I 've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec 2004 - what 2004-11-23 - By Tony Owen
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Hi Dave,
As the Caligari course showed, it is very easy to rig a character in MoStu.
However, in the absense of constraints it is hard to make your character
actually do what you want. You can save poses easily to recover from a screw
up, but it also has problems with axis changes. Ver 2 is in the works and
was supposed to deal with these issues and I'm sure I will upgrade when it
comes out. Right now I'm trying to use Puppeteer 2.6. Stay tuned.
Tony Owen
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Dave Angelini" <dpangelini@(protected)>
To: <truespace@(protected)>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TSML] I've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec 2004 -
what shou ld I buy with it?
> Well, for character animation there is nothing better than MotionStudio
> from
> Primitive Itch. The downside is that MotionStudio is not part of any deal
> that I know of with Caligari such that your $50 coupon would work on. So
> you may be stuck paying the full price...which is not much for such a
> powerful plugin ($119 I think). But as far as character animation goes,
> it
> is definitely in the "Must Have" category. There is a Caligari course on
> how to use Motion Studio so you could use your $50 on that. The course is
> by Oliver Rohe and can be found at
>
> http://www.caligari.com/products/trueSpace/ts5/Courses/characteranimation.asp
?Cate=Courses
>
> As far as "greenscreening" the characters into your backyard, well you
> don't
> need Pinnacle Studio to do that as a shadow catcher global shader in tS
> would also accomplish the trick. Basically, you import the backyard film
> into the tS background, set up a ground plane to match the background
> plate,
> and use shadow catcher to only capture the character and its shadow as it
> is
> rendered with the background image. Trust me, this is easier than it
> sounds....but it can be done. Shadow Catcher is free via the FreeCP
> web-site (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=79113).
> There are also other version of this shader and it is even built into tS6.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Angelini
>
>
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: "Hyaduck, John" <John.Hyaduck@(protected)>
> To: <truespace@(protected)>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [TSML] I've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec
> 2004 -
> what shou ld I buy with it?
>
>
>> >>What is it you want to do?
>> Most likely bring to life some of my son's story characters he keeps
>> inventing and then green screen them into our backyard for use with my
>> Pinnacle Studio dvd's I make. But I would also love to create
>> educational
>> "films" using TS-created characters that help to teach school subjects
>> (Math, Science, Language) at an elementary level. Kind of Veggie tales
>> "lite".
>>
>>
>> -- --Original Message-- --
>> From: TSML [mailto:truespace@(protected)]On Behalf Of Dave Angelini
>> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:34 PM
>> To: truespace@(protected)
>> Subject: Re: [TSML] I've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec
>> 2004 - what shou ld I buy with it?
>>
>>
>> What is it you want to do?
>>
>> If you want to increase your animation capabilities, get AniPak. If you
>> want to increase your design capabilities, get
>> dePak....etc...etc...etc.....I think you get the point. For me, a
>> plugin
>> jumps into the "must have" category when it enables me to get something
> done
>> that I MUST get done. I must admit that there are a few plugins that I
> have
>> purchased and only used them once (fortunately, they are pretty cheap)
> just
>> to accomplish something that I could not get done otherwise. This should
>> not be odd, as I am sure that everyone has at least one tool in their
>> toolbox that they have only used once.
>>
>> Oddly enough, the plugins which I use the most....we're free (SJ cut
>> n'paste, EyeZoom, etc.).
>>
>> So what do you want to do?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave Angelini
>>
>> -- -- Original Message -- --
>> From: "Hyaduck, John" <John.Hyaduck@(protected)>
>> To: <truespace@(protected)>
>> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:08 PM
>> Subject: [TSML] I've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec 2004 -
> what
>> shou ld I buy with it?
>>
>>
>> > For being a loyal buyer and upgrader from 2.0, I got a T-Shirt and a
> 50.00
>> > coupon. I have used this for light modelling, some educational stills
> but
>> > would like to do more with animation. I have used poser people a bit.
>> >
>> > I have the gamespace plugin, puppeteer, luuv, poser plugin, but was
>> curious
>> > as to whether I am totally missing out on any MUST HAVE plugin's that
>> noone
>> > can live without as I aspire to dive deeper into the product.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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