NovaCeres

Greetings animators!
 
Five years ago on this day I unveiled the first Beta version of Mine-imator to the public, hyped up by the popularity of @Frossa's semi-viral TF2 "Meet the Team" remakes in Minecraft. Despite the program being crude and severely lacking in features and graphical effects, pumped fans jumped head first into it and started making content, and the creation of these forums shortly followed to allow everyone to share their work. I would have never imagined that five years later, people of all ages would still be using Mine-imator to make awesome animations and art. In fact, judging from the number of daily downloads, Mine-imator is more popular than ever, and has started to be used professionally to make graphic novels and to teach animation in tech camps in the US, which of course wouldn't be possible without your continued support!

Now I must admit that, while functional, the program has failed to keep up with the never ending stream of new Minecraft content, and there are still serious issues halting the creative process for some users, occasionally leading to projects getting corrupted and hours of work being forever lost, which sucks. Hard. Therefore, I have decided to take some time off from other projects to deal with these problems before passing over the development torch to someone else. However, since I now also have a full-time job alongside personal projects, progress will take longer than usual, so bear with me!

I'm now announcing that after a 1½ year long wait, a new Mine-imator update is in the works that will be publicly released within the next month or so, first as a pre-release before fully replacing the now outdated version. I can say right now that it will not contain any crazy new rendering effects or animation features, but rather focus on stability and keeping the program up-to-date with all previous and future Minecraft versions, which are the two current main issues with the program.

"But, wait...", I hear you think (yes, mind reading is a neat little perk of being a developer), "...future Minecraft versions? How will that work?". Just read on...

To start off, the update will bring some fundamental changes behind the scenes regarding how character models, blocks, items and schematics are loaded into the program. Without going in too far into the technical details, a big flaw of the current Mine-imator is that everything is stored inside the program executable (hard-coded), which makes it a significant effort trying to keep it up-to-date with all the new mobs and blocks being added into Minecraft at an ever increasing pace. However, in the next update, all the assets will be located in an external archive, along with a specification file that defines what it contains and how it's used.

Along with this, the file handling will be given a make-over, to address some of the crashes and corrupted files people have been having. The program's engine will also utilize a newer DirectX version that could increase the rendering performance for some users.

Among other goodies, this is what you can expect in the update:
More stable project/rig loading Blocks and characters being loaded from external JSON files (that may be customized if desired) System for auto-downloading new Minecraft models and textures Some minor graphics-related features New settings for character models and block variations I have been collaborating with @Nimi, the current undefeated champion of Mine-imator modding, and he has decided to discontinue his "Community Edition" mod in favor of me letting him take over the development of future Mine-imator versions. As an extra bonus, Nimi has been working on a long-requested feature to go along with this update. Exciting, right!? More will be revealed soon... 

So basically, a pre-release of a shiny new Mine-imator update will be available for download on the forums within the coming month. I'd appreciate if you could try it out with your new and old projects (just be sure to save some backups if you value them!) so I can iron out the biggest bugs before making it official!

Until then, keep calm and animate on!

this is another rig that i made, hope you like it:http://www.mediafire.com/file/2kt3ec1f62gozzo/robot+arm.zip

I decided to try my hand at rigging after watching this video. Enjoy.
Here's my rig for this.
http://imgur.com/a/6jq6P
Download Rig:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/g8e6ddv3kn4b2qh/Palindel.object

Hi friends.
So, how to flip?
Well, you select your LEGS and your BODY on your rig.
Then, you open up POSITION to the right.
You click the number, and type -16.
There! Now the rotation point for your hooman is in his chest!
Flip away my friends!

So, are you looking for a gun, right?
But not heavy as a Gatling Gun
Not shaky as AK-47
So I got wat-cha need! Colt Anaconda!!!
I made it with the mix of Items, Cubes and Body Part!
And the most important, Download:
Download Here

Thanks! That horse person is my OC

Howdy all
This is my third test render
Criticism is welcome and appreciated


Credits
Keipocu for the schematic lighting
Keipocu for the mulitcolor lights
Minecraft textures by Mojang

Program(s) used
Mine - Imator Community Build 1.0.2 by Nimi
Paint.NET (mainly for the black borders)

I made another wallpaper. Snow.
Also, I can render in 2K again??!! What? I don't understand.
Anyways. 
Enjoy...
Unedited:
Edited:
 

Hello everyone Shadowunicorn_gaming here
and I Updated my gallop cycle
Enjoy
Download

Thanks, sorry for the late response

Ok thanks 

That looks really good!

Well yah!
Pics:

 

IT GLOOOOOWS!

Its a glowing knife!

The fins glow to!?!


Simple Diving Mask. Parent to normal sized player head to fix scaling and add lighting.
Includes:
+Basic Subnautica Inspired Diving Suit
+Subnautica Survival Knife with Reflective Blade
+Lots of lights on the glowing areas
+Mask and Fins
+Lots of Lag!
Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3i2c9pttsob6o93/Subnautica_Diving_Suit.mproj
Now, Go make a scuba diving animation!

Um so I decided to make a rig yeah. idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Image:  https://gyazo.com/43b38fddee2c730c2f825cefbedcb74f
 
Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1fuzrq43fdym5y/Goku Black SSJR Rig 4 MI.zip?dl=0

They couldn't even afford a real toilet. They just painted one on the wall. So sad ;-;

the character in the front is called shadow, now, before all the edge comments roll out, there is a reason for his dark clothing. shadow's true form is a black cat that wears a fedora/hat. blank is monitoring shadow to keep a eye out for the Dementophobia sickness. now, if i showed what this is i would get so many edgy ,and cliche comments.

So I worked on this back in December 2015, and kind of gave up. Here's what I had.
Rigs:
@KicksBrickster's:
The Minester's Rift Armor Rig
KicksBrickster's Rift Armor Rig
TheGoldenAnimation's Rift Armor Rig
Heavanira's Rift Armor Rig (No download, shared in private Skype)
@Caeden117's Rift Armor Template
My own Rift Armor Rig
Wow that was a lot to type

I managed to make this one without photoshop AT ALL.

this is the thumbnail for broken mercy, a aniamtion based on a shadow puppet and a corrupted shadow puppet known as a blood puppet. here is the thumbnail ^-^ also a black and white version with a very old version from when i first jonied the forums  
 

Hope you like it!
Rig Ender dragon and Rig Knight made by @ky_09095
Map : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=958ZHrMiMuQ
Texture Pack : Chroma Hill
 

So I might make (after AWOL) a series called DragonHunt. The basic plotline can be described in these images:
 


What do you guys think?

So I might make (after AWOL) a series called DragonHunt. The basic plotline can be described in these images:
 


What do you guys think?

Another Rig made by me, One I just absoloutely had to do... Pac-Man from Pixels!!
Now, To start out with, This isn't a Big, Does everything rig. It has 2 joints, one for the upper jaw, one for the lower jaw. Simple to use... It has some lights floating around it, causing it to glow as well. Allright, enough chat. One to some images!
Not bad, Eh? The stats are just the usual, I might release it if I get enough people that want it, more rigs on the way, blah blah blah,  If you want to suggest a rig, let me know!