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You're right: it's been done lots of times and in many products. "Google it," and never mind what product they are talking about. Think about what the effect might look like, and surf the usual tutorial web-sites looking for anything that might be relevant even if it talks nothing at all about tears or even water. As you "skim," your subconscious mind will be stitching all kinds of ideas together....

:-) Thank you, that sounds like really good advice but i should probably mention that i am a real beginner so i was hoping for a 'here is how you do it' if at all possible(i mean its been done to death, so im thinking, surely there is a relatively step by step way of simulating water running down a surface right?) but i will keep trying! Thanks again :-)

thanks sundialsvc4. I ll give it a try and keep you posted on the results.

yes, biped uses quaternion rotations, which means no curves. Sorry

hey there doffer, this is an interesting thing you mentioned (at least for me), so I'll try to speak from experience,and how I usually do character animations,since everyone has their own methods. Anyway, stepped approach for timing and blocking I did when I started doing anims in maya, but very rarely now. For reasons you mentioned, serious chest pain and cold sweat when you switch from step to any other,and so on.. I've seen a lot...

Thanks a lot for your input! Maybe I should try your approach sometime. I just like to key everything at once and keep it one stepped. It's a lot easyer to keep an overview of the keys that's set and in generel just keeps animation simple, I think... It's just the clearning up that's hard I didn't know about the Clamp. It sounds really usefull! Again, thanks a lot. I'll continue to investigate in the amazing area

hi all, just got a commission for a 120 second 3d animation to be shown in cinemas, my 1st journey outside the digital box... my question is which is the correct aspect and resolution to use? done in vue 7.5 xstream with some help from poser, its 90% set-up and nearly ready to render, i just dont wanna waste time and effort by rendering it wrong -here's the settings I'm using: 24 fps 1280x720 (720p) non-interlaced can any of you...

hard to answer exactly. i have found that Ulead GIF Animator works great for general Animated GIF work http://www.ulead.com/ga/ no longer sold by Corel, but i'm pretty sure you can find legit copies at a website like Download.com. Ulead still advertises a 15 day trial version.

Hi everyone, my first animation with cinema4d http://www.vimeo.com/7761013 thanks...

I have just joined the forum and in need of some help. I have rigged my mechanical gears so all I do is rotate GEAR A and GEAR B will do the same. My issue is that I am unable to set key frames and have GEAR A rotate between those frames instead it just sits there. Neither gear moves. I noticed something called FLOAT WIRE in the rotational track that will not allow me to add keyframes. Its a white box on frame 0. Here is something I looked at...