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Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 7 - Can You Say That?
Date Completed: 21st Oct 2006
Things learned:
1. Sometimes it's better just to trash and start over again (and again...).
2. If you press the '1' key in the channels curve editor, you can move the key frame sideways - oh joy!
A:M is just fantastic.
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3d ArtZ Website (Mike FitzGerald(?)) has a free .tga to QT .mov conversion program, called Image2Movie.
I like rendering to tga to experiment with filters etc in Photoshop, then joining them together.
There's a pencil animation program with a free option - Plastic Animation - where you can sketch an animation, then output to tga, blend with a background in Photoshop, then use Mike's program to put it together.
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Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 6 - The Door's Stuck
Date Completed: 12th Oct 2006
Completion Time is definitely waaay over 6 hours.
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Hi, Al - I haven't done that exercise yet, but could the straight-edged tyres be due to the 'Page Up' thing (I don't know what it's called)? If you press the Page Up & Page Down keys, then you get more or less detail in real-time rendering, ie. straight lines become rendered as curves if you press Page Up.
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Thanks, Ken, Dhar.
I showed my son my rabbit walk, and he said "How long?!?!?"
Good idea to raise my monitor - 20 mins just goes by too fast.
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Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 5 - Take a Walk
Date Completed: 1st Oct 2006
Plain vanilla Rabbit walk. Thanks to luckbat for this great explanation of the Z translate curve to stop slippage:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...amp;hl=slippage
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Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 4 - It's A Pitch
Date Completed: 27th Sept 2006
I think the main thing I learned here is that "animation is hard".
Does anyone else get Animator's Neck?
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Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 3 - Move It
Date Completed: 25th Sept 2006
Is this what you'd call a bunfight?
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Thank you, JohnnyB - I thought I had downloaded that one, but it must have been after I started, and I failed to get the correct knight in the actual project, although it did look OK when I ran it in the choreography. It does look much smoother now.
Take 2:
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Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 2 - Chorus Line
Date Completed: 24th Sept 2006
Remarks: Played around with lighting, but I realised that needs a whole new lifetime, so I'll hold off on that for a while. Also, in the movie, my knight has a rather effeminate skip in his cancan, which the other two do not, but he does not do that in the project. Perhaps it is the compression (Sorenson Video 3).
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[Hi, Rodney, Mike, David!]
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Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 1 - You're the Director
Date Completed: 23rd Sept 2006
Remarks: I found the 1,2,3 keys useful to remember for directional positioning. (Hey - I'm a Director now!)
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Hi - I'm Caroline, about to start work on TaoAM.
I'm from Cornwall, UK, originally, but have landed upside down in Queensland, Australia (heat, venomous snakes, poisonous spiders.... love it).
I've decided to learn CG to keep one step ahead of my son, who thinks I'm past it because I'm just not interested in remotely shutting down his sister's computer for a joke.
Having obsessively printed out everything on the internet, I am really impressed by A:M resources, and am looking forward to striking a pose.
Exercise 8: Custom Car
in TaoA:M and the A:M Technical Reference
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Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 8 - Customized Car
Date Completed: 22nd Oct 2006
A:M - taking me places I've never been.