Admin Rodney Posted March 18, 2005 Admin Share Posted March 18, 2005 Note: Users of A:M 2006 (Yeti CD) please read information at this link for more on troubleshooting a problem with the Knight's knees. Read about it HERE . 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 III: Technical Directors Training TECHNICAL DIRECTORS TRAINING 14 - Playing Marble (Materials) 15 - Eat My Dust (Volumetrics) 16 - Smoke, Wind, and Fire (Particles) 17 - Cosmic Bowling (Dynamics) 18 - Waving the Flag (Cloth) 19 - Flying South (Flocks) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exercise 15: Eat My Dust ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- View the online video: Web (3MB) Download: Zip (2.8MB) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animateden Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Name: Den Dotson Exercises Completed: Fifteen Date Completed: Wednesday April 6, 2005 Instructor: Rodney (ready to hit the dusty) and that guy on the web tutorials kinda gettin used to the new web guy Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: No comments. Here is a link to the 15th completed exercise with the night strutting his dusty stuff (dust cranked up to show on web): http://homepage.mac.com/animateden/hash/eatMyDustsm.mov Thanks Rodney, -Den Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyj1112 Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Name: Tom Jansen Exercise: #15 Eat My Dust Date: May 3rd, 2005 Comments: I scaled down the dust a little bit, since, unless you are "Pig-Pen" from the Peanuts cartoons, how often do you really kick up THAT much dust with each footstep? Here's my clip: http://cybersummit.org/AM/Ex15.mov Thanks! -Tommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 4, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted May 4, 2005 Hehe. That actually scared me! Not the animation... that was cool. While waiting for it to download I went back to reading forum posts... Right in the middle of answering a post the scratchy walking sound started followed by the laugh... and I thought... what the heck??? I thought my answering machine on my desk was possessed or something. Good thing I remembered I had opened your movie or else I'd still be afraid to go near my desk! Now that I'm recovering... I'll go back and watch a few more times. Nice touch! Ypu make this animation stuff look easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyj1112 Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Hehe.. sorry for the startle! I couldn't help but add KeeKat into the scene. I was watching the Knight "resolutely" walk... and kept thinking he looked like someone had just given him a big wedgie! Then I started laughing... so I thought KeeKat would find it just as funny as I did, so he had to laugh and point too! Ahhh.... I'm so easily amused! -Tommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevernameless Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 Name: Tenez Waggoner Excercise Completed: Eat My Dust Date Completed: May 25, 2005 Remarks/suggestions: I was going to go back and render a longer one, but I lost the project. Keep forgetting to save before I close the window. Oh well. dust.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 26, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted May 26, 2005 Boom. You nailed this one too. Fastest exerciser seen thus far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo73 Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Name: Leo Mitchell Exercise Completed: #15 Dust Volumetrics Date Completed: 08 June 05 Instructor: Web tut guy Comments: Quick and to the point. I alway like clear discussions when dealing with effects. Eat my Dust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwaslen Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 I'm trying to do this exercise and I'm finding that the knight's feet are twisted when I apply the walk cycle in an action. I had the same thing with some of the other models. Any idea why this is happening? Can I download or get a different version somewhere else? I am using V11.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted June 21, 2005 Author Admin Share Posted June 21, 2005 Paula, You might try turning off Inverse Kinetics. Sometimes that can be a chore to work with. You should find the switch in User Properties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwaslen Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Thanks for the reply Rodney. If I turn off the IK, the walk doesn't work. In any case, I reloaded both action and model from the CD and only the right foot was twisted. I easily fixed that, so here is my exercise: Name: Paula Waslen Exercise Completed: #15 Eat My Dust Date Completed: Jun 21, 2005 This was a very straight forward exercise and something I had never done before. Eat My Dust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zowat Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Name : Erik Kirschberg Exercise Completed : # 15 Eat My Dust Date Completed 9/16/05 Instructor : Web Tutorial knightwalk.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-wheeler Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Name : Chris Wheeler Exercise Completed : # 15 Eat My Dust Date Completed 10/06/05 Instructor : Web Tutorial Ok I created a new "zombie walk" action for the night, rendered a test (see attachment) Ok good, dust! Then decided to drop Nighty into the wharehouse scene from the AM cd folder. Rendered 4 secs worth- eatmydust Owe noe! No dust! So I scaled nighty down a bit when I dropped him in there and checked that particles was on.......so what did I do wrong? Chris eatmydust2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elissa Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Name: Melissa "Elissa" Heldenbergh Exercises Completed: 15 Date Completed: Oct 14th, 2005 Instructor: A few years of A:M use, the book, and web tutorials, plus also doing the mentor program with Paul Daley. David Rogers book... Jeff Lew's DVD. Comments: I swear this tutorial refused to work in version that shall not be named. (cough, cough v9.0 & v9.5), but those dark days are behind us. dustyknight.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Name: Dhar Jabouri Exercises Completed: 15 Date Completed: Oct 30th, 2005 Instructor: Online Tutorials Comments: Short and to the point Dusty.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odog2020 Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Names: James A. Owens Exercises Completed: 1-10, 12-19 Date Completed: 22 October 2005 [attachmentid=10739] eatmydust1.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuep Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Names: John Kuepper Exercises Completed: 15 Date Completed: Nov 9, 2005 lesson15.