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Come to think of it he does look like him, always loved that movie, must have emulated him!

GCharb wrote:Come to think of it he does look like him, always loved that movie, must have emulated him!

I have always liked the thin tall type characters. I animated this one for a local hardware store earlier this year.

Yeah, I remember him, and I also like the tallish, very stylized characters like these.

GCharb wrote:Yeah, I remember him, and I also like the tallish, very stylized characters like these.

I actually went on to make a front and side of this and fully rigged them.

Now if I had any real ability to write a story and do something with it; is in itself a different story.

Hey guys,
Take a look at this photo I'm using as a reference. I have a question about random facial lines (indicated by the white arrows) and how I might set them up in the model. For example, when the character turns all the way to one side, some of those lines will be gone/hidden. But since they aren't objects, like an eye or ear, I don't know if I can do layer sorting on them, but maybe I could put them on a layer like "left facial lines" and "Right facial lines" then give them a negative z depth to make them disappear in profile view?

Just create a separate vector layer for the lines and just move them out of view when not in use.

GCharb wrote:Just create a separate vector layer for the lines and just move them out of view when not in use.

Ok cool. Was thinking it was possible but wasn't sure. Thanks Gilles!

lines are still object and can still be depth sorted... also, you could move them off camera without them being in their own layer - but if they are on their own layer you could just animate their visibility.

You can also scale them to size 0.0
Can be useful, if when turning head, you are shortening them anyway...

or animate the stroke to 0 rather than the points... (if that's not what you meant)

Hey Funk and Neon,
Thanks for the great ideas. To be honest I didn't even know you could do that. Never even thought of animating or scaling a stroke, but it makes sense now that I think about it. Thanks again!

Hey guys,
I've been giving my Old West animation some more thought, and whether or not to attempt it in AS. I guess none of the horse stuff would be too bad in AS Pro, but doing some of the tack (reigns, saddle, etc) will be a bit of a pain. I'm wondering if I should create a horse from three or four different views, like I would a person. Or should I just do all the more complicated things (turns, etc) FBF and by hand?
Any thoughts or ideas are welcome! I did find a free horse model for AS, but I will have to add the tack and saddle. Anyway, thanks for any input

--Jason