Originally by: Dubious Drewski

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I was thinking about that. It's a load of work, but if I offered to create a <10 second animation of anyone's avatar doing anything at all for 100mill isk, would anyone be willing to do it?

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Originally by: Mattikus

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Hell yeah most definately! 100 mil...hmm...would you go for 50-75?

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Originally by: Jenny Zeke

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Might I ask how you aligned the textures as accurately as you did?

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Originally by: "Dubious Drewski"

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Originally by: "Greme"

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Hahah, that is so damned surreal. Genius I tells you. I don't suppose you'd mind divulging the secrets of how to do something such as that (assuming you used 3dsmax)? :)

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No secrets. I explained it in the OP. First I map my portrait to a mesh plane, then refine the mesh (With "preserve UVs" enabled) then once I have my portrait in 3D, I lock UVs to the mesh, create copies of the mesh, morph each mesh into the expression I want, add a morph modifier to the original and add each morph target. Then I animate! Simple.

It was the Crow that was hard! To get the warp scramble effect, I had to modify torus's(which had a blue, translucent fall-off material) to travel along a spline (out-of-range-type was set to cycle in the curve editor) which had its pivot point anchored at one end to the crow and the rotation controlled by a lookat constraint which was pointing at a dummy node embedded right under the Avatar's nose. Not so simple!

And I still don't have a career.

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