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same for me
Well now that is a real bummer! I wonder if: A) something called a way back machine has them or B) they would mind if one of us hosted the collection?
This collection is an absolute gem of Carrara goodness! Carrara Cafe too, but it seems that 3dXtract went further back and had tutorials from Eric himself about using DCG plugins, mmoir making... well... cool stuff galore, Carl, Brian... too many to name... too many for me to remember of the top of my noggin.
Well, maybe when we get to the point where we're not having to work full time anymore, maybe we can write our own amazing articles about this stuff for the Cafe and get C3DE up and going again... 3dRendero, rk, and Jetbird willing, of course!
3D animation on you table!
It is in Canada, in the restaurant "le petit chef", run by a French...
Thanks to overhead projectors, a video montage is projected on your table and allows you to wait for your order without impatience... it’s magic!
Look in the middle of the page, there are 5 videos.
Beautiful and well done!
https://lepetitchef.com/
This is so wonderful!
Congratulations to the responsible artists. Very impressive.
Very cool.
Thanks for finding this DUDU. Incredible creativity!
I've mentioned that I try to minimize dialogue in animations, if not avoid it altogether. "Show, don't tell". But some of the greatest movie lines were improvised by the actors. E.g. Roy Scheider in "Jaws": "You're gonna need a bigger boat." Here is a funny story from Robert de Niro:
This actor can’t remember lines, so he can’t get a job. A director he knows runs into him at the gas station where he’s working. The director says: “I have a play that in the third act, what you do is go and say, ‘Hark, I hear the cannons roar.’ Can I count on you to do that?” The actor says he’ll do it. He goes and rehearses, rehearses, rehearses. “Hark, I hear the cannons roar. Hark, I hear the cannons roar.” On the day of the play, the third act comes, and the actor runs out onstage. Boom! The cannon goes boom, and the actor goes, “What the [expletive] was that?!” The point is, you don’t want to lose spontaneity.
couldnt help but mention carrara's ik in the commons ik thread
there a few threads i'd like to say, well, have you tried carrara, so simple to some problems mentioned
like, sideburns, have you tried carrara dynamic hair
why is nla non-linear?
"Non Linear Animation is a technique ... used to merge different, simple, Actions in complex, fluid Actions." This is from a Blender site, but it describes Carrara's NLA also. A great feature that I use a lot, and I have a large collection of Carrara NLA clips created from imported mocaps - aniMate, PoserMocap, etc. Just drop them into the Sequencer, smooth out the transitions between clips with the Carrara commands, done. No keyframe fiddling.
heard of non linear time. trance is non linear.
received mail from Australia. wiggles toys is here
I assume The Wiggles as in "wake up Jeff etc"
but
knowing you wiggle toys could mean something else .....
"good good,good, vibrations"
wouldn't have to order all the way from australia for that lol
just ntoiced Bryce not keeping up with mac versions either.
md and 3d coat in the same price range, no help in deciding doh>.<
my day job not giving the holiday bonuses this year. bah hum bug.
hey send out corpo email, oh we made billions this year. that's like rubbing it in the wound.
narrowing my santa list
either
octane plug in
md
3d coat
mini mac for eventual final cut
or cheap 3d printer with the dual spindles
Octane would need a better Nvidia card than yours
good point!
scratched from the list.
I've spent way too much money on new software this year. I've only scratched the surface of most of it. The learinng curve for just one package can be steep, and I'm not spending enough time with any one program to really learn it.
Marvelous Designer is truly amazing if you want to make clothes, curtains, or other draped products. On the other hand, if you purchase your clothes, not so much.
In hindisght, I find myself wishing I had saved a up a little more money and bought ZBrush instead of 3D Coat. Don't get me wrong, 3D Coat is great. However, Marvelous Desiger has a built in retopology function now. I picked up UV Layout for UVMapping. And I'm trying to learn Subtance Painter for texturing models. That makes three of the reasons I picked up 3D Coat now to be done in a different program.
My spending will be coming to a screetching halt in 2020.
@Diomede Yeah, that's why I've been holding myself back from getting any of those types of software. Main reasons being:
Cost of the software - biggest hurdle - but then there's:
Learning curve of new software - Hmmm... I wish I was rendering in Carrara!
I guess another huge part of it is that I was making texture maps for 3d models before I got into any of this stuff. It's what got me to realize that Poser existed, and that to do Poser stuff I don't need Poser, I need Carrara! So anyway, I have Howler and Affinity Photo (and PaintShopPro) and I have Carrara with Baker and other assorted tools. I do enjoy making products 'my own' by giving them custom shaders already, using methods I've already created along the way.
Still, seeing promos, etc., of the use of Zbrush, 3d Coat, etc., does urge me to get one of them for painting onto 3d directly. It's neat that Carrara has a limited process available for this already - and I do have a lot of fun with that, and then often 'finish up' in Howler or Affinity Photo, but it's not like what I see in 3D Coat's YouTube tutorials. And in 3D Coat, I'd also be making Normal maps too! Argh!
Kinda makes me glad to be poor. This way I can;t afford it anyway, and have to just keep animating and rendering! :)
Unless I download, learn, and find myself loving Blender for such things, I'll likely own 3D Coat one day ;)
think i leaning toward the MD
and wait on the printer til tax return time.
can't remember what i did to get sixus krampus into carrara. tried retracing my steps, but he loading without his horns >.<
i remember removing the ERCs from his fingers
no oceans in these ocean presets?
because its under terrains
the folder is named Ocean, left me with unfulfilled expectations lol
Does DAZ know what operating system we are using? should I be concerned
Here you go. Attached is the replicated water from EnvironKits.
Change ".zip" to ".car" and drop into your My Objects folder somewhere.
Drop in into any scene from your Objects browser
It's using a custom shader, but any of Carrara's water shaders will work. It's the Ocean primitive replicated many times, and is set to be more like a lake or river than an ocean, but you can tweak that on the Ocean part.
The actual ocean primitive is dropped way down in the z axis, so the only actual surface at ground level is replicated. The ocean primitive can be resized, but then just change the grid size accordingly in the replicator.
Anyway, I thought it was important to include such a thing into EnvironKits so that the user could easily have water that's already animated in their scenes. I still use this quite a lot in many scenes.
If I buy a product that comes with a static water plane, I replace that with this.
nasty fire in the Adelaide hills, was a grass fire not far from me too but thats contained, the weather not helping
Stay Safe, kiddo!
+1
I am fine, was just a bit wheezy and coughing as smoke in air earlier don't have asthma fortunately
one near me is out, some houses lost no lives
the one in the Adelaide Hills is the awful one that's already cost a life and will kill lots of animals and burn down houses, not near me but very devastating for all concerned
this gives some idea
https://www.facebook.com/1653360584/posts/10219421050350959/
smoke getting nasty again according to Facebook all of Adelaide smoked out
hopes gets better soonest
think i settled on MD , think i'll get most use out of it. my males need wearables.
starting the free trial. https://www.marvelousdesigner.com/product/pricing
One of my biggest reasons for still using Genesis 1. I keep wanting to get your Genesis 3 folks, but I still don't own much of anything for them. So I apologize for that. Soon I'll be getting them regardless. Then maybe I'll buy some G3 products.
Michael 3, Hiro 3, David 3, Freak 3 all have some pretty cool wears that work well with Genesis 1 with a little tweaking (plus I've used GenX2 to use the Genesis 2 PokeAway for Genesis 1) - and I already had a fine pile of M4 garments. When I was first getting into Genesis with Carrara 8.5 beta, I bought up a LOT of Genesis 1 attire as it was coming out. Still doing custom stone work overtime back then.