The Art of Animation:Master (Online)

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The Art of Animation Master Part III: Technical Directors Training


TECHNICAL DIRECTORS TRAINING
14 - Playing Marble (Materials)
15 - Eat My Dust (Volumetrics)
16 - Smoke, Wind, and Fire (Particles)
17 - Cosmic Bowling (Dynamics)
18 - Waving the Flag (Cloth)
19 - Flying South (Flocks)

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Exercise 18: Waving the Flag (Cloth Simulation)
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v12 inaugerates new methods and controls for cloth simulation into Animation:Master. Look for additional information, examples, and tutorials in the v12 discussion area:

A:M Simcloth

Name:  Den Dotson

Exercises Completed:  Eighteen (and one to go!)
Date Completed:  Saturday April 9, 2005

Instructor:  Rodney (a true patriot) and that guy on the web tutorials pretty used to the new web guy by now

Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement: Patriotism should speak of itself.

Here is a link to the 18th completed exercise:

http://homepage.mac.com/animateden/hash/WaveFlagsm.mov

Thanks Rodney,
-Den

Very good Den!

I think very shortly we'll have to add the instructions to do the same exercise with v12 cloth. It will be a good way to test the differences of the two technologies.

One more to go...eeekk! I'm working on your certificate now so whatever you do... don't quit!!!

Name: Tom Jansen
Exercise: #18 Waving the Flag
Date: May 10, 2005
Comments: I rendered this before adding sound, so I should have re-rendered this so that it ends at a better spot in the music. But you get the idea.

Here's my clip: http://cybersummit.org/AM/Ex18_Flag.mov

At ease!
Tommy

You definitely get extra points for going above and beyond the call of duty on this one. Very patriotic of you!

Great job. Only one more exercise to go!

Name: Tenez Waggoner
Excercise Completed: 18 Waving the Flag
Date Completed: May 26, 2005
Remarks/Suggestions: Apparently there's a huge gust of wind in the beginning. One more to go!

Name: Leo Mitchell
Exercise Completed: # 18 Waving the Flag
Date Completed: 08 June 05
Instructor: Web tut guy


Flag

Name: Paula Waslen

Exercise Completed: #18 Waving the Flag

Date Completed: Jun 25, 2005

This one was very straight forward. I don't want to get into it too much, as I am more interested in learning V12 Cloth.

Flag

Name : ErikKirschberg

Excercise : #18 Waving the Flag

Date Completed : 9/17/05

Instructor : Manual and web tutorial

Name: Melissa "Elissa" Heldenbergh

Exercises Completed: 19

Date Completed: Oct 18th, 2005

Instructor: A few years of A:M use, the book, and web tutorials, plus also doing the mentor program with Paul Daley. David Rogers book... Jeff Lew's DVD.

Comments: Fun exercise, but my people models and places still tend to wear tight clothing.
I fancy the Union Jack.

Name: Dhar Jabouri

Exercises Completed: 19

Date Completed: Nov. 01, 2005

Instructor: Online Tutorial

Comments: This is truly an amazing feature.

Names: James A. Owens
Exercises Completed: 1-10, 12-19
Date Completed: 22 October 2005

This video is small, there is a lager on on My TAMO page

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Name: John Kuepper
Excercise Completed: 18
Date Completed: Nov 11, 2005
Remarks/Suggestions:

OK- 1 more to go......I'lle be sad not to be contributing to this threag any more The whole scene looks like this:-

Yeah but we'll roll out the royal carpet if and when you ever drop back in to comment and critique on someone else's work.

Its been great having you... I may be asking you to email me some of your movies as I still haven't been able to get to your site.

Drop in anytime.

Rodney

Why thanks Rodney, I may well do just that!
Chris

Name:Marc Vancouillie
Exercise completed #18: waving the flag
Date completed 12/06/05



Instructor:t.a.o.AM book and reading
in this topic what people have done before me.

One more to go
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Woo Hoo! Finally able to access files again.

To Chris Wheeler:
I hope your movies are still on your site because I'm gonna grab 'em!
I suspect you have a lot more like these posted here but I haven't been able to see them until now.

Beautiful stuff!

To Marc:

I take it this is the new A:M Simcloth. Nice!
I need to do this exercise with the new cloth myself.



It's been a pleasure having you.
I'm heading back to review all your posts to start on your certificate.

Rodney

Name: Splinesmith(Kurt Lange)

Exercises Completed:18
Instructor:the manual.

Remarks/Suggestions for improvement:
I did a render for both cloth wizard and SimCloth.

Name: Douglas Karpp
Excercise: Exercise 18: Waving the Flag
Date Completed: December 31, 2005

doug

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Name: Jody Krivohlavek

Exercise Completed: Exercise 18

Date Completed: January 6, 2006

Instructor: AM Handbook, Video Tutorial and everyone that's ever posted to these forums.
(Been around since the Playmation days )

Remarks/Suggestions for Improvement:
I added a bone to the flag model and selected all the pole control points for that bone. Then in choreography, I chose the flag and added a new constraint of rigid body.

When the cloth was simulated it bounced off the pole! Exactly what I wanted it to do!


Only two more to go for certification... YAY!

Name: Ross Klettke
Exer completed: 18
Date completed: 1-24-06

remarks-- I really think this exercise should be lengthened a few pages in the manual to explain more indepth all the options provided for simCloth. Other than that, all is good.

Congrats Ross!

Been watching you go through these... you're doin great!

Name: Micah Jank

Exer completed: 18, Waving the Flag

Date completed: January 25, 2006

remarks-- when u saw we had to do something with the american flag this is the firs thing that poped into my head....."The battle of Iwojama" so heres my version of it. HTey dont move but ow well.





http://media.putfile.com/Battle-of-Iwojama

Mike Dalton
Exercises Completed: 18
Date Completed: March 9th 2006

Notes: A nice quick exercise. Nothing fancy.

Name: Bob Koonce

Exercise Completed: 18 Waving the Flag

Date Completed: 3-25-06

Instructor: Individuals on forum, TAoA:M, Video tutorials, and other material.

Remarks/Suggestions for improvement: None at this time

Any comments or constructive criticism will be appreciated.

Thankx,
Bob Koonce

Way to go Bob. The finish line is in site.

Name: John Booker
Exercises Completed:18 on April 05, 2006
Instructor:video tut. and the manual.

Remarks/Suggestions for improvement:
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Nice John. I like the adding of the airplane. My only crit would have been to add some rotation to the propeller and when the plane goes by the flag, have it react to the air current that would displace the flag.

Over all good job,

Keep it up your almost done.

Name: Stephen Molloy

exercise # 18 waving the flag

Date: April 18 2006

Instructor: web video

remarks: i tried V12 cloth waving the flag, but could get it of the ground (sort of speaking)

the collation rate was giving me errors

so here's V11

that was interesting could you tell us how you did that?

sorry for spelling errors i typed this at school and they dont have the spell checker

it was pretty easy...i put shaggy in the pose holding the flag and rendered it out

i went into photoshop and made a selection around him and in channels i save the selection.

so now all i got is shaggy and a alpha channel..... saved as a targa 32 bit

in A.M. i made a flag ( 2 control points and extrude a few times )

when added a decal and applied it ....( in the decal settings where it's states as a COLOR as default i changed it to cookie cutter ) ......

i seen a tute on Cookie cutters a few months back ....

hope that helps ....

i might redo it ( my starting idea was the wind to be faster lol )

Stephen

Name: sam wiley

you know

Comments/suggestions: it nice that shaggys showing some patriotism

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YES I'M DONE THATS THE LAST OF THEM IT OVER ITS FINALLY OVER I HAVE COMPLETED THE ART OF ANIMATION:MASTER ITS OVER ITS FINALLY OVER!

Sam,
I'm having a bit of trouble finding some of your exercises.
If you posted them outside of the main TAoAM area I could use a pointer.

Maybe Leo can help me find them.

Here's what I have at the moment... still searching...

The Art of Animation Master: Sam Wiley Gallery

Name: James M Glover

Exercise Completed: Exercise 1-18

Date Completed: 15 Aug, 2006

Give me an "A!" Give me an "M!"
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I'm almost there...

Whoa. What a finale.
Here I thought it was going to be just the standard flag rotation.

Way to go above, beyond and into your own territory.

Rodney <applauds>



You aren't kidding... time to get some certificates together!

Thanks for running this...
All the encouragement has been great...
Over all, its been fun, instructional, and occasionally frustrating
and I'm glad I finally did this...

Now for some sleep so I can have plenty of energy for flocking

Name: Glen Clarkson
Exercise: 18 Waving the Flag
Date Completed 8/24/2006

Notes: woot! Almost done!

Waving the Flag

Exercise 18: Waving The Flag (Cloth)
John Bailey
September 4, 2006

I finally got that Jolly Roger flying. I used simcloth (Shear stiffness 55, Air drag 0, Bend Angle damping 0, Shear/Stretch damping 0) with a Force (width 60cm, Fall off 200cm, and a magnitude of 300%). I wanted to see the whole flag stand out almost straight and all of these parameters finally gave me four of them after much experimentation.

I had to use constraints on Shaggy. I'll play around some more with grouping. I'm really interested in that concept.

http://media.putfile.com/Pirates-of-Cape-May

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Whew! one more to go.

JohnnyB

For going above (literally!) and beyond the call of duty on this one I'm proud to present to you this little word:

outstanding


Great job!

Rodney, do you agree that the class of '06 is the most outstanding class so far? I sure think so.

Name: Al Dinelt
Exercise Completed: Exercise 18: Waving The Flag (Cloth)
Date Completed: December 11, 2006
Instructor: TAoA:M

Thought I would have a bit of fun with this exercise. I couldn't figure out how to slow down the flag, so I ended up taking the rendered video into Sony Vegas, using slow motion on the clip.

Yeehaw! Just one more tutorial to go, then off to bootcamp!

Al

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Excellent job Al. Congrats on finishing up. Good luck with the bootcamp.

Name: Caroline Begbie
Exercise: Exercise 18 - Waving the Flag
Date Completed: 6th January 2007

Aided By: TechTalk SimCloth movie - interesting viewing, as I was getting the same error as is discussed. I wanted to post the link to it, but it appears to be broken for the moment.

Note to self: Add to list, to find out how to make material softer, so flag is not so stiff.

Click to view attachment

Like the cars apart from shaggy is bigger than them.

You're absolutely right, Elliot - I posted too late, difficult to get the angles when using the background as a flat rotoscope, had eyes closed - there are 100 excuses, but there's no real excuse.

When I showed my son, he said exactly the same thing , and that I should always go through him first before I post. Lesson learned.

I'm a fan of the scale as shown. The tiny cars are so cute.

Oh kay, where did she get the racing track from? I don't have it on my CD? How come? huh? huh? huh? How come I don't got what she got? huh? huh? huh?

Great job Caroline. I'm really impressed how quickly you took on A:M. Fabulous