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"Animation Master: A Complete Guide" is helpful...you could also download the Technical Reference and The Art of Animation Master. As for video tutorials, here are some that you might find useful: Will Sutton's tutorials Jim Talbot's Decaling a Face Duplicator Wizard Tech Talk Marcos Rezende's tutorials Robert Holmèn's tutorials Holmes Bryant's "Building Your First Rig" Part 1 and Part 2 Hope that helps, Edward. Oh yeah ... this helps big time! Thanks, itsjustme.

No. That is the beauty of the subscription. It's great to have you here sinking your teeth into A:M with us again. Thanks for the welcome, Rodney. I just downloaded the TAOAM tuturials. I've downloaded two videos from youtube also. I used to have the Animation Complete Guide; from 6 years ago ... or more. Can't find them ... drats. Would you recommend, Animation: Master: A Complete Guide (Charles River Media Graphics)? Do you know of any books and or tuts that will help me in my marriage to AM? Edward

Greetings, Reintro - I'm another person who has played around with AM but never got serious. The last version I had was version 11 ... or maybe 13? I took the long route ... dabbled with Lightwave, Cinema 4D, Softimage (using VMware on my Mac), Carrara, Daz, Quidam, etc, blah, blah, blah. I used the aforementioned software to mostly hack and get things done - like rendering book covers and comic book panels, but never truly bonding or getting my hands dirty with the software. Every six months I would come back to check on AM. Last week I entered the forums and read how Mac users are enjoying faster rendering speeds and more stability with Animation Master. I purchased the subscription and started rendering everything in the Data folder to test the rendering speeds. The rendering speed has increased .. YAY!!! Also, not one crash in 24 hours of pressing buttons and playing around not knowing what I'm doing, but just pushing things around. I think Animation Master is a great program ... guess that's why I never truly left ... always checking in. Tomorrow I plan to start the tutorials and get my hands dirty. Any recommendations for learning AM (tuts, videos, etc), would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Hash for adding the Obj import/export plug-in. Nice! Gonna just put my head down and learn this app. I have a graphic novel idea that I'd like to use AM for. Hope I didn't bore you folks. Oh ... if AM 17 comes out tomorrow, will I have to re-purchase?

inspirational!!!