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the way i model is when its a mesh at 180. the final is almost always converted to mesh. i always convert to mesh to see what it looks like then tweak it a bit the convert it back to mesh. (i double click the object make the subdivisions 0-0 (which puts it to default 0-1 or 1-2 i think) then i convert to mesh, double click on the object and set it to 180)

hopefully i explained my process. it eats up a bit of time as well.

my question is: can you make a script to use hot keys or buttons to do just that? i would just model when its sundivided but it gets really hard to see and some points r hidden under the mesh.

i try and try and try but i still cant get it right. i was wondering if someone can attempt a tutorial on it. im talking about an advanced one. one that really specifies your modeling technique vs. your bone placement and wieght strengths. i guess im just looking for an explination because for some reason i cant get it right.

a movie i found on hulu.com i didnt watch it all, but its all cgi and cell shaded too. its a futuristic mech movie thing. if you guys are anything like me i watch as many 3d movies as i can just to try and pick things up from them.

just thought id let every1 know.

ive always wanted to make a badass car. so im going to attempt to make the famous mach 5. i never got into speed racer but its still a classic. i dont know if i will make the textures cartoony or not yet. but i got a low poly base for the car. then i started working on the steering wheel. i think i have it done. i might come back to it, im not sure yet. heres my 1st render. ill prolly post another 1 with diff angles and materials.

im thinking ahead again. but here it goes.

i know that the cel shade works only on scanline. and AO works only with raytrace. so i guess my question is... has any1 gotten the cel shade to work without using scanline?

im trying something a little bit different. i know its been done before but ive never done it. im not very good at drawing unless im looking at a drawing and freehand copying it. and even then im only decent. but i think if i do this right it will look pretty good. im going to try and do like a hybrid cel shade and real textures in this render. so the guy will b cel shaded but clothes and his surroundings wont be. in my head it looks good but that always changes when i put it on paper. anywho heres when im at now. the head is almost done and i just got a shape for the body.

http://www.an8search.com/

stumbled on it somehow. it looks unfinished and old but it might b of some use.

a problem i had before was intereaction between two objects. for example you have a boxing scene. fighter 1 hits fighter 2. its not that hard to have fighter 1 throw the punch in a sequence but its alot harder to have fighter 2 get hit with the punch and react to it without both objects on the same screen. i thought the problem would be solved because you can move bones in scene mode. this is great for a video but it would not be so good for a game.

i figure if you can capture certain fkeyrames you can copy the bones movements into a sequence.

ive seen many special features and whatnot from movies and games and they have those actors and stuntment in the sensor suits to use as guide or to use the movements for the actual animations. i think you can sort of recreat that effect in scene mode (fighter1 does this fighter2 does that)

i dont think anyone of us has the technologies of the super jumpsuites so i think this will do

please correct me if you know a good way to do this without all this mumbo jumbo