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that is what it is suppost to do. the .mtl file extention only carries color textures, and it links to file textures. make human doesn't give you the file textures that it uses for its skin and hair for the eye lashes and eye brows. so you have to put in your own skin texture map in the body and head texture and put in your own texture map for the eye lash and eye brows. the textures are already seperated so just place your texture map in the right place.

it is easier to render the animation as a movie, but I was reading a maya documentation and it gives alot of sugestions how to render your animations faster and rendering as indivisual frames is one. As far as rendering in the video editor, it really dosn't matter what you put inthe video as far as frames or entire videos. what makes it take so long is the special effects you put over the video, how long the video is and the compression that you use. I rember having virtualdub along time ago to seperate a video sequence into single frames, but i really didn't like it back then. it seemed buggy, but i'll try it.

you animate with the green key on. if you have previously rotated the camera with the green key on you have to have the green key on every time you try to rotate it afterwards. when the green key is on every time you move something a key frame is made. It is in the manual.

it is good to make a back up of your fille but yes you can do this in a way. just export the figure to its own file. if it ask you do you want to export the objects with the skelonton say no. then import the figure back into the file. do not import any objects associated with the skelonton. then just put another object to animate on the skelonton. since both skelontons are the same. the sequences that you make for one should work for the other.

movie maker can add sub titles under the video. go to titles and credits and select add title to selected clip. type in your text then choose change title animation. go to the top and select subtitles and you are done. as far as lines pointing to things. you can take a picture of that frame and take it into any paint program and draw the line with whatever text and bring it back into the video, but in movie maker it will have to be its own clip because movie maker doesn't do video overlays, unless you do a overlay transition. but that wouldn't look to good.

oh, sorry.

I am makeing a tv series to be placed on youtube and I need some help with it as far as modeling characters, textures, riggers, and animators. anyone who wants to help please join.

here is a render of one of the characters that i have finished. any C&C would be helpful.

As for the first question. if you can render a picture with shadows you should be able to render an animation with shadows. Just double click on the item in scene mode and make sure that for shadows that cast shadow is checked. Then you have to go to build light and create a light and go to advance and make sure that shadows is checked.

Now that I think about it are you talking about the tutorial on the left. that is more like a static baked on shadow. you can't animate that unless you put in an animated texture with terranim8or.

As for the second question, i don't know exactly what you mean but if you have 2 or more objects in a figure, sequence mode will treat them as one object. you have to put each object in its own figure and put them in scsne mode to animat them seperatly. hope that helps.