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Hey I'm trying to use mDistribute to upload/sell animation for mobile distribution and I'm having a hard time rendering well in MPEG-4 30 fps which is what they're asking for. I keep getting a very p ...

Hi everyone, I’m new here and was just wounding if anyone knows an easy way to rig a face in 2008 Maya for animation? I’m doing my last year of college final major project and I am an animator but ...

Hi, everyone. Am a new 3d student, 1 month into the course. I have a passion in 3d animation. I use 3dmax in ma training. I need a video tutorial which at the moment I cant get. Is it available and i ...

(Can't post any link to his video as I'm a newbie to the forum and don't have 15 legitimate posts) But I wanted to share this anyway. Hi all, I'm new to the forum here. First post and all. Here's ...

Hi, I have an animation that is 290 keys in length, or about a minute... I only want to use keys 240 to 276, deleting the rest of the keys. It is an motion capture I downloaded from a site, an FBX ...

Is a graphic design major that looks like this sufficient: 113 Introduction to Design 3 201 History of Art 3 210 Drawing I 3 222 Desktop Publishing 3 223 Typography 3 300 Art as Communication ...

I use 3dsmax 2010. how do I use script tool to make new script by my self, so the morpher tool on forexample a face morphs automaticaly to the sound, like lipsynthing? and can I use the audioflo ...

hi! please could anybody help me with my timeline in maya? ive got 8.5 and 2008 and they both do the same. when i do simple turnaround animation it just wont playback smooth but kind of snappy pre ...

how can i do so the bodyparts of a model dont go trough each other, like in this pictures? how can i make them collide, and the skeletton to make skinned object to collide, and bounse or glide like i ...

How can i make legs in animals more flexy from the body, like in rotatouille forexample? the issues i have in 3ds max is with the envelopes. ...

I was committed to completing my storyboard with the above project, in truth I rigged and animated 5 characters in less than a week (and alot of that time was cloth sim). I'm currently deciding on ho ...

Hi there, i was thinking about making a sort of dr who rip-off comedy video, anyways, im not an expert in 3dsmax as of yet, i was hoping some of you could help me with what sort of particle effects/m ...

I'm new to the world of animation, but not new to the world of filmmaking. I have a project I want to get going to submit to film festivals but the cost of it is just too expense to try to film in re ...

Hello! In school we've got this project that we're supposed to do, so me and two other friend decided to make a game. The thing is, for the itro, my friend wanted a water scene, and I've never be ...

hi all i am new to this so i will try to keep it simple...... i am trying to create a flashing light on a 3ds max model of a police car i have created and want to save the animation of the flashing ...

im looking for a place where i could get the latest anime/manga news and also the realese of new mangas/anime etc etc just a website where it upated everyday and suchhh,such as anime.dormitory ...

Hi,
I am making my final project for the 3D animation course I am taking and my teacher have a hard time finding the answers to my questions and the assignment is due soon. So I have a couple ...

I am doing a project for school art. I need to make a 3d animation of a fight scene with two prestic looking people. I understand that it may be impossible to learn 3d animation before the deadline, ...

hi friends :P im happy because i found this good forum and all of you guys are good in 3D max so i really need your help :) im a student our teacher asked us to do any thing that it has a rel ...

Hi! I'm trying to work out a way of animating natural-looking plant growth with polygons. I need to create a time-lapse style growth effect to feature in a computer game project, so it absolutely ...

Hi all, Am newbie to 3D Animation. Am very much interested in animation career. I have learnt 3D Animation to some extent through online tutorials and through some friends. I dont know how to ...

I have found a new anime site, which not just has the most updated anime news but also tons of anime relevant videos. "anime.dormitory". Share with you all.^_^ ...

Hi, I am new in max script. There is something that I could not understand about rotating the pelvis. For example: Q2 = quatToEuler (biped.getTransform $'Bip01 R Foot' #rotation) (eulerAngles 18 ...

