Please read this section first, before sending emails to me.
Please read this section first, before sending emails to me.
Q: I downloaded one of your movies, but
it stops playing after 6 seconds, what is wrong with the movie? A: Your DivX codec is too old. If you have installed
something like DivX 5.0.x you are unable to play any DivX content created with a newer version
of the codec. Its strange that you did not encounter such a problem before. However its usually
rather easy to fix. Go to www.divx.com and download the most recent version of the codec, and install it.
No you do not need the pro version. Go for the free one without spyware.
Q: I downloaded one of your movies, but
it won't play. What can I do? A: Well first of all, you will need to find
a way to unpack the zip archives.
http://www.zipgenius.it/ (freeware) Q: I unpacked the Zip archive but the
animation still won't play. www.divx.com Q: The animation plays generally but it
is rather choppy. Q: Why don't you use the XYZ Animation
format. A: Because. I have been looking for an
animation Format that is supported by a wide Q: I can't download this huge animation
file. The download always stops after a while. FlashGet (www.amazesoft.com)
(the one I use myself) Q: I want your Object and Scene files.
Where can I get them?
or
Q: How do I play a Zip file?
The zipfiles contain an avi file that will usually be playable by whatever you
use to usually play movies.
There are several tools that will unpack the file for you listed here:
http://www.winzip.com/ (popular)
http://www.ghisler.com/ (file manager)
I am from the windows world btw, so sue me. But I am sure there are programs for
mac and linux that would do the same thing. If you want to send me links
to programs doing the according, I will gladly post them here.
A: Well you propably need the DivX codec to play the animation.
(Unless its one of the few Mpeg animations.)
The DivX Codec can be obtained here:
Just make sure that you only need the "DivX" version NOT "DivX Pro" you will
NOT need adware to play the animations.
Once installed, the animations should play fine, unless there is
something wrong with your computer.
A: Well I am afraid there is nothing I can do for you.
DivX needs a lot of performance,
so your computer might be too slow to play the file.
If the Low Quality version plays choppy for you,
it might still be possible that the High Quality version
will play better, but that will only rarely be the case.
range of system plattforms. Formerly that was Mpg. Then I started using Mpeg4,
people gave me
hell for not using DivX3, although they wanted me to. Well at that time that was
an illegal codec.
I sure hope people will be happy with me using divX 5 now. And no I can't
support every
codec that is out there, but DivX 5 can be played by Windows, Linux, and the Mac
world, so
it should not be such a bad choice. And no, quicktime or real I am not going to
use.
A: Well you should have expirienced that with huge downloads elsewhere, too. But
the only thing you can do
is getting a download manager. The download might still stop after a while, but
the download manager
can and will automatically resume from there. Good download managers are:
Gozilla (www.gozilla.com) (The one with the
herpy name)
getright (www.getright.com) (The most
popular I know of)
Q: I want you to make an animation of my character. Where can I contact you?
A: Sorry, but I do not take requests anymore. And you should be
glad I do not. In the past I accepted a lot of requests, but I was
only able to complete a fracture of the animations I promised. Nowerdays
I have even less time for animation so even if you would get me to promise
animating anything for you, I would propably not do it anyway.
So please, just don't ask.
A: Nowhere. Sorry, but you won't get them. Asking this is pretty much like
asking
a pencil artist to create stencils for you, so you can create pictures that look
just like his, only with your name under it. Posing characters is the fun
part about animation, so if you want to do something along these lines,
I would recommend getting Poser, which will let you do just that. Besides
a lot of the objects I created are based on characters actually played by people.
How would you feel if I gave away something that would enable someone to
create movies of you doing whatever he feels like?
Q: I want you to teach me animation. Do you have time on Friday?
A: No. This is nothing personal, but No. I seriously hardly have time
and resources to animate myself, and to teach myself new things,
so I definately don't have the resources to teach you. Animating is a complex
field, I can't snap a claw, and then you know everything about it. I would
seriously recommend buying a book about the software you plan to use
instead. That will be much more helpful than I could possibly be. Then there
are tutorials which helped me alot when I was learning it. Good places
to look for tutorials are listet in the links section.
Otherwise if you have a specific question you are trying to figure out I will
try to answer it as good as I can, but you have to realize, that you propably
know more about 3d animation than me.