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Animation:Master Insect Contest

Today the winners of the Hash Animation:Master Contest "Insect" 2015 were announced. This has happend in a very interesting video in a close to the Academy Awards-like way. I could receive the 1th place in the online voting but many other entries are more than worthy too so have a look at the great video below to see what I am talking about here. There are interviews with the winners, additional images, a fun to watch lottery draw and much ...

Animation:Master Interchange: How to integreation A:M in your workflow

For a long time it has been a troublesome thing to integrate A:M in your existing 3d workflow / pipeline. That has changed with the new genious Blender plugin. With this plugin you can export MDL files from Blender. It can not only export geometry (which was always the hardest thing to do) but it can export UV informations and even Bone-Information. It is planned to add import of A:M's action files into Blender too. That will enable whole new ...

2 new video tutorials: Modeling of a hand and a foot

You can find 2 new tutorial below, which should help beginners how to create a foot and a hand in Animation:Master. Whether you want to learn more about patch modelling or you are taking your first steps in the 3d world these may help you to learn some tricks. Video Tutorial: Modelling a hand Video-Tutorial: Modelling a foot

Complex 3d print: Door traffic light

Today a new 3d printed piece has been produced in my small home factory. A relativly complex traffic light for doors to bee assembled. What is a door traffic light? With this you can define, whether a visitor is welcome, you are busy but if it is important the visitor can come in or if there is too much to do right now to have a visitor. This can be used for converence rooms to tell people outside if this is a very important customer meeting ...

Article about A:M in Digital Production 04/15

In the new Digital Production is an article about Hash Animation:Master v18. There you can find an article about 5 pages describing A:M v18. Reading that article should help people who never heard about A:M at all to getting started but can be intersting for an active user too. Here the overview of the DP 04/15: Content of DP 04/15 (the article "A almost forgotton 3d world" is about A:M) The new issue can be ordered here: Digital Production ...

Free tutorials for Animation:Master by Barry Zundel

Barry's tutorials are some of the best and deepest tutorials out there for Animation:Master. Starting now you can download these for free on his blog. If you want to start with A:M or you already have experience but want to deepen it even more you should absolutly have a look at these. If you does not know who Barry is: Barry Zundel has been employed by Pixar untill recently and had different jobs there like for instance Technical Director. ...