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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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By charly Rama - 3 Years Ago
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I've watched on my darkest monitor and it's ok. Great work. May be increase the brightness a little , really a little, not too much.
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By Zeronimo - 3 Years Ago
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on my little 24" 2K monitor it looks perfect. Not too dark and not too bright. waiting for the continuation with impatience.
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Looks fine to me too. Making it lighter would spoil the atmosphere and light balance. Specifically when he walks away from the spotlight at the door. The difference has to be distinct as it is.
On contrary, I would try to darken vegetation (specially planted bushes). I know, it's hard to get the *right* balance in iClone though.
One way to try is to render a frame in Iray and then attempt to mimic (as close as possible) that in real-time.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Thank you, thank you, thank you 
What about this? I tried to accomodate @4u2ges and @Charly's remarks. I had exactly the same feeling like @4u2ges about those bushes being too bright, on the other hand the first "prototypes" I made looked more night-like accurate, but were too dark on displays on normal light so I had to increase the brightness as @Charly said. Now I tried to get a better balance and to me looks quite OK - usually, the darkest screens are Apple ones, now I checked only on my iPhone and iPad, but I will see also at work on two different MacPros.
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By rosuckmedia - 3 Years Ago
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Very nicely done.๐ The lighting is good for me. Greetings rosuckmedia
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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That is a lot better. Very little difference and I could only visually distinguish it by opening both versions in 2 different tabs and switch back and forth.
But bushes are lot less annoyingly bright, specially when he walks toward the back it's a lot more pleasing. Keep up with the story
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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One more. It is unfortunate what we cannot tweak vegetation texture in iClone. Everything is way too vivid.
We can however in Iray MI scene cache just in case anyone renders Iray.
Compare with the same lights.
Iray Preview:
Manipulated cache texture to the extreme and rendering with MI scene:
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By mark - 3 Years Ago
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Amen to "vegetation-texture" control in iClone !!!!!!
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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mark (5/31/2021)
Amen to "vegetation-texture" control in iClone !!!!!!
We have this 6 years old ticket about planting, but apparently I could not find anything about texture control 
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By animagic - 3 Years Ago
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4u2ges (6/1/2021)
mark (5/31/2021)
Amen to "vegetation-texture" control in iClone !!!!!!
We have this 6 years old ticket about planting, but apparently I could not find anything about texture control
It has been mentioned on the forum several times, but it never made it into a feature request.
I think RL would have to use the newer, updated, version of SpeedTrees, similar to the plugins for game engines, which are $19/month.
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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animagic (6/1/2021)
4u2ges (6/1/2021)
mark (5/31/2021)
Amen to "vegetation-texture" control in iClone !!!!!!
We have this 6 years old ticket about planting, but apparently I could not find anything about texture control
It has been mentioned on the forum several times, but it never made it into a feature request. I think RL would have to use the newer, updated, version of SpeedTrees, similar to the plugins for game engines, which are $19/month.
Yes! Amen to that... 
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Thank you, @rosuckmedia, glad you like it
I decided (lol) this will be the final look, I think it's the best compromise I could get between a "night look" and display's brightness in common daylight. I tried including some "bush dithering", meaning planting darker bushes among lighter ones, but did not look well. About vividness @4u2ges mentioned, well, there's also a "psychological" reason for which I will keep it like this: less saturated combined with less contrasted image creates a tense, dark atmosphere, you know, close to sinister, lol; on the opposite, saturated and contrasted image creates a vivid feeling - and this clip will be anything but dark and sad
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Perfecto
I see you also killed the low grass vividness and re-positioned the cage so it does not penetrate the mop any longer 
Lets roll the reel...
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Weeekend work 
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By toystorylab - 3 Years Ago
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Nice! And hilarious... 
With some cool sounds added this will be great.
Made me curious where this shall end up!
