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I wasn't quite able to get a background, but I did make a render.  I'm terrible at lighting.


Modeled entirely in Anim8or, rendered in Mental Ray (That's right, I got Maya now!)  I've only had it a few weeks.

As a casual observer trying to help you out, I will note that I never would have looked at the "tower" as the focus.  My eyes were naturally drawn to the only thing that was different in the scene; the character.

The way I look at this is, if you have to explain your joke, then it wasn't told very well (I have told many poor jokes ).  So far at least two people haven't understood what you were trying to accomplish with this picture.  That should tell you something.

If you refuse to go back and improve stuff that is finished, then at least take our comments into consideration for the next project you work on. 

Don't take this as bashing you or your work.  You have skill, and I want to see that skill improve.  Keep up the good work.

That might be an artifact from using more than 5 edges to a vertex.  It looks like you have one single vertex in the middle with about 25-30 edges radiating from it to the edge.  That's known to cause all sorts of pinching and shading issues. 

Maybe show us a wire-frame, so we can see the mesh structure better.  I may be wrong; it's hard to guess topology on a flat plane.

Hello Anim8ors!

Because I've found it so hard to find good resources, training, tutorials, and help on non-traditional animation topics, I've decided to go through all the hassle of setting up a complete training series to get new people interested in animation.  The basis of this series is NOT to teach any one program, modeling, texturing, or animation.  These topics will be covered, but not emphasized.  The primary focus of the course is to give guidelines for storytelling, planning, and executing the animation process.  From concept to credits, the entire movie making process given as a set of tutorials.  Storyboards, character design, setting, mood, plot... I've never seen a tutorial for any of these even after two years of looking.  I plan to give beginner animators these tutorials through "CGForStarters".


To begin with, I will be teaching the fundamentals of animation: Planning, Story, Modeling, Texturing, Lighting, Animation, Effects, and Rendering.  To do this I will create an entire short animation from scratch and show the entire process, how I do things and why.  This will give these new animators a base knowledge that can then be applied to anything.  If they follow along then they should have a complete short animation to show off to their friends.  After that we'll see where it goes, but for now that first complete animation and tutorial set is going to take an ESTIMATED 40+ hours of work to complete.


If you wish to contribute to this incredibly difficult task in the form of tutorials, teaching, or technical support (I've had a fun time trying to learn website design by myself  )  Please send me an e-mail at "adsohr@yahoo.com"


Please help me create higher-quality animators for the future by going on the site and telling me how to improve.  I'm a relatively new animator, web designer, tutorial maker, and teacher; any suggestions will be appreciated.

That looks awesome!  And it only took you about 11 days to make it too!  It's taken me months to replicate an existing car, and you come up with your own design and model it in about 2 weeks?    Great job!  Can we see a wireframe?

Yeah, edge-by-edge modeling is awesome. I've tried modeling from a cube, or cylinder, and it just gets messy.

This is an awesome video presentation. It goes over topology, modeling tips, and quite a bit more while making what is the most complex part to model of the human body. It is not Anim8or based, but it is an excellent resource. This video is about an hour long.

http://vimeo.com/16738348

Hey Lynn,

I can't write scripts, but here is a way you could model your braids.


1. Make a simple cube object, give it 12 divisions X and Y. Rotate it 45 degrees.

2. Delete all unnecessary vertices, leaving a structure like what is shown in "Type2_Step2". Fill in all the gaps that are left by deleting vertices.

3. Take the rows of vertices shown in yellow and merge them together. Move the merged vertices to line up straight in the X direction like shown in green.

4. Now shape the braids by selecting the edges that surround the braids and pulling them back along the Y direction. Go to Edit>Edge Properties, and make the edges creased. Double click the object in "Object" mode, make the crease angle 91*. This should make it nice and smooth with creases where the hair is folded under another braid of hair. Give it a material and show us what you come up with!

You can delete the edges on top and bottom, copy the object and move it along Y direction and join it to the original, then merge vertices. This mesh is seamlesly tilable, so you can make your braid as long as you wish.

I think all of veggietales is unnatural, even if it is organic. You have to wonder why the sheep wern't cauliflower 



I think if you rotated the sheep around the middle of it's body rather than the bottom of it's legs and have the body fall more than flop it won't be quite so drastic. Right now he flops over the way a tree would, simply falling. I think if it was more like a building flopping over it would work better. Have his knees collapse under him so he falls sideways a little bit and lands closer to the area where he was originally standing. It might help a bit.

It's kinda hard to explain.