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noewjook Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Name:Marc Vancouillie Exercise completed #15 Eat my dust Date completed 11/30/05 Instructor:t.a.o.AM book and reading in this topic what people have done before me. [attachmentid=11811] eat_my_dust_web.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkarpp Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 Name: Douglas Karpp Exercise: Exercise 15: Eat My Dust Date Completed: December 24, 2005 [attachmentid=12592] Ex15b.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinesmith Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 Name: Splinesmith(Kurt Lange) Exercises Completed:19 Instructor:the manual. Remarks/Suggestions for improvement: I forgot to post this when I did this a few days ago. Exercise_15.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMZ_TimeLord Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Name: Jody Krivohlavek Exercise Completed: Exercise 15 Date Completed: January 3, 2006 Instructor: AM Handbook, Video Tutorial and everyone that's ever posted to these forums. (Been around since the Playmation days ) Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Had fun playing with this... still don't have the motion quite right, but I'm eager to get on with the next lesson. EatMyDust.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossk Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Name: Ross Klettke Exer completed: #15 Date completed: 1-23-06 remarks: The knees on the knight got twisted around at times at it played through the resolute walk cycle, so I had to flip them around on some keyframes. dust.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert-Jank Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Name: Micah Jank Exercise completed: #15 Date Completed: January 24, 2006 remarks: a little Fast but overall i think it turned out well. Eat_my_Dust.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fybs Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Name: Claudio Ravenstein (fybs) Exercise completed: 15 Eat My Dust Date completed: 28. February 2006 Instructor: The handbook Had problems with the knights legs so I used incredible hulk instead. Fybs. Name: Claudio Ravenstein (fybs) Exercise completed: 15 Eat My Dust Date completed: 28. February 2006 Instructor: The handbook Had problems with the knights legs so I used incredible hulk instead. Fybs. 01EatDustAgain.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomike Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Mike Dalton Exercises Completed: 15 Date Completed: March 8th 2006 dusty.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert-Jank Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Thats is really good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobkoonce Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Done with Exercise 15 Name: Bob Koonce Exercise Completed: Eat My Dust Date Completed: 3-21-06 Instructor: Individuals on forum, TAoA:M, Video tutorials, and other material. Remarks/Suggestions for improvement: None at this time Any comments or constructive criticism will be appreciated. Thankx, Bob Koonce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo73 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Great Job Bob. Keep up the work. Your almost done. Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobkoonce Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Thanks Leo 5 more to go. Having trobles with the Giraffe though Bob Koonce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkyu111 Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Name: Stephen Molloy Exercise: #15 Date: March 31, 2006 Instructor: Wed video Remarks: this is done with two actions (resolute walk and trip )...i put the dust in both actions ( making dust 1 and 2 ) this was a mistake ......i found the dusts where overlaping and had to hunt around to cut out dust 2 for the first second and cut out dust 1 from the last second. next time i think just add dust to the chro that would have been easier. (That's after walking away for a day and come back to the project lol) knight_dust_four.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo73 Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Excellent Stephen. It's seeing people taking the exercises and adding to them to make it better. Keep it up, you are doing great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkyu111 Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Thanks Leo i'm just having a great time doing them. i was finishing the cloth exercise, i grouped the flag wrong ...when i selected the cloth group i couldn't right click on it ...so i just group the whole flag myself ...i set the wind and run the sim ...the flag blow off and hit the ground .....hehehe even mistakes are fun. SM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuboos Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 name: sam wiley Comments/suggestions: A:M dose not seem to be vary good with the dust volumetrics [attachmentid=16372] dustywalk.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neu_Type Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Name: James M Glover Exercise Completed: Example 15 Post the results of your work in the New Users Forum under the specific exercise topic. Date Completed: 31 July, 2006 [attachmentid=19075] Exercise_15.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo73 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Good job James, I like the way you changed it up and used a different character and put it in a scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LurkerAbove Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Name: Glen Clarkson Exercise Completed: 15 Eat My Dust Date Completed 8/22/2006 Knight with white dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted August 22, 2006 Author Admin Share Posted August 22, 2006 I could almost hear footsteps during that. (pound. pound. pound.) Nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyB Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 John Bailey Exercise 15: Eat My Dust August 25, 2006 [attachmentid=20001] http://media.putfile.com/Thom--Knight Couldn't resist this! JohnnyB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torak Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Name: Shane O'Sullivan Exercise Completed: Exercise 15 Date Completed: September 26, 2006 Instructor: None / Manual and Online Video tutorial Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: exercise15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAngus Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Yeah ! , heavy duty walk cycle. very good, lotta attitude there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyB Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Great dust clouds and a foot stomping walk. The only thing I noticed was that she sinks into the ground. With each step part of her foot disappears. You could probably