Here, I made the candle stick thinner, and this is the new table. I'm not sure about the edges though, its sort of meant to be octigonal.

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/5420/table20sa.png

And councelar sign is not just part of the texture of doors, it's separate object...

I'd like to design the two throne rooms ,after I finish the tower offcourse. You can give me some description or concept art maybe, of how you imagine it?

richardteam... eee... about... 1 month for now? , and it's still wip

Candle is cool, yet, maybe if you make the holder of metal...

StFan -scrappy doo.... kind of completly not what I think woof should look like... lol

But anways... who is making woof? I thought it was MP3D... is he still gonna do woof?

Juanito: suggestion 4 raft - don't make all logs just simple cones... deform them to make them look real and look like it's made very very quicky in a rush... if you get what I mean... oh, and uv-map each log separatly b4 fitting them together b/c if you don't it would be impossible to Uv-map it correctly afterwards.

Quote: " i would alter the color to a little more red to make it look like the lights are burning badly and smoking and also add to the evil feel of the scene." Fell free to try

Quote: "also add a some moonlight (pale blue) coming in through the windows, if you haven't already. If you have, it's nice and subtle, which is excellent. " I already did, and it's nice and suptile also you can temper with "moonligt" light and see what comes out...

Well, that dog picture is closer, but I don't quite like it either. His face is too round and babyish.

His name is spelled Woof, as in the sound a dog makes. He just thinks he's a wolf. Though I don't remember if anyone actually calls him by name anyway.

Mr. Smeagol, you can forget most of what I said about the lights, now that I've looked at the scene and saw how everything is set up I changed my mind. Although I do think that the overhead light should be turned off and the other lights a little more red. I could make a texture for the Consultant nameplate in bronze if you want.

We should probably experiment with lighting later after we have animation and lightning strikes and everything. Anyway, i was pretty much forgetting that it would be in a storm.

I need to look at pictures of throne rooms and get ideas.
EDIT: Perhaps like this, except less grand, for the one in the beginning: http://stacy.theatre-musical.com/russia/pics/13.jpg

Codfish, I'm working on it presently. If you would like to do leaves on the ground(lowpoly for close shot, textures for others,) and fallen logs next to stumps and rocks and things, i wouldn't mind (but don't make the log a cylinder like i just did- it looks cheap) I'm going to be adding some other, taller plants, and also a bush. I could send you the source file, but I think we can just put everything together later.

Any more opinions on accents?

Phew, that was a good at least 20min reading session and it's good to see a few new people here. The only problem with that is now it's going to be even harder to keep track. But I'll try:

theater375 - Great voice, I really think you should have a part in the voice-acting and nice table & candle although I too think the table is a bit... rough. Good work though!

Juanito - Can't say much yet seeing as how I haven't seen your work but welcome!

Willum_Bob_Cole - I'll say the same to you as I said to Juanito.

Mr. Smeagol - I'm speechless... the tower is looking great! I especially love the texturing. But I do think the door is a bit wide too.

Benney - The clip for the Dark Tower is wonderfull! I really like it.

But right now I'm going to add theater375, Juanito, and Willum_Bob_Cole to the member's table.

http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bench1ly.png

Also, I'm trying to work on my skills for making people, but I can never get the faces right, so if anyone knows of any good head modding tutorials please post them.

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Originally posted by theater375:
I'm not sure what to do to fix the table and the bench because I'm kind of new to this, so if anyone has any tips they could give me about how to fix them, please tell me.

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Can U upload it to yahoo group or some other host so i can see the wireframe ? and maybe fix it for you and explain if you are doing anything wrong.

Thx for the tower crits

Edge looping a head....and other things,

http://www.acolytes-of-art.com/mp3d/

I uploaded the table to yahoo, so now you can tell me how to fix it and if I did something wrong.

Juanito - email it to me, I'll put it on yahoo for you mkotlar@net.hr

Codfish - higher res pic maybe ? It's too small to see.

theater 375
I fixed your table it was easy.
here is quitk tutorial/explanation:
you made the upper half as two separate objects in one mesh, like they'r mirrored on y axis. But you did not merge the points:

I hidden the texture to make it easyer to see. You can see the two halfs overlapping. making it imposible 4 anim8or to smooth it correct, so you just select each of points selected and merge them with value of 1 (edit - merge points)
After that i noticed it's still a bit rough, so i aded extra points to make it smoother:
anim8ted gif- top view:

First cut then non uniform scale.

