TeresaNord Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Thanks Rodney...here is this better? [attachmentid=18029] edit- hmmmm, almost looks worse. What do you recommend for my render settings? Quote
Admin Rodney Posted July 7, 2006 Author Admin Posted July 7, 2006 The thumbnail isn't but the main image is. Nice. Thanks! It the little things that make my day. For informatinal purposes here's a view of the difference. Want to make sure my eyes aren't just going bad: Not so good A bit better (a lot of artifacting for such a large image!) Quote
MMZ_TimeLord Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 He's inserting a link to the actual attachement in his post. There's a button for attaching images... just right click on a thumbnail attachment and select copy shortcut then paste the shortcut into the image location box when it comes up. Quote
Dhar Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Thanks Jody; I never new what that link button did. Quote
Admin Rodney Posted July 7, 2006 Author Admin Posted July 7, 2006 What Jody said. Linking forum images is a little harder now than it used to be. Before you could just Right Click whack 'Properties' and copy the link to the image. Now this only gets you the link to the thumbnail and looking at the properties for the full size image returns a forum address. Luckily the A:M Forum has an answer to this delima. You can grab the thumbnail address and just delete '_thumb' from the address. So... http://www.hash.com/forums/uploads/post-84...32794_thumb.jpg becomes http://www.hash.com/forums/uploads/post-8492-1152232794.jpg and the full image displays. Much better than reposting an image (gotta conserve that server space!) BUT look out for those large image sizes! Large images in the forum tend to turn people off and for those on dialup... longer waits. I believe the thumbnails were an answer to this downloading problem. Quote
Neu_Type Posted July 24, 2006 Posted July 24, 2006 Name: James M Glover Exercise Completed: Exercise 9 Date Completed: 23 July, 2006 [attachmentid=18693] Flowerus Digitalus Quote
ytsorf7 Posted July 24, 2006 Posted July 24, 2006 Name: Bruce Winn Date completed: July 24, 06 Exercises completed 9 Here's exercise 9. I agree that those tutorials are really helpful. In every exercise there's something in the book that I just don't get, and the tutorial makes it clearer. This time it was the duplicator wizard. [attachmentid=18709] Quote
TeresaNord Posted July 25, 2006 Posted July 25, 2006 Great flowers you two!! It's looking great! Keep up the good work! Quote
JohnnyB Posted July 26, 2006 Posted July 26, 2006 I don't have a plug-ins choice in the right-click menu. I can't duplicate the petals. Do I have to load something that I haven't loaded? JohnnyB I called Technical support and, since I have the 2006 Yeti version of the software, they showed me where to get the update for my program - Hash.com, Software Updates, AM2006.exe Everything is working fine now Quote
JohnnyB Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 John Bailey Exercise 9 - Flower Power July 30, 2006 Here's my latest exercise. Parental guidance recommended. Speakers ON http://media.putfile.com/Where-Flowers-Come-From-64 JohnnyB Quote
Joe Gamblin Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 Date Completed: 5 August, 2006 Comments: Added a pot. Quote
Admin Rodney Posted August 5, 2006 Author Admin Posted August 5, 2006 Comments: Added a pot. ...and a table too if my eyes don't deceive me! Nice job. John, I meant to comment on your animation (thought I did!). Thats great storytelling (in its simplest of forms). What's that Spidey use to always say, "With great talent comes great opportunity?"* Use that talent wisely my friend. You'll go far. *Note: I will have to strangle anyone who thinks that is what Spider-Man actually said. Quote
bts0 Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 name: beth date: august 7 who helped?: web tut and a little of the manual remarks: i do not have a pic because when i ment to delete a group, instead it deleted the whole model and i tried undo but i got an error . so hopefully some day ill go back and make it again Quote
LurkerAbove Posted August 19, 2006 Posted August 19, 2006 Name: Glen Clarkson Date Completed: 8/19/2006 Observations: Struggled a little with smartskin.... I also ran into a glitch or two which seemed unrecoverable, but couldn't make it reproducable enough to log a bug report. I just happened to have a couple of copies and change the file name at major junctures. Flower Takes A Bow Quote
Admin Rodney Posted August 21, 2006 Author Admin Posted August 21, 2006 Flower Takes A Bow ...and waves too! I just happened to have a couple of copies and change the file name at major junctures. No such thing as backups just happening. Looks like you've developed some good saving habits. Save. Save Often. Save Incrementally. One possible naming convention might be ProjectFileName001.prj, ModelName01.mdl or other similar structure. Some prefer to use dates but beware possible sorting issues unless you use the YYYYMMDD format. An optimum date friendly file save might be: ProjectFileName20061231. Even then if you save more than once a day (and everyone does right?) you want to increment that too: ProjectFileName20061231_01. The most important thing is that saving incrementally should work for you. In case of harddrive failure you want to consider backups as well. Quote
