WEBVTT 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.577 Hello and welcome to this Animation Master tutorial about how 00:00:06.601 --> 00:00:08.753 to start up with Animation Master. 00:00:08.889 --> 00:00:12.577 I will cover for example, a little bit of interface 00:00:12.641 --> 00:00:13.081 changing. 00:00:13.153 --> 00:00:16.969 I will cover a little bit of spline and patch 00:00:17.017 --> 00:00:19.913 modeling and how to start with that and what to 00:00:19.929 --> 00:00:21.585 do and what not to do. 00:00:21.745 --> 00:00:24.285 And I will show you a little bit about. 00:00:25.835 --> 00:00:29.411 Yeah, I think I will model a little spoon or 00:00:29.443 --> 00:00:30.387 something like that. 00:00:30.531 --> 00:00:32.535 Okay, so let’s start up. 00:00:33.315 --> 00:00:35.811 The first time you open up Animation Master, it will 00:00:35.843 --> 00:00:36.547 look like that. 00:00:36.611 --> 00:00:42.295 And I will change the interface for the proposed to 00:00:42.795 --> 00:00:44.371 model instead of animate. 00:00:44.443 --> 00:00:48.355 And for that I will, for example, close the tooltip 00:00:48.395 --> 00:00:48.595 here. 00:00:48.635 --> 00:00:52.251 The tip of the day, I will close the community 00:00:52.363 --> 00:00:54.297 window, the property info window. 00:00:54.411 --> 00:00:57.245 I will close the geography window, which is open here. 00:00:57.325 --> 00:00:59.025 And I will close the libraries. 00:00:59.365 --> 00:01:03.493 And all of these windows can be re accessed by 00:01:03.589 --> 00:01:08.105 going to one of these few properties here. 00:01:09.005 --> 00:01:13.345 And for instance, I will activate the project workspace here. 00:01:13.645 --> 00:01:17.745 And after activating the project workspace, I am done with 00:01:18.885 --> 00:01:20.969 opening a fuse. 00:01:21.157 --> 00:01:23.361 But what I want to do is I will open 00:01:23.473 --> 00:01:25.121 another toolbar here. 00:01:25.273 --> 00:01:27.713 I will go to one of the empty spaces in 00:01:27.729 --> 00:01:30.745 my toolbar sections and I will go to view and 00:01:30.785 --> 00:01:35.721 activate Views and I will activate the Draw toolbar. 00:01:35.873 --> 00:01:37.945 These two toolbars can be put anywhere. 00:01:37.985 --> 00:01:42.745 I will put them here because there’s just the space 00:01:42.785 --> 00:01:43.529 for that. 00:01:43.697 --> 00:01:47.137 And yeah, that’s it, more or less. 00:01:47.321 --> 00:01:51.881 One thing I will do is also to use the 00:01:51.953 --> 00:01:53.445 tools options. 00:01:53.865 --> 00:01:56.393 And what I will do is I will activate show 00:01:56.449 --> 00:02:01.645 advanced properties, show property triangles and I will open mp. 00:02:02.265 --> 00:02:04.449 You don’t have to know what that is all about. 00:02:04.497 --> 00:02:06.361 All you have to know is that you have now 00:02:06.393 --> 00:02:10.913 the possibility to click on this little arrow here and 00:02:10.969 --> 00:02:14.553 that you will get all the properties for the object 00:02:14.729 --> 00:02:18.285 that is given at the point above that. 00:02:19.225 --> 00:02:22.313 And like that, you can access all of that in 00:02:22.329 --> 00:02:23.857 the project workspace. 00:02:24.041 --> 00:02:27.953 And there is another possibility to access the properties, which 00:02:27.969 --> 00:02:31.737 is a view properties panel at this point. 00:02:31.881 --> 00:02:34.673 But what I don’t like about that is that I 00:02:34.729 --> 00:02:37.809 just lose a little bit of screen space here. 00:02:37.857 --> 00:02:41.029 And I like my screen space to to be used 00:02:41.077 --> 00:02:45.181 for modeling or whatever I’m doing at the time there. 00:02:45.373 --> 00:02:47.305 Okay, so close down that. 00:02:49.085 --> 00:02:52.637 Another advantage over using the properties window is that you 00:02:52.661 --> 00:02:57.625 can for example, compare two properties of two objects here. 00:02:58.085 --> 00:03:01.701 And that’s not possible with a property window. 00:03:01.773 --> 00:03:06.533 2 There is of course a reason why there is 00:03:06.549 --> 00:03:10.403 a property window and the reason will be there if 00:03:10.419 --> 00:03:12.947 you are using expressions with Animation Master. 00:03:13.051 --> 00:03:15.867 But that’s something that is really far, far in the 00:03:15.891 --> 00:03:16.195 future. 00:03:16.275 --> 00:03:19.535 And I Don’t think that we will cover that in 00:03:19.955 --> 00:03:23.763 the nearer future here because it’s just a more advanced 00:03:23.819 --> 00:03:24.555 technique. 00:03:24.715 --> 00:03:26.891 Okay, so let’s start. 00:03:27.003 --> 00:03:28.771 All I want to do is I want to create 00:03:28.803 --> 00:03:29.443 a new object. 00:03:29.499 --> 00:03:32.115 And for that I go to this objects folder here. 00:03:32.195 --> 00:03:33.227 Right click on it. 00:03:33.331 --> 00:03:35.133 Go to New model. 00:03:35.299 --> 00:03:39.377 Okay, so I got my first modeling window open here. 00:03:39.481 --> 00:03:41.985 And what you can see is that Animation Master is 00:03:42.025 --> 00:03:45.285 using a one window approach here. 00:03:45.865 --> 00:03:48.745 You can of course go and create, for example, more 00:03:48.785 --> 00:03:52.433 windows to use Animation Master with, for example, a four 00:03:52.489 --> 00:03:53.153 window approach. 00:03:53.209 --> 00:03:55.417 I will just show you how to do that. 00:03:55.521 --> 00:03:59.865 Go to window, new window, and you just repeat that 00:03:59.945 --> 00:04:00.701 four times. 00:04:00.833 --> 00:04:03.725 You can see that there is a number here which 00:04:03.765 --> 00:04:05.853 indicates how many windows there are. 00:04:06.029 --> 00:04:09.505 And now I go to window and use vertical or 00:04:10.525 --> 00:04:12.301 horizontally tile. 00:04:12.373 --> 00:04:16.365 This, which you use isn’t important if you have four 00:04:16.405 --> 00:04:16.757 windows. 00:04:16.821 --> 00:04:18.781 Because of that, I’m just using one of them. 00:04:18.893 --> 00:04:21.205 And as you can see, we have four windows now. 00:04:21.325 --> 00:04:23.885 And if you want to set them up, you can 00:04:24.005 --> 00:04:26.315 use this toolbar down here. 00:04:26.485 --> 00:04:32.919 And this toolbar will help you to set different views 00:04:33.047 --> 00:04:34.687 in the different windows here. 00:04:34.791 --> 00:04:37.711 So let’s say we want this view to be the 00:04:37.743 --> 00:04:38.407 top view. 00:04:38.511 --> 00:04:41.087 So we use the top view at this point, and 00:04:41.111 --> 00:04:41.743 this is top. 00:04:41.799 --> 00:04:46.263 Now let’s say we want this one to be the 00:04:46.359 --> 00:04:49.327 left view, for example, and this one to be the 00:04:49.391 --> 00:04:49.995 top. 00:04:53.505 --> 00:04:54.769 Let’s use front view. 00:04:54.857 --> 00:04:55.705 That’s better. 00:04:55.865 --> 00:05:00.385 And often it is in other programs like that that 00:05:00.465 --> 00:05:02.025 you have a bird’s view here. 00:05:02.065 --> 00:05:04.405 And because of that, we will do that here too. 00:05:05.385 --> 00:05:06.065 Okay. 00:05:06.185 --> 00:05:12.401 This would be the possibility to use several windows, actually 00:05:12.473 --> 00:05:13.465 as many as you want. 00:05:13.505 --> 00:05:18.609 You can even create more windows now and use them 00:05:18.737 --> 00:05:21.953 altogether, like this for example. 