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EDIT: To avoid confusion.
 Once you've done the '0.5's it'll look like the top pic. (although i haven't painted the '0.5' on the 'purple to yellow' base of the finger.

Possibly the only thing I really dislike about Anim8or. Models should actually maybe start black or white BEFORE you paint them so you can see what's painted and what's not.

If it's worth anything to you, fromsoysauce, it looks amazing! I would've definitely taken a different font (and a text-logo or icon could probably be something down the road), but otherwise the scene looks awesome. I'm excited to see what you add in the background!

Good luck! Animation on the bird looks good, though a bit stiff.

YES! Johnar we need to get the Anim8or art gallery up and running again.

I was thinking that same thing! I was going through originally for inspiration, and you can just see the progression of the software as people make more and more complex models and renders.

I am really considering reworking my render though... hm. Maybe I'll go with something more organic?

It's certainly a unique specimen, that Red Man. Very surreal stuff in general.

Main issues I had with the film were that the audio got INCREDIBLY distorted towards the end, to nearly unlistenable levels! That and things generally felt like they were moving veeeeerrrryy slooooooowly. This has been discussed quite a bit both on this forum and other places for animation around the net, definitely worth looking into if you're looking to improve your animations aesthetically.

Keep truckin'!

FSS, if I had to choose, I'm actually almost torn between the second and third poses, but the second wins out.
To my eye it feels a bit dynamic even though it's a very "stable" pose, which catches my attention. It also does a great job of displaying the quality of the model herself in the... well, 'hands', talons, face, tail, etc.

fss: i'm just thinking out loud here... since anim8or is about making stuff, how about putting Robin in a more action-y pose where she's making something?  e.g. give her a saw / hammer / paintbrush, etc?  you could also incorporate a 3-D 'Anim8or' text into the scene as her workbench. 

That's a cool idea, I personally hadn't though of that myself! I wonder if I can repurpose my bathroom idea into an incredibly expensive, high-class woodshop xDD

ENSONIQ, you've piqued my interest plenty. How did you make the "jet streams"? Is it basically just a long, curving cone with a high emissive value and a transparency map?
Is everything put together in a single pass? (I'd assume so based on what you said above) I think I'm going to try that myself. I was worried at to whether it'd be possible because I'm using LOADS of attributes AND have to render shadows. That's gonna be a loooong render time!

No intention to double post! (I gueess technically there was, since I didn't stop myself.)
I've been putting some time into this today, have spent probably around 4 hours working on modeling and fixing materials. The mirror is pretty sweet, it's actually a dielectric layer over a reflective layer, like a real mirror.
Amazing job on the ART renderer, Steve, I'm seriously impressed by how well it performs with such ease (not to mention that's its gotten much faster to render with later releases, it seems).

Still a small, low-quality, non-AA'd version of my image. I've got a couple more days of modelling to go on this, but I'm looking forward to each step of the process. Obviously I'm going for photo-realism. But in this case, I **think** I'll have to do a little bit of pass-compositing in GIMP afterwards... is that really allowed?

At that point, it's no longer a creation solely built in Anim8or, eh? Even though all the passes ARE rendered in Anim8or and everything is modelled using the software? I'd hate to suggest that such constraints should be added, but when you think about it, the splash screen really has to focus on what the software in itself alone can do, right?