Torak Posted September 8, 2006 Posted September 8, 2006 Name: Shane O'Sullivan Exercise Completed: Exercise 9 Date Completed: September 8, 2006 Instructor: None / Manual and Online Video tutorial Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: excercise 9 Quote
Tralfaz Posted October 3, 2006 Posted October 3, 2006 Name: Al Dinelt Exercise Completed: Exercise 9: Flower Power Date Completed: October 2, 2006 Instructor: TAoA:M and On-line Video Tutorial Started this exercise using the book, but got a bit confused when it came time to inserting the leaf into the stem. Went to the on-line video tutorial and finished the exercise from there. [attachmentid=21049] Quote
jpappas Posted October 12, 2006 Posted October 12, 2006 Name: Jim Pappas Exercise Completed: Exercise 9 Date Completed: Oct. 12 Instructor: AM forums, tutorials Remarks: after the exercise had us add bones to the flower, I had to give it a little animation -Jim flower4.mov Quote
Admin Rodney Posted October 12, 2006 Author Admin Posted October 12, 2006 Nice animation. I'm trying to recall where I last saw a similar animation... not Teletubbies... The only thing I'd change might be the sun bounce. A ease out as it bounces at the end would smooth it out. The quickness is spot on though... "Hey its morning... time to rise and shine!" Very nice Jim. Quote
Caroline Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 Name: Caroline Begbie Exercise: Exercise 9 - Flower Power Date Completed: 25th Oct 2006 Thanks to Johnl3d for pointing out use of dope sheets for Daisy. [attachmentid=21693] daisy.mov Quote
Dhar Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 Way to go Caroline. That's a first for this exercise. You get the honors for taking the creative intiative Good job. Quote
Admin Rodney Posted October 26, 2006 Author Admin Posted October 26, 2006 Way to go Caroline. That's a first for this exercise. You get the honors for taking the creative intiative What Dhar said... Outstanding! That you've used dopesheets for this particularly pleases me. Quote
Lori Hiatt Posted November 13, 2006 Posted November 13, 2006 Exercise 9: Flower Power Name:Lori Hiatt Date Completed 11/13/06 Used tutorials Learning: This was a good review as it has been a couple months since I've used A:M. I forgot to shade my flower while creating an action and she bowed the wrong way! Decided to not fix it though. Flower_Power.mov Quote
heather Posted November 13, 2006 Posted November 13, 2006 Exercise 9: Flower Power Name:Heather Date Completed 11/13/06 [attachmentid=22240] Quote
Admin Rodney Posted November 14, 2006 Author Admin Posted November 14, 2006 Heather, Pretty... and my favorite color... purple. (Shhh... don't tell anyone!) Good job! Lori, Nice animation. Cute little dance. Quote
totlover Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 Name: Caleb Gunby Exercise Completed: Ex 9 Date Completed: Jan5, 2006 Comments: this is getting fun Quote
Leo73 Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 Great job Caleb. That's one scared flower whose day is about to be ruined. You are really flying through these. Quote
mfortunato Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Name: Michael Fortunato Exercerise Completed: Flower Power EX #9 Instructor: The Manual Comments/Suggestions: It's been almost a year since I posted my original flower. I went on to Exercise 10 and then my PC crashed (not related to A:M) and I lost all of my exercise files. Haven't really worked with A:M since - not sure why. Just getting back into it and decided to try and model a face on my flower - perhaps next time I should try going through the face modeling tutorial first - it looks more like an alien is growing out of the flower!. Happy New Year, All! - Michael Quote
Admin Rodney Posted January 12, 2007 Author Admin Posted January 12, 2007 Great to have you back Michael! I don't think I have any of your exercise images. Sorry. Thats another good reason to post here in the forum as I should have backups of most images that have been posted here. (I should back up to a CDrom or two though) Hope this computer keeps you happy and animating for a long long time! Quote
mfortunato Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 Great to have you back Michael! I don't think I have any of your exercise images. Sorry. Thats another good reason to post here in the forum as I should have backups of most images that have been posted here. (I should back up to a CDrom or two though) Hope this computer keeps you happy and animating for a long long time! Thanks, Rodney. I do believe the old images/movies are still on the forums, as I have posted them all. I haven't checked for them, though. Thus far I have gone through Exercise 9 (well, 10, but I didn't post that so I'm redoing it now ). Redoing the flower this time I definitely have a better understanding of A:M's spline-based modeling - and learned a lot about my friends "break" and "detach" - they were instrumental in getting something that resembled an "alien" face on the flower. - Michael Quote
