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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final
Date: 2 Jan 2002 15:35:18
Message: <3c336f06$1@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote :
>
>  If so I've already updated the animation with a
> workaround for that.

    Ah! I was finally able to see this one, thanks to a complete destruction
of my QuickTime installation... again...

    Very nice, I see a little extra bounce in the tips of the toes, and he
seems a little heavy, but otherwise -very- nice.


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final
Date: 2 Jan 2002 16:51:27
Message: <3c3380df@news.povray.org>
"Bill DeWitt" wrote:
> Very nice, I see a little extra bounce in the
> tips of the toes

Well spotted. It's a side effect of using cubic splines for the movement.
They always want to go a bit too far and then back before they stop. Using
more control points may or may not reduce/solve the problem - I never can
remember.

> and he seems a little heavy

Heavy in what way? He's supposed to look a little heavy, like many toons do.
Does it look wrong somehow?

> but otherwise -very- nice.

Thanks! :)

Rune
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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final
Date: 2 Jan 2002 17:36:19
Message: <3c338b63@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote in :
>
> Heavy in what way?

    The feet seem to hit hard.

> He's supposed to look a little heavy, like many toons do.
> Does it look wrong somehow?

    No, probably fixing the feet will fix it, if it really needs to be
fixed.


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From: Jan Walzer
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final
Date: 2 Jan 2002 18:09:39
Message: <3c339333$1@news.povray.org>
Wow ... extremely nice ... missing words ...

but now: Nitpicking ! *g

have you seen closely the feets in the frames 160-170 ?

when he turns, it seems, that the inner foot moves into the outer one ...
at least it seemes so ...



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From: Batronyx
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final 2
Date: 2 Jan 2002 22:16:55
Message: <3c33cd27@news.povray.org>
He seems to have a purposeful, but casual, step about him. I can easily imagine
him carrying a padd and stopping to check on some equipment, starting to move on
to the next checkpoint, then spotting someone he would like to get better
acquainted with <wink> and changing direction to pursue.

Very well done.
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#end#macro B(R,V,O)c(0,4)intersection{c(V,R)difference{c(-z*4x+10)c(-z*4.1x+
10)c(0<7.5,45,5>)}}#end B(12,0z*25)B(8y*4<0,12,50>)          // Batronyx ^"^


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From: John VanSickle
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final
Date: 3 Jan 2002 12:24:33
Message: <3C3494D4.262F30E8@hotmail.com>
Rune wrote:
> 
> "John VanSickle" wrote:
> > Very good.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > Don't use checker as the pigment for your plane, at
> > least not in the final rendering.  My first IRTC
> > entry was much smaller (and looked less like a newby
> > effort) when I replaced the checker pattern with a
> > granite pattern.

(I'd like to mention here that I did use a checker pattern for
my entry-winth-an-entry in the Robots round, but that was a
deliberate effort at being lame.)

> Thanks for the tip! I presume it's the checker pattern seen at a
> distance that's the problem? If so I've already updated the animation
> with a workaround for that.

If the anti-aliasing is good, the distance is usually a mix of the two
colors, and isn't really a problem.

The problem with checkered patterns in MPG files is the sharp edges
between the squares in the foreground.  Either you get a lot of
artifacts or you have a huge file.

Regards,
John
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From: Mahalis
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final
Date: 5 Jan 2002 06:06:04
Message: <3c36de1c$1@news.povray.org>
"Dave Blandston" <gra### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
news:3c32941d$1@news.povray.org...
> How about chew gum?

It looks like he is. Watch very closely when he's stopped or turning and
you'll see his jaw moving up and down, up and down.


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From: Hugo
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final 2
Date: 5 Jan 2002 17:07:16
Message: <3c377914$1@news.povray.org>
> I've improved the algorithm in my walking system a lot and have made a new
> version of the animation that I think is much better than the previous.
>
> I have also rendered it in 320x240 with AA, and the camera angle is a bit
> more interesting.


Awesome!!!   :o)   This is the best character animation I've seen in Pov and
maybe because I never see such modern toons, it's so smooth like I can't
even imagine.

Hugo


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final 2
Date: 5 Jan 2002 19:30:10
Message: <3c379a92@news.povray.org>
"Hugo" wrote:
> Awesome!!!   :o)   This is the best character animation
> I've seen in Pov and maybe because I never see such modern
> toons, it's so smooth like I can't even imagine.

Gee, thank you! :)

Rune
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From: Rune
Subject: Re: AL walking, stopping and turning - Final
Date: 5 Jan 2002 19:30:19
Message: <3c379a9b@news.povray.org>
"Mahalis" wrote:
> It looks like he is. Watch very closely when he's
> stopped or turning and you'll see his jaw moving up
> and down, up and down.

Because I implemented Dave's suggestion! :)
(I updated the animation after Dave sent his message.)

Rune
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