SKYLAB CHAT

[Janet]

Very cool! Love to see these being used!

 

[skylab]

Paint Shop Pro 9 on Amazon...very few copies left, so it's driving the price up. I'll take a look a GIF Movie Gear. That's one reason I hang on to Windows 7....wondering how many of my favorite older programs would possibly not work on Windows 10.

The larger pony movie is still running...no pun intended

 

[skylab]

Oh...it will be used...haha. It'll take Slon animations to a new level. And somewhere in my runtime is the option for the white Hivewire Horse, so I'm assuming the pony will work with that.

 

[skylab]

A friend of Terre's and mine, Suro, would get a kick out of this running pony. I'll also try the trotting animation and post that as well.

 

[Janet]

I'm not sure it will work with HW horse. The proportions are off.

 

[skylab]

Oh really...shoot. I'll try it tomorrow to see what kind of mess it makes, and if it will work for a toon animation that's not close up. Movie is still running, up to frame 133

Here's the moon walking dancing pony...haha.

 

[Janet]

That's the one! I saw that and knew I had to try and do it!

Check your messages on here.

 

[skylab]

That's the reason I tried the moon walk thing too...haha. I replied to your message

 

[skylab]

Here we go...test 2, the 57 frames that he's visible...and the test of any excellent animation is slo-mo Feel free to grab any of these animations if they will be helpful for use on the forum.

 

[Janet]

Very very cool!

Oh I agree with you about slow mo. You have no idea how many times I've rendered a days long movie of these and see a little ripple in the arm, fix it then rerender it. I did that several times while doing the animations for the HW horse.

 

[skylab]

Yeah, I call those hiccups...haha. A lot of my earlier animations are full of hiccups...it took years and some experience to learn how to work with Poser animation...and it was focusing on looping animations that helped me to learn what to do. Sometimes I still will get an unexplained hiccup, but that's happening less and less now.

Oh to have Slon Stranger on his moon walking Silver...haha.

 

[skylab]

Running the trot demo movie now...and I just sent you another email.

 

[skylab]

Sometimes the hiccups are my mistakes, and sometimes they are due to Poser's way of auto-calculating how an object gets from point A to point B. When those errors happen, you think, now I know I didn't do that...what happened.... haha. They happen often in arms and hands, strange twisting in the renderings. It may take knowledge of the key frames and such to avoid this kind of thing.

 

[skylab]

Here we go...test3, trotting, at 45 frames. He's adorable

 

[skylab]

Firefly of Shetland with Unicorn texture. Will run the Superfly next, to see if the eye color will show better.

 

[skylab]

Superfly render is about halfway through...takes awhile

 

[skylab]

Here you go....superfly of Shetland with Unicorn texture. I just realized that the dark blue eye mats were not loading properly on this render, so am doing another with the eyes deep blue.

 

[skylab]

Here's my pitiful attempt at the Shetland moon walk...I was so determined to make him smile for the camera and hike up on tip toe that I didn't pay as much attention to the legs...haha.

 

[skylab]

Shetland with adjusted western saddle.

 

[Janet]

Cool!

The one thing I noticed when he moonwalked was how much his spine moved. Getting the legs has been the tricky part though. Trying to get them to stick in the same place especially.