Free LW Video Training: 7+ Hours and growing

[JeffrySG]

We need to make this thread a Sticky thread here in the LW area... just like it is over on the NT forums!

Thx again William!!! :D


ok you got it William:

Intro to Hard Surface Subpatch Modeling videos (http://www.pixelandpoly.com/video.html)
- Creating a subdivision surface / subpatch cube with rounded corners
- Cutting a subdivision / subpatch hole through a cube
- Creating an extruded cube off of the face of a subdivided object
- Create a curved object with rounded corners (done in Silo)

[proton]

You should add your vidz to this thread!

[pensart]

William (we love U) :scream: :thumbsup: :buttrock:

[animatics]

Thank you for this videos. They make everyone happy :D
Well maybe not in the house: 'William, dinner is ready!' 'Just a moment im just finishing to explain how you can animate an elephant with particle system and displacement nodes, honey'!

Your videos are very important to those like me that had someone that shown me LW, and then i had no help to move on, other then.... Help file.... :F

[bearfoot]

many thanks for these vids william


even for a long long time Lightwave user like me it shows i still need to learn so much about lIghtwave.


cheers
Neil

[biliousfrog]

sooo....what am I doing wrong? I can't access the ftp site via the posted links, do I need to use an ftp program to log onto the server or something? I just get a connection reset error. I would like to go through these vids while I have some downtime, is anyone else having problems?


[EDIT]

I've found the problem, it's Windows firewall. Until recently AVG internet security's firewall didn't work with XP x64 so I had it disabled & used Window's instead, AVG seem to have updated the application now so I enabled the firewall, disabled Window's firewall & I can download the files. I wouldn't have been so confused if I didn't get a "server has reset the connection" error which made me think that it was a server-side problem...ah well.

Thanks William, I'll get some learnin' done over Xmas between nut-roasts & whiskey :thumbsup:

[m|3]

:applause::applause::applause::applause: .... Bravo Proton.

[JeffrySG]

sooo....what am I doing wrong? I can't access the ftp site via the posted links, do I need to use an ftp program to log onto the server or something? I just get a connection reset error. I would like to go through these vids while I have some downtime, is anyone else having problems?
You should be able to just right click the links to save the movie files... I've never had any problems or delays in getting the files, but I have heard one or two people have problems. Not sure why...

[Cold-Liquid]

thank you jesus!


THIS IS GREAT!

[rickmorgan]

Like everyone else is saying....THANKS! These tutorials are awesome!

[ranhell]

Nice stuff what made you share these vids with the light wave community just wondering What inspired your drive? For the vids

LW Ruels

[Tama]

Big fist knockin thanks! :thumbsup:

Almost overwhelming but I'm grabbing everyone of these well narrated videos.
William has one of the better voices for this type of presentation.

Excellent work!:applause:

[Larry_g1s]

Extremely much appreciated! :thumbsup:
I haven't had a chance to check them out in detail, but the one's I have...have shown some very cool info. Looking forward to putting them to use.

[chikega]

So is this what you do during the Holiday break from the Dave School? Hehe ... your tutorials are mucho appreciated William! :)

[proton]

So is this what you do during the Holiday break from the Dave School? Hehe ... your tutorials are mucho appreciated William! :)


I dont go on break from Dave school till next week...the school is all year round except for one week at the end of December....


btw- the running time has changed to over 8 hours :)

[proton]

What inspired your drive? For the vids

LW Ruels


So many inspirations...mainly want to show why artists and studios like using LW .

[JeffrySG]

So many inspirations...mainly want to show why artists and studios like using LW .

Mission Accomplished! :applause:

[slipster70]

Awesome resource. Thank you, William.

[[TOY]Snoop]

Many thanks for these video tutorials!
Much appreciated :)

- Peter -

[cresshead]

excellent vids!

[Julez4001]

That carpet video was off the chain!

I actually had a client work I need doing that and use 3DSMax bend modifer and baked it out via Point Oven. It sure could have came in handy about a year back ...SUPER THANKS for all of the work.

