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Old 02-07-2004, 01:39 AM   #1
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Hey! I have holidays so "ahhh, what the heck!" altho i can't really animate stuff, i'm gonna create a fairly simple model, perhaps something long and stringy with eyes. I'll put some pics up soon

oh, i'll be using the 2 metal sound clip

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Old 02-07-2004, 03:17 PM   #2
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well, i guess its back to work! I just doodled out a storyboard. I didn't draw my characters on there but i put an "X marks the spot" where they're supposed to stand in this shot.
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Old 02-07-2004, 03:39 PM   #3
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here's the main character who's gonna talk. I just used the arms from June's challenge except i just smoothed the muscles out. I had the legs sitting somewhere on my hard drive and the body and eyes is what i whisked up in 20 min. i just forgot to subpatch it. it's a fairly low-poly model.

oh and he does have eye brows and eye lids.

can someone suggest how to put a mouth on this guy?
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Old 02-07-2004, 03:39 PM   #4
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mouth in there thnx to puppet for help!
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Old 02-07-2004, 06:13 PM   #5
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looking good

as for the mouth you can either do what i did which was to smooth shift a line of pollys inwards and shape it to give the inside of the mouth.

or

you could make an external mouth with just a pair of lips with this you may have make the teeth hidden until you use the "F" mouth shape.

hope you can understand what i mean
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Old 02-07-2004, 08:45 PM   #6
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the eyelids look kind of messed but they're actually fine. don't know y it looks wierd this way. the little line sticking out of him are the skelegons. Yay! Riggin is almost complete!
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Old 04-07-2004, 07:26 PM   #7
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here's what my other character which eats the metal might be like. I created it from scratch in about 15 min. I think i'm gonna leave it like this, perhaps make it just bounce around.
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Old 04-07-2004, 08:13 PM   #8
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here's a test render that i did. My first attempt to animate and lip movements properly. I think its good by my standards.

But i noe that there's a lot of problems around the shoulders and fingers which can be easily fixed later. Rite now i was focusing on doing the anim.
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Old 04-07-2004, 08:20 PM   #9
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i'm having a problem with the audio. When i load it it says:

"The specified WAVE format is not supported by direct sound"
then it says:
"Null points subroutine call"

what in blazes is that? some help please!?!
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Old 04-07-2004, 10:06 PM   #10
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actually forget what i said before there was a problem with the wav file but ive fixed it now by resaving it as microsoft wav
it should work for you ill attach it to the rules post if i can


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Old 05-07-2004, 12:43 PM   #11
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I love the feet . I think if you have the right textures and the right render, simply models like the last screenshot usualy turn out awsome .
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Old 06-07-2004, 09:49 PM   #12
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sorry guys, i probably can't go on for this comp this month... I got new job as a model rigger in a studio! (*surprising for a 15yr old!*) yay! I wont be able to work on this tho. I just wanna wish good luck to all the guys taking part in this comp. i would love to see how this turns out.

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Old 06-07-2004, 09:55 PM   #13
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sorry to hear zeeman...or should it be congratulations lol

good luck with the rigging
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Old 08-07-2004, 05:54 AM   #14
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Congradulations Zeeman on your early opportunity.
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