00:05:22.089 --> 00:05:24.041 But I don’t like it that way. 00:05:24.073 --> 00:05:26.257 And because of that, I will just close down all 00:05:26.281 --> 00:05:30.193 of these windows and I will use the one window 00:05:30.249 --> 00:05:31.205 approach here. 00:05:31.625 --> 00:05:38.409 Okay, so let’s start with drawing a simple spline. 00:05:38.577 --> 00:05:41.625 A simple spline can be drawn by just clicking on 00:05:41.665 --> 00:05:44.343 this icon here, which is the Add mode. 00:05:44.489 --> 00:05:47.779 You can access the Add mode by clicking or pressing 00:05:47.827 --> 00:05:50.043 the A key on your keyboard too. 00:05:50.179 --> 00:05:54.695 I will do that in this tutorial. 00:05:54.995 --> 00:05:59.091 And I will just draw a line now. 00:05:59.123 --> 00:06:01.203 And the line is a spline in Animation Master. 00:06:01.259 --> 00:06:06.587 Because of that, I just have to click once and 00:06:06.611 --> 00:06:10.341 I just move around my mouse and click again in 00:06:10.373 --> 00:06:11.317 another position. 00:06:11.461 --> 00:06:13.653 Okay, and as you can see, we have now a 00:06:13.669 --> 00:06:14.597 little spline here. 00:06:14.621 --> 00:06:19.461 A spline is a curve which is always rounded. 00:06:19.653 --> 00:06:23.173 And a spline has another thing about it. 00:06:23.229 --> 00:06:24.625 It doesn’t render. 00:06:26.605 --> 00:06:30.429 So a spline is not a geometry object at this 00:06:30.477 --> 00:06:30.997 point. 00:06:31.141 --> 00:06:34.965 The object that can be created with splines is a 00:06:35.005 --> 00:06:37.655 patch, and the patch will be rendered. 00:06:38.555 --> 00:06:42.147 So there are different patch types and I will show 00:06:42.171 --> 00:06:44.411 you a few of them and what to do with 00:06:44.443 --> 00:06:44.875 them. 00:06:44.995 --> 00:06:50.187 Okay, so to create a patch, for example, you have 00:06:50.211 --> 00:06:56.659 to create a few more splines and connect them with 00:06:56.707 --> 00:06:57.427 each other. 00:06:57.571 --> 00:07:00.295 For that I will just use the A key now 00:07:00.635 --> 00:07:05.691 and I will create another spline looking like that, for 00:07:05.723 --> 00:07:06.455 example. 00:07:08.195 --> 00:07:12.459 And now I will just connect them. 00:07:12.547 --> 00:07:16.011 And this is the perfect patch or the best patch 00:07:16.043 --> 00:07:22.435 you can create, because it contains of four different splines 00:07:22.475 --> 00:07:27.043 here, which will create a nice little patch in the 00:07:27.059 --> 00:07:27.657 middle. 00:07:27.811 --> 00:07:30.253 Okay, so to see something, I will go to the 00:07:30.269 --> 00:07:35.305 shaded view and I will increase the subdivision level. 00:07:36.325 --> 00:07:40.029 Don’t confuse this with a subdivision level in any Polygon 00:07:40.077 --> 00:07:45.053 model or in a subdivision surface model, because this is 00:07:45.109 --> 00:07:48.829 only a real time thing going on here. 00:07:48.957 --> 00:07:54.363 Because if I’m rendering this, it always will be rounded. 00:07:54.509 --> 00:08:03.287 And it’s not like you can manipulate the real curve 00:08:03.391 --> 00:08:05.255 with this setting here. 00:08:05.295 --> 00:08:08.367 It’s only for real time views. 00:08:08.551 --> 00:08:11.735 Okay, so as you can see, we have a patch 00:08:11.775 --> 00:08:11.951 now. 00:08:11.983 --> 00:08:14.983 And to see something a little bit better, I will 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:19.599 switch again the viewport or the view mode to shaded 00:08:19.647 --> 00:08:23.031 wireframe by clicking on this button here. 00:08:23.223 --> 00:08:26.591 And like that, we can see the splines and the 00:08:26.623 --> 00:08:28.159 patches we create here. 00:08:28.327 --> 00:08:31.239 Okay, so you see, we have our first patch. 00:08:31.287 --> 00:08:34.463 It’s a very valid patch, and it’s the patch you 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:35.675 should aim for. 00:08:36.095 --> 00:08:41.635 And I will just create another patch by adding another 00:08:41.975 --> 00:08:43.135 spline here. 00:08:43.295 --> 00:08:46.589 And you may have noticed that I am not just 00:08:46.767 --> 00:08:50.129 clicking like that and clicking again and trying to connect 00:08:50.177 --> 00:08:51.205 it that way. 00:08:51.585 --> 00:08:54.569 That is because if I would click on this point 00:08:54.617 --> 00:08:58.881 for now, Animation Master would assume that I want to 00:08:58.993 --> 00:09:05.225 extend the spline and create a nice continued spline here. 00:09:05.265 --> 00:09:06.769 But that’s not what I want to do. 00:09:06.857 --> 00:09:09.617 I want to create a nice little patch and for 00:09:09.641 --> 00:09:13.655 that I need another spline line here. 00:09:14.515 --> 00:09:18.547 Okay? And to get that going, I’m just clicking on 00:09:18.571 --> 00:09:23.931 my cp, which is created differently in a different spline 00:09:24.003 --> 00:09:24.499 here. 00:09:24.627 --> 00:09:27.851 I click on that drag and drop it around and 00:09:27.883 --> 00:09:30.827 bring it near another CP point. 00:09:31.011 --> 00:09:35.015 And if I’m there, I’m holding the left mouse key 00:09:35.315 --> 00:09:39.269 and clicking the right mouse key at the same time. 00:09:39.397 --> 00:09:42.317 And like that, it’s connected now and I can, for 00:09:42.341 --> 00:09:45.341 example, move it around and it stays connected. 00:09:45.493 --> 00:09:47.749 And the same thing I will do at this point. 00:09:47.797 --> 00:09:51.085 And if I now connect this, I will create another 00:09:51.205 --> 00:09:53.581 four point patch at this point. 00:09:53.693 --> 00:10:03.425 Okay, so let’s Create just another line here. 00:10:04.615 --> 00:10:07.555 And I will try to cover something that is. 00:10:08.375 --> 00:10:10.635 It’s very often asked. 00:10:11.135 --> 00:10:17.343 It’s one of the more interesting things and one of 00:10:17.359 --> 00:10:20.799 the things that is not common in the Polygon world, 00:10:20.847 --> 00:10:25.915 for example, and that is how to connect. 00:10:29.545 --> 00:10:38.001 How to connect a round shape to, for example a 00:10:38.033 --> 00:10:38.881 surface. 00:10:39.073 --> 00:10:41.649 This is for example, necessary if you want to create 00:10:41.697 --> 00:10:45.345 a character and you want to attach an arm to 00:10:45.385 --> 00:10:48.217 his body or something like that, or for example, a 00:10:48.241 --> 00:10:49.033 leg to his body. 00:10:49.089 --> 00:10:52.809 And because of that, I will create a certain structure 00:10:52.857 --> 00:10:57.375 here to show you what I’m doing here. 00:10:58.195 --> 00:11:00.651 And while I’m doing that, I will show you how 00:11:00.683 --> 00:11:03.015 to extrude in Animation Master. 00:11:03.675 --> 00:11:07.523 Extrusion in Animation Master is a little bit different from 00:11:07.619 --> 00:11:12.459 most Polygon models or Polygon Modeler because extrusion is not 00:11:12.547 --> 00:11:17.731 based on a surface as for example, in Polygon modelers 00:11:17.843 --> 00:11:24.377 you are extruding Polygon in that way, but you are 00:11:24.401 --> 00:11:29.073 extruding cps or better to say splines here in Animation 00:11:29.129 --> 00:11:30.065 Master World. 