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Hope I'm explaining this right but I just noticed something at random and was wondering this has always been the case.  A sphere should be a perfect sphere shouldn't it? When I make a sphere, regardless of how many divisions I put in it or how many times I subdivide, it doesn't look perfectly circular.   I can go to the top view and rotate it on the Z axis and it looks fine, the outline stays consistent at any degree I turn it, yet if I go to the front, left, or right view and rotate it along the same axis I see that the height is longer than its width.  Is that normal?

I can post screens if needed.

Hey all. so I was wondering if anyone know of any cleaver ways of anti aliasing a render after its been rendered. obviously nothing beats the real thing and shadows would still be hard edged, but maybe there's a way to lessen the harshest edges at least? I'm pretty good with photoshop but nothing Ive tried seems to work too well. what I need is an edge finding blur of some sort. they have that for sharpening but not blurring.

There's probably not much you can do, just thought I'd ask.  it could really help me when I just want to see something rendered and AA'd fast

So I originally posted this on .an8 about 3 years back. migrated to CG-nation, and now I'm back here. I might have even started back here before Steve took the wip forum  down originally. So this thing has been all over the place, but its time to move it again, got to follow the community right? more feedback is always nice.

I'm not going to post everything up to this point, just some select recent renders, but please check this thread on CG-nation for plenty more on this 2+ year project of mine. its been a long road, even in its unfinished state I've been plagiarized by Lego with this,  lost a lot of my more recent advancements in a hard drive failure on my lap top,  (not all) but its been fun, so lets continue shall we?


For a quick visual summary of how far this project has come, here's a Youtube video I did documenting quite a bit of it.
Apology in advance if this is blocked in your country, I had no say in it.




Here are the some of the most recent renders of the project. keep in mind a lot of things you see here are gone, but I should be able to get it back again not looking too much different.





This is, er, was the hallway. It was lost in the hardrive failure. I'll see if I can redo it later.



This was the new and improved rug. again, I'll be remaking it later.


The Beveled desktop, you guesed it, I'll have to redo.


I'll also be using this thread for any Toy Story characters I'll be doing, otherwise I'd end up clogging up the forums.

Buzz WIP





Woody Wip

Ive never had this happen before...

I don't think I need to post screens, its pretty self explanatory. for some reason the box indicating a selected mesh is not longer visible. It only shows up in wire frame view.

Is this a bug, or is is this some kind of toggle I accidentally hit?
even when closing anim8or and re opening it doesnt seem to fix it.

I mentioned this in the preview forum, but since this isn't about the beta it might as well go here.

I just got a new  Dual core hp laptop with windows 7, and I'm pretty unfamiliar with it, up till now Ive only used XP.

After a few hours of trying to research it i'm still not having much luck. I feel like such a noob, I cant even figure out the exact graphics card I have. but it has to a problem with open GL. I could probably update if I knew which version to download.

Any suggestions? I tried running as administrator but no luck.

3d text in anim8or as is never fails to look cheap to me. for a while I thought it was the renderer, but now that we have a ray tracer I see its more about beveling the edges.  the fact that anim8or extrudes in tris kinda makes it impossible for a clean bevel, so you have a manually go through and clean it up, and even then, for me at least it still doesn't look good, I guess I'm just not good at clean up.

I can actually get better results in photoshop, but it doesn't do real 3d. even though cs4 has real 3d now, it still seems to rely on importing 3d models, defeating the purpose. any kind of 3d 3d I create in photoshop usually looks pretty flat, sure it can be very shiny and beveled, but there's no perspective to it without a lot of manual work.

idea tips?

Im wanting to make high budget movie quality text (think terminator Salvation), not 90s video game menu screen text.

hello all. I'd like to work on my character animation skills a bit and I'd like to bypass the modeling and rigging phase. I remember ages ago Jeb provided one of the best ones Ive ever used. it was basically a 3d version of this guy.


it had a dace animation and everything.

does anyone know of a nice pre rigged model like that I can use to practice with? it doesn't need to be too fancy, simple yet effective is all.

I'd love it if it also had some facial controls though.  I'm going to try and grab some audio from a sitcom or something and animate to that. its something Ive always been meaning to do but never got around to.