mouseman Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 One of my goals for 2008 was to go through all of the tutorials in TAoAM. Some of them I had actually done in years past, but I wanted to do them ALL. Well, I'm (mostly) done now. (I want to put in a little more work on 11.5.) I know most people post their entries under the topic for each chapter. The thing is, I haven't been doing that all along. But I did want to post them, and I thought since they were all almost done, that it might be easier on everyone if they were all in one spot. Is it just crazy to be thinking that? Anyway, I'm gonna post them one per response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 Exercise 1: You're the Director Short and sweet. Done on 2008-01-06. Original image was 242KB (PNG), I'm chopping it down to a more manageable 20KB JPG file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 Exercise 2: Chorus Line I originally did this in Oct 2000, and then again in Oct 2001. Latest version done 2008-01-06. I had to re-render to get the file size down to a more reasonable 108KB. The quality has suffered, however. chorus_line6.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 Exercise 3: Move It Done on 2008-01-06. Converted to JPG for size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 Exercise 4 : It's A Pitch Done on 2004-12-26. Re-rendered for size. Note - since I'm having to re-render things, I'll probably have to finish posting these through the week and on the weekend. pitch2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted April 1, 2008 Admin Share Posted April 1, 2008 Its great to see you posting your exercises. While the topics have historically been posted in each Exercise topic thats never been a requirement. Anything that will help you focus on the exercises and get through them is fine. We've tried at various times to move to individual topics for each person but its never caught on and generally we move back to the main topics. I'm always ready to give it another try. Now that TaoA:M has its own forum it might work better to have all the exercises for each person together. There are Pros and Cons to both posting methods. The way that works best for you... please feel free to pursue. So far... so good! Do you do requests? (I would like to see your pitch from a 3/4 or side view) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Do you do requests? (I would like to see your pitch from a 3/4 or side view) After rendering once in 3/4 view, I was a bit unhappy with it. I made some changes to make it seem less off-balance, and to have the right arm flow through a little better. pitch3.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Exercies 5: Take A Walk Done on 2008-01-21. 485 KB. Take_A_Walk_2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Exercise 6: The Door Is Stuck I worked on this in April, May, and June of 2005, then I did a bit more and rendered it on 2008-01-29. As always, there are some improvements that I could have made if I were to do it all over again, but I'm relatively happy with how it came out. I rendered this one as an NLE. 1312 KB; 18 seconds. stuck9.nle.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 They all look pretty spiffy - well done on Exercise 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Exercise 7: Can You Say That Done on 2008-02-04. Today I threw it in a Chor and rendered it. I wish the audio file provided had the noise cleaned up. Sorry I couldn't get the file any smaller. secret2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Exercise 8: Customized Car Done on 2008-02-04. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Exercies 9: Flower Power Done on 2008-02-11. I know I've done this a few other times in the past, as well, but I couldn't find it. So I re-did it for completeness sake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Exercies 10: FW-190 Fighter Done on 2008-02-21. It was slightly frustrating that the side and front views are not from the same height. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Exercise 11: Giraffe Done on 2008-02-18. I found this actually relatively easy. The hardest part was the decaling. The only thing I wish I had done differently was make the legs a little closer together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Exercise 12: Lip Poses Done on 2008-03-21. Is this all we were supposed to render? It looks like some people were rendering AI and O. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Exercise 13: Show Some Backbone Done on 2008-03-21. Show_Some_Backbone2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Exercise 14: Playing Marble Done on 2008-03-21. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Exercise 15: Eat My Dust Done on 2008-03-22. Eat_My_Dust2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 [skipping Exercise 11.5 and 16, as they are not complete. I will come back to them.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Exercise 17: Cosmic Bowling Done on 2008-03-24. I didn't do the fancy "get the ball rolling" that some of the others did. (I really liked the version that used NewtonPhysics instead of Rigid Bodies. Was that Caroline?) CosmicBowling2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Exercise 18: Wave the Flag Done on 2008-03-23. Didn't there used to be an old version of this where you set up a force that would make the flag wave in the wind? I kind of remember doing that ages ago, but I couldn't find it. Flag2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Exercise 19: Flying South Done on 2008-03-23. I had the same kind of bouncing bird problem that others had. I didn't dig in to see what was causing it. Flying_South4.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Exercise 20: It's Getting A Bit Hairy Done on 2008-03-30. This one stretched the limits of my poor little laptop after upping the density. The hair on the head is a little thicker than I might have liked, and I could have combed it a bit more in some places. And who can resist a quote from the movie? "Laugh it up, furball!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Exercises 11.5 and 16 will probably have to wait until next weekend, given how this week's plans are shaping up. I might have some time on Thursday night, but I wouldn't lay money on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Well done, what do you plan as your graduate project? With the hair, I had great difficulty too, but I've since realised that one of the settings in the hair is Realtime, and if you put it down to 2%, only 2% of the hairs show, which is enough to groom it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Well done, what do you plan as your graduate project? I hope to spend some time to complete the Eggs, Potatoes, and Bacon animation I made for one of the Mini Movie Contests. And after that ... I'll have to come up with another project. But first, I have 2 more Exercises to finish. I'm sad that I was not able to contribute to TWO. Between job and personal life, I don't have reliable time to donate; I sometimes go weeks without having time for animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I didn't realise that one was yours. I remember that. That is a good idea to have a blog of WIP. A way of remembering how far you have come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Exercise 16: Smoke, Wind and Fire (Particle Sprites) Done on 2008-04-09. I think I had done this one before, as well, but couldn't find it. (Now only 11.5 Making a Face left to finish. Hopefully that will happen this weekend.) fire_smoke_spark_wind.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 Exercise 11.5: Make a Face Done on 2008-04-20, though started a few weeks before that. I finally had some time to come back to this project. Similar to the airplane, this one was a little frustrating because the proportions of the front and side are not the same. An ideal situation would be simultaneous pictures for the front, side, and top from the same distance and with the same resolution using a near-isometric view. Part of modeling, though, is the fact that you will almost never have this situation. Also a little ambiguous were the corners of the mouth and the nostrils for the nose. I was able to fiddle enough with the nose to get it to look right, but I was still a little confused by the 5-point patch on the corner of the mouth. I probably would have found a way of doing it without the 5-point patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseman Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 And that's all of them. It only took me 11 or so years of owning A:M, but I finally sat down and worked through TAoA:M. Special thanks to Rodney and Caroline for your comments and suggestions throughout. You guys make a huge difference! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Congratulations! Here's the thread for sending off for the certificate: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=237655 You are right about how unlike real life if the rotoscopes were the same size. I have taken many many photos of people (and dog) in various positions, stretched them in Photoshop, and they have never come out right. The chin moves, or they blink, or somehow the top of the head shrinks. I'd be impressed if you managed without a 5 point patch. It seems to me that a round hole going into a square mesh will always need 5 pointers (like the giraffe ears) Anyway, congratulations again! I hope you learned some from it, even after 11 years - I sure did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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