00:11:30.225 --> 00:11:34.417 And for that I will just go to the front 00:11:34.481 --> 00:11:35.377 view again. 00:11:35.521 --> 00:11:39.321 I can switch the front view and stuff like that 00:11:39.433 --> 00:11:44.281 by using my keypad and going like that to the 00:11:44.313 --> 00:11:44.885 different. 00:11:45.995 --> 00:11:48.027 To the different viewports. 00:11:48.131 --> 00:11:50.875 Or you can see this at this point in which 00:11:50.915 --> 00:11:52.375 viewport I am in. 00:11:53.155 --> 00:11:57.587 Okay, so one of the little tricks here, I will. 00:11:57.691 --> 00:12:01.055 To align these CP’s, I will just scale them down. 00:12:02.635 --> 00:12:06.627 For example, in this case, I need to scale it 00:12:06.651 --> 00:12:10.699 to the null at this point and I will use 00:12:10.747 --> 00:12:14.385 this one and scale it again too. 00:12:16.085 --> 00:12:19.909 This is of course not the usual way you would 00:12:19.957 --> 00:12:22.945 create a grid or something. 00:12:23.325 --> 00:12:26.325 It would be quite hard to do that. 00:12:26.405 --> 00:12:29.869 But there is a grid wizard that can do that. 00:12:29.957 --> 00:12:33.237 We will cover that in a later tutorial or maybe 00:12:33.341 --> 00:12:37.025 you just have a look at the right menu. 00:12:37.855 --> 00:12:41.887 Going to Plugins wizard and using the Grid wizard at 00:12:41.911 --> 00:12:42.715 this point. 00:12:44.095 --> 00:12:46.071 But it’s not necessary for now. 00:12:46.183 --> 00:12:46.511 Okay. 00:12:46.543 --> 00:12:50.975 And so I’m extruding, for example, this part, for extruding 00:12:51.015 --> 00:12:52.679 you have this little button. 00:12:52.807 --> 00:12:55.935 It will be available after you selected a spline. 00:12:56.055 --> 00:13:00.375 And if you do that, you create a new here, 00:13:00.415 --> 00:13:01.647 a new part here. 00:13:01.751 --> 00:13:03.395 And I will do that again. 00:13:04.445 --> 00:13:08.333 And now we have the basic structure to create a 00:13:08.349 --> 00:13:14.669 nice little transition between round shape and more or less 00:13:14.797 --> 00:13:16.225 square shape here. 00:13:16.525 --> 00:13:20.725 And to show you something more, because I see that 00:13:20.765 --> 00:13:24.765 it’s hard to see where I’m putting my SCPs here. 00:13:24.805 --> 00:13:26.301 And that’s the piece. 00:13:26.413 --> 00:13:30.821 I will use another appearance here because you can customize 00:13:30.853 --> 00:13:31.831 your interface. 00:13:31.973 --> 00:13:34.443 And for that I go to Tools Customize. 00:13:34.619 --> 00:13:36.331 I will Go to appearance. 00:13:36.483 --> 00:13:42.335 And now I have several different, several different presets. 00:13:42.675 --> 00:13:45.650 And one of my own presets is this professional 1, 00:13:45.731 --> 00:13:47.315 2, 3 thingy. 00:13:47.435 --> 00:13:49.283 And I will use a professional one. 00:13:49.379 --> 00:13:51.627 I think I will provide that in the forums for 00:13:51.651 --> 00:13:52.215 you. 00:13:53.155 --> 00:13:54.827 And as you can see, we can see a little 00:13:54.851 --> 00:13:57.313 bit better now what is going on here. 00:13:57.499 --> 00:14:03.745 Okay? And for now, this is our structure. 00:14:04.845 --> 00:14:07.865 And I will tell you what you need to connect, 00:14:08.965 --> 00:14:12.317 for example, an arm to a body or something like 00:14:12.341 --> 00:14:12.837 that. 00:14:12.981 --> 00:14:16.621 And what you need is more or less this part 00:14:16.653 --> 00:14:18.425 of our model at this point. 00:14:18.765 --> 00:14:25.245 And for that you can connect something to that, because 00:14:25.325 --> 00:14:29.897 all the splines here are already taken or already in 00:14:29.921 --> 00:14:33.273 the way they should be, because a spline cannot be 00:14:33.369 --> 00:14:37.409 run or CP cannot be run through by more than 00:14:37.457 --> 00:14:38.465 two splines. 00:14:38.585 --> 00:14:44.929 Otherwise you will receive at least a very hard edge 00:14:45.057 --> 00:14:49.185 or maybe even some kind of other wiredness. 00:14:49.345 --> 00:14:57.525 And because of that I will just use. 00:15:00.585 --> 00:15:03.033 I’m just scaling that down. 00:15:03.089 --> 00:15:08.125 Okay, I will just use this part here. 00:15:09.745 --> 00:15:13.005 And what we will use is a five pointer, because 00:15:14.185 --> 00:15:18.257 patches can not only be created from four pointers, four 00:15:18.321 --> 00:15:22.301 points here, but also from three points and from five 00:15:22.373 --> 00:15:22.941 points. 00:15:23.093 --> 00:15:26.509 And the best thing to use is a four point 00:15:26.557 --> 00:15:30.549 patch, of course, but in some situations it’s very common 00:15:30.597 --> 00:15:34.525 and very easily and very well suited to use five 00:15:34.565 --> 00:15:35.389 points, for example. 00:15:35.437 --> 00:15:37.733 And one of the situations is this one. 00:15:37.869 --> 00:15:45.133 Okay, so to create a small little round surface, I 00:15:45.149 --> 00:15:47.185 will just create a lace object. 00:15:47.755 --> 00:15:51.531 A lathe object is an object that is created by 00:15:51.723 --> 00:15:57.895 a basic spline which is rotated around an axis. 00:15:58.755 --> 00:16:05.467 And this axis will be the middle of our rotation 00:16:05.531 --> 00:16:06.291 object. 00:16:06.483 --> 00:16:10.067 And as you can see, this will be our shape 00:16:10.131 --> 00:16:12.255 to define the rotation object. 00:16:13.005 --> 00:16:14.669 This would be the button for that. 00:16:14.797 --> 00:16:19.229 And one thing you may want to know about Animation 00:16:19.277 --> 00:16:22.373 Master is that you can always hit the control key 00:16:22.429 --> 00:16:24.061 and click on one of the buttons. 00:16:24.173 --> 00:16:26.813 If there are options available for that button. 00:16:26.909 --> 00:16:31.389 You can set them after that because it will open 00:16:31.437 --> 00:16:36.301 up a setting box and show you what sections or 00:16:36.333 --> 00:16:39.535 what possibilities there are. 00:16:39.655 --> 00:16:43.007 And for now I will just go with a lace 00:16:43.071 --> 00:16:46.835 cross section value of 4 instead of 8. 00:16:48.695 --> 00:16:51.615 You can of course do the same thing with an 00:16:51.695 --> 00:16:56.023 8 point or 12 point or something like that cross 00:16:56.079 --> 00:16:59.055 section for a spline ring. 00:16:59.175 --> 00:17:01.263 But for now I will leave it like that. 00:17:01.319 --> 00:17:04.175 And if I now just click one of the buttons 00:17:04.215 --> 00:17:10.303 here and click on lace, it will create a nice 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:17.767 little shape here which is an object, and it is 00:17:17.791 --> 00:17:22.655 more or less something that could be used to attach 00:17:22.695 --> 00:17:24.407 it, for example, to this part. 00:17:24.551 --> 00:17:29.479 And for that I will just move this now so 00:17:29.527 --> 00:17:32.511 just select it, grab it and move it wherever you 00:17:32.543 --> 00:17:32.975 want. 00:17:33.095 --> 00:17:35.519 I go to one of the other views, which is 00:17:35.567 --> 00:17:36.847 left view in this part. 00:17:36.951 --> 00:17:40.815 As you can see, here is our object I created 00:17:40.895 --> 00:17:41.515 earlier. 