Darkwing

that's ok, i was about to ask a really obvious question which would've been funny if it was the case, but i was gonna ask if you had Show Bias Handles toggled on. It would have been funny if that were the issue as everyone was going on about opening source codes and whatnot

if it had boobs, it'd be one of my current managers

oh i'm not doing it, i'm too busy with ELZ to be runnin off doing playtime with AM, you could do it, you're the pro

i wanna see one of those fly through's similar to serenity where you come up on a planet, go through the clouds, see the terrain below, light is reflecting off the ocean, you know, just your run of the mill ILM style special effects sequence that usually takes months to prepare

i agree about the movie, not necessarily best movie ever, but technologically, it might be, very entertaining and engrossing and happy belated B-day to you!

your sarcasm is so subtle.... we don't wanna be too sarcastic with the fellow, might think we're some typical internet forum and that we'r not as nice as we really are

sounds like a 14 year old to me, could be wrong, but i can usually tell one when i see one (and by 14, i mean that age group), nonetheless, welcome to the AM forums, it's a fun and resourceful place

well, here's what i got from using your prj file, i'm gonna look at photoman's on sunday, and would like to play with making 3d clouds

well, i'm obviously doing something wrong

hat one is cool, is the mountains all displacement?

interesting, with the two turbulences nested like that, the amplitude method doesn't seem to work. in the past I've made a fairly solid distinction between two attributes, but the fbm one seem to blurry

for your distinction, play with the amplitude factor and the octaves if the amplitude doesn't work

and i'm gonna look into using normal combiners to see how closely i can mimic what you've made, also, what would it look like if you put a volumetric effect just slightly above the ground, creating a thin misty fog look at the base of the mountains?

this has lots of potential, and i'm really intrigued with this, i think i might just pick up attempting to make clouds

I'm doing some quick tests now, and i've fiddled with combiners before, i prefer them over rigging, but when you say cellular noise, you mean cellturb? EDIT: Hmmm, my mac seems to hate procedural mats, always has, i'm gonna try this on the windows, it renders mats about 3 times faster

so was your original vid using this add-on too? it looks really good, now if a way to make clouds can be figured out, i have some ideas for clouds, but never got to play with the idea

oh wow, i've always wanted to know how to do that, as i've tried with decals and displacement maps and never got anything nearly as cool as that!

That is something i can look into down the line, Maybe demo some skins that users can pick from and get users to do the images and what not to be more 'Anamtion Master' then when you pick what skin you like to use and change it when you want. The only problem with that is we would need people to make some art work and images since i well..... suck at it. Well, if you ever decide to go in that direction, give me a holler, I've designed several forums now, and though maybe not terrific with AM, I could definitely help coordinate some sort of forum design, just thought I'd put that out there. And I'm really liking the new AM Films, even uploaded a vid and it works smoothely, I quite like it!

ah, was kind of hoping for a design change, i always love those Not that I don't like the look of this forum, just could look more...3d animation related but tht's just me, always eager for change!

so you intend to switch the forum over to be more like the AM films, or will it basically be the same thing and we just won't notice the server change?

oh no biggie, I was just wondering, if it can be moved I say do it, cause the AM Films site looks cool and clean and efficient

i know this isn't AM films related, but I jut went to go onto AM Stills, and it seems to be several months out of date all of a sudden, and boots my login from this forum, is this something normal, like is a new AM Stills being worked on in conjunction with the new AM films, or am I just blind and missed a topic somewhere about this?

Here's a quick update as I prepare him for scene 1 by muddying him up a little:

here are the sketches: Aiden: Zero:

I just CFA'd him to see what needs to be tweaked, and surprisingly, it's not really much of anything: