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[rayj00]

I will be creating a video of a kids football game and I'd like to add an animation of
two football helmets crashing together. Monday Night Football did it a few seasons ago.

Can anim8or do this? And what will be the end quality?

Thanks,

Ray

[rayj00]

I need to animate along  a path. Can anim8or do that?

[rellik420]

yea anim8or can do all that. the end result is basically how good u do at it. i guess the renderer isnt that great on anim8or, but u can always use a different one. i guess just look around the website, some artists r better than others, but it gives u a good example of what anim8or can do. good luck.

[rayj00]

I am running Vista 64 bit on  a quad core box. nVidia 9600 graphics card.
Will everything work?

[thecolclough]

i've got a 64-bit quad-core with nVidia graphics, running XP-x64, and it works perfectly.  people have had a few issues with running Anim8or under Vista (try typing 'Vista' in the forum search bar and see what comes up), but in my experience, the program seems just as happy running on a 64-bit quad as it is on the 32-bit mono processors which it was designed for, so your hardware won't be any problem.

- colclough

[Tanzim]

I am running Vista 64 bit on  a quad core box. nVidia 9600 graphics card.
Will everything work?

WOW, nice comp, as the others have said, it all depends on how hard YOU try.
Be sure to read the manual and a few tutorials to get yourself going.

Of course, for that animation, I'm sure one of the animators here (or cg-nation.com) will be happy to do it for some money.

[rayj00]

I am running Vista 64 bit on  a quad core box. nVidia 9600 graphics card.
Will everything work?

WOW, nice comp, as the others have said, it all depends on how hard YOU try.
Be sure to read the manual and a few tutorials to get yourself going.

Of course, for that animation, I'm sure one of the animators here (or cg-nation.com) will be happy to do it for some money.

What? I am donating my time and labor to produce these videos!! Surely there is an animator that would help me out and do the same?

Ray

[headwax]

Hello Ray

First thing to do is post some reference pictures of the helmets. A lot of countries don't wear helmets for football.

Can you gat a hold of the video you are emulating?



As far as can anim8or do this? anim8or can do "anything."

[rayj00]

This would be an American football helmet. A quality model is hard to find. I have a rather simple .3ds.

And I've been searching and searching for the Monday Night Football crashing helmet video with no luck.. I'm really surprised I  can't find it.

Basically I want two helmets (one from each team) to drop into the video from the top to the bottom and have an audio affect when they hit the bottom.
Then the two helmets back away from each other a bit, then go towards each other until they touch, like a couple of rams, then explode into small pieces and fade away.

Pretty simple eh?

Ray

[headwax]

Hello Ray

I see you have asked this question on a few forums.

Do you see the helmets at more than one angle?

If not, are you aware of transmaps? Known as alpha maps in some software.

Anim8or can do everything except tghe sound.

The explosion will need to be a slight of hand.

Some software has builst in explosion modifiers.

[rayj00]

The helmets would have to rotate on the way down so you can see the team logo.
The final position on the bottom would be with the facemask facing each other.

[headwax]

Righto, how far do you want to go?

I can supply you with this mesh. Two hours work. It's upto you to animate it and texture it. It would take me about five hours to get a good result with the avi. Maybe longer not having seen the original.

[spicy]

Well it looks good headwax! As you said it would take some time using the textures

[headwax]

Thanks spicy

Ray, to upload a jpeg hit the reply button, not the quick reply button

down the bottom left you will see 'additional options" click on that, then attach a file by browsing to the correct part of your hard drive

[headwax]

http://www.vimeo.com/1536861

Is this what you want? You want them to be visable for longer before they explode so you can read the writing?

BTw 25 mins before the video is available.