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Yes! I am making a sequel!  I was sick of watching the ugly one I made as my first animation, and that run cycle that makes me cringe.  I just started work on a new one with new cycles.  My first animation was before I knew a lot about Anim8or, so I had a lot of things to fix up.

1. I didn't know how to merge faces and most of the objects were halves grouped together.
2. I went with the Robin tutorial and made every single bone of the skeleton a seperate object! Arg!
3. I had to touch up a few things, especially the skull. Some parts were SO messed up that I couldn't fix it without making it worse, so I just said "Whatever" and left it.

So after doing all that, I decided to skin my model. Except.... It's not turning out as accurate as it did the first time around.

As you can see in the attached image, the front hooves and tail pieces are detaching from each other.  Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Edit: Just figured it out. I needed to adjust some bone lengths. Well, now you all know what I'm up to.

So my friend plays the game, IMVU and wanted a special tail. I made a mesh of it for her and was wondering if there's a file type I can export it as that will be compatable with the game so they can use it.

Something I wish was possible is the ability to not just make things bigger, but more like "Inflate" them.  Say you have an object that has openings in it, (most simply a wheel or donut shape) and you want to make it bigger, but thicker.  I don't know if I'm making any sense, but the picture may help.

Could someone maybe try to make this, or point me to it if it already exists?

Well, I was working on my project for History Class which I was creatively doing in Anim8or. I was going to surprise you all, but this problem turned up and forced me to tell it.  My shadows seem to be... inverted in this scene.  Can someone tell me what's wrong here?

It's an infinite light and it's only doing that in camera view.  it looks like there's a polygonally shaped thing in the way, almost like the light is backwards.  This is Volume shadows, Ray-trace seems to work just fine, but I don't want to go through that much time.  For now I'll give up on shadows, but I still want to know what's going on with this

I thought I might as well share my new project that is being put together.  It started a while back when me and one of my good friends were playing a story game.  I write a few sentences, she writes a few sentences, ect. and it turned into a very great story.  
It's not as cute and cuddly as you might think... My friend absolutely LOVES horror movies and is obsessed with anything creepy and scary, or sometimes twisted.  So you can imagine that cute and cuddly takes a very sharp turn.  When we wrote this story, I was about halfway through my pirate project and said "You know what? This story turned out so amazing, when I finish my project, I should TOTALLY animate it!".
As it turns out, I'm pretty much done with my pirate project and have been working on this Kitties project on the side while I wait for rendering and forum posts.  I will post WIP pics and such soon. Meanwhile, you can read the story here:
http://theshadowrider123.deviantart.com/art/The-Kitties-196697509

PS. To relieve some fears, there will be no blood in the movie. Not that blood bothers me or anything... it's just I don't think I can model it.

Edit: Here is my first WIP picture. The only part I have modeled so far is the Creature.  I'm using the creature model to make the run and walk cycles, because I'm planning to use a copy of the same figure to make the cat figures. that way I won't have to make a billion sequences.

I tried everything to fix it. is my only option to turn one of my picture files upside down?

Long ago, A group of pirates sailed the seven seas.  Pirates of my fantasy, the Marcaigh!

This is their ship, The Black Stallion

Obvious to see, there are some things I haven't added yet, such as ropes, windows, cannon-doors.  All will be added soon, though it'll raise my poly-count extrememly.  the details on this were done with Bumpmaps, and a lot of you will probably recognize that famous, default, sunset sample picture that I used for the background.