Caroline Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 So sorry, Mark - I'd forgotten his site is down - I have requested him to repost it, so keep an eye out for it! Notebook - that's what it looked like to me, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlummel Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Name: James Lummel Exercise Completed: #2 Date Completed: 2/12/2007 Instructor: A:M Tutorial Video & Manual Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Learned a little on camera placement as well on this tutorial. A:M v13q uses a different rendering interface and things like antialiasing are no longer in the dialog. Ex2_CanCan.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effreek Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Name: Jonathan Webster Exercise Completed: Exercise 2: Chorus Line Date Completed: 2/10/07(kinda late in posting) Instructor: The Art of Animation Master Book Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoid=1928802975 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eburritt Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Name: Ed Burritt Exercise completed: 2 Date: 02/14/2007 Instructor: Manual Remarks: None CanCan.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinton Rocksmith Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Here is mine, Sadly for some reason, I'm really battling with A:M My Can Can file got trashed as A:M crashed as it was saving it. Then when I tried to re-do it, the knight is no longer in the assets. I've had small problems like this with most of my projects, it's pretty frustrating and I must admit, I walked away from A:M for over 2 months because of it. So anyways, here is the Chorus line that I just wacked together. It's not as good as the one that crashed as I put extra things in like movements in mouths, eyes, fingers and did some pushing and pulling of the animation so everyone looked like they were their own person. I just want to put it behind me now. Clinton cancan.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffi Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Name: Ralf Kampp Exercise: 2 (Chorus line) Date completed: 23.2.2007 Remark: Every chorus line should have a woman in it ... Chorus_line2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliotclem1 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Name: Elliot Clements Exercise Completed: Exercise 2: Chorus Line Total Completed Exercises: 2 Date Completed: 23 February, 2007 Instructors: Manual Remarks/Suggestions: This exercise was a cool. I really liked doing it. Can i just ask why the curtains are flat? 2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted February 23, 2007 Author Admin Share Posted February 23, 2007 Can i just ask why the curtains are flat? Yes. By all means please do. Oh... you seek answers! I'm not sure this is the definitive answer but the set up of this scene (with materials) was creating an unnecessary rendering time for the lesson. If the exercise focus was on adding lights, textures etc. then it might be perfect for that. As its focus is on getting into character animation the scene was adjusted. The older exercise is still available and you may eventually see that incremented as 2.1 in my annotated TaoA:M book. An even better scene for exploring lighting and texturing and populating a scene would be the stage scene with a certain dancing rabbit and martian friend. If this exercise has a .5 related to it that project would probably be it. Lights, camera... action! Toon rendering and materials... its got it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbenefi33 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 An 1hr the book said Yah Right...LOL but I got it done had trouble with dragging the action on the character it kept shutting down yall may have slow the clip down it kind of play fast...LOL they wanted to hury up and dance guess cause of stage fright. The clip is in wmv I've tryed everthing to up load quicktime but for some reason it wont do it...Bummer Chorus_Line.WMV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logrus Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Nice job TBE. I think the reason why your chars are moving to fast is you didnt set the the end value right.. Have fun with the "Move It" project. I cant wait to see your poses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsqueezer Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Name: Brent Lowrie Exercises Completed: 2 Date Completed: March 27, 2007 Plugging away... Link to my Exercise 2 movie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainmuffin Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Here's my Chorus Line: cancan.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted March 30, 2007 Author Admin Share Posted March 30, 2007 Something looks a little strange with their arms Lazlo. Hmmm... Maybe this was their first audition? (too shy! Next!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainmuffin Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Interesting... I didn't tweak anything, though. I just dragged and dropped... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted March 31, 2007 Author Admin Share Posted March 31, 2007 Interesting... I didn't tweak anything, though. I just dragged and dropped... Thats why it caught my attention. I'll have to investigate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbeery Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Name: Jim Beery Exercise Completed: Chorus Line Date Completed: 3-31-2007 Instructor: TaoA:M pdf version Remarks: The rigs on models are so smooth! Can't wait to see whats next. TaoAMDance2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logrus Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Name: Jim Beery Exercise Completed: Chorus Line Date Completed: 3-31-2007 Instructor: TaoA:M pdf version Remarks: The rigs on models are so smooth! Can't wait to see whats next. TaoAMDance2.mov That they are, Nice job on the chorus line, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted March 31, 2007 Author Admin Share Posted