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[antone-m]

I just woke up from my beauty sleep.
the bad news is that I’m still ugly,:argh: but the good news is
that I have some kool wips to check out !

lol hehehehehahahaha :bounce: well I`am feeling sorry for u hehehehe :twisted:

Tony, that lamp looks good but just as Juan said it looks like a Tim Burton style.
So to fix this , just take out the bends in the curves… and you also might
want to taper the top of the pole or just make the base a bit wider.

hmmm which curves can u show me on the pic for making taper this will be done

[BOY1DA]

Smooth out the curves, even smoother then I drew them below…

Like the curves in a french horn

[divanovic]

Ok guys, I’ll see what I can come up with today. Didn’t know that the first shot isn’t final, so I kinda went from there.
btw, how can I enable FPS display in my viewport, without making a preview? Is that possible in max? Also, I am doing everything as 25FPS,ok?

cheers

[BOY1DA]

Yea, well the first shot would of been final if no animators had joined on.
That would of been the end of this project, but we kept going
then Juan and yourself jumped on.
So it may or may not change based on our progress.

I’m not sure what you mean by FPS display.
not sure why you would want that.
but you can go to the controls in the bottom right of max
click on the hand icon and change it to the foot step or walk trough icon.
You then can use your arrow keys on your keyboard to walk around your shot .
Is that what you mean ?

The frame rate is 30 fps ntsc

EDIT: oh you mean frames per sec not first person shooter ?
I’ll check…

[divanovic]

No, I meant about a visual display of the current frame rate. It’s a part of UI showing the display rate, so when U play the anim in viewport U can see whether or not it’s truly realtime.
But nevermind, no fuss.
thanks

[Juancheitor]

Hi there!
my daily update
SHOT 08 pass 04

Have worked the face as well as your coments Omar.
Anything you eant to change, just tell me.
The bulb smash, do you have a secret trick to do it?
When you said I animate the ramp, you where talking about the material, weren´t you? because my bulb material is black in the material editor, I don´t see any ramp…

How is shot 3 going, is it ready to start when I finish this one?

[BOY1DA]

I like the right arm much better.
It is much more of a punctuation !

I still think it needs to be higher up in the frame.
The palm of his hand is about chin level now, rise his palm up
to about eye level or forehead level. Do you know how
to use layers with a biped, you can raise his arm without having to
key it all.

And maybe one more move of his head to the left.

I’m happy with it…
You can do some hair movement now and your done !

We have a few options for the smashing of the bulb.

1- particle animation

2- hand animated.

If you are in the mood to animate that , then go ahead it is easy to do.

you have to make a copy of the bulb and link the copy to the first one.
you don’t have to link it if you don’t need to it will be a swap out…

So when the first bulb hits his head the second bulb breaks apart.

you will have to cut up the second bulb , then animate the parts falling down.

in max you can animate the visibility of an object .
so you turn off the first bulb and turn on the second
one when it hits.

You can do this or I will… I’ll leave it up to you.

I will set up shot 3 for you now it will be ready by
the time you have your next update.

[antone-m]

great work Juan

so what do u think?:bounce: which one is better ?

[BOY1DA]

I like the second one…

I may have some ideas for some other styles as well but this one will do for now.
I will post images if I feel like to draw again

[antone-m]

I like the second one…

I may have some ideas for some other styles as well but this one will do for now.
I will post images if I feel like to draw again

lol can`t wait to see

[Juancheitor]

Well if the bulb thing is Ok, then it´s done.
Check it out

Let´s how we do with the dog

[BOY1DA]

The right arm looks better the bulb looks good too…

Let me know if the max file is on the server ?

[Juancheitor]

I am uploading it right now, should be there in 10 mins.
The only thing is that the biped has 2 layers of animation, because when I collapse them I get some unwanted pops. I don´t undestand… Just render the top layer.
The only max file in juan/shot08 folder.
Now, it´s time to sleep in Spain…

EDITED:
The file is in the ftp.

[divanovic]

hey guys, haven replied here for 2 days 'cause I got assigned to do some kitchen salt commercial, here in Serbia. It’s also done in Max, so I am spending some time learning to rig and skin in it. Commercial shouldn’t take more than a week or so, and I wanted U to know the reason for me being delayed.

cheers

[antone-m]

BOY1DA : you want the street lamp on the ftp

Juancheitor: awsome work my friend

divanovic : good luck

[BOY1DA]

Dejan:
Thanks for giving us a heads up, we will be looking forward to
your return to the project. As Tony said good luck with your
salt commercial.

Tony: yes upload that file.

Juan: I hope that dog rig is not giving you too many problems.
It was a real quick rigging job just so I could get out shot 1 at the time.
Looking forward to your next update.

As for me I’ve started rendering shot 8.
This shot will take a lot longer then the last shot to render.
So I may be rendering it for about a week…

I’m using 4 systems but one is way too old and slow to handle
v-ray so I may build another system this weekend using an old
dual p3 mother board and chip… so I can have one more system on the job.
Hopefully I can get that up and running without too many problems.
Talk to you all later.

[softdistortion]

Do you need a second P3 for that older system you are setting up?

[BOY1DA]

Everything is already on the board if that is what you are asking ?

Both chips and ram. All it needs is a case and a hard drive.
I have an old case but not sure if it will fit yet, and I’m sure I can dig
up an hard drive from one of my other systems.

The system that I will replace is a single p3 cpu mother board… that’s
the one that is too slow for the render farm now. It works okay with the scan line
render but needs more memory for use with v-ray.

I think that is more of a ram and virtual memory issue but
none the less that system is way too slow.

[softdistortion]

ah, ok…sounded like you maybe needed and extra P3 donated for that dual setup.

[Juancheitor]

Wow a whole week to render 7 secs!!! man how are you going to render longer shots?!?

The poor puppy is missing his knees and elbows, and an extra joint in the spine…
I am taking my time to pose them properly and build all the main breakdowns, so when you watch it you see the whole performance…
I am going as cartoony as possible with the dog.
I shouldn´t say it, but my shot is looking good

We would love to see some cool salt dancing on the kitchen, if you are allowed when you finish it Dejan.
What has happened to the rest of the team? where are the other guys!!!
Come on modellers!! Tony is working his butt off!!!