jmf3d3d Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 Name: Jeremiah M. Faries Exercise Completed: #9: Flower Power Date Completed: Jan 20, 2007 Remarks: where a flower gets power. Personally, I think the ending is just a little too creepy. I would try to mess with the timing or the percentage of the pose, but this section is focused on modeling and not animation I want to move on to the other modeling exercises. exercise_9_flower_power.mov Quote
Admin Rodney Posted January 20, 2007 Author Admin Posted January 20, 2007 That works as storytelling for me. As far as the end I think it provides a unique take on the standard flower with a face theme. Adding eyes would make it more accessible but then you'd lose that uniqueness. By all mean... move on to next next exerices. You've definitely completed this one. Nice job! Michael, I'll look for your earlier exercises. Sometimes I get confused by changing avatars and forget who did what in the forum. Here's hoping that I'll be a bit more organized in the certification process in 2007. Quote
Chrury Sanson Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 I'm liking those flowers up there ^. Name: クリス Exercise: #9 Power to da Flower Completed: half an hour ago on the first of February, 2007. Notes: The duplicator didn't work last time I did this one (think Nov 2005) but everything worked just dandy this time. I'm really pleased with how the water turned out. I looked up water's index of refraction to make sure it would look right. (it's 1.33 BTW) PS: The next few projects might come a bit slower. I got recruited into the 'Mario Movie' group project. Quote
Admin Rodney Posted February 2, 2007 Author Admin Posted February 2, 2007 Name: クリス very... スリク PS: The next few projects might come a bit slower. I got recruited into the 'Mario Movie' group project. Go to it! As long as you are learning and exercising what you learn in A:M you'll come out ahead. Don't stay away too long though as it gets harder to return the more you stay away. Quote
Caroline Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 Great refraction - did it take a long time to render? I was 'playing' once and gave up, because it took so long. But I was probably doing a 20gazillion multipass, not knowing what I was doing. Quote
Chrury Sanson Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 The render took five minutes tops. My setting are pretty simple compared to some I've seen. Ambiance occlusion: ON Reflections on: levels 3 No multipass. Lack of IoR setting on the vase probably helped. So it took longer to post my success (and find the katakana for my name in MS Word) then it did to render. Quote
Caroline Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Hmm. I shall have to have another go one day..... Just in case you're interested for later, (and so I don't lose the page) here's a list of Refraction Indices Quote
aj2 Posted February 5, 2007 Posted February 5, 2007 Name: Al Jolly Exercerise #9 Completed: Flower Power Date Completed: Feb 04, 2007 Quote
Admin Rodney Posted February 5, 2007 Author Admin Posted February 5, 2007 Al, Would you believe there have been very few vases added to this exercise? (Chris's up there ^ notwithstanding) Thats even stranger given this is a modeling exercise with a focus on lathing. Hmmm... its the simple things that sometimes escape us. I guess what I'm trying to say is... nice vase! Quote
candimeg Posted February 5, 2007 Posted February 5, 2007 Hope you like it This one couldn't keep still Flowerdance.mov Robin Quote
Caroline Posted February 6, 2007 Posted February 6, 2007 This one couldn't keep still Sinuous grace - I was listening to FrostEternal's Angel of Death music at the same time, and it worked great. Quote
candimeg Posted February 7, 2007 Posted February 7, 2007 It's a little windy today - at least where my little flower is. Check it out on YouTube Robin Quote
Dhar Posted February 7, 2007 Posted February 7, 2007 Very nice, Robin. It's more like a sea creature under water, which I like. Reminded me of my diving days. Quote
candimeg Posted February 7, 2007 Posted February 7, 2007 Very nice, Robin. It's more like a sea creature under water, which I like. Reminded me of my diving days. hmmm, that gives me some ideas. I'll have to work on it after I finish with the plane exercise....... Quote
Tunames Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 NAME: Steve George EXERCISE: #9 flower power INSTRUCTOR: You REMARKS: ummm.....yeah.....like he said..... Flower2.mov Quote
Admin Rodney Posted February 8, 2007 Author Admin Posted February 8, 2007 Oh come on now Steve... I wanna see the rest of the dance! Started out very smooth. I could almost here music there for a second and then... Quote
Andy S. Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 Name: Andy Stewart Exercise: 9 - Flower Power Completed: Feb 09, 2007 Comments: One was done a year ago before I disappeared, the other was done tonight. Plus, I felt a need to toon render one On to Ex 10.... Quote
Raffi Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 Name: Ralf Kampp Exercise: #9 - Flower Power Completed: Feb 19, 2007 Remark: I decided that I could use the flower rig right away for a little animation ... Flower Dance Quote
agep Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 Name: Ralf Kampp Exercise: #9 - Flower Power Completed: Feb 19, 2007 Remark: I decided that I could use the flower rig right away for a little animation ... Flower Dance Great job on the animation. Very funny Quote
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