Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted November 15, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted November 15, 2009 That's lookin nice! Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 15, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 15, 2009 Thanks Robert. I want the two main love interest to be closer in age and more real (not realistic). Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 18, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 18, 2009 Finally had some time to work on Stone again. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 18, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 18, 2009 I have tried to get rid of the white spot in the corner of the mouth. I have not been able to rid of all of it. It has to do with sss and the sharp angle of the patch going into the corner of the mouth. Steve Quote
steve392 Posted November 18, 2009 Posted November 18, 2009 Steve could you make that part thicker maybe that might work Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 19, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 19, 2009 Thanks! Here is one last shot of Stone. I will be gone for a few days for a early Thanksgiving. Will be back first of next week. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 28, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 28, 2009 Had some time to play with leather and jean material Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 29, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 29, 2009 Tweaking the jeans for now I am finished other than adding a faded decals Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 30, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 30, 2009 New shirt added today. Now onto hair. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 30, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 30, 2009 Here are the two Love Birds now Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted November 30, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted November 30, 2009 Thanks Steve and David! I forgot to turn on all the settings on both characters. I had to reinstall after hardware issue so here are the two with everything turned on. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 1, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted December 1, 2009 This program still amazes me. I have been playing with lighting for when the two love birds finally see each other. Quote
TheSpleen Posted December 1, 2009 Posted December 1, 2009 I cannot wait to see these in action! Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 14, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted December 14, 2009 Made a second trip to WDW this year and of course I took the drawing classes at the animation part of Hollywood Studios. Talking with the artists are either 2d or 3d Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 17, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted December 17, 2009 Sorry about the last post. I tried to post from mobile phone and things got left off. What I was saying is that the artists are either 2d artists that have been trained to draw Disney characters. Or they are artists drawing 2d figures but have an interest in 3d. Most have never used a 3d software program and really not interested in learning. Only a handful are actual animators using 2d or 3d techniques. I guess I was suprised by these statistics Steve Heading back to cold in a couple of days. Quote
steve392 Posted December 17, 2009 Posted December 17, 2009 That seems strange to me ,I would have expected 3d would be most popular thesedays Quote
TheSpleen Posted December 17, 2009 Posted December 17, 2009 Sorry about the last post. I tried to post from mobile phone and things got left off. What I was saying is that the artists are either 2d artists that have been trained to draw Disney characters. Or they are artists drawing 2d figures but have an interest in 3d. Most have never used a 3d software program and really not interested in learning. Only a handful are actual animators using 2d or 3d techniques. I guess I was suprised by these statistics Steve Heading back to cold in a couple of days. People fight change sometimes Quote
HomeSlice Posted December 17, 2009 Posted December 17, 2009 for when the two love birds finally see each other. Oh, you didn't mention this was an ... adult ... animation! I was wondering why you modeled the bodies under the clothes. I didn't realize the clothes are coming off. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 21, 2009 Author *A:M User* Posted December 21, 2009 Holmes I modeled it both ways. One with clothes for cloth simulation and the other with the clothes as a part of the body. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted January 22, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted January 22, 2010 Well after a month of work and the installation of couple of new networks, I can finally start working on AM and Cupid's Sick Day again. I want to explore how Robert's sock puppet and the cloth setup. Some new tutorials have been added over the last month. You guys have been busy. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted January 23, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted January 23, 2010 Trying to get a handle on bump maps. Here is a door with flat mesh with a bump added. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted January 25, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted January 25, 2010 How do you get the bump to lift? I have change the percentage but I can not get the panels to lift. Quote
HomeSlice Posted January 25, 2010 Posted January 25, 2010 What does it looks like with no color map (color map set to 0%) ? How about when the bump is set to something like 400%? What does it look like with displacement instead? Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted January 26, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted January 26, 2010 Ok that did it. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 8, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 8, 2010 I have had about a month off from the project due to work and the scary task of rigging characters. I started this last week and with the huge help of Mark and help of Steve and David, I have the first character rigged. I lost some of the settings of the hair and decals but should have those back shortly. Here he is in his first pose, PM! Steve Quote
itsjustme Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 He's a great looking character, Steve! It looks like he could use some weighting adjustments in the elbows and knees to get less pinching. I'm looking forward to seeing what you have planned for him. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted February 8, 2010 Hash Fellow Posted February 8, 2010 Here he is in his first pose, PM! He's turning out real well! A smartskin might be a good solution for the pinching. Quote
Paul Forwood Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 You have some terrific stuff going on in here, Steve. Quote
jakerupert Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 Very nice character, cool reminder of the looks of Mr CK aka SM.. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 8, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 8, 2010 Thanks for all the comments. He is based on a generic character that advertised for drug companies on tv. Of course in the short he is an out work super hero. Thanks David and Robert I will work on those areas. Steve Quote
