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eye blink

I made this tutorial for help people like me =) and because many are posting on how to do it.

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Model and Animate a Flag

This tutorial requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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Character Rigging

I always thought that there weren't too many tutorials, at least complete ones, that go over rigging in LW. So that is what this is, a tutorial that goes over the whole thing in ~25-30 min.

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Creating the old sign environment

This tutorial requires the Flash 6 Player.

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Sub - surface light scatter

The topic of sub-surface scattering (SSS) has received much lip service on the net of late. However, after reading anything I could get my hands on, I was still unsure about how to implement this real-world effect into my renderings.

Rated: with 1729 hits  Added on: Apr 12, 2006

Break a box from the sky!

I saw this animation in the Lost Pencil Animation Studios homepage, they also are giving the scene, I made it using other plug-in, I want to participle and help other that started like me.

Rated: with 914 hits  Added on: Apr 12, 2006

Smart skinning

The bones system in Lightwave I've found to be one of the fastest and most flexible bones systems available in terms of deformations.

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Hard FX_1

In this tutorial you will learn how to set up and rig a basic HardFX scene and then adjust the HardFX parameters to simulate rigid bodies of increasing brittleness.

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Smart Skinning

The bones system in Lightwave I've found to be one of the fastest and most flexible bones systems available in terms of deformations.

Rated: with 908 hits  Added on: Apr 12, 2006

Effector tool

LightWave [8] has many interesting tools for modeling and animation. One particular tool that has been in LightWave for awhile that I recently discovered is the effector tool.

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Basic Car Setup

This tutorial will show you an easy way to rig a vehicle that can be used for a car chase to have control over the animation to achieve some sliding, tilting and banking effects so you can emulate a realistic action.

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Polygon Flow for Cloth Dynamics

This is a quick tutorial on how polygon flow can effect cloth dynamics.

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Four Point Triangles

Four point Triangles? What could I possible be talking about? Four point Tri's are simply four point polygons in the shape of three point polygons.

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Vertex Paint

Vertex Paint is a Modeler plug-in that lets you interactively "paint" a vertex color map on objects and weight maps on skelegons.

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Fingernail

Modeling detail in your object is a very simple task in LightWave 3D®, and only requires a few steps. In this tutorial we will model a portion of a finger, including the fingernail. Let’s start by opening Modeler.

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Cathedral Ceilings

Cathedral ceilings can be a big challenge to model in 3D. But with a few tools and some basic steps, creating them in LightWave 3D® is a breeze. This Tutorial will walk you through the creation of Cathedral style ceilings with Pillars.

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3D Text

Creating 3D text in LightWave 3D® is probably one of the easiest things to do. 3D Text can be a great way to dress up your webpage, animation, or even a Word Document.

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3D Logos from a vector file

To add new life to companies' logos many are looking into the world of 3D.

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3D Banners

Creating 3D banners in LightWave 3D® is so easy it will make you fall out of your computer chair. All right let's get started!

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Lathe Tool

LATHE - NOUN: A machine for shaping a piece of material, such as wood or metal, by rotating it rapidly along its axis while pressing against a fixed cutting or abrading tool.

Rated: with 1676 hits  Added on: Apr 12, 2006