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Nicely done. Like he details like that floor board animation. Also wonder where the story would go.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Thank you, thank you
@4u2ges There was/is a detail which I wasn't able to fix it: at 1:07+, there are 3 small "holes" in guy's T-shirt back - believe it or not, none of Hide Inner Mesh, Transfer Skin Weights/Conform and Hide Body Mesh fixed it. The same with the shoes, when he "tiptoe" to look in the mailbox, its toes pokes out a bit. It's not first time when I encountered this problem, it's not IC7.9 specific, I think even in 7.6 I saw it.
Apart from this, it seems that Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V keyframe in an object's animation is not working, even if Copy and Paste in the right-click menu are enabled - for clock's pendulum I had to manual set all keyframes.
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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No, no, no.. that is not possible. Here's how to fix those stubborn pocks.
Select a single frame at the timeline where pock has occurred in collect clip, save the pose.
In CC apply that pose. And try to figure it out. Should not be that hard.
Also subdivide character, but tessellate the shirt.
Subdivision shrinks a bit, tessellation expands. Same for the shoes. But shoes the worst.
Worst case scenario, convert both to Accessory and weight again. That fixes things sometimes.
Also mesh hide is not possible not to work.
Copy/paste works fine for me though. Are you trying to paste on empty area without extending a clip first?
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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I've tried all these things already I think it's something related with the character itself (as I said, it happened also one or two times last year, IC7.6 or 7.7). Though now I didn't tried to convert to accessory and back, I thought didn't worth the waste of time for three dots And for copy paste, of course the clip was extended. When I will have some time, I will make a demo video for each issue and I will post it in the troubleshooting forum.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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@4u2ges
Just made a quick video with hide body mesh issue, maybe you'll figure out something from it 
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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And here's the Ctrl-C/Ctr-V issue:
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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I might know what happened to the shirt. You probably used Cloth Layer Setting tool.
This thing became buggy at some point. I do not use it anymore. There is also a conflict between Auto-hide and Manually hiding in CC.
Just an example after running collision a few times:
Go to Conform and click Reset to Default at the bottom.
Go to Cloth Layer Settings and click Reset Content Settings.
That would leave only what you have manually got hidden. Now whatever you manually hide would be in effect.
About the clock. Did you try to drag and drop with Ctrl and then did you press Play. Sometimes after pasting you have to press play for the key to appear. Happened to me a few times.
You also may want to Sample the clip - (per frame) and then Flatten it to kill ghost keys.
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Hmm, it's like a curse lol.
I am working with the project and encountered the same problem with animation track. Yet worse, I cannot move any bones sometimes at all (it has a complex hierarchy).
What I found though, it was attached to something else. As soon as I detached, deleted animation track and started over, the ability to move bones and copy keys was restored.
Now, this is a bug.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Weekend work: also added most raw core sounds. Quite funny, these raw sounds makes the video to sound (lol) much creepier than expected
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Oh, I though the house inhabitant would be a legend (or is he?). Yeah a sad end then.
Why you age restricted videos? That girl is still dressed.(?)
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By toystorylab - 3 Years Ago
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Hm, I can't see it. Though I'm logged in it won't play. 
Youtube wants me to log in due age restriction, I do so but it still won't play...
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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toystorylab (6/14/2021)
Hm, I can't see it. Though I'm logged in it won't play.
Youtube wants me to log in due age restriction, I do so but it still won't play...
Don't know why, one of my teammates tried it at work and had no problems. Anyway, here's the Vimeo link:
https://vimeo.com/559672098
I'm still surprised about the difference in the video quality between YT and Vimeo - after I uploaded it now, I checked the 2K/4K, I cannot say I see a difference between the original and these, especially the colors - at one time I suspected YT is using 4:4:0 colorspace while Vimeo 4:4:2, but I understood it's not the case.
P.S @4u2ges, it's just the beginning of the end, lol 
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Bug fixes and improvements
or https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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And some new footage too... and new bugs to fix next weekend 
Cheers
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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4u2ges (6/22/2021)
and new bugs to fix next weekend
I will squish them until they will die! Though, squishing bugs is a weekday job, weekends are for new footage
Thanks!
