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**Chance1234** · August 29th, 2005, 02:46 PM

http://www.20six.co.uk/Chance1234

I really have no idea what im doing with this , so might make interesting reading.

**miker** · August 30th, 2005, 12:59 PM

keep it up!

**Chance1234** · September 1st, 2005, 10:37 PM

It is begining to seem not such a daft idea,

still heaps of work to go but,

Ive got this background

http://images14.fotki.com/v206/photo.../train3-vi.jpg

which with a bit of noise and motion becomes this,

http://www.5ylac.biz/flashing/roll2.avi

then i have this character

http://images12.fotki.com/v217/photo...3/test4-vi.jpg

with this motion to go on top

http://www.5ylac.biz/flashing/deadlightsredux.avi

and thats my first scene !

The Animated Mike Edwards is already proving to be a far superior actor to the original!

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 01, 2005 07:40 PM: Message edited by: Chance1234 ]</font>

**jb_617** · September 2nd, 2005, 09:06 AM

Don't do the train carriage move by animating the train! It's a dead giveaway and never looks right. Add a "noise" modifier to the camera (never render from "perspective" viewport), scroll down and use the "animate noise" spinner. 0.25 should do the trick for you. At the moment the sway on the carriage is robotic and you would have to hand key every frigging frame to get rid of it. Much simpler to move the camera.

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**Chance1234** · September 2nd, 2005, 11:18 AM

i did that tester in flash, long way from even thinking about animating in 3D yet!

btw , do you know any good 3D Max forums, having been trying a few, but there ignoring me. probably because they can see from my early work , that , that phone call from pixar animation is just round the corner ;-)

**jb_617** · September 2nd, 2005, 01:16 PM

Originally posted by Chance1234:
i did that tester in flash, long way from even thinking about animating in 3D yet!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Interesting choice, you do know that max will vector output your Flash animations directly, right?

As far as the forums go, you'll be lucky to get any response other than "stop spamming us". The thing is most of the forums are for professionals and they tend (quite rightly in my opinion) to tell begginers to go buy some books and read the free tutorials on the 'net. A good place to start is the extensive 3d max tutorial set that is built into the programme. Once you've finished that you should have a good grasp of the basics. Then you just need to search for tutorials on how to perform specific tasks. If you start posting on an pro forum with questions like "how do apply a texture map" and "how do I move a vertex" you'll get laughed at and ignored.

Sad, but true, we aren't as nice as the folks around here.

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**Chance1234** · September 2nd, 2005, 07:19 PM

unfortunatly my version of max is cut down so i dont have the tutorials.

have finally found a forum with people that reply! with the 3D Arts forum hoorah!

does seem though books are the way to go , as most of the tutorials i have come across (admitedly its only been a week) have been pants, or virus ridden ad pop up infested casks