fix it by going into bones mode, select the path and from a front view, tap the up arrow until her feet are above ground. That's the only suggestion I could come up with. Good job. JohnnyB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torak Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Great dust clouds and a foot stomping walk. The only thing I noticed was that she sinks into the ground. With each step part of her foot disappears. You could probably fix it by going into bones mode, select the path and from a front view, tap the up arrow until her feet are above ground. That's the only suggestion I could come up with. Good job. JohnnyB Actually my original idea was feet sinking into sand/dirt but changed my mind and forgot to raise her again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tralfaz Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Name: Al Dinelt Exercise Completed: Exercise 15: Eat My Dust Date Completed: October 26, 2006 Instructor: TAoA:M Here is my attempt for exercise 15. The knight didn't want to cooperate with the resolute walk, so I used the Hero Dude instead. Just needed to fix the arm movement. One thing I noticed is that when I did the initial single pass of the video, the dust clouds were nice and white and quite visible. However, when I did the final multi pass of the video, the dust clouds all but disappeared. Anyone know how to make the clouds more visible? Thanks... Al [attachmentid=21733] [attachmentid=21732] exercise_15_multipass.mov exercise_15_singlepass.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeetman Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Name: Al Dinelt Exercise Completed: Exercise 15: Eat My Dust Date Completed: October 26, 2006 Instructor: TAoA:M Here is my attempt for exercise 15. The knight didn't want to cooperate with the resolute walk, so I used the Hero Dude instead. Just needed to fix the arm movement. One thing I noticed is that when I did the initial single pass of the video, the dust clouds were nice and white and quite visible. However, when I did the final multi pass of the video, the dust clouds all but disappeared. Anyone know how to make the clouds more visible? Thanks... Al [attachmentid=21733] [attachmentid=21732] Hey Al, I love the Hero dude walk. It fits him perfectly!!! I had the same problem when I rendered my CGI X-Wing shot. Because I was pressed for time, I had to settle with a single pass. I never tried it but I contemplated maybe increasing the density of the dust so that when the multi-pass did it's blending, it would smoothen out. Here's my X-Wing take. If you look close at the nose as the X-Wing falls, you'll see the dust. I deliberately kept it subtle. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...st&id=21470 George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUDDHABUCK Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 EXERCISE #15 ANIMATED BY: KEITH (BUDDHABUCK) COMPLETED: 11/05/06 COMPLETION TIME: 30 MIN. EXERCISE_15.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Name: Caroline Begbie Exercise: Exercise 15 - Eat My Dust Date Completed: 25th November 2006 Here's the knight: [attachmentid=22544] What I learned: I think if you put the volumetric directly into the choreography, it works more predictably then when you have it in an action then the chor. I had no multipass issues when I transferred my dust out of the action and into the choreography. And if you're rendering with multipass=off, then the dust is white, but when you put multipass on, the dust takes the colour that you set. Here's my little volumetric fun: [attachmentid=22545] Exercise15.mov GreekVacation.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_black_mage Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 lol nice job man!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted November 26, 2006 Author Admin Share Posted November 26, 2006 Caroline, Another superb take on an exercise. Outstanding! Great information on the coloring of dust and effects if used in Action or Chor. I need to investigate that. You may have discovered a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Gamblin Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Name: Joseph Gamblin (Achilles Desire) Exercise Completed: Exercise 15 Date Completed: January 22, 2007 Instructor: None / Just the book Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Anyone ever seen Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? It always drove me nuts how the characters were stomping around in ruined cities for half the movie, and there's almost zero dust! About the exercise, I really wasn't too happy with the outcome. I really do think that you would get better effects by using a particle emitter in the shape of the foot and animate it so that you get some better directional control over the dust. First of all, it seems like the dust is coming up thru the foot. what should happen instead is when the heel is just coming down, the dust should be rushing towards the front of the foot, and then as the foot pushes off, it should kick out the back. However, I still think that the dust has its uses. You now the kickup from a jet's straffing run that we've al seen in the movies? This would work great for that. Oh, and I used the hulk instead and just used a little clip. Like I said, I wasn't happy with the results, but I'm too lazy to do it right, esp. when I'm this close to the finishing line. Hulk_Dust.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Gamblin Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Name: Joseph Gamblin (Achilles Desire) Exercise Completed: Exercise 15 Date Completed: January 22, 2007 Instructor: None / Just the book Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Anyone ever seen Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? It always drove me nuts how the characters were stomping around in ruined cities for half the movie, and there's almost zero dust! About the exercise, I really wasn't too happy with the outcome. I really do think that you would get better effects by using a particle emitter in the shape of the foot and animate it so that you get some better directional control over the dust. First of all, it seems like the dust is coming up thru the foot. what should happen instead is when the heel is just coming down, the dust should be rushing towards the front of the foot, and then as the foot pushes off, it should kick out the back. However, I still think that the dust has its uses. You now the kickup from a jet's straffing run that we've al seen in the movies? This would work great for that. Oh, and I used the hulk instead and just used a little clip. Like I said, I wasn't happy with the results, but I'm too lazy to do it right, esp. when I'm this close to the finishing line. Hulk_Dust.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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