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Matthew,

Its great to have you with us. :)

 

I thought it would be funny if KeeKat was looking up at a wheelbarrow falling just in front of him, but I couldn't get the motion blur to work (at all!)

 

That might be something that is best shown in an animation.

You'd probably have to add some other things to carry the whole idea over in a still image.

Keekat's pose might have to be more one of apprehension than anything.

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Dear Rodney:

 

Thank you, glad to be here!

 

I appreciate your looking over my image and the kind suggestions!

 

Actually the image is a still from a three-and-a-half second animation (I included the project file for your perusal,) as I thought that perhaps the scene had to be animated to get the motion blur to work, however whatever percentage I set it for had no effect. I did fool around with KeeKat's pose sliders but couldn't find any facial mouth/eye combinations that gave the expression I was looking for. I could have gone in and altered the geometry directly but thought that was a bit too far ahead of this particular tutorial.

 

-Matthew

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Name: Alex Maday

 

Exercise Completed: Exercise 1

 

Date Completed: 4/1/2008 (I really did complete it; not kidding)

 

Instructor: Rodney and community

 

Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Great exercise, A:M is different than Lightwave, in the regard that, posing with sliders (modifying the model), needs no explicit 'Make Keyframe' command. It seems that A:M creates keys automatically. Also, renders don't need to be created from a camera viewpoint - I did mine from the 'Birds Eye View.' And, lastly, I scaled KeeKat up, instead of dollying the camera closer. Now that I'm looking at the image, I'm not certain that the up-scale was rendered?

 

I'll play with the scale tool and try another render.

 

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Great start, Brad. We're looking forward to seeing more!

 

File size note - when rendering, if you change your .mov compression settings to Sorenson Video 3, then the size should be a lot smaller.

 

I am not seeing that compression setting. Someone had mentioned that before and I never found it. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

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1. Click the render to file button as normal

 

2. If you have the basic settings (ie with pictures), tick the Advanced box.

 

3. Change Format to Quicktime Movie

 

4. Open the Format property triangle and click Set

 

5. In the Compression type dropdown find Sorenson Video 3. Some people on Vista have said they don't have that option, so try Mpeg-4 Video or H.264. (I believe only Quicktime 7 plays H.264, and there are a few people here that still use QT 6.)

 

6. Change the quality to Medium

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1. Click the render to file button as normal

 

2. If you have the basic settings (ie with pictures), tick the Advanced box.

 

3. Change Format to Quicktime Movie

 

4. Open the Format property triangle and click Set

 

5. In the Compression type dropdown find Sorenson Video 3. Some people on Vista have said they don't have that option, so try Mpeg-4 Video or H.264. (I believe only Quicktime 7 plays H.264, and there are a few people here that still use QT 6.)

 

6. Change the quality to Medium

 

Okay it must be because my laptop has vista. I will have to check my XP PC when it is done rendering the file it is on now. Thanks.

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It is not available on either my Vista or XP Pro Machines.

I think encoding to Sorenson was dropped in QT 7 (although it will still play it), so it isn't so much Vista vs. XP, it's QT6 vs. QT7

 

MPG4 is somewhat faster to encode than H.264

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hey rodney i just completed my first lesson this is my image

 

Your first post in the forum and its Exercise 1?

You rock!

 

Congrats on getting started on TaoA:M.

Let us know of any problems you have along the way.

 

One thing though...

 

Before you get done with all 20 exercises you've got to do one of the following:

 

1. Render Keekat with his feet on the ground

2. Pose him so he is jumping!

 

Show us what you've got Chewy! :)

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Name: Tim Roberts

 

Exercise Completed: Exercise 1

 

Date Completed: Sep 22, 2008

 

Instructor: Manual, forum

 

Comments: Good to go through all of TaoA:M again and this time, complete every exercise. After doing some modeling and animation, I can really appreciate this nice manual. I love the forum feedback and seeing the work of others. Nice, positive driving here, folks.

 

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Name: Tim Roberts

 

Exercise Completed: Exercise 1

 

Date Completed: Sep 22, 2008

 

Instructor: Manual, forum

 

Comments: Good to go through all of TaoA:M again and this time, complete every exercise. After doing some modeling and animation, I can really appreciate this nice manual. I love the forum feedback and seeing the work of others. Nice, positive driving here, folks.

 

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OK, I thought I should start working thru these.

 

Here is Exercise 1: You're the Director

 

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