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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,237
    edited May 2019

    not a terribly good animation

    I am working on something better but had to rerig the Emu for iClone to create an animated FBX export, are a few incompatible issues

    the joys of different softwares

     

    iClone FBX import with Philemo meshed hair flatmapped in Ultimate Unwrap 3D

     

    I am now not so successfully trying to get this animation onto the original into Carrara

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:
    Bunyip02_Carrara said:

    Got to watch out for wild-life when you're driving around !

    very cool outbackish Bunyip...

    did you add an HDRI image or even a colour gradient to the background?
    I find it brings out the duco and chromes heaps much betterer when you do.

     

    UnifiedBrain said:
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    I know how much everyone wants a Wacky Emu that's been boned... so I've attached him here

    with the texture map which is needed for the model & fur etc.. 

    zipped up for you to experiment and improve upon... enjoy my emu smiley  yes

     

    Awesome model Stezza!  Much appreciated.  I tried to copy the smoothness or your render. Tough to match the master. :)

     

    While I'm heaping praise, I should add that you did a terrific job on the Orville.  It's the only network show that my wife and I watch.yes

     

    glad you are enjoying it and experimenting with lighting.. you can never have too many light bulbs wink

    as Wendy mentioned... better put a nappy on the ankle biter before that lady with a big stick comes by... otherwise I'll have to do another missing post render laugh

    The Orville model is only a general shape to the actual series model, but it's pretty cool I thought, thanks.. love the series as well.. up to S2 E4 at the moment when I get a chance to watch it.. between the cricket, footy and Call the Midwife it's a bit tight laugh

    heartheartheart thank yoo! 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is all about the nooks and crannies?

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    +1 for just butter. (preferably without added dragon ;))

    Sometimes I'll add marmalade or jam too.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,237

    Carrara render with an attempt to track the bones of an animation exported from iClone

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,173

    I ate one crumpet with butter and honey, and one crumpet with strawberry jam.  Both were very good.  yes  

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076

    awesome stuff Wendy.. I half expected the emu to break out with Gangnam Style for a moment there... I reckon the emu would give those direwolves in GoT a run for their money.. cool

    @diomede_Carrara I hope you toasted the crumpets first wink

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076
    edited May 2019

    today's Wacky model...  heart

     

     

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  • UnifiedBrainUnifiedBrain Posts: 3,588

    Bunyip and Diomede, thanks for the positive comments on the emu render.

    My aim was to show that Stezza's model is excellent, and that you don't have to be Stezza to get good results. :)

    In mimicking his render, the softness of the fur was the biggest challenge.

    Also, thanks to everyone for the warnings about TOS.  I appreciate your forum experience.  All you guys have been posting here a lot longer than me.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076

    thanks UB ... very flattering of you ... blush
    I'm the first to admit that I'm rough as guts... but that's because I haven't got the patience for anything that goes for over 1 hour .. as I get older that time is getting shorter.

    eg. I could never post stuff like Dart does... I woud be bored sh!tless after 10 mins.. my sister is a novelist but although I have a multitude of stories in my head I just can't find the effort to write it out like she does.
    I looked the other day for a call of submissions for some literary work of just 4,000 words max... I thought yep, I have a story for that in my head but just the thought of typing it out put me off.. so I didn't do it.

    Same goes for rendering stuff... any more than 20 mins and I'm cancelling out of it and working out how to make it shorter.. I could never use DS for that reason.

    anyways have fun with what you can do and make the most of it to please yourself.

    times up! cool  devil

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,235
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

     

    Same goes for rendering stuff... any more than 20 mins and I'm cancelling out of it and working out how to make it shorter.. I could never use DS for that reason.

    I recently had the same problem, trying to load a large Poser format file into Carrara, taking forever for the importer ... gave up and just worked in Poser.  A very rare situation, the model was really big  and what I was doing was pretty easy in Poser, didn't need Carrara's way better animation features.  Just ten seconds of the vehicle moving from point A to B ...

     

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076

    there are a few poser files like that ... and DS files as well.. takes forever to load ..

    Modeling is good as I can spend a few hours on that if there are different elements to it.. Like I could spend an hour on the head then another hour on the hands and feet ect..

