How about showing off to the CGtalk forum

#7

Check out my website. The animations and models are all done in AM. There will be more coming so check back every week or so. I have about 5 new models ready for animation and will be testing them out soon.

http://www.digital-sorcery.com

#8

Railway hardware from the first half of the last century - a combination mail/passenger car.

http://www.netcore.ca/~reynolds/catalog/mail_car_pics.htm

  • mostly splinage with a few bump decals
  • minimal interior detailing
  • 22 materials
  • 29,575 patches

No decals were used to apply dirt to any of the surfaces.

My thanks to Brian ā€˜balisticā€™ Prince for his suggestion for a material to simulate wavy sheet metal.

Rodger

#9

Itā€™s old and hevy.

Did it about two years ago in order to se if AM could handle a 50000 pathes model. It couldā€¦sort of.

As you can see the images are there but the model was a pain to handle in AM even thoug I had split it into 4 parts. Just loading the project takes around 10 -15 minutes.

Tiger 1 tank:
http://home.worldonline.se/hellborn/tiger/index.htm
http://home.worldonline.se/hellborn/tiger/index2.htm

#10

wow! very detailed. I know what you mean about long load times, my current project is a bit of a c**t in that respect.
hereā€™s a WIP:
http://home.earthlink.net/~emol/images/concept.jpg

#11

Thatā€™s coming along nicely, Finkster!
And the detail Hellborn modeled into those tanks, wellā€¦ :bowdown: wow

#12

Well, as long as yu asked, you can see some models and animations I did in AM at
http://lindawestbrook.com/animations.html
I am really looking forward to doing more but I am waiting till stability issues get worked out or I can afford a new software.

Linda W

#13

Wow! Some sweet stuff there!

I need to get Den Beauvais to come on over and cause some trouble :slight_smile: Heā€™s been doing some Alien and Predator stuff thatā€™s very impressiveā€¦

Hereā€™s a few oldies, and a couple more recentā€¦

ftp://ftp.hash.com/users/joewllms/Samples/Hunterā€™s_Homeland.jpg

ftp://ftp.hash.com/users/joewllms/Samples/Tank-Hunter_7-8-01.jpg

ftp://ftp.hash.com/users/joewllms/Samples/HunterGlobal1.jpg

ftp://ftp.hash.com/users/joewllms/Samples/HunterMeshMorphDIVX.avi

ftp://ftp.hash.com/users/joewllms/Samples/Bike1-27-03.jpg

I wish I had more time to work on AM stuffā€¦ LW has been eating a lot of my time lately, but if they fix the AM rendererā€¦ who knows?

Joe W

#14

I love that Huner global shot. I heard Joe spent many a night at the local gentlemens clubs getting reference pics :stuck_out_tongue:

#15

Now why would I tolerate the smoke and noise, when everything I need is right at the end of my Cable Modem - heh, heh, hehā€¦

Actually, sheā€™s based on a painting by Simon Bisley, which I hope at SOME point to (re)create in 3D - then have a print made and hang it on my office wallā€¦ (BTW - that model is still a WIP - needs better texturesā€¦)

Anything to keep the Mormons out of my office - LOL!

Joe W

#16

JoeW,

Please tell me you use porcelain or average normals on your models! They are so smooth! The ā€œMoonā€ character on your site, who sings to Norah Jones, was she done in A:M? Fantastic stuff! (No, Iā€™m not overdoing the exclamation marks.)

#17

Thatā€™s awesome work Joe. How about posting it on the CGtalk main page and see what the rest of the worl thinks, maybe score one for A:M. Jim could post out there too with out fear.:bounce: :bounce:

Cheers, Graham

#18

Originally posted by JTalbotski
[B]JoeW,

Please tell me you use porcelain or average normals on your models! They are so smooth! The ā€œMoonā€ character on your site, who sings to Norah Jones, was she done in A:M? Fantastic stuff! (No, Iā€™m not overdoing the exclamation marks.) [/B]

Well. I found the answer on your site with this image:

ftp://ftp.hash.com/users/joewllms/Other/wireframe.gif

Thatā€™s not an A:M wireframe. Maybe that explains the smoothness.

