Leo73 Posted April 3, 2006 Posted April 3, 2006 Good job John. The only thing to watch for would be the kid would have take a more distributed stance in order to handle the weight of the bottle that he is picking up. Maybe have one leg back and arch his back to show him really feeling the weight of the bottle. Just my .02 though Quote
Neu_Type Posted July 30, 2006 Posted July 30, 2006 Name: James M Glover Exercise Completed: Exercise 14 Playing with Mable Date Completed: 30 July, 2006 [attachmentid=19024] Quote
Leo73 Posted July 31, 2006 Posted July 31, 2006 James, That is one Fantastic image you have there. Great job on it. Now I have to go back and look at your other stuff to see what I missed. Quote
bts0 Posted August 10, 2006 Posted August 10, 2006 [attachmentid=19492]Name: Elizabeth Date: august 9th Remarks:Now i know how to do materials and the table and the wine glass is mine who helped?: the manual Quote
LurkerAbove Posted August 22, 2006 Posted August 22, 2006 Exercise 14 Playing with marbles Name: Glen Clarkson Date Completed: 8/22/2006 Notes: Woot! Quote
JohnnyB Posted August 25, 2006 Posted August 25, 2006 Exercise 14: Playing With Marble John Bailey August 25, 2006 [attachmentid=19998] http://media.putfile.com/Party-Time-88 Comments: Thom's leg bones don't show up in the model outside of the modelling window. Though obviously they're in there. How come? JohnnyB Quote
LurkerAbove Posted August 25, 2006 Posted August 25, 2006 Exercise 14: Playing With Marble John Bailey August 25, 2006 [attachmentid=19998] http://media.putfile.com/Party-Time-88 Comments: Thom's leg bones don't show up in the model outside of the modelling window. Though obviously they're in there. How come? JohnnyB Silly question, but are they marked as hidden in the model? Seems like if they were marked as hidden, they would be hidden in the modellign window as well. Quote
JohnnyB Posted August 26, 2006 Posted August 26, 2006 Exercise 14: Playing With Marble John Bailey August 25, 2006 [attachmentid=19998] http://media.putfile.com/Party-Time-88 Comments: Thom's leg bones don't show up in the model outside of the modelling window. Though obviously they're in there. How come? JohnnyB Silly question, but are they marked as hidden in the model? Seems like if they were marked as hidden, they would be hidden in the modellign window as well. Thank you for responding. No, the leg bones[attachmentid=20020] not hidden in the modelling window. The eyes are all open (un-marked with the red X) and you can see them in the modelling window. In the Choreography and Action windows, however, they're all listed in the Project Workspace window as well as in the properties window. Yet there's no leg bones in the model. I can select them in the Project Workspace but can't manipulate the bones. It's pretty wierd! Quote
Robert-Jank Posted August 26, 2006 Posted August 26, 2006 Okay...lemme grab out my thom model.....ill see what i come up with BTW, can you show me a snap shot of ALL your bones in the choreography workspace? Well for one....your thom is in an action window.....you need to makes sure you are in a modeling window....then unhide his bones then save it...i would at least try that for starts. Quote
JohnnyB Posted August 26, 2006 Posted August 26, 2006 Okay...lemme grab out my thom model.....ill see what i come up with BTW, can you show me a snap shot of ALL your bones in the choreography workspace? Well for one....your thom is in an action window.....you need to makes sure you are in a modeling window....then unhide his bones then save it...i would at least try that for starts. I tried that. The only bone I could find that was hidden was the root. Here he is in the Choreography window and in the modelling window. [attachmentid=20022][attachmentid=20023] Quote
Robert-Jank Posted August 26, 2006 Posted August 26, 2006 so.....the bones show up in the model window but not in any other? That is strange Hmm...okay....is it possible that...there are "2" different thom models.....and the one you edit in the model window is a dirrerent one? Did you save the thom model (the one with the bones showing) as a different model.... cause that could cause a problem....all you would have to do is import the model with the bones showing..... Quote
JohnnyB Posted August 26, 2006 Posted August 26, 2006 so.....the bones show up in the model window but not in any other? That is strange Hmm...okay....is it possible that...there are "2" different thom models.....and the one you edit in the model window is a dirrerent one? Did you save the thom model (the one with the bones showing) as a different model.... cause that could cause a problem....all you would have to do is import the model with the bones showing..... I just checked some other models, Knight, Eddie, Keekat - no leg bones in any of them! I reset the program to default values and still no leg bones. I recently upgraded from V12 to V13. Could this be a bug in 13? Quote
