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Are you looking for something like this?

https://nitro4d.com/product/animidi/

Just saw this short video on the Greyscale Gorilla Slack channel. Pretty fascinating where it all began. I definitely remember seeing graphics like this all over TV.

The Last Analog Motion Graphics Machine

You are very kind. Thank you sir. By the way, you never need to say small. Every little bit helps.

I wouldn't normally post something like this here, but I got the go-ahead to do so. No pressure.

Just wanted to pass this around to see if I can drum up some more donations. The GoFundMe link below, is for my niece Kayla, who lost almost everything to Hurricane Irma in Key West. If you can help out great. If you can’t right now that’s fine. If you know of someone that might be in a position to help, feel free to pass the link along. Every little bit helps. No pressure at all. I’ll probably still like you if you’re unable to help. Probably. Thank you in advance.

GoFundMe for Young Family

I find it frustrating that when the new releases are announced, that a demo is not available the same day. Let us kick the tires a bit which may sway more people into wanting the upgrade after playing with the tools. Same complaint I always had with Apple showing off new products and working people into a fervor only to have him say "You will be able to purchase this in the fall."

Well, through the font setting in Chrome, I was able to override the font being shown to Myriad Pro Web. Might have been an Apple font, but sure. Easier to read now. I saw in the code to this page the font Oxygen is specified, which is indeed a san serif font. I wasn't seeing it on my end though, just a typical serif font like Times. Could be that I don't have the font Oxygen installed and so Chrome went to the default font. Not sure.

@Igor I like this new theme. My only concern is the font color. It's borderline dark or at least the secondary darker text is. Since I'm talking text here, in my opinion (over 20 years graphic design), web fonts, in particular smaller text like this, is better with a sans serif font. Much cleaner and easier to read.

1 hour ago, VECTOR said:

oooh get vozzz with the apprentice :D

Always two there are. A master and an apprentice.

On 7/21/2017 at 9:05 PM, 3DKiwi said:

Re MoGraph Sound Effector. Looks like someone from MAXON was uploading the R19 videos and got the permissions to view wrong (Now changed). What they have likely done is made the sound effector more intuitive to use as it was a bit hard to use before. Plus given it a new interface for the settings with an improved frequency graph. We'll know in a week.

Yeah, I watched this video before it was pulled. The Sound Effector will now use just about any sound format, including an MP4 video he imported and it just pulled the audio. Nice. The other thing that was way more intuitive was the graph. You basically draw a box wherever  you want the effector to do its thing. The graph changed color when the sound waves were within its boundaries. Helpful. The box shape was being changed as it was playing. I think there was an option to type in frequency range as well. Let's see, when you import a sound, it automatically adds a special track with the sound attached or maybe this was just adding sound in general. Right now, you have to create a special track, then assign a specific type of .wav file to it. That's all I can recall. I'm sure there will be many other nice new features coming our way.

I thinks it's a good thing. A "teaser trailer" if you will. They do it with Star Wars, why not MAXON?  

Maybe I'm late to the party, but Cineversity's Vimeo channel just published this little diddy. It talks about the new improved sound effector in r19. Since when does MAXON talk about anything before it's announced?

@mattbowden Very nice work for such a short time in 3D! The camera work is also excellent, but I suppose you have a lot of expertise in that area. 

That's pretty awesome. Interesting that it's the math teacher, but I guess it gets the students engaged and breaks the ice.

Sign me up for this section! Oh wait, I'm already signed up.  

@everfresh  Ha! Maybe you can get a goat? I would like to go fishing in your puddle, I mean pond. At least, I hope you have fish in there or you have lots of mosquitoes. 

Can we assume your flyby was just over and around the structures and not inside them? Now THAT would be too much work.

You got beat by someone that is desperate for any work at all, or by a company that has a room-full of modellers that can crank it out quickly. Hell, they could be outsourcing to India or Malaysia for all you know. I lost out on a steady side client doing videos for TV. He found a new company that would do them for half of what I was charging and my price was already very low. I decided that I couldn't justify the work and late nights for half the money and away they went. I definitely missed the money, but my quality of life was better for it.

@everfresh Yeah, my lawn looks great from certain angles until you get up close and walk on it. Then you see all the brown spots, bare spots, weeds and bumps. You know what? My neighbor's grass has the same problems.

22 minutes ago, Cerbera said:

Pretty much only if you are using it with dynamics and require a low poly version to run that at speed in the viewport. 

I just followed the tutorial posted here recently by C4D Jed and his trick was to have low-poly dummy objects that handle all the dynamics, then you make your high-poly car a child of the various parts and restrict the Dynamics from influencing the child. It works great and you can watch your car zoom around in all it's high-poly form.  

I looked at Maya's 3 year deal with support and it works out to about $1,600/year. Cinema 4D with MSA works out to about $1,800/year. MAXON includes Cineversity premium with the MSA, not sure what Maya has. Not exactly a third of the price, however, it's not a good perception to be a little more expensive than the industry leader when not all of the tools are equal.

14 minutes ago, robbing said:

Glad you like it ;)

Check this threat for car rig:

Then, real textures (road, rocks...) over primitives 

It´s more about storytelling skills than 3D skills.

True to a point, but I'm also very interested in your car rigging. I need to get better at getting cars to looks natural.

Wow that's awesome! Nice job. How did you create this? Did you make your own rig? Use a plug in? Details please.

@SIgor When you say "sharing," what you really mean is 25 Euros right? This is a great idea, but not sure I would pay for content for a product that is still in Alpha. Seems odd to me. I too would be interested in outdoor scenes, specifically for automotive work.

Great. thanks for the link. Now just have to figure out two use the darn thing.

How do we download this awesome looking tool? I don't see it in the Toolbox and can't find a download link on the site.

One question about this new ProRender deal, would we be able to use the CPU AND GPU simultaneously? And if we can, would that cause problems with the differences between processors?