Hasta La Motion!

Hey guys,
I created a plane to which I attached the fur grass preset and I wanted to make it look a if wind is blowing through it. So I created a hair system to attach to the fur system. The dynamics work, if I increase frequency, amplitude, etc.. however it seems that the dynamics do not effect all of the grass, in fact some small chunks of it and particularly at the sides of the frame, none hardly in middle of frame. It seems as if perhaps there are not enough curves or something. If so how do you increase the number of curves for the hair system. IF that is not the problem then what setting am I missing in dynamics section here is the link if you want to see the screen shots of viewport as well as the dynamics settings for the hairsystemshape.

http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autod…ics/page-last/

By the way the animation is 300 frames and do not move once in those areas indicated by circles.

Hi, ok so I am doing a project for my film class, which is a research paper on visual effects, and most of the information I write about needs to be from interviews (either live or e-mailed).
It occurred to me that I have not talked with an animator to get information on how animation is done or how they work with the compositor. So I was hoping that if someone had a few minutes to spare to answer some questions I have, that they could private message me and I could just ask you a few questions.
Sorry I didn’t really know if this was the "proper" spot to put this kind of request, but I figured the animation forums would be a good starting point.

Thanks!

Hi all

I am having trouble getting the extract tool to show on the screen. When I click the button at the top it does not appear and when I try to open it through the Mesh drop down menu I just get an error message saying:

// Error: Command polySeparate failed. Open Script Edior for details.

What do I need to do to get the tool to appear on my models?

Thanks

Hey guys,

I have Maya 2011 on a mac and I was wondering if I could reset the Batch Renderer in Maya. I am very new to Maya, I was a Cinema 4d user, so it is a lot different. You see I setup a batch render and let it go half way. I stopped the batch render by just closing the script editor, not by using the stop batch render command. Now in the same project I tried to start the batch render again after I made a few changes, but this time it would start rendering where I stopped and only for a few frames not till the completion of the timeline. I read some forums which said to start a new file import the old file and optimize the render settings and then try it again. Problem is that It starts rendering the new sequence, but along with the frames where I left off with in the previous file. That is I stopped the render in the first file around frame 450, so as frame 1 of the new file is rendering, 451 from the old is rendering too. Also as a result my new sequences images look kinda weird, not at full res and like the sky that I setup is missing. I can send both .mb files if you would like to look at them. Please help!

Hey guys!
I am a Visual Effetcs major and am starting work on my Thesis project. For my idea I need this gun as a 3D model, but I am not a modeler and have attempted but failed so bad at modeling this 🙁 I know that its a pretty simple model and can be relatively low poly, so if anyone here thinks that they have the time to quickly model this for me I would REALLY appreciate it! This is a sketch of what I want it to look like:

http://i54.tinypic.com/wwiwlj.jpg

And so in my video, the gyroscope in the center will be constantly rotating. So I don’t know how hard it is to rig that to do those rotations but maybe if I have the model ready I can figure out the rigging part. But for now I really need this model! Also the gyroscope in the center will have to be a bit bigger and will not be confined to the virtual gun barrel. It needs to accommodate a cannon ball.

So does anyone think they may be able to help??
Credit will be given in my video if I end up using the model.

Thanks so much!!