00:17:42.135 --> 00:17:46.407 And this is our lathe created object. 00:17:46.591 --> 00:17:52.795 And I’m just rotating that by using this manipulator here. 00:17:54.215 --> 00:17:58.665 And now I want to connect the the two objects 00:17:58.705 --> 00:17:59.169 here. 00:17:59.297 --> 00:18:02.289 And to do that I will have to break this 00:18:02.337 --> 00:18:06.313 part of my model here, because as I told you, 00:18:06.409 --> 00:18:10.081 I cannot connect this point and this point without a 00:18:10.113 --> 00:18:10.625 hard edge. 00:18:10.665 --> 00:18:12.105 But I don’t want a hard edge. 00:18:12.145 --> 00:18:14.433 And because of that, I will do it this way. 00:18:14.569 --> 00:18:17.113 Okay, so I will break that. 00:18:17.209 --> 00:18:20.153 Breaking can be done by just clicking on this button 00:18:20.209 --> 00:18:26.157 or hitting the key, the key K on your keyboard. 00:18:26.301 --> 00:18:29.905 And for that I’m just breaking it now with that. 00:18:31.045 --> 00:18:33.629 And this one is the same. 00:18:33.797 --> 00:18:36.797 And you may notice that the break key is now 00:18:36.901 --> 00:18:37.789 no longer available. 00:18:37.877 --> 00:18:40.869 That is because this is the end of a spline, 00:18:40.957 --> 00:18:44.885 and the end of a spline can always be deleted 00:18:44.925 --> 00:18:47.625 by just hitting delete. 00:18:48.785 --> 00:18:51.445 So we have this structure now openly here. 00:18:52.625 --> 00:18:55.725 And what I want to do is I’m just connecting 00:18:56.305 --> 00:18:58.993 the different parts here. 00:18:59.169 --> 00:19:02.161 I will go to wireframe to see more the different 00:19:02.233 --> 00:19:07.325 parts here with my object I created. 00:19:08.145 --> 00:19:12.665 And like that, I can create a five pointer. 00:19:12.705 --> 00:19:13.289 Now. 00:19:13.457 --> 00:19:19.859 So a five pointer has own behavior, which is the 00:19:19.907 --> 00:19:20.379 following. 00:19:20.507 --> 00:19:23.163 A five pointer will not be created automatically. 00:19:23.299 --> 00:19:26.491 A five pointer has to be created by you by 00:19:26.523 --> 00:19:28.535 just selecting all these points. 00:19:29.395 --> 00:19:35.507 And then you have to define that this should be 00:19:35.531 --> 00:19:36.735 a five pointer. 00:19:37.315 --> 00:19:41.307 Okay? One very, very important thing to define a five 00:19:41.371 --> 00:19:46.035 pointer is that if you are selecting this CP’s you 00:19:46.075 --> 00:19:50.043 should press the shift key before you do anything and 00:19:50.059 --> 00:19:53.563 then hold the shift key and select all the CP’s 00:19:53.659 --> 00:19:59.787 that should be in the selection to create a five 00:19:59.851 --> 00:20:00.575 pointer. 00:20:00.875 --> 00:20:09.045 And like that I am creating my little bridge or 00:20:09.085 --> 00:20:12.145 connection here that I talked about earlier. 00:20:14.805 --> 00:20:18.949 This is a very good part to create or to 00:20:18.997 --> 00:20:21.265 use five pointers. 00:20:21.925 --> 00:20:25.541 This little indication here is that there is a normal 00:20:25.613 --> 00:20:26.225 problem. 00:20:26.885 --> 00:20:30.013 In general, you don’t see normal problems very well in 00:20:30.069 --> 00:20:34.021 Animation Master or in renderings of Animation Master because you 00:20:34.053 --> 00:20:35.495 can often ignore that. 00:20:35.605 --> 00:20:38.555 But if you have to flip one of the normals, 00:20:38.715 --> 00:20:42.915 you can always use your patch tool, which is at 00:20:42.955 --> 00:20:46.467 this point it will select a whole patch. 00:20:46.571 --> 00:20:49.779 And if you then hit the F key or right 00:20:49.827 --> 00:20:55.251 click on your selection and use Flip Normals, it will 00:20:55.283 --> 00:20:56.419 flip the normals. 00:20:56.547 --> 00:21:00.227 As I said before, it’s often not necessary to do 00:21:00.251 --> 00:21:00.627 that. 00:21:00.731 --> 00:21:03.351 But in this case I just wanted to show you 00:21:03.383 --> 00:21:05.995 how it is Done in the best way here. 00:21:06.495 --> 00:21:06.911 Okay. 00:21:06.943 --> 00:21:09.175 And as you can see, we have now a transition 00:21:09.335 --> 00:21:12.755 between our objects at this point. 00:21:13.175 --> 00:21:21.031 Okay? So if you think that’s it, there is more 00:21:21.063 --> 00:21:22.115 to it, of course. 00:21:24.495 --> 00:21:27.439 I will show you something that is called a hook. 00:21:27.527 --> 00:21:31.925 A hook is called or a hook is used to 00:21:33.065 --> 00:21:37.321 increase the resolution in a certain area of your model 00:21:37.473 --> 00:21:40.153 and to decrease it again. 00:21:40.329 --> 00:21:41.689 So let’s have a look. 00:21:41.737 --> 00:21:43.725 I will just extrude this. 00:21:44.385 --> 00:21:46.577 I think I will do that a couple of times 00:21:46.641 --> 00:21:47.249 now. 00:21:47.417 --> 00:21:50.681 And let’s say we want to decrease the resolution of 00:21:50.713 --> 00:21:54.705 this model here at this point so that these CP’s 00:21:54.745 --> 00:21:56.933 here are no longer present. 00:21:57.109 --> 00:22:02.253 Why do we decrease at all in Animation Master as 00:22:02.269 --> 00:22:07.141 well in Polygon World or something somewhere else, it is 00:22:07.213 --> 00:22:12.165 always very wise to use only the CP’s you really 00:22:12.245 --> 00:22:15.625 need and an as low amount as you can. 00:22:16.285 --> 00:22:20.141 Ok, so for now I am just going to delete 00:22:20.173 --> 00:22:22.269 for example these two cps here. 00:22:22.397 --> 00:22:25.477 And what you will notice is that there is no 00:22:25.501 --> 00:22:28.357 longer a patch at this point. 00:22:28.421 --> 00:22:33.373 Because here is a patch that would be defined by 00:22:33.469 --> 00:22:35.861 five CP’s at this point. 00:22:36.013 --> 00:22:38.741 And this is not the way Animation Master works. 00:22:38.773 --> 00:22:43.359 You could for example go and create a 5cp point 00:22:43.478 --> 00:22:47.941 at this point or a 5 point patch at this 00:22:47.973 --> 00:22:48.495 point. 00:22:48.645 --> 00:22:52.219 But in this case it is very wise to use 00:22:52.347 --> 00:22:53.775 a hook for that. 00:22:54.195 --> 00:22:58.027 And a hook can be created by just going to 00:22:58.051 --> 00:23:00.715 the add mode, clicking on the button or on the 00:23:00.755 --> 00:23:04.747 CP you want to create a new hook or a 00:23:04.771 --> 00:23:09.955 new spline, whatever you want here to. 00:23:10.035 --> 00:23:16.255 And now just if you are ready for that, just 00:23:16.555 --> 00:23:21.131 right click again to leave the spline mode without deleting 00:23:21.163 --> 00:23:23.467 the spline you already created here. 00:23:23.611 --> 00:23:26.075 And now just drag and drop it to one of 00:23:26.115 --> 00:23:29.675 the splines at this point. 