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Today's bugfixes
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Don't get me wrong here. I am magnetized by the girl. But that does not stop me from seeing other "things"
Now I am sure who the guy is - a Tarzan... or Bruce Lee. The way his hand goes trough the table at the end makes me think he is the latter.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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 I thought that it's so blatantly obvious that nobody would think I didn't observe it
Seriously, I was more concerned about curtains - I had to add some rigid dummies there to prevent collision with the windows' frames, and they had different heights due to physics animation. And about the treadmill stopped rolling
Regarding the hand-through-table magic, I didn't want to spend time there because I don't know yet how the motion will continue.
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By toystorylab - 3 Years Ago
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cheers
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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4u2ges (6/22/2021)
Don't get me wrong here. I am magnetized by the girl. But that does not stop me from seeing other "things"
Now I am sure who the guy is - a Tarzan... or Bruce Lee. The way his hand goes trough the table at the end makes me think he is the latter.
Better now? 
https://vimeo.com/559672098
You can skip to 2:55, from there is reworked, though the hand scene it could be possible to scrap it entirely. I reworked from 2:55 because I wanted to solve a potential "goof", the smoke from the opening scene.
P.S I will have to replace those two paintings on the wall
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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P.S I will have to replace those two paintings on the wall
Yes, you should, as well as... oh well, I became sort of quality control lol....
Should I continue, or just shut up?
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Here are the paintings - first time I was thinking about something with the forest, the lodge or some portraits, but then I figured out I can chose something more... appropriate
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Oh yeah, looks a lot better
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Finally, I finished all those furnishings - such a PITA. And, even I was affraid I will have to scrap the "cheers" moment, luckily I found a good continuation for it - @toystorylab, enjoy it
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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So, because the most difficult part is gone, today I just added 20 secs or so "action", lol - @4u2ges, enjoy
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Oh yeah, now it easy. Bare naked - no need to worry about skin pocking through the cloth anymore
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Brought back in action my favorite character
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By TimothyMasters - 3 Years Ago
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This was excellent. I was particularly impressed by his motion. Walking while carrying those crates was perfect, and the way he reached for and used the key was incredible. I have yet to master ordinary walking!
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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TimothyMasters (7/2/2021)
This was excellent. I was particularly impressed by his motion. Walking while carrying those crates was perfect, and the way he reached for and used the key was incredible. I have yet to master ordinary walking!
Thank you For me, the most difficult animation task to achieve in all my clips so far was moving in confined spaces, where the smallest gestures (or lack of) are immediately caught and analyzed by the eye. I still don't feel confortable when I have to do this
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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No, no, no!! Not that guy again
Too funny, I love him!
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By toystorylab - 3 Years Ago
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Yo, nice evolvement...
Though I would get rid of that mirror, distracts and does not look good.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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I spent almost two days for 15 seconds of video Nothing seemed to work - motions, camera angles, lights, nothing. Finally I did it somehow, though one particular sequence either defies laws of physics or you should be a very skilled waiter to achieve such feat
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By TimothyMasters - 3 Years Ago
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Yeah, I sure know about the two-days-15-seconds phenomenon. After having done a handful of iClone videos, I did the math and figured out that it takes me about 12 hours of work per minute of video.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Weeekend work, another 20 secs
I expected to do more, but there are about 30 secs difficult to fill - I know what I will have to do after that, but this "gap" is quite difficult.
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Today at work I figured out how to fill part of this gap - by adding another, non-human, character; and - voila
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By toystorylab - 3 Years Ago
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Nice...
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By rosuckmedia - 3 Years Ago
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@ampertox
Hi, A very good work, very Cool ๐๐
Greetings rosuckmedia
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By TimothyMasters - 3 Years Ago
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Cute cat!
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Thank you, thank you, thank you ๐ค
I just ditched a bit of cat in favor of a bit of morphing
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By matenn30 - 3 Years Ago
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I watched the video. The scenery was real and the plants were dramatically real. Tarzan's voice was full of fun.