Robert-Jank Posted August 26, 2006 Posted August 26, 2006 If its version 13 i wouldnt doubt it.... Quote
Admin Rodney Posted August 27, 2006 Author Admin Posted August 27, 2006 JohnnyB, Nothing knew here. Its not a bug. You must have missed the link in the last exercise. Some things you should know before you begin Exercise 13 Quote
JohnnyB Posted August 27, 2006 Posted August 27, 2006 JohnnyB, Nothing knew here. Its not a bug. You must have missed the link in the last exercise. Some things you should know before you begin Exercise 13 Rodney- I did that. At first I was surprised by my version of the rig, then I read through the link and had to unhide all of the bones in the rig. Now they all show up in the modelling window. Check out the pictures I posted on the previous page. The bones are missing only in the Choreography and Action windows. Today, I went back and hid the un-hid the root bone with a shift-click and now I have everything but the thigh, calf and foot bones. OK! I loaded Knight into Choreography, shift-clicked his Root Bone and the leg bones are all back. Whew! Thank you! JohnnyB Quote
Admin Rodney Posted August 27, 2006 Author Admin Posted August 27, 2006 OK! I loaded Knight into Choreography, shift-clicked his Root Bone and the leg bones are all back. Whew! Nothing feels quite like success. Glad you rediscovered the bones. I really really REALLY need to put this information somewhere it can be linked to and read easily don't I? Rodney Quote
LurkerAbove Posted August 27, 2006 Posted August 27, 2006 I really really REALLY need to put this information somewhere it can be linked to and read easily don't I? Rodney There's a lot of valuable information that could stand a little organization. I think the location is great! Far be it from me to critique free info, which has been absoulely invaluable in helping me better understand A:M, and your efforts in putting it all down in one single spot has been great. (note to reader. If you do not have Rodney's Useful Links bookmarked, you're missing out!) Having said that, it could use some editing (*ugh*). And since editing (*ugh*) keeps us from our favorite task, animating (*yay!*), I'd be happy to help out where possible, rather than lay the rather herculean task at someone else's feet alone. Quote
Torak Posted September 25, 2006 Posted September 25, 2006 Name: Shane O'Sullivan Exercise Completed: Exercise 14 Date Completed: September 25, 2006 Instructor: None / Manual and Online Video tutorial Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: [attachmentid=20893] Quote
Tralfaz Posted October 26, 2006 Posted October 26, 2006 Name: Al Dinelt Exercise Completed: Exercise 14: Playing Marble Date Completed: October 26, 2006 Instructor: TAoA:M I am at home sick today and tired of laying in bed, so thought I would give exercise 14 a try. Nothing fancy, and now I am going back to bed. [attachmentid=21721] Quote
Admin Rodney Posted October 27, 2006 Author Admin Posted October 27, 2006 I am at home sick today and tired of laying in bed, so thought I would give exercise 14 a try. Nothing fancy, and now I am going back to bed. Sorry to hear you are sick Al. Sleep well and hope you are feeling much better tomorrow. (If only I could accomplish so much when I'm sick) Quote
Tralfaz Posted October 27, 2006 Posted October 27, 2006 I am at home sick today and tired of laying in bed, so thought I would give exercise 14 a try. Nothing fancy, and now I am going back to bed. Sorry to hear you are sick Al. Sleep well and hope you are feeling much better tomorrow. (If only I could accomplish so much when I'm sick) Thanks Rodney. Haven't had much luck sleeping, so I moved on to exercise 15 tonight. Quote
BUDDHABUCK Posted November 17, 2006 Posted November 17, 2006 eXERCISE #14 Animated By: Keith Buddhabuck Buck Date Completed: 11-16-06 Completion time:25min. He's a brat. exercise_14.zip Quote
Caroline Posted November 19, 2006 Posted November 19, 2006 Name: Caroline Begbie Exercise: Exercise 14 - Playing Marble Date Completed: 19th November 2006 What fun! I love the beautifully understated, yet perfectly correct, "20 minutes". This one's for Al, who's probably better by now! [attachmentid=22394] Quote