#19

Moon Juju is Lightwave. I believe the rest of his models are AM, although Iā€™m not sure about the motorcycle.

#20

MoonJuju is Lightwave, motorcycle is pure AM. Pretty sweet stuff.

#21

Jim, I know you are on a Mac, but if you can view Dvix, look at the one that Joe provided in his links. It shows a turnaround of the women in wireframe aswell, and that has to be made in AM.
I agree, letā€™s see some of your work on this site.

-Stephen Millingen.

#22

Originally posted by JTalbotski
[B]JoeW,

Please tell me you use porcelain or average normals on your models! They are so smooth! The ā€œMoonā€ character on your site, who sings to Norah Jones, was she done in A:M? Fantastic stuff! (No, Iā€™m not overdoing the exclamation marks.) [/B]

Thanks, Jim :slight_smile:

No, I donā€™t use Porcelain - itā€™s too unpredictable and it doesnā€™t shadow correctly, and I donā€™t know what average normals isā€¦ hmmmā€¦ .have to look that one up. Some of the models on that site are Lightwave sub-dā€™s, and I think those might be the ones youā€™re looking atā€¦

The MoonJuju was built initially in AM, then brought into LW and converted to SubDā€™s. The animation youā€™re talking about is a LW animation (thanks again for the compliment - unfortunately I see everything WRONG with it anymore - LOL!)

Nicco is correct - the bike is AM. Iā€™m using the light rigs that Yves Poissant (pardon my spelling, please) has posted on his site. If you havenā€™t messed with them, you should - they are very cool. That beast is racking in at over 35K patchesā€¦

Thanks also to Graham and Stephen - I guess Iā€™ll have to post some stuffā€¦ never have been able to resist peer-pressure (joking) ā€¦ :slight_smile:

(jeeez I feel like someoneā€™s been looking through my drawers!) :slight_smile: - I hope there wasnā€™t any dirty laundry in thereā€¦

BTW - There is a Mac version of DIVX at www.divx.comā€¦

Joe W

#23

Stephen,

Yes, thanks, I did see the wireframe divx movie. Maybe thatā€™s what made me think it was all A:M. I think you should be posting your stuff here (Briar Rose).

Graham,

Thanks!

JoeW,

Thanks for the answers. Average normals was, for a short while in v9, an advanced property that you could use that did what porcelain did. But it got taken out sometime in v9 or 9.5. It was easy to smooth just certain areas of your model that you knew werenā€™t going to be animated much. I would like to see that return, but work better, also.

Does the Hunter model have a rig of your own making? Smartskin?

Sorry for looking through your ā€œdrawersā€, but it was an inspiring experience!:slight_smile:

#24

Originally posted by JTalbotski
[B]

-snip-

Does the Hunter model have a rig of your own making? Smartskin?

Sorry for looking through your ā€œdrawersā€, but it was an inspiring experience!:slight_smile: [/B]

Jim,

Yes, Hunter has a relatively rudimentary rig with smartskinning. I donā€™t really like the rigs that do too much automatically, as the ā€œautomaticā€ part tends to get in the way at the worst times. Smartskin is something that STILL eludes every other package out there. They may claim they have it, but they donā€™t have a clue as to how it should workā€¦ ah, but I digress.

I also agree with you about Stephenā€™s stuff - some excellent animations there. Makes me think I need to work on that moreā€¦ if I only didnā€™t have to sleepā€¦

Iā€™d also like to see your stuff up - I mean, If I have to post, you have to post, too - itā€™s only fair :slight_smile:

JoeW

#25

Thanks Jim and Joe, (that has a nice ring to it)
Iā€™ve got nothing new to post, but Iā€™m setting aside some quality time with just me and AM this weekend, so hopefully I can produce something worth showing here.

-Stephen Millingen.

#26

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.