March 31, 2007 Wow. That certainly turned out nice. A confession here: I noticed a really interesting effect in your background. I looked closer to investigate what did I discover... dust. My screen was collecting dust in all the right places. There's a secret to texturing and lighting in there somewhere... maybe.. muddy it up? Seriously though... great job! --------------------------------- Anomoly Tracking Journal - Day 2 --------------------------------- No arm swinging problems there. Investigation continues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rojon Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 CanCan.mov Rod Muller Exercise: 2 Chorus Line Date Completed : 04/01/2007 Instructor: Manual - Video Tutes - Forums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecomics Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Name: Roger Christenson Exercise Completed: Exercise 2 Date Completed: 5 April 2007 Instructor: Here's my result from exercise 2. ex2.avi Just wondering if it makes any difference if the exercises are completed from the book alone or from the videos? . . . Answering myself: From the next exercise I learned the videos are more detailed and very valuable. -Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swooster Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Name: Steve Wooster Exercise Completed: Exercise 2 ex2.mov Date Completed: 4/13/2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecomics Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Good job, Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Name: Geoff Leatham Exercise completed:2 Instructor: none CanCan.mov dont know if this loaded srry if it didnt ill repost later if it didnt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Worked fine, Geoff - great to know that you're finding your way around A:M, on the journey towards TWO. Have a look under the render settings (advanced mode), click the arrow next to format, with a .mov chosen, and click Set. Change the Compression Type to Sorenson 3, and your movie size shoud be even smaller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Worked fine, Geoff - great to know that you're finding your way around A:M, on the journey towards TWO. Have a look under the render settings (advanced mode), click the arrow next to format, with a .mov chosen, and click Set. Change the Compression Type to Sorenson 3, and your movie size shoud be even smaller. kk ill try that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian_ruvalcaba Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Can Can TIME!...Next, Ex3! dancin_time.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 21, 2007 Author Admin Share Posted May 21, 2007 Wow...tiny! You are now officially the new king of the miniature movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikePett Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 I too am done with exercise two. Here is a still. I did notice that the dance action needed to be set to cycle if you made the movie three seconds as in the online tute and not 2 seconds like in the book. Thank you to everyone who is making this happen/keeping this going. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 27, 2007 Author Admin Share Posted May 27, 2007 Thank you to everyone who is making this happen/keeping this going. Today that'd be you. Keep it up! BTW - Thanks for the tip. If I knew of the difference between the book/video in that regard I had forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specter Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Name: Andy Johnson Exercise: 2: chorus line Date: 6/2/2007 I wasn't able to load a video of this so I loaded a still. If anyone knows how to load an acutal video please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDblEK Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Name: David Jerrell Exercise: 2 Date: A while ago....though at a computer very near to here.... Here is my second exercise from the handbook. I ended up not saving it correctly the first time, and re-did it to show a family member some of the capabilities of this software. I'm going to have to track down my exercise one, as I can't seem to find it. When I tried to upload the avi file, I was not allowed, so here is jpg version of my. **Edit** The first file I tried is a .avi and it appears to be a blocked file type. The file size is 455k for a 2 second run (looks like I shorted by one second.) I converted the file to a .mov and it exceeds the 2 Mb file limit. I'm going to check the other options and see if I can get this uploaded. **Editx2** This time I changed the compresion from high to med which cut the file size from just over 2Mb to a little over 1.1Mb. CanCan1b.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Files must be under 2mb in size in order for them to be uploaded. Try rendering to QuickTime with the compression: Sorensen3 or MPEG4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohammad Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Name: Mohammad El-Abid Exercises Completed: 2 Date Completed: June 19 2007 Instructor: Rodney and that guy on the web tutorials Here is a link to the second completed exercise: http://www.geocities.com/name_here44/cancan.avi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Mohammad El-Abid, asalaamu alaikum - that link is dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohammad Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 wa-asalaamu alaikum wa ramtallah Should work now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeLapointe Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Name: Mike Lapointe Exercise: 2 Chorus Line Date: June 19, 2007 Comments: I finished a couple of the exercises before I've posted, so I hope I'm not making some mistake over and over again! Had a little trouble getting the file size down, but appreciate all the previous posts, more suggestions than I've had time to try out yet. Just been working through the book so far, should I be looking at the videos instead as I complete the new ones? Exercise2a.