mfortunato Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Name: Michael Fortunato Exercises Completed: Fourteen - Marble Date Completed: January 13th, 2007 Instructor: Das Book. Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: None. Very nice and easy tutorial. Comments: Took a break from modeling to try a bit of procedural texturing. I completed it as written, however, I did a bit more experimenting. Made Thom look more like granite than marble, but I liked it so what the heck ! Thanks! - Michael Quote
Nunsofamerica Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 Name: Ryan Krysiak (nunsofamerica) Excercise Completed: 14 Playing Marble Date Completed: January 14, 2007 Remarks/Suggestions: uhhhhhhh, easy. Like feeding paper to the koolaid man. lol. easy. fun. fast Run for you lives!!!!!!!!! Quote
Joe Gamblin Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 Name: Joseph Gamblin Exercise Completed: Exercise 14 Date Completed: January 20, 2006 Instructor: None / Manual and Online Video tutorial Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: I tweaked it a bit, but I still don't think I've got the shine of marble. Well, more fun for later. Quote
aj2 Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 Name Al jolly Excercise Completed 14 Playing Marble Date Completed Feb 09, 2007 Quote
mfortunato Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 Hi Al - Now that's a fantastic use of the Marble tutorial. Her swimsuit looks excellent! She's quite stylin', I must say . I think you're the first person to texture a portion (group) of a model rather than the entire model. Nice job! EDIT: My apologies, JohnnyB also selected a portion of a model (the Thom model) and textured it with marble (sorry, Johnny!) - Michael Quote
Admin Rodney Posted February 10, 2007 Author Admin Posted February 10, 2007 What Michael said. She is much more easy on the eyes than Thom could ever be. Quote
jmf3d3d Posted February 11, 2007 Posted February 11, 2007 Name: Jeremiah M. Faries Exercise Completed: #14: Playing Marble Date Completed: Feb 11, 2007 Remarks: AniMATion I'm not sure why the final render was such a large file... perhaps the brick wall? At any rate, I had to compress it to a lower quality to get the file to a reasonable size so it is a bit lossy... I'm a bit of a nut about lossy images which is why my files tend to be on the large side....sorry. exercise_14_drinkme_small.mov Quote
Caroline Posted February 11, 2007 Posted February 11, 2007 I guess this is another guy who can't keep a secret - so-oo good, Jerry. Quote
totlover Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Name Caleb gunby Excersise Completed: 14- Playing Marble Date Completed: Feb 11, 2007 Quote
mfortunato Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Jeremiah - That animation was brilliant! Very well done. It really made me laugh. Excellent use of what you have thus-far learned in TAoA:M and applying it. Caleb - drinking on the job, eh? (strange both you and Jeremiah have slightly similar themes). The knights perfectly posed - out like a light. I guess that should teach the knight never to drink from strange marble-colored bottles! - Michael Quote
Clinton Rocksmith Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Name: Clinton Rocksmith Exercise Completed: Exercise 14 Date Completed: 17th Feb, 2006 Instructor: Animation Master Book fallingbottle.mov Quote
Admin Rodney Posted February 17, 2007 Author Admin Posted February 17, 2007 Clinton, You should have seen my expression on viewing your last. I read "fallingbottle" and said to myself "self... this ought to be good." Loaded your file and then watched as the marble bottle fell. Is there more to my story than that? Um.. no. (Somewhere in the back of my mind I imagine that bottle is still falling though) or as Sigmund Freud would say, "Sometimes a falling bottle is just a falling bottle." Rock on Mr. Rocksmith! Quote
Clinton Rocksmith Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 (Somewhere in the back of my mind I imagine that bottle is still falling though) Yeah, it still is falling, I was trying to set up the ground as actual ground and have it bounce off it, but it didn't work. I think I'm supposed to make a square to sit on/under the ground for the bottle to bounce off. I'll learn that later no doubt. Cheers Quote
Raffi Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 Name: Ralf Kampp Exercise Completed: #14 (Playing marble) Date Completed: 19th March, 2007 Remarks: After all these hard exercises about modelling a face and animating it, this exercise was like holiday :-) Quote
Admin Rodney Posted March 19, 2007 Author Admin Posted March 19, 2007 After all these hard exercises about modelling a face and animating it, this exercise was like holiday :-) You've earned it Ralf. But first thing tomorrow... get back to work! Quote
