Links to Earliest Web Pages with Hash AM Training material

[Samaritan2]

The Oldest Hash AM training material on the early web sites of 1999 when I started using version 10.5 were excellent for beginner self education in modeling animation rigging and virtually the best introduction of Computer Graphics and Animation movie making.

Can any one direct us to the links of those old web sites. I do have some old copies of some of those web pages in HTML format, but due to Author copyright constraints am unable to offer them even freely to Hash AM enthusiasts!. Please help as that material was easy to understand and experiment with even on Windows_XP. They opened up the extensive versatility of Hash AM to me. I use Hash AM even to this day to design 2D images with excellent results that I export to other CG packages for processing.

[Rodney]

Sadly, short of content that has made its way to the Extras CD and Extras DVD the most likely way to get to old copies of those sites is via Archive.org's Wayback Machine.  Even there a lot of the connectivity has been lost over time.

 

If you are dilegent however... treasure can be found.

 

Try looking for Animation:Master users of the past whose websites might be archived:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/19970120055548fw_/http://www.hash.com/users.html

 

 

This will take you to where you can find different vintages of users listed on via www.hash.com:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20050701082243/http://www.hash.com/

 

[Rodney]

Here for instance is an archived site of Emilio Leroux... author of the Sweeper Plugin...

Where his older SetBias plugins is described and can still be downloaded.  (likely only  works on old releases of A:M)

 

(https://web.archive.org/web/20041220104344/http://www.moscafilms.com.br/emilioleroux/amplugins_setbias.html)

 

Aside:  Emilio was the first to clue me in to the power of tweaking biases on splines. 

[robcat2075]

I agree that Wayback machine is your best path for recovering old user-written tutorials.

I recently reconstructed Jeff Cantin's splinesmanship tut from that.

If you know an old URL, it is a place to start. Note that the Wayback Machine may have archived a site many times, but not all of them may have the same resources (like JPGs, files to download, etc.)... so you have to check many of them.

Some may be incomplete in every instance.

 

[Rodney]

Finding resources sites like Vernon Zehr's 'The A.R.M.' and JIm Sherwood's 'Sherwoods Forest' are particlarly useful because collected sites, links and resources.

Definitely look through those.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20050706040914/http://www.lowrestv.com/arm/

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20060103000908/http://www.hash.com/sherwood/index.asp

[Rodney]

I thought Yves Poissant's website was largely lost but most of it can be retrieved.

Keep in mind that many resources have been brought forward in some way or other.

Some resources have made their way to the Extras CD or DVD and others right into Animation:Master itself.

 

Many of these primitive shapes can be found in the A:M's internal Library:

[Rodney]

What the heck...

I always thought Tony Lower-Basch was awesome but... How in the world did I never see his Simple Stanley model/rig?

 

Move the character anywhere and the rig stays in place.

FK/IK, Center of Gravity and all sorts of other neat things.

 

Probably broke the model in messing around with it.

This retrieved from a link on Vernon Zehr's A.R.M. site.

TLBSimpleStanley2024Revisit.prj Stanley.txt

[Samaritan2]

Thanks Rodney! The PRJ file and TXT file are fantastic. Will use them. Only Which version of HashAM will the PRJ work on? I have v10 V15 and V19.

[Rodney]

The project I've uploaded should open in v15 and v19.  

Probablly not v10 but it's easy enough to try.

When in doubt use v19 unless there is some specific reason to go back versions... such as to use plugins are features no longer included in later release.

Plugins usually need to be recompiled after time passes due to various changes both internally and externally to Animation:Master.

I believe the attached in this post is the original project and that should open fine in v10... all the way through v19.  A:M will prompt when saving to update so you'll have to make a decision at that time.

 

For those that are curious you can also see various things that I modified. 

 

Stanley.zip