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaryin Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Name: Jeff Bolle Exercises Completed: 2 Date Completed: Monday, July 30, 2007 Instructor: Rodney (for inspiration) Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: That's Two chrline01.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GizmoMkI Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Name: Heller Couch Exercises Completed: 2 Date Completed: August 2, 2007 Instructor: Rodney and everybody else whoever posts on the forums Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: I've done this exercise by the book so many times over the years I decided to change the characters, which was no small effort since many of the newer models' rigs don't work properly with the older action files. Unfortunately I didn't spend as much time as I should have developing the lighting or anything else. Halfway through assembling this, I thought maybe this is what it would have been like if Robert Palmer had lived to a ripe old age. One oddity I ran into: When using the two instances of the background dancers, there seemed to be some sort of "crosstalk" with the pose sliders. When I tried changing facial expressions on one, it affected the clone instead. I wound up scrapping the idea. I suppose a solution might be to save them as individual models with different names first, but I didn't test that. Ex2_GizmoMkI.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Robert Palmer's dead? This is a sad day (only 4 years late according to wikipedia). I like the characters - they certainly can can can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Hello fellow Hash users! I'm re-familiarizing myself with the software since the last time I used it was in Ver. 5! I'm using the latest version of Ver. 12 at the moment, and I'm really trying to go back to basics as Ver.12 is much, much different than the Ver.5 I used many years ago. I'm working my way through TaoA:M, and I figured I'd post up my progress after I complete each exercise. So here it goes with the formalities... Name: Paulie G Exercise Completed: Exercise 2 For this one, I just went directly by the book since it was a pre-made action applied to the characters. The Knight's knee's arent' exactly right, but I think it has to do with the included rig. I'm sure there is an update of the rig that will fix that, but since this exercise was a drag and drop, I didn't feel compelled to fix it just yet. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=92...41282&hl=en - Paulie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GizmoMkI Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Paulie, see the first post in the thread regarding the Knight's knee problem, that should fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Paulie, see the first post in the thread regarding the Knight's knee problem, that should fix it. Thanks! - Paulie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playerktw Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Exercise 2, Chorus Line Kevin Woods 9/1/07 I've replaced the Knight with Kee Kat, I need to get to that area to download the Knight's knee fix Exercise_2.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamrock12 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 09 Sept 2007 Name: Kelly Exercise 2: Chorus Line Here's hoping this works! Exercise2.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Creaventure Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 I am rolling ... lol I am having fun with it .....actually i wanted them to dance the Macarena .... Name: Christian Markert Exercise Completed: Excercise 2 Date Completed: 09/26/2007 Instructor: Rodney off to No 3 ... yeah the cert gets closer ... lol excercise2768K_Stream001.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzzippo Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Here is my version of exercise #2 Name: Scott Bowers Exercise Completed: Exercise#2 http://www.livevideo.com/video/886B7869ABE...e-2-taoa-m.aspx Date Completed: 10-07-07 Instructor: The A:M community Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: It wont let me upload the avi file .....hmm I shall post it to live video and link it then. ~Zzzippo~ P.S. Im staying over at my parents house this week and man.......their ComCast goes out constantly.......It's certainly making it difficult for me to d/l the videos and upload my results. Remind me to give my DSL modem a big hug and a kiss when I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virus81 Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Name: BISHNU C MAL Exercise Completed: 2 (Chorus Line) Date Completed: 26 Nov 2007 Now I did the 2nd exercise in my own computer. After upgrading the vedio card driver, pose slider problem is solved. Having fun. Once again my sincere thanks to all for great support. Exercise_1d.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Glad you sorted out your video drivers. Great second exercise. One thing, though, you could probably make that movie a lot smaller in size (compressed I mean, not visually). You can do this by choosing the Advanced Render, then under Format > Save Options click Set. Choose Sorenson Video 3 for better compression. I have seen another choice for compression, but I haven't tried it personally - MPEG-4 Video, Key Every 10 frames, Quality low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virus81 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 It's good to know about "Sorenson Video 3" compression. Excelent result, size is almost reduced to 1/8 of earlier size. Thanks Caroline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmlewis Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Name: Glenn M. Lewis Exercises Completed: 2 Date Completed: November 29, 2007 Instructor: Rodney Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: I've tried several times, and I keep getting "Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload this type of file." It is an .AVI file, size=203KB, compressed with DiVX 6.0. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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