Hi,

I am new here so im sorry if this thread isnt in the right place, im sorrry lol

Anywho, I have been playing with Animation Master a lot, my first good project i did was a matrix bullet time shot. I just need some help with it. I know how to animate, that is made easy thanks to animation master, but the problem is that i dont know how to do/use somethings in Animation Master.. Such as material effectors, i really dont understand how to use them or what they do, or lighting.. i don't know how t adjust it so that it is in the sky or something.. Im sorry im still learning, but help is appreciated. The scene is okay to watch right now, but some things i would like to do are:

1. Make the bullet refractions longer, smaller, and look more "refractive" and have it fading from the behind
2. Make a good background(set, place)
3. Have a better looking bad guy lol, funny looking alien right now.. have him actually holding a gun so it shoots out...
4. Adjust the camera so its a bit more smooth, it kinda jerks for the last 2 seconds(jerks rotating)

Anyone willing to help? Here ill post the video i rendered already for it..

keep in mind im still new at this, and still learning, so dont laugh.. too hard..

So is anyone willing to help me finish this project?

No time to actually do the work, but few suggestions:

1. Jeff Lew made similar efect in his killer bean movie... somewhere on his site there is a tutorial for it (www.jefflew.com)
2,3. There are some cool backgrounds and finished characters on the A:M CD and A:M Extra CD that should give you the general idea...
4. You can actually learn that by reading some book on making movies and through trial and error...

I've read somewhere that every artist has 100 000 bad drawings in him/ her - faster they get rid of those, faster they will start to make good ones - I guess that aplies to just about everything ;-D

Good Luck!

Drvarceto