    The Forky model above I spent about two hours on it over two days... I like that, but if I had to spend more time on something like that I would can it, that's why I never finish my cars, couldn't be bothered doing all the suspension and undercarriage stuff.

    and that's why I probably can't get into animation... all the work that has to be done just to get 30 seconds would send me over the edge lol

    but I admire the people who do do it and wish at times that I could.. frown

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,235
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    and that's why I probably can't get into animation... all the work that has to be done just to get 30 seconds would send me over the edge lol

    It gets pretty complex, I admit.  Once time becomes a variable, everything can change every frame ... sheesh.  

    OTOH (you knew that was coming, right?) ...

    The combination of all the possible elements ... character position/expression, lighting, music, sound FX, visual FX, dialogue, camera angle/motion, environment (sky, background),  ... lots of opportunities to tell a story.  Yes, a still render can tell a story.  But not a very detailed story, like "Mr. Hublot" which won the Academy Award for short animation in 2014 (I have mentioned this one before, a favorite):

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3yqbrx

     

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,173
    edited May 2019

    I love your wacky models, Dave.  Wish I had a can of whatever you've been consuming.

    UB - don't sweat the comments I and others made about the TOS.  We've all had some deletions.  I think Wendy enjoys it.

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076
    edited May 2019

    I think I've been like that all my life... my first art prize was when  I was 4 years old.. I was the allocated one to do all the drawings on the blackboard through primary school and was the main composition writer through high school, having to recite my stories to the class every week.

    I guess now looking back I should of taken up cartoon and comic book stuff but the opportunity never presented itself or I never saw it.. lol

    Put the Food Out and the wacky models come from everywhere to get it.....

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,989
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    I think I've been like that all my life... my first art prize was when  I was 4 years old.. I was the allocated one to do all the drawings on the blackboard through primary school and was the main composition writer through high school, having to recite my stories to the class every week.

    I guess now looking back I should of taken up cartoon and comic book stuff but the opportunity never presented itself or I never saw it.. lol

    Put the Food Out and the wacky models come from everywhere to get it.....

     

     

    Gold star Stezza.

     

  • UnifiedBrainUnifiedBrain Posts: 3,588
    Headwax_Carrara said:
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    I think I've been like that all my life... my first art prize was when  I was 4 years old.. I was the allocated one to do all the drawings on the blackboard through primary school and was the main composition writer through high school, having to recite my stories to the class every week.

    I guess now looking back I should of taken up cartoon and comic book stuff but the opportunity never presented itself or I never saw it.. lol

    Put the Food Out and the wacky models come from everywhere to get it.....

     

     

    Gold star Stezza.

     

    +1.  Love the joy.

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,644
    Headwax_Carrara said:
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    I think I've been like that all my life... my first art prize was when  I was 4 years old.. I was the allocated one to do all the drawings on the blackboard through primary school and was the main composition writer through high school, having to recite my stories to the class every week.

    I guess now looking back I should of taken up cartoon and comic book stuff but the opportunity never presented itself or I never saw it.. lol

    Put the Food Out and the wacky models come from everywhere to get it.....

     

     

    Gold star Stezza.

     

    Awesome as always !!

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076
    edited May 2019

    thanks all, thought today I'd have a go at doing a Wacky Ghost! angel

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076
    edited May 2019

    for the Wacky ghost I started with two spheres..

    one for the head and one for the body.

    then it was just a matter of pulling and pushing polygons, points and vertices into a general shape then applying smoothing.

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076
    edited May 2019

    boo!....

    still some weight painting and re-boning to be done.... eeeeek!

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,237

    Oooh Spooky buttblush

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076

    see what's in the store Wendy... you wanted one didn't you.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,237

    I saw, is cute but I am broke and I was actually trying to do the Carrara splashscreen one, TY anyway heart

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,173

    Great ghost.  yes

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    still in the throes of emu adorbs.

    goin for twinkies today, for hi res textures

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,076
    edited June 2019

    thanks, hacked away at the first ghost model to create two more... a wacky trio cool

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,235

    Just an aside ... I use a program titled "Casper" which backs up my entire hard disk to a second disk, which is bootable.  The name comes from a now defunct (I think) program from Norton (the antivirus people) titled "Ghost" which did a similar thing but was reportedly user hostile (I never used it).  So now we get the "friendly" version ...

    wink

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,237

    I am Wendy Witch, I used to date him but he ghosted me

  • UnifiedBrainUnifiedBrain Posts: 3,588
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    thanks, hacked away at the first ghost model to create two more... a wacky trio cool

    These guys are awesome.

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