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Lenore, the living version. She will need some minimal rigging so I can pose her for the portrait over the fireplace. I will need a ghostly version and then have her dress wrapped on the bed. She isn't in the poem physically but her presence has to be strong visually I think to make the animation more interesting and work.

I am not sure exactly, it has been in my collection of misc items for a long time and i have seen it used in several toutorials on using materials like sub surface scattering and on several free model sites over the years. I thought it might work as something interesting on the mantel.... i guess it got your attention!

A small step forward. Narrator is rigged. Having a bizarre issue with the texture on the shoes, some grey is showing through the black but it's not geometry. I'll work it out. I am probably going to do more post tone mapping than I usually do but that is along ways off to think too much about now.

Merci! I do sort of go for that creepy puppet look... I can't help it, I am just drawn to that I guess. of course adapting Poe in this case And Lovecraft in a few others lends itself to that sort of look. I have to make a "nice" lenore for use in the final painting over the fireplace and another version. A dead, ghostly one.

Slowly working on this, I have to admit I have obsessed with another project called "Dog and Weasel" which is a lot of fun. I am working on the narrator now and have some ideas for the lost Lenore. Also the raven is pretty much ready except I am deciding on the colour of it's feathers. Pure black in tis dark room makes it invisible so I'll make it a dark grey and maybe add a red light to set it apart from the background.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB graphics You might be right! The card might be the problem! I usually use the updated graphic card software from Nividia but they have not updated it for Mojave yet so I am using the Mac version and so far I don't see a difference.

2013 iMac, not problems at all with C4D or Xparticles etc. I don't have Cycles. The transition to manage was super smooth for me.

People like me! I find the character objects are not as good for some things as I would like or overly complicated. I also miss a couple of features exclusive to Dan's plugins. They won't provide plugin support BTW just make then available.

https://insydium.ltd/news/latest-news/cactus-dan/ Insydium has made my love them even more with some new project called bridge that will let us use older plugins on newer versions of C4D is a read it right, but clearly states they are bringing back Cactus' Dan's tools! So excited!

A couple updates. I have to start on the main characters soon.

Tell Tale Heart will be presented at the "Another Hole in the head" film festival in San Francisco this November. If anyone is in the area, please go and feel free to tell everyone how much you love my film! LOL 15th Annual Another Hole in the Head SF IndieFest’s Genre Film Festival November 28 – December 12, 2018 www.ahith.com

I will look into that! I want to add lenor’s dress to the bed with a rose on it as well.

Moving ahead on my next gothic horror animation. Trying for a more detailed, yet still render in a realistic amount of time look. To that end I removed a lot of reflection and the fire is an animated texture not a simulation. I also added noice to the main light to give more detail to things so i don't have to put stuff on every wall. The use of shadows also fills that space with shapes so the need for paintings and moulding is reduced. I still have t make the narrator character and his dead wife, Lenore but at lest the raven itself is ready. This set is made so I can easily make some of the walls and ceiling invisible for camera placement. There is a balcony and a tree outside the french doors and I think it will be snowing outside. I put a ton of work into the doorway because that is where we see the raven mostly so it have to hold up for many shots and different angles. The painting over the fireplace is temporary as it will need to be made with the image of Lenore from my model of her eventually.

LOL Charles windsurfing in a wheat field would have ben hysterical!

I used the generic name - just in case! The side effects are the ones they list themselves fro the product - it's not my fault LOL

Dramatic Readings # 5 - but likely the last one for a long while. Side effects of isotretinoin, better known as accutane - pimple medication. This one is a good minute longer than the others. There SO MANY side effects! I cut a few out or it would have been another minute of ranting. Still trying to push my characters into more extremes and he gets there a couple times. This was my tenth animation this year! My plans now are to do the raven by EA Poe and design the out of it and also do a new series if it works out called Dog and Weasel. I have already made characters and som props for each of them but it will be not next year before I make any real headway into animating anything.

Awesome! I love the texture and lighting!

so amazing!

Thanks! I thought it should be as cute as possible to counter the content.

My voice guy refused to 'say those words" even though they would bleeped! I thought I held back - I must have a better vocabulary than I thought.

I finished 2 of them already! They are sort of adult oriented in that there is bleeped out bad language. Not sure where that falls on the "mature content" scale. The second one is shorter and less funny since you know what to expect, think. But overall i like the world o built and the look and colour palette.

So different from Two Worlds! I love the atmosphere and the liquid environment you created for this! Great work, again!

Another amazing project! Your texturing is so incurable and I have not seen anything like it anywhere else. The drool was so simple - and worked so well!

On to the next short in this series. likely the last. The farmer I had made before, I have a small supply of generic characters to draw on now for projects to make things go faster. I did discover he had a strange "crotch issue" entered in the pelvis joint that I can compensate for by rotating the pelvis when it crops up but I'll have to rework his rigging and weighting after this is done to avoid that in the future.

Good god! I need glasses now! It's a hair simulation, with kink and frizz, thicker roots and no specular. I added a colours light from the side to give it some detail but reduced that becuase I thought a cleaner white was better.