Admin Rodney Posted May 30, 2004 Admin Share Posted May 30, 2004 (edited) The Art of Animation:Master (Online) Please add your exerices to this topic and others will join in. The Art of Animation:Master is being completed on a continual basis in the New Users Forum. Meeting deadlines can be an important skill to master early on but this course is self paced to allow each person the flexibility they need to learn the basics of Animation:Master. The course can be completed in as little time as necessary or as much as is needed by each participant. Note: You may want to download the videos first. All available Video Tutorials related to TAOA:M can be found on one page: The Art of Animation Master Video Tutorials The Art of Animation Master Part II: Modeling MODELING TAKES TALENT 8 - Customized Car 9 - Flower Power 10 - FW-190 Fighter 11 - Giraffe (No available video tutorial) 12 - Lip Poses 13 - Show Some Backbone (Adding a Skeleton) ------------------------------------- The Art of Animation:Master Exercise 9: "Flower Power" ------------------------------------- View online in two parts: Part1 (11.7MB) Part2 (16.4MB) ...or download both in a compressed ZIP file: zip (26.7MB) Edited October 15, 2008 by martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animateden Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Name: Den Dotson Exercises Completed: Nine Date Completed: Tuesday March 22, 2005 Instructor: Rodney (Gardener Supreme) and that guy on the web tutorials Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Like pushing up daisies Here is a link to the ninth completed exercise: Included in post Thanks Rodney, -Den flower_power2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted March 22, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted March 22, 2005 Nice animation Den! There's power in this simple flower. Exercise 9 covers some powerful aspects of modeling with splines. They are simple... yet basic skills you'll want to master early on. For those that want to delve further into the basic skills taught in Exercise 9 please explore the following resources: Lathing -- View Advanced Lathing Methodologies Attaching Control Points (CPs) Adjusting Bias-- View Modeling an Umbrella / Adjusting Alphas - by Moscafilms Copy and Paste Tip: Use Control C to Copy and Control V to Paste in modeling windows Group Rotation (and Pivot control) Operation of the Duplicator Wizard -- View Tech Talk - Duplicator Wizard Hash Inc creates flowers, screws, and staircases -- View Creating Sea Shells with the Duplicator Wizard by Robcat! Try it... It's Fun! -- View Modeling a wire basket by Jon Wofford Basic Bones Hierarchy CP to Bone assignments Smartskin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisThom Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Name: Chris Thom Exercises Completed: 9 of 19 Date Completed: April 17, 2005 Instructor: Whomever will give me the time Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: I'm curious as to when you would actually use the automatic bone assignment. In spite of the temptation I wont sing "Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do." 9.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted April 18, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted April 18, 2005 Now that was a friendly flower. ChrisThom said: I'm curious as to when you would actually use the automatic bone assignment. I use it all the time for boning of simple models, especially of the mechanical variety. Then once you have the bones assigned you can go in and add constraints as needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisThom Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 well, that makes sense. I just they had a way that would set the bones automatically for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyj1112 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Name: Tom Jansen Exercise: #9 Flower Power Date Completed: April 26th, 2005 Comments: hehe... resisting urge to put a smiley face on the flower ;-) -Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted April 26, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted April 26, 2005 ... resisting urge to put a smiley face on the flower Agreed. Almost every time I see flowers these days my brain thinks of them almost as characters. The temptation to put one of the A:M Forum emoticons on them is almost too much... this one is probably the best candidate > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevernameless Posted May 20, 2005 Share Posted May 20, 2005 Name: Tenez Waggoner Excercise Completed: 9 Flower Power Date Completed: May 20, 2005 Remarks/Suggestions: Hmm. Not much to say about this one. Went relatively smooth. One thing, I wanted to have a giant bee, but couldn't find one. And I don't know how to make one. So I just took the only bug I could find. I think it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 20, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted May 20, 2005 Poor flower. That ain't no bug.... look closer. It's a freakin' spaceship! No wonder he's scared. Luckily there is no driver. Good job Tenez! I know you are heavy into the exercises but definitely take the time to review the information at the above links concerning the duplicator wizard. Good stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo73 Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Name: Leo Mitchell Exercise # 9 Completed: 25 May 2005 Instructor: Web tuts and manual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 26, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted May 26, 2005 From Tenez's scared flower to your sad one we are getting all the emotions represented. Good job Leo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwaslen Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 Name: Paula Waslen Exercise Completed: #9 Flower Power Date Completed: Jun 11, 2005 Although I knew most of the modeling techniques from this one, I did learn about the duplicate wizard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snich Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Name: Steve Nicholas Exercise: #9, Flower Power Instructor: the manual Remarks: went pretty good, the only problem I had initially was the picture in the manual of the duplicate dialog has the copy and extrude switches reverse of how they actually are. The petals looked mighty strange extruded! Otherwise, I'm very impressed with how easy the modelling and rigging was, even though it's not a complicated model. It gives me hope for the future! It even made my flowers boogie down! Bluesflowers.