Hey Pal, Now animation studio Laika, the group who did last year’s eye-popping Coraline, has announced that they’re bailing out of computer-animated features altogether. From this we can say that ...

Here is some cool Liquid Simulation rendering, done in Blender 3d
I thought it might be interesting to some 3d artists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8eV9XMr7Gc ...

hey i would love to join you for the project..and thanks for the opportunity you have given us on this forum... ...

Hello maya users, Does anyone here know if its possible to Key (animate) individual Poly face visibility (ONE POLYGON face at a time on 1 whole polygonal object--for example making a nose vanish p ...

HI Is there anyone out there that can help me. I am working towards getting a job as a character animator and was just wondering if anyone can help. what kind of work should go into a showreel and ...

Hi this is what I need to achieve: I need to create a web accessible 3d interactive tour of a machine from AutoCAD files. User needs to be able to find out specific details of individual parts. ...

Hi, I have to prepare water falls from a tap, i have used nDynamics, set nParticle type to water, and emitted them from a rounded plane, i have created an object and set it as passive collider so th ...

Hi, I have to prepare some dates falling down in a dish, these dates have to enbg or flinch a little bit to inside when colliding with the dish.I tried to make the date as lattice, then i gave it a ...

Did you watch this marvelous piece of animation?
What do you think?
Personally I loved every second of Ice Age 3 animation, didn't expect it to be so entertaining. I liked it even ...

hi, i have a new blog on line with some animations of mine.! hope you enter it and leave a comment! thw blog is in portuguese yet, but animation is animation and you can leave you comments in Eng ...

Hi, alle zusammen Ich möchte für meine Webseite einen sprechenden Kopf erstellen. Hier eine Beispiel: Klingelaffe.de So in etwa habe ich mir das vorgestellt. In Flash einbinden ist kein Prob ...

Shrek the 3d animated movie by DreamWorks Animation 2001 - Shrek the ogre wants to regains his swamp back and has to travel with his irritating donkey to bring a princess to the devious lord, and w ...

hi, I have to prepare an animation of a 3D text falling down rotating as a leaf. I was thinking to import a picture of the text into blender and animate it using some rendering engine such as o ...

Hey Pal, i m doing research and doing my study in stop motion and animation industry , i m not getting what is exact difference between go animation and Stereoscopic stop-motion and how to impleme ...

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hi guys i am looking for MAX script tutorials through which i can make something similar to this since i cannot post the links here i am just putting the name for the video on youtube Maxscrip ...

Which are the best 3d animation programs? I need to find 5 industry standard 3D animation software for an assessment at college and I am having a bit of trouble finding them. If anyone knows whic ...

I have a model animated and it has wierd problems with the biped or something it has both skeleton and biped please help me www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHbbLZmhES4 ...

Is there anyway of converting 3DSMax animations to a "flash" type of file ? As you can gather , I am a "newbie" to the animation process but am quite eager to learn as much as I ...

Lets compile a list of good 3d animation tutorials.
The tutorials should be only about 3d animation or rigging 3d models for animation. , and tutorials should be posted in their respective ...

I would like to create a free resource for people to learn 3d character animation. Lets post here all 3d character animation tips and tricks. Character animation principles and methods as well as b ...

Hi, I have desperately tried to make scissor lift that would be easily animated just animating a simple helper object up/down. I've tried to make the IK for the lift using both HD and HI solvers. ...

Hi everyone, I just created my own 3d model in 3d max9 and wanted to know if there is anyone interested to animated for me? and how much do you charge? Looking forward to hear from you a.s.a.p ...

When it is more appropriate to use dynamic simulations instead of keyframe animations? What ways there are to make the dynamic simulations more controllable? What is the best way to combine key ...

How to find design firms who do 3D animation? ...

How much it costs to design a web banner ad with animation? ...

nvidia Tesla?
What is it?
is it for the or for workstation? ...