What do you do with LW 3D?

[uncon]

Visualizations and forensics

[RobertoOrtiz]

3d animation, web graphics and poster work.


-R

[Cman]

3d animation, web graphics and poster work.


-R

What do you mean by "3d animation"?

Do you refer to animation for television spots?

[sasa]

illustrations for magazines [print]

[RobertoOrtiz]

What do you mean by "3d animation"?

Do you refer to animation for television spots?

Goverment work and Indie movies.

-R

[pooby]

Commercials for TV and Cinema

[Nemoid]

This !! www.shapeshifters.it (http://www.shapeshifters.it) :)

[Zarathustra]

Anything anybody will pay me to do :hmm:

[bobakabob]

Models for software, product demos and illustration + teaching in media production.

[otacon]

Architectural visualization.

[pixym]

Architectural Visualization

[MITrAndir]

Giving a real shape of my imagination.

[Cman]

Yes I'm fishing, looking for something different or unusual for which a person might get employed - something I didn't think of - so thanks for the responses! :)

[Fasty]

TV Commercials, Illustration, Architectural Visualisation

[kevman3d]

Mostly TV commercials, some film commercials, A short film, 3D assets (for simulation software (ie. like game characters)), Print jobs, Product visualisation, animations of processes (for putting into Powerpoint slideshows (gets rid of those nasty clip art things!)), Training (Its a great tool for teaching 3D), some web imagery (not much, but when I need something) and some script and plugin development (for fun).

[SplineGod]

TV, Film, Video Games, Medical Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Training, pretty pictures... :)

[PetterSundnes]

Models and scenes for Interactive 3D, and doodling in general for the fun of it.

[fozz]

Games, and for creating stuff to hang on my walls.

[BladeFX]

architectural visualisation & websites

[Brian3D]

Ok, first I use LW to visualize my dreams of anime mecha! :-)

Second here is a general run down. Most said already buy other folks here.
1. TV
a. Logos
b. Titles
c. FX
d. CGI models and characters
e. Pre-Visualization
f. virtual sets

2. Film
a. Logos
b. Titles
c. FX
d. CGI models and characters
e. Pre-Visualization
f. virtual sets

3. Video Games

4. Medical Visualization

5. Scientific Visualization

6. Training

7. pretty pictures

8. Architectural visualisation

9. Websites

10 Crime scene recreation

11. Illustrations

12. Just for fun!

Well thats all I can add from what folks here have said, plus a few of my own.

[[TOY]Snoop]

Hi,

I use lightwave to make my own short movie in my spare time (Peterbilt in my sig is a prop for the movie).
Last year I made some landscapes for a game in LW, it contained more then 80 kilometers of roads! It ran at 60 or more fps in the game engine, which is very good I think :)

LW can do almost everything I ever wanted it to do :)

- Peter -

[Mike RB]

Spaceship pilot

[monovich]

Motion Graphics, 3d animation, and a few stabs at personal art projects.

-sf

[policarpo]

Not so much anymore.

[Lewis3D]

Not so much anymore.

AFAIK Question was "WHAT" and not "How much" :P :).

[policarpo]

AFAIK Question was "WHAT" and not "How much" :P :).

What do you do with LW 3D? was the question. (http://showthread.php?p=1961359#post1961359)

Not so much anymore was my answer. It's what i do with LW these days...I don't use it that much these days. It's used, but not much. Maybe that will change in the future so i can get back to using it for what I used it for originally...but until that day materializes I have to do what I do with what I do it in. :)

Seems perfectly valid to me to answer in such a manner.

Are we arguing semantics here? Not sure of your comment...but I guess Mr Barthes or Mr Eco would be proud. :)

[Lewis3D]

Policarpo - you difinately KNOW what was been asked here and you sure can understand that you didn't gave answer to that. You've trying to be funny and say/inform us that you use other 3D software (that's only what i can see in your sarcastic answer). So I still stand - that wasn't been question but if is make you happy then let it be :).

[policarpo]

Policarpo - you difinately KNOW what was been asked here and you sure can understand that you didn't gave answer to that. You've trying to be funny and say/inform us that you use other 3D software (that's only what i can see in your sarcastic answer). So I still stand - that wasn't been question but if is make you have then let it be :).