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted June 14, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted June 14, 2005 Paula said: Although I knew most of the modeling techniques from this one, I did learn about the duplicate wizard. If you learned even one thing in an exercise I consider it a resounding success. While you've got 'duplicator wizard' in your mind you really should check out a few of the links above to other Duplicator Wizard creations. It can save you that much time... well worth it. Emilio (Moscafilms) has created another type of duplicator in his Sweeper plugin. While his full version is obviously the one to have the free version is a must have as well. You can read more about Sweeper (and Sweep, the free version) here. That is a pretty flower too! Don't tell the guys (I'll never live it down) but purple has always been my favorite color... in moderation of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted June 14, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted June 14, 2005 Steve, That is outstanding! You really went above and beyond on this one. Playing music for your flowers really appears to work wonders. Bravo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iGeek Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Name: Zev Eisenberg Exercise Completed: Exercise 9 "Flower Power" Date Competed: 10 July 2005 Remarks/Suggestions: w00t. My life is fulfilled. now on to the next big thing. Actually, it seems that the tutorial is missing something. Didn't it use to include a bit on coloring the flower? Also, why aren't my petals casting shadows? I made them full closed 3D objects. Strange... -Zev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted July 10, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted July 10, 2005 Very nice Zev, I think you are correct about the earlier exercise covering Named Groups and colors. The current manual shows the named groups colored but not going through the process. My memory of named groups is overridden by Jeff Cantin's SIGGRAPH Tutorial though. He did an outstanding job of covering the basics. Concerning the shadow. Is it possible that you have your normals inverted... would that even do it? Unsure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iGeek Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Yes, the normals were flipped- but that wasn't it. The normals were also flipped on the leaves. They're the same geometry as the petals. I flipped the normals, and nothing happened. Here's the prj. -Zev Flower_Power.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougwills Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Name: Doug Wills Exercise completed: Flower Power Date completed: 8/7 Instructor: Book and web video Fun little ditty. Glad to do it because my wife is a daisy nut and has a lot of ideas she wants me to produce with talking and dancing daisy's. At least it will be good practice and it means that I can stay on the computer playing with A:M if I agree to do it. ;-) By the way, I am noticing that on many of the videos, this one included, that the audio loses sync with the video about half way through (not on most stuff, just the tutorials.) It becomes a big pain trying to line the screen display up with the audio to catch things, especially the smaller details. Is it just me, or are others experiencing it too. If it's just me, anyone have any ideas on a solution? Thanks Exercise_9.tga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkijc Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Name:KD Excercise: #9 Flower Power Date: 5th of August 2005 Instructor: Rodney.. =) heyllo~ just became an a:m member and loving it =) here's my attempt. not done.. heh can anyone help me on how to model a background? thank you! ATTACHED FILE Flower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblv Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 name: Linda s. Hill ex completed: ex 9 Flower Power date completed: 8/23/2005 Instructor: Den Dotson dancesm.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted August 23, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted August 23, 2005 The drama... the pathos... that flower sure knows how to act. You make animation look fun Linda. Keep it up! Rodney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zowat Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 Name : Erik Kirschberg Excercise : #7 Flower Power Date Completed 9/11/05 Instructor : A:M Community Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elissa Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Name: Melissa "Elissa" Heldenbergh Exercises Completed: 9 Date Completed: Nov 23th 2003/Sept 13th, 2005 Instructor: A few years of A:M use, the book, and web tutorials, plus also doing the mentor program with Paul Daley. Have I be forgetting David Roger's book? That too! Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Original the modeling and rigging of this flower confused me, after Hash put up the video tutorial *insert angels singing* I went back and did it from scratch. Simply niffy, that's right niffy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-wheeler Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Oops skipped one exercise- I will go back tomorrow. name: Chris Wheeler ex completed: ex 9 Flower Power date completed: well today - but started ages ago Instructor:modeling with thanks to anyone one the community who ever commented - and Sherwood's forest! dandelion movie Heres my flower- well a weed actually - I resurected it from quite a while ago Dandelion model for the comunity Anyone can use it for any project, if they so wish, just let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkaos Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Nothing fancy...no frills...just the exercise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkaos Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Awesome dandelion, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolidge Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Linda Bridges Flower Power August 30, 2005 Instructor: Den Dotson[attachmentid=9769] flowersm.