[softdistortion]

Just saw your article in HDRI, nice work Proton...you are on fire guy! :wip:

[Julez4001]

He's a Beast!

[proton]

Well...There are now over 10 hours of new training videos for you guys to dive into to over the holidays. I'm off to the next items on my massive “Things I need to accomplish before 2008”. Be on the look out for some new LightWave articles, and more goodies.




Next year expect a whole new batch of training videos and other things I have cooking :)




I have quite the list growing so dont worry about running out of things to cover.




I expect to see lots of cool posts with all these tools and techniques being used....let's see how far we can take this stuff!




Thanx for all the support and have a great Holiday.




Btw- If your in Orlando tomorrow night come out to the Premiere of Ron Thornton's “FireWall” at Universal City Walk Theaters at 7:30.




-William

[biliousfrog]

I've been trying to find this tutorial: http://www.eyelandarts.com/tut/pinarrays.html

I found it ages ago, it shows a different approach to creating a pin animation &, in my opinion, a much simpler one. Obviously it doesn't use nodes but I can't see why you'd need to 99% of the time.

[proton]

I've been trying to find this tutorial: http://www.eyelandarts.com/tut/pinarrays.html

I found it ages ago, it shows a different approach to creating a pin animation &, in my opinion, a much simpler one. Obviously it doesn't use nodes but I can't see why you'd need to 99% of the time.


You dont have as much control with this setup...try this setup with a pin object and you'll see what I mean..
Cool tech tho...I have the NewTekPro where it was first shown!

[biliousfrog]

I haven't had a chance to try either yet but I can see why your setup would offer more control, especially when replicating a real pin object as it actually moves the pins. I just thought that it was a neat way to tackle a similar problem.

Great video's BTW, I've learned much more in a few hours than in years of reading books & magazines.

[Lino Grandi]

William....I simply have no words.

Where do you take the time???

You're a real treasure for the whole Lightwave community, thank you.

[akademus]

Hey thanks,
these are great!
Mods please make this sticky...

[JeffrySG]

Hey thanks,
these are great!
Mods please make this sticky...

Yes, this needs to be a sticky and let's change the title to 10+ Hours.....

This is too valuble to have it get pushed down off the fist page......

[animatics]

Yup! altough in new tek's forum it is a sticky :P

http://www.newtek.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=28

[Kid-Mesh]

Who else but Proton :twisted:

Awesome resource and much appreciated.

[m|3]

Just bumping this thread back up. It's too good to be this far down.

* Bump *

[biliousfrog]

Look at the LW training section at the top:rolleyes:

[m|3]

Look at the LW training section at the top:rolleyes:


Sweet... I had not noticed that. Thanks.

[proton]

Complete list is here:
http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77002

I update it daily with new videos

[ben704]

Hey Proton love your tutorials man!!! just wondering if theres any possibility you could make a brain wrinkles tutorials as I am currently going insane trying to make a human brain. There is one tutorial floating around on the internet but it dosnt go into enough detail for me to follow. Anyway, I would be forever in your favor and include you in my oscar speech cheers man.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Proton this is great work...

One suggestion( If you have not done so already), have you considered uploading your training videos to YouTube?
-R

[proton]

I think it's a great idea but I dont havethe time to upload 191 videos of more then 24 hours to youtube :(

Someone that has time is more then welcome to do so

[Lewis3D]

Just to say THANKS to proton for such a great resources. That should be delivered with every new LW on DVD to help new users.

[pva]

I've learnt a lot of tips seeig this videos, keep the hard work! :D

[phamarus]

First...
Proton should be awarded LW hero of the month? year.
Outstanding clarity in how he talks and goes through the introduction videos, so easy to follow
and it´s very pleasent to hear his voice that instructs in a very continuos flow.

Second, perhaps all those videos could be in the list together with the other videos from newtek, I don´t think they are?

and last...Im not really so fond of the looks at the Newtek tutorial section, when they did
a make over and divided it in to frames that I have to scroll through, I just don´t get a
good oversight over the tutorials, I prefered it the old way.
Nothing wrong with the tutorials thou.

Phamarus

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