Shirow Project Book#3 Side-Mission

#521

yeyeman9 - You can email me anytime, I try to reply within mins or hours at latest.

TEAM- I’m in the middle of a bit of a hardware/SW meltdown so sorry if things get a bit hairy right now!:blush:

#522

Originally posted by softdistortion
[colkai- Can you give me some tutoring in the team forum, cause I just don’t get MB.

Hey SD, no worries, though I’ll warn you, i’ve not put much time into it as yet, too much to do, damn day job takes up far too much of my time :frowning:

I’ts real easy to drop motions in and mix 'em up, I actually created that walk cycle by hand but by pulling in motions and you can really get very good animations in no time at all. One of the VTM’s shows this beautifully. Once you can build a set of good motions, you use them on any character you want, vutting and pasting sections and re-timing is a doddle.

I’ve just installed ‘skype’ at home last night (see the spinquad forums) - allows voice over IP, so if we can sort out time-differences and you were willing to install it, we could actually talk as well. It allows upto 6 people conferencing so that would real neat for ‘team-meetings’.

At work at the moment so can’t use it here. Catch you later. :smiley:

#523

Colkai- Thanks for the offer, but I think installing extras is what messed up 2 seperate computers on my end :scream:.

I figured MB has to be easy to use…I obviously need to spend more time on it and get rid of any preconceptions and expectations I have from using other SW packages.
Which VTM are you refering to…I scanned them, but don’t remember seeing that one…it sounds like just what I was looking for!
Thanks

Sllink- Don’t worry too much about the animation’s hands and turns and all. If you’re scrapping parts and redoing, just redo once. Then from now on just do the best you can and we can adjust around whatever small limitations there are in the motions. All in all you’re doing a fine job and I appreciate all the time you have put in to that sequence.:thumbsup:

I have a few less gray hairs cause you spared me from it!

TEAM- After the headaches of wrestling with equipment and software yesterday, I shut it all off and gave ShirowProject’s situation some thought…I wonder if maybe we are starting to raise our expectations of what we are creating too high. We started off with more of a “just move ahead and put it out mentality”. But lately I think a “make it better” approach is slowly growing…I’ll take the blame on that end, also I haven’t been as positive as I should be and also maybe haven’t been as repsonsive either. No excuses…
Also, there were some comments about thriving on pressure “so bring it on” …but maybe we are also getting a bit tired.
Lets take what time we need to sort things out and then get back to what ShirowProject and it’s teamwork is about! Without that it’s just not as much fun as it can be.

The members of this team…you guys, are the reason things have gone as they have. I want to restate my APPRECATION, RESPECT and ADMIRATION for all of you!

#524

Originally posted by softdistortion
Colkai-
Which VTM are you refering to…I scanned them, but don’t remember seeing that one…it sounds like just what I was looking for!

I’ll see if I can find it tonight to give you the name.
It’s all a question of time really - the beauty of MB is that it doesn’t take long to get back into it. Once you familiarise yourself with a few basics, it’s down to getting the animation right - which is as it should be :smiley:

As to the thing of us wanting to raise the bar, I guess it’s the nature of the beast. :wink: As you get better, you strive harder, but for sure, there is a danger of reaching too far for the needs of the project. My wife is a ‘traditional’ artist and can never leave a new piece of work alone, a tweak here, a colour change there…
weird us creative folks! :stuck_out_tongue:

#525

Thanks Colkai- Hopefully I get things sorted and can get into it again.

You’re right about the tweak thing. I swear I sometimes spend ages tweaking and looking back to realize the original was good enough. Unfortunately I think the perceived expectations we are feeling is also adding to the tweak factor. It’s not something we can’t deal with, we just have to quit thinking about what public opinion is and keep having fun with this project. The rest will fall into place as it has been doing so far :thumbsup:

#526

Can not say very much at the moment, but might have a surprise for you guys later, do we have a good rigger?

and no its not a guges-d, thats not ready yet,

not sayin what in case my sculpting skills dont meet my expectations, but i think i might be able to pull it off:wip:

#527

ooooh…ooooh…I need some cheering…weeeeeeee…
can’t wait.

Our official rigger is Sllink…
Colkai is showing some MB chops too. Could we possibly have a team of riggers in the making??? :love:

BTW took a break from my repair headaches and found some VERY good LW clips- posted in team forum >RnR lounge section>KoolKlips2

#528

Originally posted by softdistortion
[B]ooooh…ooooh…I need some cheering…weeeeeeee…
can’t wait.

Our official rigger is Sllink…
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Huzzah for you guys !

Everyone stand up in your chairs and do the wave !

#529

Hey, I think we just found our new train conductor! LOL

#530

#531

LOL!

#532

LOL>>

I grabbed it for an avatar somewhere too:thumbsup:

#533

Man you guys have been having to much fun today! I’m glad theres four of these guys since we have two trains with two engines apiece!!! LOL! Thanks The-Maestro!
Thanks to SD I have been cleaning my system all day. Managed to dumb over 7gigs of crap. Now I just need to back up the hard drive, put the new drive in and I’ll be happy again.
I’m excited and can’t wait to see what your working on jayreef. Your work never disappoints me!

#534

Hey, if you guys want a good chuckle to perk the day, go to the team forum Tuts section under Sllink’s MB tutorial.
Colkai just walked me through MB characterization setup. I posted a clip of the test motion I setup with his help and also posted our Messenger conversation as he tutored me…It’s sad but true. :slight_smile:

Thanks again Colkai!

#535

Dude - like not a problem - some PM’s comin’ at ya as well!

#536

If we can get MB into Our animation pipeline with Sllink/Colkai…maybe someday me???..things are gonna really rock!:thumbsup:

#537

LOL! I liked that Messenger convo. I still say your ahead of me SD! But I think I’m going to go ahead and take another look at MB here real shortly.

#538

Hehe…The more the marrier…If we keep going we’ll be renamed MBproject. :applause:

#539

Hurray - Sorry coulde’t keep it in. Just got an Email from Wes and my copy of ‘Lightwave 3D 8 Lighting’ is being shipped right now. Good time since I was just working on the lighting rig for the train/dropship scene!!! Still dl’ing that divx MB file colkai added. I hate this 56k modem. I need to move someplace where I can get something faster.

#540

Happy for yah finally getting what you paid for…but You know that you going on 8 will probably put a crush on our file sharing LW scenes…I know…I know…“It will all work fine” they say…oh me of little faith and too much painful experience…lol

Oh my…56k? now I really feel bad for those PS mega files I sent way back when:blush: