Mike Roberts
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That’s great serge, and that would totally work if i were just using the transform in the set controls, but can you parent the top level to a solid? I find it almost impossible to get the 3D model to match up properly with the axis point of the solid. Though that could just be my lack of knowledge.
mike
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ps… hope that last one didn’t seem snarky. Just trying to be funny!
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Ya, I’m a early adopter, and got the unibody 5.3 with the removable batter… what a pain, i can’t get 8gb…
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Here’s what I meant…
i threw this together…
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i’ll see if i can find an animated example later, but basically, it’s a squash and stretch popping transformation…
you scale your horse of equal size to the bike down over 3-5 frames from 100% x 100% to, say 70% x 130% so it’s squashed wide and flat… Then in 1-2 frames you go to 130% x 70% so it’s tall and thin, then swap in the bike at the 2nd frame, then make squash back down to 80 x 120 over 3 frames, then up to 110 x 90 over 3 frames, then down to 95 x 105 over 3 frames then back to 100%. Think of it like pulling a jelly mold, stretching it up, then as you let go, it’s replaced by another jelly and it squashes down bobbing up and down…
I hope that’s not to confusing.
It’s a very cartoony effect, and might not suit your needs, but it’s a good thing to have in your arsenal
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Animating the horse is easy using a combination of jointed puppet (spilt the legs into their basic parts – upper, lower, ankle and hoof) and hinge the legs at their joints… then do the head, then rider
should be simple based on those muybridge photos…
the big thing to make the morph not looks stupid is have the horse morph cleverly into the bicycle… I’l make the legs of the horse come together and morph into the forks of the bike, have the wheels grow from the ankles or roll down the legs to the ends of the forks. don’t randomly morph one shape into the other…
Another sneaky trick is just to scale the horse into a 2-3 frame squash, then pop it up over 1 frame, then recover having swapped the horse for the bike. That’s a lot less work…
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Yep. I rely on QT heavily cause I’m too lazy to deal with compressor most of the time…
QT X works like a charm to make web/device versions, QT7pro works exactly like it used to for everything else…
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Hey guys, my wounds have healed…
is there any harm in bringing over documents, mail, movies etc via migration assistant? I understand that the software needs to be installed manually…
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It’s cool… I appreciate that it’s been on the boards. I jumped the gun more out of curiosity, because I’d heard that a snow leopard install was fixing the crash on quit problems with CS4, and it did! Everything works like a charm except once you render in FC6 is gets laggy and unusable.
Anyway, I’m just a one man studio and since i have two machines, I like to just see what happens sometimes, and at least TRY the easy route. Cause for all the Y-OSX-K predictions, it’s working really well on a simple upgrade. It actually saved me some headaches working this weekend to have SL. Hopefully this week I’ll have the time to sit down and do a clean install. Don’t you want to hear from someone who at least tried a simple install?
So, I’ll be a smart person later this week, but I think everyone here should get a massage and try not to perpetuate the IT guy stereotypes too much. I’m just a simple minded artist who likes to animate. My brain doesn’t like the future!
anyway, thanks for all your tips! Even all the I-told-you-so-s!
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yep, trashed them for my user… unless i missed some others.