00:23:29.835 --> 00:23:33.051 It shouldn’t be too near to one of the CP’s 00:23:33.083 --> 00:23:35.771 here, but in this case it should be. 00:23:35.803 --> 00:23:39.627 Okay, and now you just merge them together as you 00:23:39.651 --> 00:23:43.013 would with a CP you wanted to merge with another 00:23:43.069 --> 00:23:43.741 cp. 00:23:43.893 --> 00:23:44.357 Okay. 00:23:44.421 --> 00:23:48.501 And you can do that by just again select the 00:23:48.533 --> 00:23:52.421 cp, hold the left mouse button and if you are 00:23:52.453 --> 00:23:57.165 near another spline here, just hit the right mouse button 00:23:57.205 --> 00:23:57.669 too. 00:23:57.797 --> 00:24:00.065 Okay? And like that we created a hook. 00:24:00.565 --> 00:24:03.145 And same thing can be done at this point. 00:24:04.365 --> 00:24:07.557 And as you can see, you won’t see any difference 00:24:07.621 --> 00:24:08.225 here. 00:24:11.135 --> 00:24:14.195 Okay, so this is a hook. 00:24:14.535 --> 00:24:16.111 We have talked about the hook. 00:24:16.183 --> 00:24:19.311 We have talked about a four pointer patch, we have 00:24:19.383 --> 00:24:24.087 talked about this five pointer patch and we have talked 00:24:24.111 --> 00:24:26.551 a little bit about spline continuity. 00:24:26.663 --> 00:24:32.559 Spline continuity is just something that occurs in Animation Master 00:24:32.607 --> 00:24:33.159 by default. 00:24:33.207 --> 00:24:37.193 If you Are if you are going to use it 00:24:37.209 --> 00:24:38.285 in the right way. 00:24:38.705 --> 00:24:41.233 One thing we can see at this point, for example, 00:24:41.289 --> 00:24:47.537 is that we can’t really predict where the spline continuity 00:24:47.681 --> 00:24:50.369 will be running along. 00:24:50.537 --> 00:24:53.641 Or better to say, we can’t really predict if, for 00:24:53.673 --> 00:24:56.817 example, if you create a new CP here, if it 00:24:56.841 --> 00:25:00.325 will be connected to this spline or to this spline, 00:25:00.735 --> 00:25:05.319 it can be manipulated by clicking for example, a little 00:25:05.367 --> 00:25:08.687 bit next to the cp, for example, like that. 00:25:08.791 --> 00:25:13.495 And it is very likely that the cp, the new 00:25:13.575 --> 00:25:17.799 created CP will now be attached to this spline instead 00:25:17.847 --> 00:25:18.855 of this spline. 00:25:19.015 --> 00:25:22.671 But to be sure about that, just try it out 00:25:22.703 --> 00:25:25.957 a little bit by for example, just clicking on it 00:25:26.071 --> 00:25:30.177 and moving this new CP around. 00:25:30.281 --> 00:25:32.525 And like that, you can see that there is a 00:25:32.945 --> 00:25:35.041 difference here at this point. 00:25:35.193 --> 00:25:40.089 And because of that, the CP is manipulating the curve 00:25:40.217 --> 00:25:45.489 not only at this point of the of the on 00:25:45.577 --> 00:25:47.985 this side of the cp but also on the other 00:25:48.025 --> 00:25:49.085 side of the cp. 00:25:51.915 --> 00:25:57.675 So what about creating for example, scp and you need 00:25:57.715 --> 00:26:00.371 it to be there, but you want this to be 00:26:00.403 --> 00:26:04.851 straight, for example, for that we have the bias handlers. 00:26:05.003 --> 00:26:11.611 Bias handlers are used to control more or less the 00:26:11.643 --> 00:26:14.347 running of a spline at this point. 00:26:14.451 --> 00:26:17.255 And with the bias handlers you can for example, just 00:26:17.585 --> 00:26:21.369 move them down or up, something like that. 00:26:21.537 --> 00:26:25.297 And you would create a nice little follow through which 00:26:25.321 --> 00:26:27.257 is quite straight. 00:26:27.441 --> 00:26:32.805 And you can for example, now create another patch. 00:26:34.945 --> 00:26:36.765 I’ll do that quickly here. 00:26:37.505 --> 00:26:41.161 And you see we have a nice little follow up 00:26:41.233 --> 00:26:41.845 here. 00:26:42.735 --> 00:26:44.695 Let’s increase it a little bit. 00:26:44.855 --> 00:26:45.635 Okay. 00:26:48.495 --> 00:26:51.995 You see, this is the way bias handlers work. 00:26:52.535 --> 00:26:55.847 Bias handlers can be manipulated in different ways. 00:26:55.991 --> 00:26:59.575 One way of manipulating this is for example, pressing the 00:26:59.615 --> 00:27:03.383 shift key using the manipulator icon here. 00:27:03.479 --> 00:27:10.117 And what you can see is that the, the bias 00:27:10.221 --> 00:27:13.653 handlers are still connected with each other, but you can 00:27:13.749 --> 00:27:18.101 by shift clicking on one of them and dragging it 00:27:18.133 --> 00:27:21.541 around, you can manipulate the length of one of the 00:27:21.573 --> 00:27:23.665 handlers at a time. 00:27:25.845 --> 00:27:30.905 And there is a different behavior for splines too, because 00:27:32.565 --> 00:27:35.919 you may want to create for example, mechanical objects too. 00:27:36.037 --> 00:27:38.787 For that I will just leave this object as it 00:27:38.811 --> 00:27:43.187 is now and I will create another one again. 00:27:43.251 --> 00:27:48.995 Right click on Objects View model and activate the grid 00:27:49.035 --> 00:27:51.227 here to see where I am at. 00:27:51.371 --> 00:27:52.963 I am in the front view. 00:27:53.139 --> 00:27:56.815 And now let’s have a look at when to use 00:27:58.355 --> 00:27:59.779 straight splines. 00:27:59.907 --> 00:28:05.459 Because splines can be curves, but splines can also be 00:28:05.547 --> 00:28:08.655 manipulated to be peaked. 00:28:09.155 --> 00:28:11.795 So this is a peaked button here and you can 00:28:11.835 --> 00:28:15.755 switch these two behaviors of splines to each other. 00:28:15.915 --> 00:28:21.171 So when to use when in general terms spoken, you 00:28:21.203 --> 00:28:25.451 can say that in most situations, if you are for 00:28:25.483 --> 00:28:28.953 example creating a character or something like that, you will 00:28:29.009 --> 00:28:35.953 want to use the smooth version of a spline. 00:28:36.049 --> 00:28:40.289 So the default version here, which can be for example, 00:28:40.337 --> 00:28:44.329 if it’s peaked, you can force it to be smooth 00:28:44.377 --> 00:28:46.085 again like that. 00:28:47.625 --> 00:28:50.697 And in some situations, if you want to create, for 00:28:50.721 --> 00:28:54.321 example mechanical model or models, it can be wise to 00:28:54.353 --> 00:28:58.287 use the peak version of the splines. 00:28:58.391 --> 00:29:00.399 And for that I will just go to this button, 00:29:00.447 --> 00:29:02.567 which is a snap to grid button. 00:29:02.751 --> 00:29:06.255 And like that, all the new created CP’s I’m creating 00:29:06.295 --> 00:29:08.359 here will snap to a grid point. 00:29:08.527 --> 00:29:16.275 And I will just create a little shape here. 00:29:18.415 --> 00:29:25.041 And as you can see, this shape is now just 00:29:25.073 --> 00:29:27.785 a spline wing for now. 00:29:27.945 --> 00:29:34.377 And what you can see here is that this shape 00:29:34.441 --> 00:29:38.369 is not straight, for example at this point or at 00:29:38.417 --> 00:29:39.337 this line. 00:29:39.521 --> 00:29:45.001 And that’s because it’s currently used with the non peaked 00:29:45.033 --> 00:29:47.569 mode, so the smooth mode. 00:29:47.697 --> 00:29:50.445 But if I peak them, for example, at this point 00:29:50.745 --> 00:29:52.685 I will get a straight line. 00:29:53.905 --> 00:29:57.889 So why can’t I just go and use the bias 00:29:57.937 --> 00:30:02.525 handlers at this point, for example, like that and like 00:30:02.825 --> 00:30:05.993 that to create a straight line at this point. 