Logrus Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Name: Big E Exercise Completed: #14 (Playing marble) Date Completed: March 24, 2007 Remarks: After all these hard exercises about modelling a face and animating it, this exercise was like holiday :-) LoL Here Here!! Only problem is my program never saved it the first time... I swear this program is gonna bite the bullet on project 20 i just know it... Quote
tbenefi33 Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Hello I'm still here....LOL I've been on the road. Takeing a break. Exercise 14 Playing Marble Done Will have a video of it soon learned a lot about material and the differn't types of material that you can play with. I didn't make the wine bottle in to marbel cause I got a some marbels down on the ground for the sling shot. In the video the wine bottle proble be marbel. Quote
Caroline Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 I'm glad to see you're still with us! That's a nice granitey look. Quote
Chrury Sanson Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 Name: Chris Exercise: {checks thread name. "Yep"} Playing Marble Date: 8-16-2007 Teacher: The A of AM (paperback) Notes: I've wanted to do this scene since I saw the exercise on the forum. I hope I get a giggle out of someone. The actual exercise lasted maybe 10 minutes. The other 2-3 hours were used to make a few more marble materials, model Thom-ette, and set up the scene. Thom's right shoulder is the only thing that bugs me. How's my Thom-ette, BTW? Quote
playerktw Posted October 13, 2007 Posted October 13, 2007 I have a question on this exercise, hope someone can explain this one to me. I've followed the instructions for setting up the new material and it looks exactly like the example. However, when I apply it to a model the color is that of the second attribute. I suspect it is some setting I've missed, but I'm at a loss to figure out which one. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks Quote
playerktw Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 My bad, it would help to read the last sentence of the lesson. The part about rendering the model. Kevin Woods Exercise 14 10/15/07 Quote
MasterFunk Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 I have no problem making a material but once I drag it onto my model it just shows up as a solid color and not as the one in the material window. Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this? Quote
Admin Rodney Posted December 29, 2007 Author Admin Posted December 29, 2007 I have no problem making a material but once I drag it onto my model it just shows up as a solid color and not as the one in the material window. Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this? Yes. You must edit the settings of the material in some cases. I think in this case you might need to change the scale settings. (This is entirely a guess) Is it possible that you've created your model at a really small scale? If you did then the material shown on it is only that part that exists at that point in 3D space. Try scaling the model up A WHOLE LOT and see what happens. Quote
phatso Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 And, as KTW found out - it can't be said often enough - you have to RENDER to see the the marble. It won't show up in shaded view. Materials are number-crunch intensive enough that there's no way do do them in real time. Maybe you did that, but a reminder is perhaps in order. Quote
MasterFunk Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 Thanks Phatso that was it i was just looking at it in shaded mode. Quote
Caroline Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 And you don't have to render the whole thing - that can take ages. Just press 'Q' and drag a small square over the area with the right mouse. That will quick render just that small area, just so you can see the material. (I just saw Chrury's for the first time. Don't know how I missed that one. Love the Thomette!) Quote
Admin Rodney Posted December 31, 2007 Author Admin Posted December 31, 2007 (I just saw Chrury's for the first time. Don't know how I missed that one. Love the Thomette!) I missed it too. Sorry Chrury! The further adventures of Thom are always a source of interest to me. Someday someone should make an entire Thom movie. Glad to see you've found your problem Kevin. Thanks for that tip on rendering too. That one seems to come up often enough that we need to highlight it at the beginning of the lesson. Quote
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