And that's it!
Here is fixed table: Table-fixed
and here is the render preview: b4 / after

please post a discription of what the topic is about and progress summery in the The Movie Progress topic
please donot post any thing els sutch as questions or reference unless it's official part of the project

this will help new forum users to kno what it is

2.step would be correcting... but... that's not so possible in this case... so you'll have to do it again the right way like this:

Start like this:

DO NOT GO EDIT-SUBDIVIDE TO GET FACES THAT YOU COUD EXTRUDE... never never.... and do not enter high number for cilinder lon. & lat. when you can use CUT TOOL to get exacly faces you want wherever you want... this is what cut tool can do for example...

Now let's fix the uv-mapping / wrong texturing of your logs:
Select these:

And then apply UV-tool from this possition with new material/texture I made especially for you:

then do it like this:

then this:

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since there is maximum of 8 pics allowed in one post I'll continue it in the next post...

then do this:

and it should look like this after some materials tweeking ( eg: lowering the specular and icreasing the ambient & diffuse slightly)

And It would look even better if you make little branches like this... so log lookes like it has been knokcked down into raft just this moment lol:

I have just uploaded a file to the Anim8or Movie Zone with a list of all the speaking characters in the movie. There are about 20, but if people don't mind playing a small part as well as a big part, I estimate we'll only need 10-15 to play all the parts. However, most of the parts are for adults or near-adults, and I believe most of us are closer to 14? I have an idea that we could go find a forum for amateur actors and ask for help there if there isn't enough people willing to act here.

I volunteer to do the recap Bob_I_Ts wants, unless somebody else wants to.

Also, I believe I've mentioned this before, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a title for the script. "The anim8or Movie Project" is all very well and good for a working title, but I think we need another title as well. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Also for those who DO begin working on this part of the movie...DONT HOLD BACK on emotion we want this to be like it were going on the big screen.......COOL....make sure you know the lines and dont just record your voice reading the script or it will sound like a robot reading it......If any one needs help on this e-mail me and I will be more then happy to help in your development.....

theater375,I am still working on the soundtrack for you to sing to...make sure you are building up your voice...
THIS IS AN EDIT............................

dont worry about your equipment you have do the best you can and we can clean it up.......

Folks me and Benny have the software to make this happen...if you dont believe me just look a few pages back and you will see me and my setup (home recording studio...)I have been working with music/sound for a long time..so Iam sure we can help any one with tips on how to improve there sound with whatthey have....JUST ASK...........

MP3D

Question for MP3D or Benney- Can I get better quality by running my mike through a mixer to the line-in port? Is the line-in port any better than the mic port?

Oh yeah, codfish- your tree looks like it's been chopped down instead of falling of it's own accord. A falling tree would snap anywhere from 2 - 10 feet high and leave all these shards of wood sticking up, try breaking a small twig and you'll see what i mean. Or it could be uprooted, which is cool:
http://www.tlcfortrees.info/uprooted_tree.htm
http://www.tinman.org/sue/index.html
http://www.tip.net.au/~bnoble/gallery4/fs/FallenTree.jpg
http://www.csus.edu/org/geographyclub/Gallery/Biogeography_Fieldtrip_10-2004/pages/Fallen%20tree.htm
http://istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/807638/2/istockphoto_807638_snapped_tree.jpg

but going dirrectly to the mic input is fine too..for those who dont have recording software....one other thing to remember is keep your LIPS off the mic...the mic should stay at least 4 to 6 inches away from your mouth..when recording project your voice streight into the mic..not to the side of the mic...dont move around when you are recording..this causes the levels to change(volume)....make sure your setup is the same for each recording....meaning(everything you did on the first recording should be the same...where the mic was...how far you where from the mic....input settings ect.....this keeps editing down when the final production schem is set...you shouldnt record effects to the raw data(voice )when recording...this done after and when it it imported into the software...

you can use windows movie maker to record your voice.....as does a fine job ...

1 pen windows movie maker.
2:you should see a little microphone symbol click on that...
3:a window will pop up...you should see a little bar that goes from green to yellow to red...this is where you adjust the input level in windows movie maker...
4:you should beable to adjust the slider bar for the input level...with a normal voice talk into the mic and watch the indacator move in the bar...the indacator should stay at the very top of the green and only reaching yellow once in a while...it should never reach the red...this is called clipping when it goes in the red..

you should save as MP3 format...if you cant then we can convert it an MP3 this is a small file size with little loss in quality..

Hope this helps..

any who this is way off topic....so thats it...