Um...i don't understand this sentence at all. It's very fragmented and grammatically it's a mess. You might want to edit it for clarity purposes. Since we're on the subject of semantics ya know.
:beer:

Cheers.

Oh, I guess to be fair. I do use LightWave to convert .OBJ and .3DS files to .LWO so I can open them in modo with endomorphs.

[Ramon]

Come on guys, lighten up, be happy. :)

[ThE_JacO]

Um...i don't understand this sentence at all. It's very fragmented and grammatically it's a mess. You might want to edit it for clarity purposes. Since we're on the subject of semantics ya know.
:beer:

Cheers.

Oh, I guess to be fair. I do use LightWave to convert .OBJ and .3DS files to .LWO so I can open them in modo with endomorphs.

please to nnot -~=TROLL=~- the LW forum and to pick on pepol's grammer.
kthnx frend.

[little5points]

I do infographics for a newspaper
http://www.newspagedesigner.com/users/2923/tower.jpg

[Zarathustra]

You know, if you didn't make a point of questioning Policarpo, his comment would have just gone by and that would be the end of it. I think some are more itching for fights or controversy then the ones who get the grief for that in the first place.

Policarpo: Did you have a pint or 2 at lunch today? :D

[duderender]

I used to use LW for engineering viz but it grew weak for it. I used to use LW cuz the community seemed to be professional, but as shown in here I question that.

what's up now with Policarpo showing up banned? why is everyone so antsy when it comes to questioning the use of LW? Someone says "not so much" (a very valid answer) and then gets called a TROLL and then gets banned??

[Zarathustra]

Are you kidding me? Policarpo is banned now? What, for his comments in this thread? Come on now. That's just silly.

I hope there's more to it then answering the thread's question and being a bit disgruntled with another user's grammar.

Geez. :hmm:

[duderender]

True.. true... and.. true....and I've no idea.

[duderender]

please to nnot -~=TROLL=~- the LW forum and to pick on pepol's grammer.
kthnx frend.

I dunno JacO, one could surmise you're making a mockery of Lewis' grammar as well with a sentence spelling like that.

[leigh]

Guys, please keep this thread on topic.

Any more off-topic posts will be removed. Thanks for co-operating!

[policarpo]

Guys, please keep this thread on topic.

Any more off-topic posts will be removed. Thanks for co-operating!

Thanks CGTalk crew and sorry for any confusion it caused.

Keep up the good work guys and gals! :love:

CU Round the corner. :thumbsup:

BTW: great piece little5points...just gorgeous! :applause:

[NanoGator]

Right now I'm writing a plugin for LW. Mostly, though, I'm a modeler. Currently working on an animated movie. Before that, I was a graphics dude at a software company where I mainly did demos of the software we did.

[thx1138]

Right now I'm using LW to get in Expose 3. And time is running out.

The rest of the time, I'm just playing around as a Hobby'ist/Freelancer. But plans for a CG-short are in the making.

[vonbon]

I use it for many things. I used to make slot machine games for a small company. I rarely do everything in 1 program unless its photoshop.

This might sound crazy but i heard about that nano technology stuff, where they can make atoms in the shap of gears or somthn like that. So! I was thinking that when they get a grasp of that stuff, It'll probly be people like us that will create stuff from scatch from the atoms that exist in the atmosphere/Darkmatter using little nano machines connected to the 3d interface which will build a 3d mesh/cage in actual space. Imagine sitting at a desk and Creating somthn in 3d in your favorite 3d program(LW):D and in the next room it'll actully be being created in realtime in a Zero gravity room. BAM! I cant wait for the future.

We'll probly be creating missing limbs and recreating organs in realtime inside patients using nano technology. they probly got a mad scientist lab up in space, zero gravity is the key i think. Of course they'll probly make us take another 8yrs of schooln to be certified.

hehe, how many sites you been banned from Poli :buttrock:

[3dSnail]

Can you actually animate charactors in LightWave? I have only seen a few good examples, and they were robots. Organic objects seem difficult to constuct in Lightwave. Maybe I'm wrong

[Zarathustra]

What's a "charactor"?

By "construct", do you mean model?

