This is the short that me and 12 other students (plus 3 faculty members) worked on last summer (2005) at Digipen. I've just been pretty slow to get it online. For those interested, I worked primarily as an animator on this production. I've got a low res version and a high res version. Unfortunantly I don't have enough…
I honestly don't think Zremesher will cut it for animation or anything that is supposed to deform in a professional way. You really need granular control. Many people paint weights and paint weights... and then paint the weights some more when it's really the topology that's fighting them. I need to place my verts at…
What your friends said is nonsense. People could make great looking art five years ago, and current laptops days are quite capable of rivaling those machines. And honestly the only time I really used dual screens was when I did webdesign and switched a crapton between source, FTP, folders, and web version (in several…
Kotaku: I'll take a paper bag with a big pile of crap in it. GlassDoor: Wouldn't you like something else, like beer? Kotaku: No I'll take the crap thanks and hurry, I have a deadline and I need as much of this stuff as I can cram into some kind of an article. GlassDoor: Ok... here's your crap... Kotaku: WOA this isn't my…
This may have been asked, i didnt read all responses.... In some of the levels. specifically the first two posted. Things seem rather chunky lowpoly looking. From the looks of the wire frame, you guys did a great job of poly conservation. So why didnt you spend more tri's to round things out a bit more? Infernal engine a…
except for that one ati x400 ( ? ) card i once had that wouldn't show normal maps in high quality render mode, i never had a problem with maya and consumer graphics cards maya pretty much supports all graphics cards perfectly ! at my job in boston at wmi we actually had one quadro card laying around and pop that in to see…
It's traditional enough for websites to make up news on April Fool's that you shouldn't be toooo offended by it. The only people who are expected to be "gotten" by April Fool's news are the people who haven't been reminded what day it is yet ... not people meant to be made fools of. I was totally taken in by the news that…
Thank you very much for the advice! I think you are right that I better not start from scratch. I've been doing some research on this topic and luckily I found a character framework called UMA for Unity which seems to pretty much fulfill my need. It more or less supports my assumption A I mentioned above. I'll invest some…
Thanks guys! Shep: yeah because of the flange distance all you'll be able to do is make a macro lens like that, unless you can take a lens and modify it like i did. I just ordered a medium format lens for like $36.…
This is exactly type of animation I'm working on right now! Ofc this is still a WIP, but heres a Gif of how far I got with my fight scene from FMA Brotherhood! Your browser does not support HTML5 video! https://i.imgur.com/Yv7zwYR.gifv Right now a big thing I needa re-examine is the timing of the action and deciding what…