some questions to the lightwave users

[hvanderwegen]

I use Lightwave, Blender and Cinema4D. Blender has arguably the 'best' rigging and animation tools of the three, Lightwave is a 'better' renderer, and Cinema4D offers the 'best' motion graphics animation and model painting tools. But Lightwave has been used a lot for character animation as well. Blender is often used by Lightwave users as a sort of character animation 'plugin' via mmd (pointoven). And scripting is best in Blender (python) of the three.

Really, it all depends on your own preferences and stuff. Look at this:
http://softdistortion.com/vidjournal/
Lightwave for rendering, Blender for character animation, texturing and uv mapping, Max for modelling.

The industry seems to go for Maya when they are talking about rigging and char animation.

Short answer: yes, Lightwave has good, though not brilliant, character rigging tools. That's why Messiah:Animate came into being. Perhaps you should have look at that one, if rigging is important:
http://www.projectmessiah.com/
Or have a look at Blender (least expensive option).

[colkai]

In a nutshell, not at present.
For rigging and C.A., whilst it can be done in LW, I'd say look at other package such as XSI, especially if you've not already bought a package. Or if money is an issue, as hvanderwegen says, look at Blender.

[Skamierski]

i really appreciate your both posts, thank you

i think its gonna be a mix between blender lightwave and fprime :)

xsi is too expensive for my budget

thanks n cheers

[DSW]

In addition, there are LOADS of tutorials available that show how to do just about anything in Lightwave.

Check out: http://www.kurvstudios.com/

and there are over 24 hours of free tutorials on the Newtek site:

http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77002

[softdistortion]

...Look at this:
http://softdistortion.com/vidjournal/
Lightwave for rendering, Blender for character animation, texturing and uv mapping, Max for modelling.


Thanks for the link to our project hvanderwegen. :love:
*small clarification- UV texture was done in Modo/PS.

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Latest clip -
Pipeline>Filmed with Canon 5d by me, tracked in Syntheyes by François Tarlier, render in MODO- comp in AE - Model was done By Victor Legerstee in Max3d, texture by me using Modo/PS- animation done by Tal aka Snotenose using Blender and MDD export to Modo]

Click on the pic below for a look at the rough render/comp.
I used our exiting animation Tal did for the previous clip.
This one is setup and render in Modo comp in AE.

As always...some things need fixing, but it's coming along.

http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/478/349/47834901_200.jpg (http://vimeo.com/9578365)

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