ๅ็ป่ฆใพใใใ้ขจๆฏใใชใขใซใงๆค็ฉใๅ็ใซใชใขใซใงใใใใฟใผใถใณใฎๅฃฐใ้ข็ฝใใๅ
ๅฎใใฆใใพใใใ
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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I gave the cat another half second screen time and I turned off the lights in the room - even I was worried about this, the final result looks pretty well.
Next will follow another non-human character
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Wow, that was awesome
Great dynamics with scene/camera change and little details in between.
Dark scene is great and nice reflection off of chinaware.
A cat walk is a little short (I noticed it from the second try). I was looking at something else
Finally.. oh boy, was that just a dream??
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Thank you, thank you
I just made a small lights adjustment in the "lights off" scene, because I added several more seconds in the same atmosphere - this one looks pretty cool to me, the combination of lights, shadows and colors.
About the cat and walk: I wanted to give her few more seconds - I could not resist the "cat walk" vs "catwalk", lol - but, unfortunately, her walk motion it's very mechanical, only legs are moving, has nothing of catwalk in it, so I decided to let it only as a glimpse, who will observe will laugh, who don't - don't
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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You want a catwalk for a poor cat walk too, you pervert?
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By charly Rama - 3 Years Ago
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Really great work Ampertox, love the lighting and the details, great great,loved the cry of tarzan when opening the fridge
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Charly, merci beaucoup! Not as great as yours, but it's improving ๐ค
P.S 4u2ges - "Pervert" for cat's catwalk? Then check the latest addition
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By 3DChick - 3 Years Ago
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LOLOLOL! That's fabulous. As a female, I guarantee you tho...my guy brings me pizza and a beverage with an actual flower? I'm so cuddling.
:-)
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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nelm2010 (7/20/2021)
LOLOLOL! That's fabulous. As a female, I guarantee you tho...my guy brings me pizza and a beverage with an actual flower? I'm so cuddling.
:-)
Hahaha, thank you - and thank you for subscribing (though my channel is not very often updated) ๐ค
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Weekend work: I gave to the cat and dog more screen time and I used some PopcornFX to try to make that kind of cheap blockbuster look
https://vimeo.com/559672098
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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I polished and finished the explosion scene, so now in the weekend I could focus on the sad end
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Suppose 9th light is out for now
Waiting for the sad end...
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By toystorylab - 3 Years Ago
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Evolvement is great
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Thank you, @toystorylab ๐ค
4u2ges (7/29/2021)
Suppose 9th light is out for now
No, it was and it's still there, was always there, driving me crazy - look at the girl's hair, 2:45, 3:08, and 3:53... As workaround I modified hair's physics to don't be flailing so much and in some sequences I adjusted the lights range and multiplier to "cover" the flickering. Even worse was for some trees...
P.S @toystorylab - you know what I don't like? Seriously - the "Dynasty" sequence. It fits into the song, but somehow it's a dead scene. I cannot say I hate it, but definitely it's the one I like the least.
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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No, it was and it's still there, was always there, driving me crazy
But why struggle? Just replace one Spot Light with GI Emissive and the trouble is gone.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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4u2ges (7/29/2021)Just replace one Spot Light with GI Emissive and the trouble is gone.
GI is turned off - it was even worse with it ON, for terrrain and speedtrees. I'm not bothering to make another demo video, they won't bother to check it anyway.
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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OK, the clip reached the sad end and it's completed
The video itself not, because I still need to add the post-credits together with some crazy bits
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By toystorylab - 3 Years Ago
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Cool, well done! 
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By Bassline303 - 3 Years Ago
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haha , well done !
The end is really sad !
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By Zeronimo - 3 Years Ago
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excellent work, I loved it, I had a lot of fun throughout the video and the end is surprising. bravo
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By 4u2ges - 3 Years Ago
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Awesome ending!
The saddest thing is... that it is over. It was fun to follow!
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By Amper Sand - 3 Years Ago
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you ๐ค
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By Kabbam - 3 Years Ago
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That's some pretty good work. I like the video effect that you have going on. I really like the interaction with picking up and moving things opening doors. Great work
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