00:30:06.129 --> 00:30:08.617 This is very fine and it can be used in 00:30:08.641 --> 00:30:12.225 a very useful way. 00:30:12.345 --> 00:30:16.255 But there is one drawback to do it in this 00:30:16.295 --> 00:30:16.567 way. 00:30:16.631 --> 00:30:20.871 And the drawback is if you afterwards manipulate for example 00:30:20.943 --> 00:30:29.671 the length of the shape, you will get a curve 00:30:29.743 --> 00:30:32.815 again in this part here. 00:30:32.975 --> 00:30:35.311 And I will show you that as you can see, 00:30:35.343 --> 00:30:36.143 there is a curve. 00:30:36.199 --> 00:30:42.005 Now even so, we manipulated the CPS to look straight 00:30:42.085 --> 00:30:48.669 before, okay? And like that it is very hard or 00:30:48.757 --> 00:30:52.541 it’s sometimes very hard to use Animation Master in that 00:30:52.573 --> 00:30:52.909 way. 00:30:52.997 --> 00:30:55.505 And because of that there is a peak mode. 00:30:55.845 --> 00:31:00.053 Okay, So I will set these bias handlers or bias 00:31:00.109 --> 00:31:01.989 modes here to the default again. 00:31:02.117 --> 00:31:04.213 For that you just have to click on this little 00:31:04.269 --> 00:31:10.605 icon which will open up this, this toolbox here whenever 00:31:11.705 --> 00:31:13.165 you select something. 00:31:13.465 --> 00:31:17.961 And I will just import alpha to null, gamma to 00:31:17.993 --> 00:31:20.697 null, and magnitude to 100. 00:31:20.841 --> 00:31:24.577 And now we have the standard values again imported here. 00:31:24.721 --> 00:31:26.925 Okay? So let’s peak that. 00:31:27.385 --> 00:31:30.441 And as you can see we have now a very 00:31:30.513 --> 00:31:31.809 straight edge here. 00:31:31.857 --> 00:31:35.047 And it can be okay to look like that, but 00:31:35.071 --> 00:31:36.967 in many cases you don’t want it to look like 00:31:36.991 --> 00:31:37.175 that. 00:31:37.215 --> 00:31:40.359 And for that I will just use the bias handlers 00:31:40.407 --> 00:31:44.315 again, which can be used in the peaked mode exactly 00:31:44.815 --> 00:31:48.887 in the same way as in the smooth mode, with 00:31:48.951 --> 00:31:49.935 one exception. 00:31:50.055 --> 00:31:56.207 I can manipulate the bias handles of a point separately 00:31:56.271 --> 00:31:56.903 from each other. 00:31:56.959 --> 00:32:03.545 That means I can for example, use this totally independent 00:32:04.765 --> 00:32:07.025 from the other side here. 00:32:07.325 --> 00:32:14.385 And I will just create a little nice corner here, 00:32:16.045 --> 00:32:17.385 doing it that way. 00:32:24.285 --> 00:32:30.119 And this indicates one of the many things that are 00:32:30.167 --> 00:32:35.151 very well in Animation Master and that should be done 00:32:35.223 --> 00:32:36.955 before doing anything else. 00:32:37.695 --> 00:32:41.535 Animation Master will create very nice and smooth bevels, but 00:32:41.575 --> 00:32:44.423 only if you think about them before you are modeling 00:32:44.479 --> 00:32:45.151 something. 00:32:45.343 --> 00:32:49.591 So as you can see, I created a nice beveled 00:32:49.623 --> 00:32:56.049 edge here and you should start with the right shape 00:32:56.097 --> 00:32:59.585 for that and bevel it whenever you create it and 00:32:59.625 --> 00:33:02.537 not try to afterwards create a bevel. 00:33:02.681 --> 00:33:07.537 Because afterwards creating a bevel is much more work to 00:33:07.561 --> 00:33:10.649 do than doing it at the beginning. 00:33:10.817 --> 00:33:15.401 Okay, so let’s just extrude this to show you what 00:33:15.433 --> 00:33:16.605 we created here. 00:33:18.185 --> 00:33:21.803 Okay, I go to the shaded view and as you 00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:24.691 can see, we have a quite nice little edge here 00:33:24.843 --> 00:33:29.659 which is now easy to be manipulated. 00:33:29.707 --> 00:33:35.755 We can for example, increase the height here and it 00:33:35.795 --> 00:33:37.615 should still work very well. 00:33:38.635 --> 00:33:45.415 And that is the basic advantage of peaked Farwell versus 00:33:45.955 --> 00:33:48.345 smooth versions here. 00:33:48.925 --> 00:33:56.669 Okay, so I think I’m going to go to the 00:33:56.717 --> 00:33:59.021 last part of my tutorial here now. 00:33:59.133 --> 00:34:01.581 And the last part will be I will be creating 00:34:01.653 --> 00:34:04.669 a very basic object and for that I will just 00:34:04.717 --> 00:34:06.253 create a new model here. 00:34:06.429 --> 00:34:12.149 I will call this model to, for example, Spoon, because 00:34:12.197 --> 00:34:14.253 we are just creating a spoon here. 00:34:14.349 --> 00:34:17.377 And as you can see, it is very wise to 00:34:17.401 --> 00:34:21.081 give names to your models and just to keep it 00:34:21.113 --> 00:34:26.777 tidy here because it just helps you to identify everything 00:34:26.961 --> 00:34:28.689 nice and smoothly. 00:34:28.857 --> 00:34:32.033 Ok, so I will go to the top view, which 00:34:32.049 --> 00:34:36.345 is a 5 on the keypad of your keyboard. 00:34:36.505 --> 00:34:40.217 And now I don’t have any kind of reference material. 00:34:40.281 --> 00:34:43.517 You can, you can of course import a reference material 00:34:43.581 --> 00:34:46.837 by just for example, going to Images. 00:34:46.941 --> 00:34:48.453 Import image. 00:34:48.629 --> 00:34:52.637 And if you then select an image and put it 00:34:52.701 --> 00:34:57.045 into your screen space here, you are asked whether you 00:34:57.085 --> 00:35:02.173 want it to be used as a decal or as 00:35:02.189 --> 00:35:03.045 a rotoscope. 00:35:03.125 --> 00:35:08.519 And like that you could just get an image reference 00:35:08.567 --> 00:35:12.235 into Animation Master to draw on it and to just 00:35:13.135 --> 00:35:15.835 try to copy it from the image there. 00:35:16.455 --> 00:35:18.151 But I don’t have one right now. 00:35:18.183 --> 00:35:22.911 So I will just assume I know how Spoon should 00:35:23.023 --> 00:35:24.791 more or less look like. 00:35:24.983 --> 00:35:28.711 And for that I’m just placing some points here. 00:35:28.903 --> 00:35:34.685 Remember, I’m just trying to show you how to use 00:35:35.065 --> 00:35:36.985 Animation Master to create objects. 00:35:37.065 --> 00:35:40.001 And what I can see here is I have Snattogrid 00:35:40.193 --> 00:35:47.485 still activated because of that, I will deactivate that and 00:35:48.265 --> 00:35:51.565 start creating a little spoon here. 00:35:52.425 --> 00:36:00.509 Okay? And as you can see, I am not Using 00:36:00.597 --> 00:36:04.053 some kind of box modeling method as in some of 00:36:04.069 --> 00:36:07.157 the Polygon model world or programs. 00:36:07.261 --> 00:36:10.533 But I am using a drawing method here. 00:36:10.709 --> 00:36:14.805 And this is the way Animation Master will create objects 00:36:14.845 --> 00:36:18.797 and the way you should create objects in Animation Master. 00:36:18.981 --> 00:36:22.469 Okay, so let’s say this is more or less what 00:36:22.517 --> 00:36:27.853 we were looking for as a spoon here, maybe a 00:36:27.869 --> 00:36:29.557 little bit smaller at this point. 00:36:29.661 --> 00:36:32.421 You can always use as I am doing that yet 00:36:32.573 --> 00:36:36.941 the arrow keys on your keyboard to move around CP’s 00:36:36.973 --> 00:36:40.637 and just change the curves you are creating. 