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Hey guys, I was almost thinking about adding this to my topic about doob, but then decided to single it off as its own.

Any way, as you can see its a sub in a box with no textures, just a sub in a box..., (I originally made this at Best Buy where I work as a Car Audio Installation Technician, I was bored and didn't have any cars to work on...) I rendered it and thought to keep it for what ever reason. Some of you probably saw the locked post i made so I could save it when I went home. Any way the second image you see is just a quick scene with them stacked up, and then I decided to just play around with the Chain Path Plugin/Script (Thank you NickE). Any way I was just kinda working in Object Mode where all I had was the single box modeled when I rapped the chain around it. But when I switch to Scene Mode, There is what you see... I know part of the chain is sticking up out of the plane, but I don't care for now, it looked cool. So when something looks cool what do I do. I render it at 1680x1050 and with 256 samples with AmbientOccluder turned on... Any way as its named It took my Apple Mac Pro with 2x Intel Xeon Quad Cores @2.8GHz, and 2 Gb of RAM, 2 hours and 20 minutes to render that with 723,610,019 rays at 1680x1050. And thats was only using ONE of the EIGHT cores my computer has... I am so oo waiting for multi-core rendering to be up in Anim8or! LOL. Either way Im pleased.

Any way I have to go back to making a world for doob and experimenting with different textures, animations, and objects and characters he can interact with. Later guys...

Nate
ncl32

Hi guys yet again thank you for commenting on my char. To lynn22, I can tell you know that doob's texture isnt repeating at all actually. And the bump map is actually quite subtle. What your seeing is probably just your eyes tricking you to belive that some of the lighter points on doob are an outstanding bump map. See with doob I was going for a "paper-ish" look for his skin. So I created a paper bag looking texture for him, and then applied. Now as you can see though I did end up adding small defects like scuffs and such to his skin giving him a bit of a worn feel. Sorry for the slight misunderstanding, however I will take your advice and try some more texturing to see the out come. Then I will post them and see how you guys rate the look of doob. Thank you guys for helping me develop my char.

Nate
ncl32

ok, sorry for no sudden replies, but I finally woke up from napping all day, and decided to do some work on doob. Nothing special, two doob's, some new skin, and a prettier scene. Animation and more interactive play things and characters coming soon.

Nate
ncl32

Thanks guys for all the comments. You know Colclough, I just realized that we are both 20. Thats funny. Anim8or since 02 too. Yeah so I will hopefully have some more up soon.

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.

best render to come out of Anim8or yet, hands down congrats! Very impressed. Would like to see more of your work, possible set up on this char. Also nice presentation as well.

ncl32

Oh wait a tic... You thought... Ok, just to clear this up its a plane that im modeling everything on... lol. Sorry for the confusion. Im taking a artistic approach with all of my work these day. As for the updates more should be up tonight or tomorrow.

ncl32/nate

Yeah its rendered with ART, of course! Anim8or is the only prog I use these days, along with Jasc PSP for textures and such. Most of my latest works are going to be to familiarize myself with the new raytracer, so I can get the best feel for it to create amazing final works. Thanks for the crits everyone, thats what makes the Anim8or forum great.

ncl32