http://fluentart.com Animation Design Programming Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:00:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quickish speedpaint.. think it was an hour or so. http://fluentart.com/2008/10/27/started-painting-again/ Had some free time and wanted to build a character from start to finish so I can touch up on my rusty rigging/char. animation skills. Think this one's gonna be fun to play around with! http://fluentart.com/2008/06/12/work-in-progress-kid-in-suit-character/ This is basicly the same code I used for the old video I posted. Since then I've received a couple of requests on how to get that code to work. So I've finally fixed it up a bit and made it a bit more user friendly. Download the Maya 2008 SP1 ... http://fluentart.com/2008/04/29/howto-maya-scripted-animation-with-mel/ Finally got Maya to work, no more viewport update bugs!! My setup: Intel Quad core, Nvidia 8600gt, 4gb ram, Windows XP 64. Install 64bit 158.22 forceware drivers Put MAYA_NO_VERTEX_ARRAY_SELECT = 1 in my maya env file. Then in your nvidia control panel: Threaded optimization = off All the antialiasing and vsync stuff = off Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration = ... http://fluentart.com/2007/09/26/how-to-get-maya-to-work-with-your-new-nvidia-gfx-card/ Just saw this vid linked on digg, very interesting! Wouldn't be surprised if this made its way into browsers and photoshop. http://fluentart.com/2007/08/22/plug-siggraph-advanced-photo-resizing/ Heres an animation I did yesterday. Basicly the mel loop checks which objects still have to be transformed/rotated/scaled whatever, and if they are next to ones that are already visible, if they are, they are animated towards the original mesh. int $x; //init if (frame == 1) { int $z; for ($z = 159; $z ... http://fluentart.com/2007/07/20/mel-infectious-animation/ Why on earth are people still struggling with IE, slow loading pages full of ads, and bookmarking pages you know you'll want to use later but never find again. If your guilty please follow this little howto and save yourself: Install Firefox already... Install Adblock Plus to get rid of pesky ads :D Install ... http://fluentart.com/2007/03/14/how-you-should-browse/