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Penguin looks great, very charismmatic.  Only crit involves the snow material being a bit grey looking rather than stark, shiny white.  Might be a lighting issue but I suggest fiddling with the ambient/diffuse settings on this material (also on the penguin's white bits.)

Man, that is just too cool!  By the time you are done you are gonna have a seriously detailed knowledge of the human skeleton, if you don't already.  See, I am way too lazy to do something like this.  It'd make an awesome animation figure though.

I agree whole heartedly with hihosilver.  I have only been using Anim8or for about six months, and just about everything I know about it I gleaned from the PDF manual and experimentation.  The most important thing is to set yourself a goal.  For instance, how about attempting to model a room in your house.  Look at each item in the room, and think about how you might go about modelling it, creating materials, etc.  Each problem you face can be solved using the manual, the excellent tutorials on this site, or good old trial and error.  Certainly there are some things Anim8or lacks, like truly ray-traced reflective surfaces for example, but some lateral thinking usually provides a solution.

Nate Bro: I actually think the smoke is a bit poor.  It is a bunch of morphing lumpy objects, but I should have made them less regular.  The bulk of the flame effect was added frame by frame in Corel Photopaint, post rendering.

Sciwizeh: The re-entry effect used a parabolic cone shape, with a double-sided material: outside transparent, inside orange emissive with a gradient texture applied bottom to top in the emissive field (with a bit of after touching in Corel).  The explosions used a combination of modelled flying debris, lights with changing colours, and post-rendering frame-by-frame retouching.

The cockpit instrument panels are open faced boxes with black interiors, and all instrument displays were added later with the exception of the wire globe and roll indicator.  These were mesh spheres placed within the dashboard box with their position origins relative to the cockpit (which moved and rolled through the scene), but their orientation origins fixed to the "world".  With the camera fixed to the cockpit, the globes appear to roll, while in fact it is the cockpit and camera that are rolling while the globes remain still.  The artificial horizon indicator again uses double sided materials, with a transparent outer face.  The lower half of the globe is green inner/transparent outer, and the upper half is blue inner/transparent outer.  So the face you see is actually the inside of this sphere.

I am not sure exactly what model you are building, but modifiers can only be applied one at a time.  Say you want to bend an object, and also twist it.  First, construct the twist modifier, bind it, and "effect" it.  Then construct, bind, and effect the bend modifier.

Some nice textures there, especially the polished timber table.  Love the candelabra.

This model is absolutely stunning.  It's one thing to make a complex model, quite another to make it accurate.  Not an anatomist but I would think the skull is the most complex bone structure to model.  Seriously well done.

Ok, I've finished (or at least abandoned) the space movie thing.  Here's the YouTube link:



The opening sequence of 32 seconds (800 frames) took over three solid weeks to render, fully anti-aliased this time.  This was the most fun I have had in ages (I know, I have no life).  I am moving away from the whole science fiction thing for a while, and have started building a medieval castle.  Hope to post something here soon.