Anim8or Community

Ah, Anim8or.

My once loved 3D Modeling and animation software of choice. Back when I was a much younger lad. When 3D Studio Max was $3,500 for a single seat license and I hoped to learn 3d on my old Pentium powered PC with 64mb of RAM and a 3DFX Voodoo 3 GPU from Gateway.

I remember being soo enthusiastic about Anim8or I would carry around a copy on a 3.5 inch floppy disk [the thing that looks like the "save" icon for the younger ones.] to school. I would take it to the computer lab or library and run Anim8or and save my .an8 files to the same floppy I had Anim8or on. Oh good times indeed.

Anim8or taught me soo much about 3d modeling and animation when it was all I used into my early adulthood. I have fond memories of being a cringy teen, and interacting with Jeb and Raxx and all the other guys from my time. And Steve. Man, I like so many of the other ADHD individuals that have sought refuge in these hollowed forum walls, have idolized you during that time.

As I can see, the forum is basically non-existent. I check up here and there as most do. But the sun is getting real low around here.

I on the other hand moved on like many who desired more to Blender many years ago. Back in 08-09. And I have built a career around it. I know the insides and outsides of that program and teach it to anyone willing for free. Just because I like to give back to the next young person who desires to learn 3d modeling.

But I still speak fondly of Anim8or. I will keep a download of the latest version of Anim8or around just incase Steve ever decides to sunset this wonderful site. Also Steve, the gist of your hand tutorial I learned when I was 10 is what I have been using as peoples first 3d model when I teach Blender. But each time I do it, I bring up where I originally learned it.

Anyways, I'll check back sometime.
Cheers everyone.

Nate L.

Hi guys so im going to post my work in progress with a new model of mine.

Originally inspired by Suppastar, hence the use of Hexagonal shape around the mesh. I am quite literately doing this from off the top of my head. No pre-sketching or planning just going with it. Any way I'll post some renders of my current progress. Its going to be a character. Futuristic at that, and I like the "clay" render look to things so textures might not be added until initial mesh creation is complete. Any way C&C as usual highly anticipated.

Nate/ncl32

Hey Steve, The cut tool is not cutting at all? Dont know why. I have restarted anim8or and nothing. I am using .97d. Thanks.

So I was excited about the new Anim8or release that I wanted to make a small rigged character. So I did. I call him "doob". I normally refer my random drawings as "doobles" so the name fit.

Here a quick car exhaust I made, rendered in ART. Colored to look like a Pacesetter Exhaust system. Dont think its too shabby...
Questions and Comments Welcome.

Nate

Hey guys nate here. As I have seen that the new Anim8or has come out and my dreams have come true to an extent I have came up with a small lighting render. Although no matter how many times I refer to it as small it took my pile of junk nearly 3 hours to render.  Any way heres the render. Any way as you can see its a nifty looking render test. Now do note that I rendered it with only 4 samples and the Regular Sampling Method. My computer probably would have taken a week to render it with the 25 sample rate that you can plug in there... Any way the point of this render and light test is to see if the Ray tracing engine "ART" can render a massive light distribution in a small scene. To do this massive light distribution I assumed the idea like it would occur in real life. If possible, that is as well. So as you can see there is a transparent sphere in the center of the room. This was planed to distribute the light around the room and to have the surrounding objects still recieve the light as well. So I crammed a local light inside of my clear ball with a Kr of 1.33 (glass) Trans of .1 and Rough of 10000. Then I stuffed it all into a huge elongated box, flipped normals and added a few pretty balls for good measure...

Ok, well lets see what happened. As you can see the upper half of the image looks to as if it might have worked. But the lower half it dark? Hmmm, pondered me after getting home from work after the 3 hour render... Lets take a deeper look. Another thing you might also realize is that the room that all of our friendly objects are in is a bit reflective. I did this because everything in the world has a small amound of reflective value. And yes I know that that is a bit much... Just a test do note... Any way everything seemed to go to plan and then I also notice the deformed shadowing on the upper half. Mainly right near the Dielectric sphere. Any way maybe this can be some help to you Steve. I dont really know how. Or Im just a bit worn out  from work today. If any one wants any more info just comment.

Thanks,
Nate