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Arik as far as I'm concerned there's no problem with being a nitpicker if your good at it!
Any way i got a few bits to share, first an updated walk cycle,
Second a little teaser image that I rendered cus I was bored. The teaser's rendered in art and the final project probably wont be, but other then that the render quality from the teaser is what I'm aiming for for the final.

ahh, I missed that sorry. I'm hoping to have that updated version up by the end of the week, I'm still messing around with 'if statements' and making the whole script look user friendly and not like a pile of code!

The test looks great Janro! I'm glad this is actually being helpful to people! As for your question about the eyes, with mine I made the eyes separate objects and changed the orientation to 'Facing Other' so no scripting required for that. However I am working on updating the script so that limits can be set and so that multiple morphs can be controlled with one control object. Hope to have that up soon.

Thanks Arik I knew somthing was off but i couldn't quite place it.

I've altered some proportions, unwrapped and started texturing the new model.

Decided I would rework the model a bit. Adding a little bit more detail and improving the topology in joint areas.


PS. Three years of using Anim8or and it's still surprising me, I just discovered the edge extrude tool and it's making my life so much easier.

Wow! thats awesome. I love the atmospheric effect with the smoke. The textures and animation look superb. I do agree with floyd that the background could use a little bit of depth, but with the focal blur its not too noticeable. My only question is was it rendered with anim8or? and if so, how long did it take?

Thanks for the support everyone.
neirao: Thanks for showing me your topic. I'm hoping to eventually have a script that acts much more like the one you described, but i think thats still a little beyond me.
Janro: It should defiantly be able to be applied to an existing figure, the only change that should needed is to make the morph targets you want to be controlled. then all you have to do is in scene mode add an object to be a control, then enable expression for the morph target and input either of the scripts.

For moving to change value:

point3 $alpha;
$alpha= GetAttributePoint3("[the name of your control object]", "position");

$morph.[name of your morph target] = ($alpha.[axis you want move the object]-[current position of your object])/4;

For Scaling to change value:

$morph.[name of your morph target]  = GetAttributeFloat("[the name of your control object]", "scale")+1;

Note: the /4 and the +1 on the end of both the scripts just effect how much of a change to the objet is needed to make a change to the morph target. it takes some tweaking to get right.

3D Joe: I wish I'd had a model with an open mouth, but I'm not the greatest at modeling faces. I made that one awhile ago in sculptris (it took me forever!) and, as you can see, only got about half way through doing re-topology in blender.

Thanks for the comments guys.
dwsel: I'm glad to hear that the reflections did add something, i was debating about cutting them near the end because i wasn't sure if i would have enough time to render it with them.
davdud: It's actually a mix between the two, the people are shadeless black and white objects because it was too difficult to do the animation with just silhouettes, and the words were done with the type function, but just about everything else is alphas.
All in all I'm hoping to do something else in this style a little later, might tweak it a bit though. possibly add in just the slightest bit of shading.