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Originally posted by startrekfan001:
hm. As you (all) know, my host is unlimited in any way you can think of. Until you found a good server, you may send your avi's my gmail-adress. Gmail supports also almost unlimited sizes, right now i have one movie of 758 MB stored in my INBOX, cause i have about 2500 megs of free space. so send the avis to my email and i will upload them to my host and put a link on this forum. That may serve as a temporary solution for storing the avis.

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Thanks for the offer Startrekfan. I'm sure it would come in very useful. It would also be a good idea to place a link in the AnimatorMovieZone links page (if that's alright with you?)

Thx for comments on my tower

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And I think the walkway should be a bit wider.

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2: mr.Smeagol, how long have you been working with Anim8or? On the looks i'd say you've been working your whole life making 3d models!!! This is just AMAZING on what kind of models you make! No doubt that you are one of the best modellers on this forum!

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But Startrekfan and codfish: You didn't optimize your models of castle and fireplace!
And they have bugs...
So I made this tutorial especialy for you on how to optimize your models: http://vele-bit.hr/mario/an8-tutorial/ (took me 5 hours to make it)
Here are the 2 links needed for tutorial: http://vele-bit.hr/mario/an8-tutorial/door_notfixed.an8
http://vele-bit.hr/mario/an8-tutorial/door_fixed.an8
(check out the tutorial - you can't actually do the tutorial without the first link.)
Startrekfan - this is your model I used as example in this tutorial, so I must ask you your permission to post these two links IN the tutorial.
The tutorial combines all the stuff I noticed was your most common moddeling mistakes.
- - - Just trying to help you help the project

Edit: I signed up to join the Yahoo group and just in case you guys are doing the Msn thing, mine is stuart91_24@hotmail.com

I'm sorry to slow things so suddenly, i know i'm getting you guys more work. I hope you can forgive me Anyhow, i will try and do my best on improving the castle. I hope to have a better version tomorow.

edit: mr.Smeagol, i was *NOT* exaggerating. That you have been modeling for only a year makes it only MORE perfect that you achieved this, and really, i'd call you pro

act fast because I am in the mode.....

also I am finding it hard to figure out what is and who is doing what...those who care about this movie e-mail me what you are working on so i know what I can do...make sure you put Anim8or in the subject and your forum name here at .com...

Anyways - I made some further progress on the tower - I think you'll like it. I'll post screenshots maybe in few hours (like b4).

Startrekfan... thaks for that compliment very much - I apriciate it, I'm just doing my very best 4 this project! Maybe I'll be able to be your companion, help you with your castle... but ltr when i finish the tower.

Have you checked out the tutorial I made for you guys?

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Here are new screenshots of wip:

....C&C welcome...

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Originally posted by anim8ordude2005:
thnx for the offer benney, but i live in England and i think i'm the only person on this forum who does

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Morprok, feel free to join, we could always use a photoshopper for textures and things. Can you draw a more traditional-realistic style dragon burning a village, on parchment, illuminated color, for the scene right before they go into the cave?

MP3D, the dragon concept is on Stfans site. Maybe in my album as well, I forget.

Nice chains.

Keep up the good work, all, do whatever you can the best you can and do a lot of it. Anim8ordude- that may be true in a different movie, but with only about eight modelers, you're sure to get some of your work in the movie.

Mr.Smeagol..I love the detail you are putting into your wrok...but we need to think about poly count as well..There might be some people here who might be useing an old or lower end PC..And they might not be able to handel the load if they are called apon to work on the scene or model..also think about render times every poly needs to be calculated so the more there are the more time it will take....Please dont get me wrong...The detail is awesome but we need a limit...cool...I know those chain links are a little on the hight side....I dont have a problem with poly count.My PC is a work horse...Xpress pci video card 16x.(which I need help with knowing which one to buy and not for gameing but for 3D graphics and not one that will just get me by...one that will handel just about anything I throw at it.).and a 3700+ AMD athlon processor..1 gig of ram(can hold 4 gig)280 gigs of hard drive space....and alot more but hey this isnt about my specs its about makeing sure we can all work on all parts of the movie...cool......