00:36:40.821 --> 00:36:43.829 And for now I will just use another technique that 00:36:43.877 --> 00:36:46.181 is implemented in Animation Master. 00:36:46.333 --> 00:36:50.113 The technique is called Copy Flip Attached. 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:54.253 Copyflipattach is just doing exactly what it’s named like it 00:36:54.269 --> 00:36:59.317 will copy this structure I created here, flip it to 00:36:59.341 --> 00:37:01.357 the other side of one of the axes. 00:37:01.421 --> 00:37:06.837 In this case it will be the z axis and 00:37:06.901 --> 00:37:13.973 then it will attach both of these geometries here with 00:37:14.069 --> 00:37:14.613 each other. 00:37:14.669 --> 00:37:17.895 For that just select everything you want to Copy Flip 00:37:17.935 --> 00:37:18.711 Attach. 00:37:18.903 --> 00:37:21.519 Right click and go to Copy Flip Attach. 00:37:21.607 --> 00:37:23.915 And as you can see, we created a nice little, 00:37:24.935 --> 00:37:28.755 nice little counterpart of that here. 00:37:30.175 --> 00:37:33.023 Has something happened? I will correct it by hand. 00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:37.231 It’s because this point is very near to the, to 00:37:37.263 --> 00:37:38.519 the axis. 00:37:38.607 --> 00:37:43.369 And because of that you sometimes have to rework a 00:37:43.377 --> 00:37:44.545 little bit at this point. 00:37:44.585 --> 00:37:46.593 But in general this should work. 00:37:46.729 --> 00:37:51.649 Okay, so I think that a nice little spoon should 00:37:51.697 --> 00:37:54.833 be a little bit longer at this point. 00:37:54.969 --> 00:37:56.125 I will do that. 00:37:58.225 --> 00:38:01.481 And yeah, I think that’s more or less the shape 00:38:01.513 --> 00:38:02.369 of a spoon. 00:38:02.497 --> 00:38:04.241 And the first thing I will do is I will 00:38:04.273 --> 00:38:10.001 just Try to connect two CP’s here and start by 00:38:10.033 --> 00:38:12.809 that to create my object. 00:38:12.937 --> 00:38:18.161 And what I’m doing here is just, I’m going, you 00:38:18.193 --> 00:38:24.185 see, I was too near to my other CP here 00:38:24.265 --> 00:38:25.257 by clicking there. 00:38:25.361 --> 00:38:27.885 And because of that I’m using the Y key now 00:38:28.585 --> 00:38:34.765 to add another CP in where I want it. 00:38:36.475 --> 00:38:41.011 And what you can see is that I’m trying to 00:38:41.083 --> 00:38:42.635 create patches here. 00:38:42.755 --> 00:38:48.283 And patches are for example at this point just the 00:38:48.339 --> 00:38:50.855 four point patches I created here. 00:38:52.835 --> 00:38:55.815 And this is the way you should go about that. 00:39:01.965 --> 00:39:05.065 And like that I’m creating geometry. 00:39:05.565 --> 00:39:08.221 I can of course go to the shaded wireframe for 00:39:08.253 --> 00:39:11.325 example, and you can see we have a basic structure 00:39:11.365 --> 00:39:12.825 at this point already. 00:39:13.205 --> 00:39:20.445 Ok, so go on, use again the tools you already 00:39:20.525 --> 00:39:27.295 know like that. 00:39:27.455 --> 00:39:30.275 And here is another thing I like to do. 00:39:31.055 --> 00:39:35.719 If for example, you have a structure where two four 00:39:35.767 --> 00:39:41.927 point patches would form some kind of a curve here, 00:39:42.111 --> 00:39:44.527 I don’t think that that is a good patch. 00:39:44.631 --> 00:39:48.435 And because of that I will add Another CP here 00:39:49.815 --> 00:39:51.037 and do it in this way. 00:39:51.111 --> 00:39:54.329 We have a three pointer now instead of a four 00:39:54.377 --> 00:39:54.681 pointer. 00:39:54.713 --> 00:40:00.745 But if you for example, manipulate or move the CP’s 00:40:00.785 --> 00:40:04.537 around later on you will see that this is the 00:40:04.561 --> 00:40:08.601 better structure than the other one we had before. 00:40:08.753 --> 00:40:11.537 Okay, and so to have a little bit more control 00:40:11.601 --> 00:40:15.473 I will just add another spline ring here. 00:40:15.609 --> 00:40:19.763 And as you can see you can always attach a 00:40:19.779 --> 00:40:22.455 new spline into wherever you want. 00:40:28.755 --> 00:40:33.899 And just for example increase the details of this object 00:40:33.987 --> 00:40:34.615 here. 00:40:36.275 --> 00:40:38.371 And I will just go on like that. 00:40:38.523 --> 00:40:40.535 You can see it’s quite fast. 00:40:50.365 --> 00:40:56.629 I’m using the middle mouse button for panning here and 00:40:56.677 --> 00:41:07.077 the scroll wheel for yes, zooming in and out. 00:41:07.261 --> 00:41:08.945 That’s why I navigate here. 00:41:10.765 --> 00:41:13.549 And let’s say this is the structure we want to 00:41:13.677 --> 00:41:14.705 achieve here. 00:41:15.605 --> 00:41:23.077 Now the spoon would be very flat and there is 00:41:23.101 --> 00:41:24.101 no thickness to it. 00:41:24.173 --> 00:41:26.397 And because of that we have to create a thickness 00:41:26.461 --> 00:41:27.093 now. 00:41:27.269 --> 00:41:30.277 And for that I’m just selecting one of the CP’s 00:41:30.341 --> 00:41:34.549 around the base here and I will hit the comma 00:41:34.597 --> 00:41:35.185 key. 00:41:35.635 --> 00:41:40.395 And with the comma key every CP on the spline 00:41:40.475 --> 00:41:42.819 I just selected will be selected. 00:41:42.987 --> 00:41:50.627 And like that I can for example extrude that as 00:41:50.651 --> 00:41:55.179 we did it many times before now and we get 00:41:55.307 --> 00:42:03.205 our first little thickness to this model I will just 00:42:03.545 --> 00:42:06.005 move that a little so I can see it better. 00:42:06.505 --> 00:42:09.325 And now I will attach. 00:42:11.705 --> 00:42:18.325 Yeah, I will use copy, flip, attach again to just 00:42:18.745 --> 00:42:23.565 get this object to look nice. 00:42:23.905 --> 00:42:28.707 And as you can see we have now closed shape. 00:42:28.891 --> 00:42:32.523 And what I don’t need now is this middle CP 00:42:32.579 --> 00:42:33.027 ring here. 00:42:33.051 --> 00:42:35.083 And because of that I will just go to one 00:42:35.099 --> 00:42:37.571 of the views where I can see it very nicely 00:42:37.683 --> 00:42:39.415 and I will just delete it. 00:42:39.795 --> 00:42:45.723 Okay, Deletion or deleting is just done by selecting something 00:42:45.819 --> 00:42:49.255 and pressing your delete key of course. 00:42:49.915 --> 00:42:52.575 Okay, so let’s scale it a little bit down. 00:42:53.025 --> 00:42:57.777 And like that we have our first little spoony looking 00:42:57.921 --> 00:42:58.961 item here. 00:42:59.113 --> 00:43:02.689 And now there’s another technique in Animation Master which can 00:43:02.737 --> 00:43:07.113 help you with more complex objects where many CP’s have 00:43:07.129 --> 00:43:10.897 to be manipulated to create a certain object. 00:43:11.081 --> 00:43:14.845 And this one is called the distortion box mode. 00:43:15.345 --> 00:43:20.209 And for now I will go to the left view 00:43:20.257 --> 00:43:23.009 here and select everything. 00:43:23.177 --> 00:43:28.233 Go to the distortion mode or distortion box mode. 00:43:28.369 --> 00:43:32.321 And for this mode there is also a setting you 00:43:32.353 --> 00:43:37.185 can set which can be accessed by hitting the control 00:43:37.265 --> 00:43:43.041 key, clicking on the button for the control mode there. 