Anim8or Community

I used to run Anim8or on Mandriva several years ago. It was the latest build of Anim8or before the new development cycle (v0.97d). I don't have access to that system any more to tell you the WINE settings. Beside the ghosting during selection (which was only a visual glitch that I got used to) I was able to use Anim8or fully and with great stability.

Can you post your WINE version, settings, graphics card model and driver number? Which version of Anim8or did you try to use?

In the next 1-2 months I'm planning to install most recent Mint also with intention to install Anim8or there so any findings can be useful.

Wow, I just found this. But I have a little...problem. It works a little too slow for me, and it kinda crashes if I make more than 2hairs/face. I have quadro2000 graphics card and 32gb of memory... So, what can I do?

Anim8or is still 32bit app - it won't use more than 1,7GB of memory or 3,5GB with Large Address Aware flag. You can set it to be 'on' with this little utility: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/ It should make it less crashy (at least when it comes to out of memory bugs).

Have you tried exporting to *.obj and reimporting? Some Options->Debug like 'Log file import' or 'Check structure' might be useful (although it's just a guess as I haven't tested these options in the work)

I'm wondering what's the polycount? From this distance, in this resolution the interiors would look enough detailed to serve as a realistic view of the spaceship.

I've returned to this project after two weeks with a more critical eye, and I see my screwups... Any criticism on this one? I want it to be in the end, one of those pics that are so good that people use it to advertise Anim8or. That's how good I'm aiming for.

Make some animation of him waving his hand
Your robot design sits well somewhere in a line of simplistic and 'cute' wave of robot designs (japanese robots, Android icon). I'm only missing eyes on this one or some kind of contrast to this overall shininess. I'd add some eye shield/glasses - something like ASIMO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO has.

I'm not ASL user nor programmer or anything like, but this is COOL. Could you explain how it works more in layman's terms?

I'm not very good at explaining things but let me try...

Have a look at this good demonstrational video: =15s - although it's about circuit the method is near exactly the same used by me
- each 'peak' is called 'band' thus I'm using 'bandpass filter' for several times to extract each band from the whole audio during the process I mentioned
- the frequencies that are written under the each peak (and being heard during the presentation) are the ones used in his audio analyzer (note that I'm using the same ones except for the two lowest and one highest)
- the frequencies are 'a' parameter mentioned in step 3
- if you only need to extract beat or overall loudness of sound you can reduce the number of required steps significantly (even down to only 1. opening the file in Wavosaur, 2. applying a single lowpass/bandpass filter only (or even not), 3. downsampling to 24, 25 or 30 Hz = always equal to number of frames per second in your animation, 4. saving as txt)
- if you want to make your own simple audio reactive (of audio beats only for example) without multiple bands and all those bells and whistles just grab the Wavosaur http://www.wavosaur.com/download.php (application as simple, as light and as easy to use as Anim8or) and I'll guide you through the simplified version of process
- until I'll release tool to substitute keyframes/scripts in Anim8or files with the lists I can process your list to create text that you can easily paste in your morphs' script controller

But DASSA LAAWNG RENDER TIME.

Nay... not very long to me. You'd probably render the same thing on your own computer in a fraction of time (a couple of hours only maybe?) considering most PCs around me are not very high end Ooorrrr.. you can go for lower framerate like 15 FPS for example


I hope it sounds easier now and I'll encouraged you or someone else to experiment with this.

Hey KyleSan, good update, there! the edge looping itself looks good now. I think that the shape is still a bit awkward because of her cheeks/chin. You might want to go back and fleshen out the cheekbones a bit (see this image http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/images/head/image121.jpeg )

I agree with $imon on that. I think the cause of the wrong look of her face is not in the eyes but rather than that it's caused by using the front view and side view references very strictly. It's the mistake I do by myself. If you imagine that on top view there's a set of points that need to be connected and you connect them by going on plain arcs or straight lines the face will look a bit flat or lifeless when seen from 3/4 view. On the other way if you connect points with curvatures correct to the required location it will look more natural. Finding 3/4 view reference is very helpful but such references are more rare so eyeballing the curvatures is the way to go.