I will start on the dragon and woof shortly..

Morprok I recieved your e-mail thanks for it realy helps knowing who is doing what....hopefully you can get the website up and have a section just for progress reports...and who is doing what and keep it up dated....that would be a good job for someone....kinda a shop forman....that person could keep in touch with every one thru e-mail asking what there progress is on the part they are working on and update the site so we know where we stand...Morprok do you want to do this????

Only thing I'm worying about is how long will it take to render one frame when we turn on all the shadow cast/recive that are necesary for more realistic render...
Hey... btw: How do you suggest I do the lighting setup? It's supposed to be night... and I'll make the most light coming from torches around the interrior walls (I made some cocept torches already). But how do you think I should do the lighting setup of infinite lights? (moonlight! - there is also moonlight in the script...)
( we don't want the room to get too dark, couse then all the details would go "down the toilet"..., but we got to make it night - I suggest torches - what do you suggest?)

MP3D- Sure I'll do that but I'm waiting on Benzjie's layout plan for the site but once we get that all worked out I'll start right away!

But hey - we DO NOT have any magicians. Afaik we dont have magic in our movie.

As for furniture, a rough table, chairs, whatever tacky stuff that goes in an office that we can medieval-ize. How many polys ARE in your scene?

Morprok-If you don't feel you can draw the dragon, just say so. I meant like a fantasy dragon, completely different from my cartoon style dragon, the joke is... well, on reflection, the joke isn't that great. That's a correction I need to add to the script. Anyway, fantasy style dragon.

We could do the secret message thing on the textures. You know, "you have found the secret message-" except we just see how may times we can hide the word Glanville on the texture without someone finding it unless they're looking. I suppose we could rename the land of Glum Glanville- of course, "ville" means village- and we don't want it to be TOO obvious that we're buttering Steve up- like we want frames in the gallery or anything- heh heh heh.

Educate me. What be afaik?

Welcome, Monkeyboy!

Mp3D- Be nice to my dragon- aah, I know you will, just joking. I didn't erase the circles I drew him with so that you can use them as proportion guuides- have fun!

EDIT: QUICK! IS SYSIPH RECRUITED!? WE NEED THAT HORSE IN THE WIP!!!!!

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(The party is approaching the entrance to the castle. The drawbridge is down, there are two knights in full armor guarding it. Our heroes ride up and start to cross the drawbridge when suddenly the guards visors light up from the inside and the guards quickly look at the heroes. The guards are really robots in armor.)

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Soo... feel free to work on knight And it should look like... eee...let's say -
a robot inside knigt armor - actualy only the visors are not knight, everything else is like knights. Ask PR_7 what he had in mind for robot-knights for greater details.

PR_7 - afaik is: "As Far As I Know" check this out for internet shortcuts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang I found it extremly usefull!

I intendet to make something like 12 to 15 instances of torches in the scene - low poly torches offcourse - everyone with a litle transmap glow instead of fire (you'll see - saruman is making torch i sketched with pencil - you can see it in my photos at the group site, I'll be helphing him a little, I'm his mentor ) and every thorch would have a little light ( not infinite, not spootlight but the third one (I cant remember what it's called - I'm in school right now).

I agree with Glanvile idea

Just a suit of armor with red light inside the visor.

I think it's area or omni. Which Glanville idea? Naming the country Glanville? Thanks for the link.

I take it Sysiph isn't recruited. I'll ask him about the horse.

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Edit: I just got an idea! I think I remember seeing a dragon with the style you want in the very beginning of Shrek 1 (When he's in the out-house reading the fairy tale book). I'll check up on that and then try again.

As for haveing the skills,that come's with time we all start at the beginning..So take a look at the list that needs to be completed and pick one...let us know what you want to do..

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...get close to matching the skill of Mr.Smeagol and MP3D

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Originally posted by Mr.Smeagol:

Ps. on my previous unanswered posts... ?

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