Tail

 My aunt had a fox stole that would do this....

The hair colors come from two different Hair Materials, one brown and one black. Where they sprout on the body is controlled by a map like this...

 

 

See Forum thread for more tests and sample PRJ.

Hair variations

Mo-cap

Experiments with single-camera motion capture. 

No suit, no markers, no ping-pong balls... just video.

 

Cut Glass

A friend and I visited the Dallas Museum of Art recently and there was an exhibit of glassware in one hall.

I was inspired to try to reproduce "cut glass" with A:M "caustics"...

 

 

 

The Tongue Sandwich

The "tongue sandwich" is a classic cartoon gag but I had never seen a real tongue sandwich until I went to New York City and my New York City friend Dean took me to the world famous 2nd Ave Deli where I ordered... the tongue sandwich!

For Dean's recent birthday I made him this remembrance of the occasion...

 

It was good but it was probably my first and last tongue sandwich.

I looked up the current price of a tongue sandwich at the 2nd Ave Deli... $27.95!

 

An early test of the tongue...
 

 

to fly among the clouds

Clouds made with sprites...

out-of-body experience

Most CG characters are animated with bones inside their bodies. This one is animated with a distortion box outside the character...

(Character created and modeled by Steve Shelton)



Wireframe view of the distortion box...

a space podyssey

My model of the 2001 Space Pod, rigged for character animation...

no shirt, no service

Animation showing initial resting state of simcloth shirt and transit to intended character pose.

I've got a flat tire!

Rolling flat tire effect created by moving texture image on static mesh.

panic mode

A test of a quick face rig, done with bones and a bit of CP weighting.

 

I used this in my character for my "Summer Memories Image Contest" entry.

(Click to see larger) 

 

just scraping by

Progression of scraped paint effect I made with procedural materials in Animation:Master.

(Click on any of these to see larger.)

Basic wood grain surface...

 

White primer layer...

Top layer of color paint added...

I used the effect in my "Summer Memories Image Contest" entry. It appears in the middle area of the house...

More simcloth!

SHARK!

Another test with simcloth.

before disposable towels

A demonstration of simcloth in Animation:Master.

When I was little I thought this was how the roller towels in men's rooms worked.

turn around a t-rex

A tyrannosaurus I modeled some time ago. Click on the pic to see a turnable 3D view.

chiss sweeze

This is pretty much the inverse of the clouds a few posts down.  In fact, it began as a failed attempt to make clouds. This is a procedural material placed on some closely stacked planes that creates the appearance of cheese with holes in it.

it walks down stairs...

SimCloth used to recreate the famous children's toy.  All simulated, I only had to drop it just right.

curl this!

From the Department of They Said it Couldn't Be Done...

a complex curling motion with shift of axis. 

an' the wall come a'tumblin' down

A wall of bricks, created with Simcloth in Animation:Master.

bread

Sliced bread made with procedural materials in Animation:Master.

A partial turn-around: