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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Okay, perhaps Captain America they're not...
Date: 15 May 2004 22:22:29
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From: Thomas Lake
Subject: Re: Okay, perhaps Captain America they're not...
Date: 16 May 2004 00:44:03
Message: <40a6f193$1@news.povray.org>
I've been watching the progress of your walk cycle men for a while, they 
are getting better and better keep up the work, this one is really quite 
good! The one of the left looks like he has buck teeth hehe :)


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From: John VanSickle
Subject: Re: Okay, perhaps Captain America they're not...
Date: 16 May 2004 12:35:00
Message: <40A79831.F2E8F86F@hotmail.com>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
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One thing I notice is that the men have identical bodies.  Unless
they're clones--and you need to sell them as clones when you use them--
the effect is unnatural.

If you can wing it, having some way to make them slightly taller/shorter
or slimmer/fatter will offset the feeling of sameness to a great deal.

If you can have differing proportions for different parts of the body--
one guy with a big chest, and another with more even propotions--
will do even more to make things look natural.

The last and hardest is making the faces different.  Texturing will
only take you so far, so a way to change facial features will help here
as well.

Regards,
John


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From: gregjohn
Subject: Re: Okay, perhaps Captain America they're not...
Date: 16 May 2004 12:45:00
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Thomas Lake <smi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I've been watching the progress of your walk cycle men for a while, they
> are getting better and better keep up the work, this one is really quite
> good! The one of the left looks like he has buck teeth hehe :)

I simply removed one of the 20-odd teeth from his mouth.  This improvement
was simply to make a more complicated and elegant the texturing.  (Aside
from the teeth, eyebrows, moustache, and eyes & goggles, it's all one blob.
)   I'm just using the object pattern to make gloves and eye-holes.
Previous versions (of a few years ago), I'd have to make a character with a
"shirt" by having two blobs, one "naked" and one with slightly lower
threshold but a shirt color and CGG-cut holes for the head.

I'm considering also adding a belt, a colored color, maybe even someday some
"realistic" clothing patterns, like a jacket and tie.

Greg M. Johnson


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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: Okay, perhaps Captain America they're not...
Date: 16 May 2004 13:25:20
Message: <40a7a400@news.povray.org>
[possible duplicate post--sorry]

"John VanSickle" <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> If you can wing it, having some way to make them slightly taller/shorter
> or slimmer/fatter will offset the feeling of sameness to a great deal.
>


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From: Dan P
Subject: Re: Okay, perhaps Captain America they're not...
Date: 16 May 2004 14:39:19
Message: <40a7b557$1@news.povray.org>
Hehe -- looks like they're saying something.

-- 
Respectfully,          "Leave it to the coward to make a religion
Dan P            of his cowardice by preaching humility."
                                    - George Bernard Shaw
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From: John VanSickle
Subject: Re: Okay, perhaps Captain America they're not...
Date: 17 May 2004 00:17:03
Message: <40A83CBB.B28E1075@hotmail.com>
Oop!  I take that back!


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From: Marvin T
Subject: Re: Okay, perhaps Captain America they're not...
Date: 17 May 2004 12:22:52
Message: <40a8e6dc$1@news.povray.org>
Looks like the character on the (viewer's) left not has webbed armpits, 
at nearly the end of the animation.

I like the missing tooth -- but you forgot to give him a hockey stick!

M


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