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OMG it's 4.10am and my animation is still rendering :( i still have to put all my mocies together and add music. Then at 8.20am get up and walk in to uni for a 4 hour lecture in which a very tired me will present my animation.

It's all been going wrong here. My 'copy' of premiere has funked up it won't let me use the mpeg 4 codec that i have to use. Now using virtual dub to put them together but this means no fading transitions :( . One of my renders failed twice which means i have to leave it out.

My presentation is a critical review of my project so far. (so far it's looking shoddy) They are going to rip me apart :( i mean yeah the smoke and the lighting rocks but cause of teh transitions i'm screwed. I was on a first for the project so far now this is going to bring me down to like a 2.1 then i just gotta hope the final version gets me another first.

My brain hurts. I have learnt that 3d animation is too unstable to leave to the night before. Theres a lesson there kidds.

If i get the time tomorrow i will post a link to my animation. It's only 30 seconds and it's for a bbc-i channel Spark. Which i happen to do student stuff for.

Well off to finish it all. Had a rant feel abit better head hurts though.

my website [URL]http://chippxero.tripod.com[/URL]

I wish I'd done more stuff like this at Uni. Who knows, might change my degree when I go back.

finally finished my narrative structure animation.

half-crazed washing machine steals socks. ya gotta love the student days :)

RIGHT- [URL]http://theuniversalgroove.com/sock_small.mpg[/URL] and choose "save as"

be warned, it's 30megs even for the small version.
feel free to post any thoughts/suggestions.

if it's not in the export options then i've no idea i'm afraid mate, i don't use Bryce.

don't know if the FBX plugins support bryce, but if they do you can probably use that to do some converting

25 it is then.

Hmmm, I can import .obj, but no sure how to make them...any ideas?

monkey_man wrote:
> I'll be f**ked if I'm going to animate it though - each of those
> renders took at least 90-120 seconds, and I've working at 30fps! So
> that's 1 hour for 1 second of footage, and I'll probably have the
> camera slightly off and have to start again, because I'm strange like
> that.

work to 25fps for PAL work mate.. and welcome to the wonderful world of rendering :)
if it makes you feel better, toy story took 8 hours a frame :)

can you export the model as an .obj?
if so, chuck it this way and i'll get it dancing :)

i want it dancing.

I'll be f**ked if I'm going to animate it though - each of those renders took at least 90-120 seconds, and I've working at 30fps! So that's 1 hour for 1 second of footage, and I'll probably have the camera slightly off and have to start again, because I'm strange like that.

I am pretty sure put it on there, i think i put the tutorial pdf on there too.

I like the way thats looking.

Zbrush is on the disc? I'll have to check...

Some more:

[URL]http://www.threecircles.co.uk/images/alientorsoarm.jpg[/URL]
[URL]http://www.threecircles.co.uk/images/alientorsoarm_back.jpg[/URL]

That looks pretty sweet, i might have a look at bryce just for that.

Zbrush the other program i use, i believe i gave you a version does this sort of thing but you then have to import the model in to another program to animate it.