BATTERIES INCLUDED: Motion 5 3D Robot Models To Interact With In Footage (FCP Plugins too).

That's super cool. Pay it forward.

Why not

Great work Norbz

Thanks guys,

Trying to send all five of you the bots - and I can't seem to PM! Last test was sent to Karsten that shows in my sent items box, and as of then, I can only get this far in trying to PM you guys:




?? Cleared cache, tried different browsers, the button is not responsive and when it is the panel collapses with no note - so I think it went through, but then check SENT items and it didn't.

Can someone try to test PM me pls?

Sent you a test PM and it indicated it went thru.

Sent you a test PM too.

Just sent you a PM too.

Ok everyone has gotten theirs, seems including a link breaks PM's for your session...

Will leave room for 2 more late comers for a free copy (just post a reply or PM me), and that should do it for this.

I'm also in the middle of a music video for one of my tracks and guess who's making a cameo appearance on it now . Will post it here once complete.

Yes the show is worth much more than the ticket price. I see that at the end you have opted for the generator solution ( the most flexible and logic by far). Two small notes in the sea of wow: Center the axis of rotation of the propellers, and place the pupils (I would put some stained glass) inside the first robot orbits. Then in confidence, but how did you sleep these days? I think you would not have ever made it. Take care of you Pielle

Oh wow! Been off to Italy for some nice days of shooting in beautiful Milano. But being back in Berlin and finding this on the forum is even more beautiful. So nice and well done!

I Want It! I Need It! Pleeeeeaaaaaase!

It looks like you have been working hard on your project. Congrats.

Norb,

You made the front page!

www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1793-b...-for-final-cut-pro-x

WOW!

Thank you . Kinda speechless, this is the last thing I expected haha! Thank you thank you thank you for dropping links to my site and all - very cool and I feel very flattered.

Due to this cool highlight of my day I'm going to give out 5 more copies below this and then that will be it.

This really motivated me to keep building

Thank you again!.

You are welcome - keep up the good work!

I have to agree with everyone else, totally cool. Lot of work. Lots of elements converted and rigged.
Don't think anyone mentioned how cute the robots are. Totally cute, think I'm in Love :lol:
So were you able to cut down on the processing loads? Have you analyzed the CPU and GPU loads? Be very curious how much is shifted to GPUs. Be interesting to see how different GPUs affect rendering speeds.

Nice work. Shows what is possible just using Motion and lots of determination.
Thanks, Greg

I'd like to see someone start selling "building block sets" for Motion. Basically, font sets, each font set are just a collection of shapes that one can fit together for specific categories of complex shapes. Like puzzle pieces that come together. And each set would come with a few Motion project templates, with some complex items already made from that set.

That would be really interesting.

I guess I spent way too much time with Legos, Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets, and jigsaw puzzles as a kid.

BenB wrote: I'd like to see someone start selling "building block sets" for Motion. Basically, font sets, each font set are just a collection of shapes that one can fit together for specific categories ....

sorry to say, Ben, beat you by 3 days with that idea ...
www.fcp.co/forum/6-motion-5/25204-stumpe...king-the-scene#75162

@ Greg: Thank you for the feedback and comments .

I haven't really gone into actual CPU/GPU loads via numbers but yes I've kind of found a reasonable balance of not overdoing it on the model where it's just too big to work with for animation.

Have a few extremely complex models I'm working on that I know will not be good for end users for animation but WILL be good for single frame renders or quick 2-5second renders. So I'm still playing with limits but the robots here are pretty close to being 'too much' already.

Once you add too many lights/shadows/reflections/materials the CPU starts to go quick. I had to drop MotionBlur, DOF, and a few lights before doing the final set of bots.

This is why I did the proxy versions, it's a shame we can't animate the proxy versions and then 'replaceFromStart' or 'copy/paste effects' including all rig controls but that was the thinking - maybe in a future update we will see the ability to copy/paste presets and keyframes and if we do that will open up a big limitation so ppl can animate with proxies, and replace with hi-res just to render.

@ Ben: Thanks for chiming in - yeah the sword guy in the other thread, and Pielle, and a few others are doing some great things with custom font shapes, and I dabbled in it a bit too but I think what's stopping ppl from releasing shape sets is they are both time consuming and we might see a Motion update in the near where we can extrude/3D any shape or outline which will make everyones custom stuff obselete quick (I think if/when this happens, we will see a big boost in 'shape libraries' pop up quick like traditional 3D software has).

@ Karsten: Great minds think alike, but who knows maybe this isn't as niche as we thought, the fact that we can rig and export to FCP is something that I think will attract more and more 3D artists to Motion over time, hopefully forcing them to open up the tubes and options more.

Sending you guys a copy of the bots btw .

EDIT: Also thanks to those that posted in the facebook comments under the front page story.. I'm not on FB so apologies that I can't respond or thank ppl there but I do appreciate the feedback and seeing ppl's thoughts on all this.

I purchased Batteries Included on 5/31/16 and I have yet to receive a download link to this plugin ...wish admin can help here

Terribly sorry for my bad communication on this, juggling too much at the moment trying to do a web series. I just responded to your PM and will give you some of my other stuff to say sorry for the wait and hiccup. Check your spam/junk as you got an email after purchase and a members area was created for you with a download section of anything you grabbed..

Sorry to bump this, and hope everyone is doing great! I've had to stay offline to stay productive I wish there was three of me.

N.