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by kdiddy13
Fri May 27, 2005 7:30 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Chit-Chat
Topic: How Old Are You All?
Replies: 123
Views: 80358

Off topic:

Don't forget their brilliant decision to cancel "The Tick" (the animated show) because it didn't test well in the 6-9 year old demographic, even though practically my entire dorm got up early on Saturday morning to see it. Not an easy feat!
by kdiddy13
Fri May 27, 2005 7:25 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Chit-Chat
Topic: Books by Don Bluth essential or only nice to have?
Replies: 7
Views: 4147

My 2 cents: The Illusion of Life is great if you learn by reading. The Animator's Survival Kit is great if you learn by seeing (visual diagrams that is). If you can handle both that's even better. The Animator's Survival Kit is my personal fav. I haven't seen the Don Bluth books. I'm sure you've hea...
by kdiddy13
Fri May 27, 2005 6:56 pm
Forum: General Moho Discussion
Topic: Is MOHO really worth it?
Replies: 14
Views: 6870

High framerate 2D animation can give you something of a "floaty" underwater look if the action isn't fast and furious - often caused by too many computer-generated in-between frames. Traditional animation is often "shot on twos", working at 24fps with every second frame repeated...
by kdiddy13
Fri May 20, 2005 4:20 pm
Forum: Feature Request Discussions
Topic: Particle fields and keying attributes
Replies: 7
Views: 2288

I just realized that After Effects Pro's Foam effect can use gray scale images to effect flow of particles. Pretty simple but a very cool effect.
by kdiddy13
Fri May 13, 2005 5:20 pm
Forum: Animation Contests
Topic: Moho Contest #2 Voting...
Replies: 8
Views: 13180

Very nice job cRaZy DaN! Running a contest is no small feat and you got some great entries.

I'm not sure why it told me the poll was closed early. I have a bit of an overzealous firewall that screws with web scripting and cookies.

Anyway, very nice job.
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by kdiddy13
Thu May 12, 2005 8:37 pm
Forum: Feature Request Discussions
Topic: Simple fog
Replies: 9
Views: 2492

If you were rendering layers individually, it wouldn't be that hard to export Z data . Otherwise it would be pretty useless. I'm not sure how it's useless. Many compositing apps can take advantage of z-depth for effects like depth of field and fog. Both of which are much easier to work with in 2d t...
by kdiddy13
Thu May 12, 2005 12:22 am
Forum: Feature Request Discussions
Topic: Simple fog
Replies: 9
Views: 2492

If I may, I'll couple a past request on top of this that may help some. Z-buffer render. I'm pretty sure Moho uses a z-buffer to define rendering in 3d. It would be great to get that info out, then you could use it in your favorite compositing program to do fog, and depth of field effects. What I wo...
by kdiddy13
Wed May 11, 2005 6:54 pm
Forum: Tips & Techniques
Topic: The "floating" or "flowing" Moho look
Replies: 52
Views: 34282

Bones are a tool, just like any other. Use them correctly and the result is good, use them in the wrong way and...well, you know... 3D aps have the same kind of bone structure and the same problems, only the best animators can create good movements. I haven't done a lot of experimenting but if I fi...
by kdiddy13
Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:48 pm
Forum: Feature Request Discussions
Topic: Better quality rendering.
Replies: 20
Views: 7524

Rendering at least 2-3 times scale isn't perfect either, but does work to some extent, but then you're files, pre-compression are 4-8 times as big as should be necessary (remember when you double the resolution, you're doubling length and width). Not a very good solution as far as I'm concerned, esp...
by kdiddy13
Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:54 pm
Forum: General Moho Discussion
Topic: Motion capture
Replies: 22
Views: 9300

Good luck 7feet. I think it's probably a pretty worthwhile adventure, even if I don't necessarily have a use for it now, it doesn't mean that I won't later or that others won't have tremendous use of it. If it works out, I imagine it could have a pretty unique and interesting look to it.
by kdiddy13
Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:23 pm
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Adobe buys Macromedia
Replies: 4
Views: 3665

Yeah, Adobe's known for inexpensive software :lol: They did a good job with improving Cool Edit Pro (now Audition). I have high hopes for them integrating Flash and Adobe's other imaging products better. Perhaps even integrating it into menu creation for DVD's with Encore, that would rock. I always ...
by kdiddy13
Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:18 pm
Forum: General Moho Discussion
Topic: Motion capture
Replies: 22
Views: 9300

It could be a "poor man's" roto tool. Imagine being able to use track data to constrain joint position to. Could be a cool effect. The real technical and monetary question being, where do you get the track data from and how do you use it, most packages that offer tracking aren't cheap (unl...
by kdiddy13
Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:24 pm
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Adobe buys Macromedia
Replies: 4
Views: 3665

Adobe buys Macromedia

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/business/42364.html Now maybe Flash will work better in After Effects, because it's the only way I can get accurate line widths out of Moho. I'm just glad the buy out wasn't the other way around. Imagine if Macromedia started developing Photoshop and After Effects...
by kdiddy13
Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:57 pm
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Help Finding Camera Capturing Software?
Replies: 9
Views: 5526

Stop Motion Pro for the PC www.stopmotionpro.com Pricey but works very well. Frame Thief for the Mac www.framethief.com Affordable, and works very, very well. Plastic Animation Paper http://plasticanimationpaper.dk/ Good if you want to draw inside the computer with a tablet. ________ SHIP SALE
by kdiddy13
Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:30 pm
Forum: Feature Request Discussions
Topic: TV/HDTV/DVD Resolution Presets in Project Settings Window
Replies: 5
Views: 2020

NTSC is 720x486 or PAL at 720x57 But you forgot about the square (what Moho is capable of) vs rectangular (what DV uses). Actually, consumer grade NTSC DV uses 720x480 rectangular pixels. However, if you want to render full res with Moho (or any program that doesn't support rectangular pixels) you ...