[policarpo]

Can you actually animate charactors in LightWave? I have only seen a few good examples, and they were robots. Organic objects seem difficult to constuct in Lightwave. Maybe I'm wrong

LightWave is quite capable and versatile. You just have to have the mojo to handle it. :)

[Sil3]

Can you actually animate charactors in LightWave? I have only seen a few good examples, and they were robots. Organic objects seem difficult to constuct in Lightwave. Maybe I'm wrong

This is a perfect example that LW is a capable C.A. tool, may not be the best but it can do it in the proper hands:

http://www.movinghousefilms.com/html/images.htm


and there are more, just do a search :)


edit: ups i forgot http://www.kazeghostwarrior.com/

[DonAVP]

I am using LW in the Combat Simulation area.

[SplineGod]

Can you actually animate charactors in LightWave? I have only seen a few good examples, and they were robots. Organic objects seem difficult to constuct in Lightwave. Maybe I'm wrong

You just have to look in the right places. Organic modeling is pretty easy in LW. Character animation has been done in LW for years. Heres an example of something organic that had to move in a somewhat realistic way:
http://www.3dtrainingonline.com/anims/bullfrogshots.avi

[duderender]

not bad... if you watch closely though it would appear the frog suffers a little of floating feet syndrome, where they aren't quite anchored when they should be.

[SplineGod]

In this shot yes. Its comped onto a background plate by someone else and had to be done for left and right eye because this was a stereo 3D film. Unfortunately I couldnt get ahold of the final version which was rock solid. This is part of several shots from an Imax film. At that size it has to be very solid. :)

[Zarathustra]

I'd like to see the final, but the frog looks pretty good. He's a relatively dry looking frog, but otherwise pretty good.

[SplineGod]

I'd like to see the final, but the frog looks pretty good. He's a relatively dry looking frog, but otherwise pretty good.

Thanks Dave! :) Id love to have the final. Sometimes getting shots is not always easy for a variety of reasons. I had made him look wetter but as with all things what you end up doing is what the guy paying you wants. The nice thing was that I was able to model, texture, rig, animate, light and match move the shots on my own. Getting things to match up for each eye was a challenge especially at Imax rez. Since it was a 3D film they wanted to exaggerate the tongue whipping out and the frog spitting the water to take advantage of the medium. :)

[Newnew]

Architectural Visualization and more

[Necron-99]

Television titles, commercials, corporate presentations, and pet projects

[philou]

tv commercials, archi work, scientific visualization, print

[grafikdon]

Illustration and animation

[|Malc|]

animated 3D movies i supose =/

[Zarathustra]

Nobody could top your first, unedited post.

[-LPS-]

Game content, normal mapped characters etc! + film work

[twidup]

well for me, Lightwave is currently a paperweight on my desk.
oh, and a data processing tool

[angus1965]

well for me, Lightwave is currently a paperweight on my desk.
oh, and a data processing tool

<whistle sound>
!!PLOP!!

[bobakabob]

Twidup, that's rather sad. If you're feeling philanthropic, you could donate your paperweight to an impoverished artist who could make a kickass animation with it.

[Zarathustra]

If you took a moment to look at the guy, you'd see he has both LW and Maya.
So he's currently not using his LW. So what?
I haven't used G2 in quite some time. Does that mean I should give it away? Yeah, right.

Stop with the provincial mentality. Lots of apps out there to use. No rule says you can only use one.

[PaZ]

Mostly visualization (architecture, design, creative).
After this scientific viz, commercial, small videoclips and a personal projects for a short movie.

Paolo Zambrini

[Locutus]

Just teaching with it at the moment.
I've switched back to 3dsmax for everything else for the time being.

[leigh]

What do you do with LW 3D?

I open it up every day and complain about it.

:D

[grafikdon]

I open it up every day and complain about it.

:D


:) hehehe...been doing that lately. Fortunately my desk is made of steel so I wouldn't dare bash my head on it...that's a perfect deterent.

[Nemoid]

I open it up every day and complain about it.

:D

ROFLMAO ! then keep on using XSI. it has all you need indeed.

[Lique]

use it for character animation. I have a habbit pressing 's' every 30 secs... just to be save :p and especially before pressing ctrl + F1 to open scene editor...

[Zarathustra]

I open it up every day and complain about it.
I can't help but thing of Brooks' History of the World Part I and the repeated line, "it's good to be the king".
Nice to have the power to say what you feel. You go, girl.
Kudos, from one fiery redhead to another :thumbsup:

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