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Arik: Thank you. As I progressed with side sketch I wanted to show it as well.

$imon: I don't like this area too. I planned bottom part of the face with guidelines for loops, but I left forehead for 'gonna be fine'. Actually the sphere I used for a back side of head was too lowres to join it smoothly with forehead, and I didn't added geometry there (my bad). Also there is a part which I didn't want to became triangle so I left this part to be filled after mirroring. Good that you don't see mess behind ear When I put mesh smooth it looks good so I'm thinking to leave it as it is (face won't be rigged and animated).


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After rendering for "Red and moving" challenge I can suggest rendering to single bmp for each frame. I had once a crash during rendering and if didn't render this way I would have to start rendering from beginning. Then I assembled frames with VirtualDub http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ and compressed with DivX codec. To set bitare with good quality to compression ratio I usually use formula:
( (x_resolution * y_resolution * frames_per_second) / 6400 ) * M
And the multiplier of 1.5 is usually fine for me. For audio I use mp3 compression.
If you want to host your video on Youtube or Vimeo you might consider different settings (higher quality) or different codecs.

Good habit is to keep your animation in uncompressed form too (bmp and uncompressed wav for audio) of course if your hard drive has enough free space. After work you may put materials into archive (zip/rar/7z etc.) or drop them to cd/dvd to release space for new projects

Thanks for comment Raxx. This kind of smile is what I liked the most. I'll think about reworking ears and eyes though. (Me has to come back to work ) See you soon.

The other software is Pencil http://www.pencil-animation.org/

Cheshire Cat as I'm fan of cats
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Cheshire+Cat&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=

I'm afraid I cannot help more as I'm not very familiar with Linux. Maybe someone here who knows Linux/Wine better will help you. If updating drivers and/or Wine does not help you can ask someone on Wine forum or try to report bug.

Anim8tor site in Wine database http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1537

That depends on what you want to achieve. If you want deformable wing you'll need morphs or bones. If the wing is going to bend as it had joints inside you'll be happy with bones. If mesh bends in more unpredictable way morphs will be better solution. If you're not sure you may try bots to see what works for you to achieve specific effect.

Do you have any progress already? Not everyone has enough time to make models for other anim8tors. We're here rather to help to spot flaws in others models and suggest changes or improvements. I don't want to sound rude, but on other forums you might immediately get banned for such topics. Maybe it's not the matter of question, but the way of asking (without detailed informations as someone spotted before). I think that would be easier for somebody to decide if you gave some concept art or something.
If you have problems with modelling you should try to take part in forum challenges or in modelling challenges and competitions on other sites. If you have an idea how your model should look like start with doing concept sketches on a paper or model something with clay. Then start progressing with single parts - from rougher solids to more detailed. When you create something don't forget to post results
Good luck!