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odog2020 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 Names: James Owens Exercises complete: 1-9 Date Completed: 14 October 2005 I don't know why, but all of the sudden, I got fasinated with the mirror effect. [attachmentid=10156] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Names: Dhar Jabouri Exercises complete: 1-9 Date Completed: 22 October 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted October 23, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted October 23, 2005 Such a simple thing... a flower. Yet everyone adds their own creativity and it becomes art. Very nice everyone! Rodney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuep Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 Name: John Kuepper Exercises Completed:lesson 9 Date Completed: oct 24, 2005 Instructor: all kinds Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: just did the tut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted October 24, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted October 24, 2005 Thanks John! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motility Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Greetings Rodney, This Tut was really outstanding. I realy enjoyed the step by step instructions which for me is really helpful being brand new at AM. Most say I am impressed with bones system of AM...that auto assign thingy is very cool for sure but know as one porgresses to more complex models one will have to assign manually...... Name: Rich Gelles Course Completed : Exercise 9 Flower Power date completed 11/06/05 [attachmentid=10805] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noewjook Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Name:Marc Vancouillie Exercise completed #9 flower power Date completed 11/16/05 Instructor:t.a.o.AM book,learning video on the hash side and reading in this topic what people have done before me.[attachmentid=11258] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcancook Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 When I copy and paste the leaf when I give it a color then put it in shaded mode 25% of the color is gone. What is wrong? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted November 25, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted November 25, 2005 When I copy and paste the leaf when I give it a color then put it in shaded mode 25% of the color is gone. What is wrong? We are going to need a bit more info to figure that one out. Are you guessing that 25% of the color is gone? As in transparency? Are there parts of your leaf missing? If its missing parts perhaps you didn't get all the Control Points selected before you copied. If it is in the color only... we'll need to know more. Can you upload an image of the problem? Rodney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcancook Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 I am having upload problems. This is a test file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 No problem here. It's the solar system. Make sure your file size is under 1 megabyte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcancook Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Here it is Rodney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcancook Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 I figured it out. Thanks for your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinesmith Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Name: Splinesmith(Kurt Lange) Exercises Completed:9 Instructor:the manual. Remarks/Suggestions for improvement: The background is something I created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkarpp Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Name: Douglas Karpp Exercise: Exercise 9: Flower Power Date Completed: December 13, 2005 Sorry, it's an animation instead of a still. [attachmentid=12272] Ex9.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMZ_TimeLord Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 Name: Jody Krivohlavek Exercise Completed: Exercise 9 Date Completed: January 1, 2006 (HAPPY NEW YEAR!) Instructor: AM Handbook, Video Tutorial and everyone that's ever posted to these forums. (Been around since the Playmation days ) Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Just can't seem to put this stuff down tonight/this morning. Happy New Year everyone! Blessings to your families from mine. FlowerPower.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric2575 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Name: Eric Goesch Excercise Completed: 9 Date Completed: 01/06/06 http://home.comcast.net/~pyglesias03/flower.avi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Whoa - that is sweet You gotta tell me how you can upload movies on Comcast. I know you told me before and I tried it but never worked. Please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossk Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Name: Ross Klettke Exercise completed- 9 date completed- 1-20-06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert-Jank Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Name: Micah Jank Exercise Completed: Exercise 9, FLower Power Date Completed: January 24, 2006 Instructor: None Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Well i cant really think of any...but hope you guys can give me some info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fybs Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Name: Claudio Ravenstein (fybs) Exercise completed: 9 Flower Power Date completed: 2. February 2006 Instructor: The book I have finished the flower. It is strange how a spline opens up slightly when the flower bends, but otherwise I am happy with it. It was a fun introduction about how to model and setting bones in Animation Master. Fybs. Its funny I can't upload the quicktime movie....what a shame....Maybe its a timeout error or something... Here is a jpeg of the flower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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