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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: TheRetroZombie on December 20, 2009, 12:10:50 am

Title: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 20, 2009, 12:10:50 am
I want to know how to make a full body human. I want to be able to animate it and I'm wondering if i make a single model of the entire body, will i be able to give it bones and make it flex or do i have to make separate models?
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: mak on December 20, 2009, 12:51:47 am
no you can make it one whole peace. theres a good tut around here useing a cylnder ill see if i can find it.
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 20, 2009, 12:55:35 am
what is a tut?
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: odp04y on December 20, 2009, 07:13:52 am
A tut is a tutorial.

There's some good one's on edgelooping in the forums, just search for it.
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 20, 2009, 04:41:01 pm
i already know how to edge loop. I'm going to try to import models from some other program called Makehuman. I saw a youtube video on it.
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: Alpha2 on December 20, 2009, 06:52:50 pm
You might run into issues importing models from other sources. Creating a character in AN8 is probably your best bet. If you're starting out I'd suggest building your person in parts then you can combine them into a single mesh later with Build>Join solids.
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 20, 2009, 07:33:14 pm
yes, I know. First I make one half then mirror then join solids then merge points.
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: johnar on December 21, 2009, 12:39:32 am
 Try this classic. Should keep you busy for a while.  ;D
Joan of Ark Tutorial.
http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.php
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 21, 2009, 01:05:08 am
Well, its not that good but I decided to animate this guy.
(http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz28/TheRetroZombie/WoodenMan.jpg)
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: mak on December 21, 2009, 01:12:10 am
i kinda like that, looks like the beginings of a nutkcracker. have you any thing in mind for it. as in like a skit or somthin?
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 21, 2009, 01:09:08 pm
okay, i made a short animation of him walking but for some reason I can render the video. First I had shadows but it took to long and while I waited it had an error. Than I took away shadows and light and in a few seconds of rendering it has an error.
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: RudySchneider on December 21, 2009, 02:39:29 pm
Just a suggestion, but you're FAR better off rendering out frames as individual JPEG images, then compositing them into a video using something like VirtualDub (free), for the following reasons:

1.  If your computer crashes, you haven't lost anything, and you don't have to start from the beginning.  Just start rendering again from the last rendered image.
2.  You can re-render individual frames if you make adjustments.
3.  If you have a long animation, with different scenes, and you only make changes to one scene, why re-render the whole thing when you can just re-render the one scene, or a portion of it?
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 21, 2009, 07:03:20 pm
idk, it never did this before.
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 21, 2009, 07:43:15 pm
and my computer doesn't crash, Anim8or shuts down.
Title: Re: Making a person...
Post by: TheRetroZombie on December 22, 2009, 11:28:18 pm
Okay, I got it working! Here is the animation of this wooden person.