Wow, I’d love to see the scene animated 
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I didn’t even finish my Pyramid yet. I think, animation will not come soon…
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You can skip pyramid …
Or just do it, because some aspects of blender are explained.
but then it will be a breeze to follow it.
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O _ O! this is so epic!! I love it! hahaha
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Great stuff everyone!
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It’s a bit later in the course, yes.
Now I’m wondering, are the characters modelled in pose then, without an armature?
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Sorry, I don’t know what is armature. I did not study it yet… I just used cubes and changed them. Didn’t you do the same with your dancers?
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An armature is a group of bones that are linked to the object mesh and deform it in a controlled way to pose and animate it.
Here is one of my characters from last week in her default position, with armature visible:
And here she is posed for the final image (some of the bones in the armature have custom shapes, so they change appearance between the images):
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Yep, I did apply every transform that I made prior to posing. What I mean is I rigged Corey Talor first, with an amazing lead singer pose, then, when I started to rig Chris Fehn With a great percusionnist pose, Corey Taylor was back to his original lifeless pose, wich is quite annoying! I made a few test yesterday, I first taught that as I use the same body for all the nine band members, I might had linked duplicated them with their rigs, witch could explained why they are affected by changes made to an other model, so I made a non linked copy of every model, rig them with new rigs and… Same problem… damn it! I might try to copy them in separate blender files, rig them there and abend them to the scene. Lot of time wasted anyway, I would have liked to spend all this time modeling the scene!
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great movie, good call to bring it back!
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Armature is hell! Stay away from it for as long as you can! Your free time will fade into inexistance if you try to do something with it! Trust me, armature just want to break you into sadness!
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Here’s the final rendering of my guitar; adding all the details I wanted would require at least two more days, so this will have to do.
Working with many reference images and trying to replicate the various shapes has been fun but also rather tiring
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You also could unparent (alt +p , keep transform) them when you are happy with their Pose and Pose the next character.
But if you don’t mind, you can upload your file and I’ll look into it after I am back from work, but that might be after the deadline.
ohhhh really? Didn’t knew about the unparenting, I’ll try that tonight and I’ll let you know how it went! Thanks for the tip!
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Ok, all entries have been submitted, now it’s time to vote!
There’s only one rule: don’t vote for yourself 
Aside from that rule, you can choose the parameter to judge the entries, some possibilities:
- best embodies the theme
- most colorful
- funny
- technically advanced
- realistic
If I haven’t made any mistake the poll will close on 2020-05-22T13:00:00Z
- FedPete
- Ethan_Martinez
- Tyger2
- KStarr
- Marcello
- Manu_Scheller
- NP5
- Blest
- albesca
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oh no! I was just about to submit my entry! Is it still time?
Here goes!
I’m sorry, I was really busy and tried to work on it when I had time… 
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It’s fine for me 
Anybody knows if I can update the poll on the fly or would it blow up?
I was thinking it probably would be a great idea to make these weekly challenge monthly challenge instead, it would give more time for beginners to make better models and learn more in the process. Maybe we should set up a pool to check what is the community opinion regarding this. Even for more advanced 3D artists, that could let them time to unleash their full potential without compromising other project of their own.
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Monthly would be too long, fortnightly possibly. Even if a new one was still started every week, they could be overlapping, during voting delay there is then another one to be playing with, but each gets longer to do, fit in, in total.