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SKYLAB CHAT
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skylab
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After surfing the forum, I finally put two and two together that Janet, who has visited this thread a few times, does the cool animations in the Hivewire store. I'm just a little old lady hobbyist novice, so it goes without saying that I'm so pleased that you've been stopping by. Feel free to post...it's seldom I get to chat with other folks who enjoy experimenting with animation. You could probably help when I hit snags, if you don't mind...like on the Slon Stranger animation above. He's riding the LoRez Horse, and the gallop is a preset. When I first posted a Slon Stranger animation nearly eight years ago, I had no idea how to make a horse gallop, preset or otherwise. So, the fact that Slon is staying on the horse, with his hat and gun belt intact, is a major victory 
However, I had to just hide the reins...they were all over the place...haha. Obviously they needed to be pinned to the hands, but with the horse head movement, does it need securing elsewhere? I'm using Poser 11, if that makes a difference...and I don't use the key frame technical method...I just use the timeline along the bottom of the editing platform, and hand animate everything. Again, I'm so glad that Janet is visiting with us. Just chime right in. As you've probably noticed, we're as all over the place, as far as 3D topics go, as Slon Stranger's reins
However, I had to just hide the reins...they were all over the place...haha. Obviously they needed to be pinned to the hands, but with the horse head movement, does it need securing elsewhere? I'm using Poser 11, if that makes a difference...and I don't use the key frame technical method...I just use the timeline along the bottom of the editing platform, and hand animate everything. Again, I'm so glad that Janet is visiting with us. Just chime right in. As you've probably noticed, we're as all over the place, as far as 3D topics go, as Slon Stranger's reins
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skylab
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Discovered someone on Rendo who does unique, realistic backgrounds...so this link is so I'll keep an eye on ShaaraMuse3D.
Charles West
Adventurous
Good Evening all. Sky I love all the renders. Working on this laptop limits my ability to render much. I am working on a deck of cards but when I load the map on card 15 it goes black... If I delete one of the other cards it goes to the proper map... Seems a limitation in Studio but I will have to figure it out and draw all the maps I need to make the deck.
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skylab
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Sometimes when I hit a snag, I find something similar and examine how it's done in order to solve problems, whenever possible. Here are links to other cards (and a table) that may be of help (hopefully). The cards at the first link were created by Terre's husband
JIM'S PLAYING CARDS AND POKER CHIPS
PLAYING CARDS WITH MORPHS
ROYAL SILVER PLAYING CARDS
CARDS, DICE, BACKGAMMON, CHESS, CHECKERS
PLAYING CARDS PROP
FOLDING CARD TABLE
JIM'S PLAYING CARDS AND POKER CHIPS
PLAYING CARDS WITH MORPHS
ROYAL SILVER PLAYING CARDS
CARDS, DICE, BACKGAMMON, CHESS, CHECKERS
PLAYING CARDS PROP
FOLDING CARD TABLE
skylab
Esteemed
Hey Janet...so glad you stopped by and posted...welcome to our mess we call a chat thread
I picked up your gallop and trot poses earlier today for the Shetland Pony. I've always thought that the Shetland would make a cute horse for all my crazy toon characters, and this will be my chance at animating him. I'm wondering what I'll be facing with all that hair and how to control it...haha.
Again, welcome aboard
I picked up your gallop and trot poses earlier today for the Shetland Pony. I've always thought that the Shetland would make a cute horse for all my crazy toon characters, and this will be my chance at animating him. I'm wondering what I'll be facing with all that hair and how to control it...haha.
Again, welcome aboard
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skylab
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Ohhhhh....hahaha You did a good job with that! I tried it one time and it definitely wasn't right. That's a good one, like the original dancing pony videos on YouTube
I just loaded the Shetland and applied your animation, and was so pleased to see the hair posed. I'm running the test animation for a movie, and will cull out every other frame in order to make it forum size....so maybe we'll have a galloping pony here shortly
You did a good job with that! I tried it one time and it definitely wasn't right. That's a good one, like the original dancing pony videos on YouTube I just loaded the Shetland and applied your animation, and was so pleased to see the hair posed. I'm running the test animation for a movie, and will cull out every other frame in order to make it forum size....so maybe we'll have a galloping pony here shortly
skylab
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I use an old program, JASC Paint Shop Pro with Animation Shop 3. Animation Shop allows for controlling the time on each frame of the .gif conversion, plus it allows for easy cropping down of the size. Because it's an older program it tends to be persnikity about newer file video formats, but works like a charm if the Poser video is saved as uncompressed AVI. Amazon still sometimes has the program. Sometimes I use Sony Vegas 11 when Animation Shop can't do the job.