steve392 Posted February 8, 2010 Posted February 8, 2010 I like the charector Steve ,I agree on the Elbows ,smartskinn what you can't get with weighting but be sure to turn off IK Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 9, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 9, 2010 ok started smark skinning. and had a question. If you apply the skinning by selecting the bone then smart skin but how do you mirror the skinning to the other side? For example, bending the arm and smart skinning the elbow bend on the right. how do you get the same settings to the left arm? Here is another questions. No settings were changed just two of the character in the chor, one has sss applied the other is not rendering. I reversed the action pose and no matter what I do the second version of the character the sss settings are not recognized. Edit: I tested with two different characters and the sss settings worked just fine, but two of the same characters caused the issue Steve Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted February 9, 2010 Hash Fellow Posted February 9, 2010 I believe it's >mirror all smartskin Black sss usually means reversed normals Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 9, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 9, 2010 Gene thanks Robert, they are the same model just drug into the chor twice and then rendered. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 9, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 9, 2010 Started playing with PM assignment. Here he is with cupids bow and arrow. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 11, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 11, 2010 Help. this one should be easy for you rigging masters. I have a quiver with a belt and about 10 arrows in the quiver. I want to rig the quiver and arrows as one, first off; each arrow must be rigged to move out of the quiver and will be shot from the bow. (the arrow will bend with the force of being shot out of the bow) The belt must be rigged so our hero can put it over his shoulder. Here are the questions for a beginner like me. Would using a null be the easiest way to keep the quiver from being congested with bones? Ease of use I want to use a null to move the quiver so do I use a translate and orient like constraint to the null from the quiver bone? Once again I would like to use a null (to hide all the bones in the arrows). The arrows will be in the quiver, each one will have to be drawn, what constraints would I use to tie to a null? Finally, each arrow will have to move with the quiver so will each arrow have to orient like the quiver? oh yea the belt? Not sure how to go there. thanks Steve edit When you set a constrant and want it be on all the time with out having to remember, how do you do that. I have to turn it on each action Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 11, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 11, 2010 As I am working on bones and rigging I thought I would explore the transistion between action files. Had a foot sliding but other than that it turned out ok. The two actions were poses I created as arms crossed and muscle. I then let the computer complete the transistion. Steve pm.mov Quote
itsjustme Posted February 11, 2010 Posted February 11, 2010 The easiest thing for the strap would be for the character to just have it on all the time...you could make the quiver the parent of a chain of bones that are the strap or use cloth. With the character always wearing the quiver, I would probably use cloth. If the quiver isn't going to be on the character all the time, I would a separate model and use "translate to" and "orient like" constraints with the chest bone as the target with an offset. The strap could be a chain of bones with a dynamic constraint applied to them...which is the direction I would lean if the character doesn't always wear the quiver. For the arrows, I would make a single arrow and then add them to the quiver with multiple instances in the Choreography using "translate to" and "orient like" constraints with the quiver as the target. Then, you could turn off the constraints on an arrow that you want to use with the bow. Hope that helps, Steve. Quote
steve392 Posted February 11, 2010 Posted February 11, 2010 Steve you need to use the channel editor when animating ,Robert has a good tut on this ,heres an image of keeping the foot from sliding.To keep a pose on you need to set it on the settings ,when you edit the pose on the red line and choose settings then you should see a window with default ,max and minimum just set the default to on Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 11, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 11, 2010 Thanks Steve. I evidently moved the foot before I was ready to animate. I did not catch it until after the rendering. So once I corrected this I was able to stop the slide on the leg. But now that I am learning to animate again this tutorial will come in handy. Thanks David. I got the arrow and the constraints to work last night late finally. I had set up the relationship but never turned it on in the action or chor. Is there a way to have it always "on" between the translate to and orient like constraints? If I created an action of multiple instances of the arrow The belt is a hard one for me to figure out. I had not thought of it cloth? I am just now finishing the quiver. I have two types of arrows in the quiver "Lust" and "Love". There will be 5 instances of each arrow in the quiver. When I complete could you look at the design? Steve Quote
itsjustme Posted February 12, 2010 Posted February 12, 2010 I got the arrow and the constraints to work last night late finally. I had set up the relationship but never turned it on in the action or chor. Is there a way to have it always "on" between the translate to and orient like constraints? If I created an action of multiple instances of the arrow I'm probably not understanding the question, but I'll give a couple of options. If the arrow is one that will not be pulled out of the quiver, you can make it part of the quiver model and either not rig each arrow (they wouldn't move other than with the quiver that way) or add a bone to each arrow that is a child of the quiver so that they can be animated easily inside the quiver (you could animate them without bones using muscle movement, but the bones would make it easier). If the arrow is going to be pulled from the quiver, you are better off making it a separate model and adding it in the Choreography. If it were part of the character or quiver, it would be affected when the model bone for either is moved and you would have to do some counter-animating to compensate. You can use a "translate to" and "orient like" constraint to keep the arrow in the quiver until you want to use it, then you can set those constraints to "0". The belt is a hard one for me to figure out. I had not thought of it cloth? The easiest way would be to have the quiver always on the character. If the quiver was part of the character, the belt could just be CP Weighted so that it moves with the character, then the quiver could be a single bone so that it can be adjusted when the character is moving around. If the belt and quiver need to be adjusted by the character, you could make a chain of bones for the belt that are children of a bone that is the quiver. If you need automatic movement on the belt, you could put a dynamic constraint on the chain of bones or you could use cloth. When I complete could you look at the design? Shoot it at me. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 12, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 12, 2010 Ok David To answer that question, i had rigged each arrow in the quiver with the constraints but each time I went into the action file I had to turn on those contraints to pull the arrow from the quiver. Both ideas are something I had considered. The quiver and the arrows will be given to PM from Cupid since he is taking a sick day. Once he gets it I could have the quiver on him for the rest of the short. So I could have two PM Models (once I have completed the rigging (face rig)). One with quiver and arrows and one without. The arrows will be drawn and shot from the quiver as we go through the short. I will send it to you late tonight or tomorrow. I appreciate the help. This forum is a huge help, if for nothing else bouncing ideas around. Steve Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted February 12, 2010 Hash Fellow Posted February 12, 2010 So I could have two PM Models (once I have completed the rigging (face rig)). One with quiver and arrows and one without. Rather than have two versions of the character, you could make a pose on one to hide (make transparent or shrink to 0%) the things you don't want to be there all the time. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted February 12, 2010 Author *A:M User* Posted February 12, 2010 Robert Thank you for that simple and easy way to solve the problem! Steve Quote
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