Thanks Pappenheimer, and congratulations to you for finishing too.

I imagine that once I get the hang of Lightwave animation, it will be a little bit better than MED. There are a few things that annoy me about Lightwave's separate Modeler and Layout, but I'm getting beter and finding plugins to compensate for the problem areas all the time. Ironically, just as the contest ends, I feel like I'm starting understand everything.

Lightwave's modeler is very good and easy to use in my opinion. I'm looking at other potential sofware packages for animating, but I'd like to make sure I know what I'm doing in Lightwave first.

While I like the Game Studio engine, I'm not so keen on WED or MED, and I hope that there will be more options for replacing these with modeling software in the future... and more ways to convert file formats!

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Never!!!

Okey, okey, I had a few complications in MED with bone animation, but I'm still not fully educated (??) in(???) it.

Wanna see some gifs of my walk animtions? They're in my thread.

I like the model. now i have to try come up with the skills to make soemthing that is comperable. hehe may get a running contest on trying to one up on every model. unfortunatly you already set the bar high for me and im not a great jumper

Since the results have been announced I hurried this slightly improved version out today for anyone who wants to download it off Myrlyn's site.



Though I'm still not finished with it. I intend to improve theanimatoins and add an animated dress and jiggling boobies (I hadn't actually intended on animating her boobies, but I stumbled across how to do it while I was trying to animate the dress ).

looks realy nice. hehe since you got to see my 2nd human model first hand gonna start skinning that but also redo my contest entry and get that set to Myrlyn to replace that gumby looking one I did for the contest.

I'm only on the base colors for skinning right now of my 2nd model. try to work with some texturing later.

@ Grimber: Why does she look so sad? Anything wrong? Or is her creator a melancholical man?
Let me know your shape, baby! Take off your colours, show your mesh!

@ Russell: The first shot looks great, especially the shadows on the model and the red eyes.

@Grimber: I like her lipstick!

@ Pappenheimer: err, maybe my screen needs callibrating

I'm trying some better texturing to it now. scanned in my own hand and using that as a referance for the models skin.

@ A.Russell: I downloaded now your model. It looks really great, I like its shape, especially its face in flat shaded mode of the MED!
It has a unique asian character!

The file size is killing! I think that is a consequence of importing it from Lightwave. To reduce it, one can look at the animation frames (300! frames, my model has 45) and erase all that frames that are not needed as 'keyframes'. Keyframe is not exactly the right word, because in MED you need a continuesly chain of frames. One can try it this way, erase every second and third, but if a frame represents the 'end' or 'peak' of a special movement, then don't erase it.

@ Grimber: You scan the skin of your Hand to put it on the model? Hopefully not the hairy side?
But honestly, its a nice idea, I know drawings of an artist where always the skin looks like fingerprints - great drawings. It's a pity that I don't remember the artist's name.

The scanners light is a bit bright, plus I don't know how beautiful your hands are. You might try scanning a picture of a person with a skin tone you like and take the colour off that.

As for the number of frames, Myrlyn recons you can over 1,000 and still be okay. I'm currently working on another set of animaions for it, and this time I'll halve the fps. However I've added moreanimations than the last time, so it probably won't be much less.