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jjburton
08-01-2003, 07:00 AM
Things are moving a long swimmingly...:) Texturing is done, modelling (main character) is done. Successfully got test animation from Maya to LW for rendering and sasquatching (time permitting). Just chugging away. Anyway, here's Tiko rendered...

http://www.jjburtonstudios.com/media/images/work/images/MuchAdo/tikopose1.jpg

Hope to have some showable animation tests next week.

Workflow because of splineIK needs is as follows:

LW (model, texture, uv)->maya (rig, animate)->LW (particles, rendering, fun)

....gave me a new avatar as well:D
wok
08-01-2003, 08:18 AM
Love your character he looks great:applause: , but i'm interested is what you mean by spline ik??? I dont know much about Maya, but your character doesnt look like it would be that hard to rig in LW??? Anyway good work, and i cant wait to see a few animation tests!!
Shade01
08-01-2003, 08:50 AM
How'd you get the animation from Maya to Lightwave?
jjburton
08-01-2003, 01:17 PM
Wok- Thanks:)...if you want to read about my attempts to rig in LW, simply to a search in the lw forum for Tiko, and that will answer all your questions. SplineIK is an IK solve rthat uses a spline as a a solver. The bones just run along it.

Shade- Much determination and frustration...:) Settled on this technique (http://www.lunaseven.com/tut01.html) .
aurora
08-01-2003, 03:19 PM
Wow, thanks for the tut link. Thats a little, you know like the universe is little, easier then how I tried to do it. However because of the pain and misery of moving animation back and forth between Maya and LW I finally just fight it in LW. Can't wait for LW8!
rnb2
08-02-2003, 02:56 AM
Great looking character - very unique with lots of personality. Definitely looking forward to seeing the animation!
jjburton
08-04-2003, 07:58 AM
Quick test render and color test to see how I wanna treat the background.

http://www.jjburtonstudios.com/media/images/work/images/MuchAdo/Tiko_Set_Test2.jpg
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