00:43:43.193 --> 00:43:48.291 And now you can increase the distort grid resolution. 00:43:48.443 --> 00:43:49.467 And I will do that. 00:43:49.531 --> 00:43:53.323 For example, I will just input 5 here and if 00:43:53.339 --> 00:43:57.811 I now hit this distortion box mode, I will have 00:43:57.963 --> 00:44:03.615 five different control points for each of my axes here. 00:44:04.275 --> 00:44:08.963 And as you can see, I can now manipulate the 00:44:09.019 --> 00:44:12.069 control points of this box instead of the control points 00:44:12.117 --> 00:44:17.405 of my own, of my own creation here, or my 00:44:17.445 --> 00:44:18.717 own object here. 00:44:18.821 --> 00:44:21.773 And like that, we can give this spoon a nice 00:44:21.829 --> 00:44:23.189 little rounding. 00:44:23.357 --> 00:44:27.413 And for that, for example, like this is the back 00:44:27.469 --> 00:44:30.085 part of the model here. 00:44:30.165 --> 00:44:33.605 And because of that I will, for example, just put 00:44:33.645 --> 00:44:37.265 that up a little bit, maybe something like that. 00:44:38.725 --> 00:44:41.741 As I said, I’m doing this out of thin air. 00:44:41.813 --> 00:44:47.501 So if it’s not looking like your average spoon you’re 00:44:47.533 --> 00:44:51.941 having at home, bear with me. 00:44:52.013 --> 00:44:54.309 It’s just an example here. 00:44:54.477 --> 00:44:58.693 Okay, and what we want to do is very likely 00:44:58.749 --> 00:45:04.475 you want to put this part down a little bit. 00:45:05.575 --> 00:45:06.395 Okay. 00:45:06.775 --> 00:45:09.511 And what I want to do, of course, is that 00:45:09.543 --> 00:45:13.431 the spoon has some kind of a hole, so it 00:45:13.463 --> 00:45:16.447 can hold, for example, some kind of fluid in it. 00:45:16.551 --> 00:45:21.015 And because of that, I will go to these CPUs 00:45:21.055 --> 00:45:25.327 in the middle at this point, let’s go to the 00:45:25.351 --> 00:45:27.863 wireframe to see what we are doing here. 00:45:27.999 --> 00:45:32.401 I want, for example, this piece at this point and 00:45:32.433 --> 00:45:36.645 I want to drag them down a little. 00:45:37.305 --> 00:45:42.525 Okay, maybe like that. 00:45:45.585 --> 00:45:48.017 And as you can see, we have some kind of 00:45:48.041 --> 00:45:50.765 a spoon here for now. 00:45:54.955 --> 00:46:00.043 I will now manipulate my object again without using the 00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:03.643 distortion box here, because it’s just better to have a 00:46:03.699 --> 00:46:06.475 higher resolution work here. 00:46:06.595 --> 00:46:09.803 And for that I’m just selecting, for example, these two 00:46:09.939 --> 00:46:12.815 CP’s and bringing them up a little. 00:46:15.635 --> 00:46:25.765 And maybe we want to decrease, decrease the width here 00:46:25.805 --> 00:46:32.345 or the thickness of the spoon just a little bit, 00:46:36.725 --> 00:46:37.985 something like that. 00:46:38.885 --> 00:46:42.285 And what I see here is that we have to 00:46:42.405 --> 00:46:45.225 do it for the back side in another way. 00:46:45.575 --> 00:46:50.637 By clicking on 1, 2 or by hitting or pressing 00:46:50.722 --> 00:46:52.395 1, 2 and 3. 00:46:53.335 --> 00:46:59.207 You can limitate your movement of your mouse or the 00:46:59.231 --> 00:47:01.927 CP’s you are dragging with your mouse to one of 00:47:01.951 --> 00:47:04.075 the axes because of that. 00:47:04.735 --> 00:47:06.835 Now let’s have a look. 00:47:10.995 --> 00:47:18.003 I want to only move it on the Y axis. 00:47:18.059 --> 00:47:21.547 And because of that I’m hitting the two key and 00:47:21.571 --> 00:47:24.455 I’m bringing that up a little bit here. 00:47:25.435 --> 00:47:28.003 And of course this has to be done with the 00:47:28.019 --> 00:47:29.055 other side too. 00:47:34.795 --> 00:47:38.311 And now we have a basic spoon at this point. 00:47:38.383 --> 00:47:42.791 And maybe you want to bring this little fella up 00:47:42.823 --> 00:47:45.903 too, maybe this one a little bit down again. 00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:50.755 And we have a basic spoon right at your hand. 00:47:51.495 --> 00:47:53.831 There’s of course, much more you can do. 00:47:53.863 --> 00:47:56.759 For example, you can use the bias handlers. 00:47:56.807 --> 00:48:00.255 Now at this situation again, I go to the wireframe 00:48:00.295 --> 00:48:02.263 mode and as you can see, this is a bias 00:48:02.319 --> 00:48:05.635 handler and we can manipulate it per hand at this 00:48:05.675 --> 00:48:05.875 point. 00:48:05.915 --> 00:48:10.267 But I want to manipulate it by a numeric value 00:48:10.331 --> 00:48:15.131 for that I’m just clicking this button here and that 00:48:15.163 --> 00:48:17.347 will create this little menu item. 00:48:17.491 --> 00:48:20.979 And as soon as I, for example, select one of 00:48:20.987 --> 00:48:25.043 the CP’s now I can manipulate its bias handlers by 00:48:25.139 --> 00:48:25.851 values. 00:48:25.963 --> 00:48:29.415 And what I’m doing here is I will increase that 00:48:30.585 --> 00:48:33.445 to give it a nicer shape. 00:48:35.185 --> 00:48:38.073 You may want to do it at this point too. 00:48:38.249 --> 00:48:40.209 Let’s see if it’s right. 00:48:40.377 --> 00:48:41.205 Okay. 00:48:41.945 --> 00:48:45.153 And as you can see, we have a quite nice 00:48:45.249 --> 00:48:48.445 little spoon at this point. 00:48:50.225 --> 00:48:53.161 Here is a little part that we may want to 00:48:53.233 --> 00:48:57.805 correct again if I just, for example, bringing this up, 00:49:00.825 --> 00:49:01.849 that should be. 00:49:01.897 --> 00:49:04.525 Okay, maybe a little bit down again. 00:49:05.185 --> 00:49:08.713 Now let’s go to the left view and have a 00:49:08.729 --> 00:49:10.489 look at the bias handlers here too. 00:49:10.617 --> 00:49:17.245 Because we don’t get a very nice object here because 00:49:17.905 --> 00:49:21.703 the bias handlers are manipulating, of course the shape is 00:49:21.749 --> 00:49:24.851 a way that it’s smooth and that it will come 00:49:24.883 --> 00:49:25.603 up here. 00:49:25.739 --> 00:49:29.099 And in this case I will just use the bias 00:49:29.147 --> 00:49:30.695 handlers to correct that. 00:49:35.675 --> 00:49:40.979 Ok, so now we have a quite nice little spoon 00:49:41.067 --> 00:49:43.615 modeled and ready to be used. 00:49:44.715 --> 00:49:47.379 So I hope you have learned a little bit and 00:49:47.467 --> 00:49:50.619 that it is helping you with getting started with Animation 00:49:50.667 --> 00:49:51.257 Master. 00:49:51.371 --> 00:49:54.581 There are a few tutorials to come and I will, 00:49:54.613 --> 00:49:56.765 for example, cover a little bit of texturing. 00:49:56.845 --> 00:50:00.333 I will cover a little bit of rigging, maybe animating, 00:50:00.389 --> 00:50:04.989 of course, and some kind of UV mapping and something 00:50:05.037 --> 00:50:05.765 like that. 00:50:05.925 --> 00:50:09.389 And just have a look again at this thread or 00:50:09.437 --> 00:50:20.511 at my website at www.patchwork3d.de for more information, tutorials and 00:50:20.703 --> 00:50:22.831 cool stuff about Animation Master. 00:50:22.983 --> 00:50:25.415 So have a nice day and see you soon.