit.

I agree with you, but if you want all this stuff then you need to find some way to raise $1-$5 million to hand to Hash Inc. so that this stuff can be implemented. I believe that there is only one programmer working on AM at this point, and AM is very much in maintenance mode, although we do get some major new features from time to time. And this is not in any way a criticism of what is going on with AM, but when you only have one guy actively working on it, there are only so many features you can spend time on.

As someone who is running AM with 20 gig of RAM right now, I don't think there is any point at all in going past 32, and the sweet spot is probably between 8-16 gigabytes. Would AM use the extra RAM? Yes, but I think you'd be hard pressed to model a scene that would use that much data. If I recall correctly, the hash patches are much more frugal with resources than an equivalent model made of polygons would be. Rob, how large was the largest scene in TWO? As a feature length project, that might be a good yardstick for people wanting to "stress test" AM.