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Monday, December 30, 2013

LWER: ADAMATIONS


The site of Adam Sharp is full of nice LW stuff, included in the Lw Reel.
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La web de Adam Sharp está llena de material hecho con LW e incluido en la reel de promocional de LW.






Showreel from nads on Vimeo.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Sunday, December 1, 2013

LEONARD BLUM



Thanks to Andrés from Somniart I know there is a new way to learn Lightwave (and much more) at Barcelona: Leonard Blum Photography and CGI Facilities
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Me gustaría presentaros un nuevo proyecto en Barcelona en torno a Formación y Producción audiovisual de calidad.
Después de 3 años en FX Animation, llevando el departamento de Fotografia y CGI, tanto Iñaki González como Salvador Bolarín decidieron aventurarse e iniciar un proyecto propio intentando evolucionar e innovar en el ambito de la formación CGI . Según su opinion, era básico poder contar con los medios técnicos necesarios e introducir a los futuros alumnos en un entorno absolutamente real para el aprendizaje de herramientas virtuales fotorrealistas, impartiendo las clases en un estudio fotográfico. El método de formación que utilizarán es muy sencillo, enseñaran técnicas de base con herramientas físicas tradicionales para posteriormente mostrar la evolución lógica con las mismas herramientas virtuales. Dentro de su oferta formativa encontramos el Master de Fotografía & CGI, con caracter anual y con una duración total de 550 horas lectivas, con convocatorias en Enero y Febrero 2014, con un número total anual de 10 plazas. En un formato distinto, imparatirán workshops de 10 y 30 horas de duración, donde se tratarán temas como: CGI para Dirección de Arte, Fotografía de Estudio para Automoción, Fotografía de Bodegones Comerciales, Integración de Geometría en Entornos Fotográficos, Visualización Fotorrealista de Producto, Visualización Fotorrealista para Automoción, Gaudí y La Camara Técnica...Etc.
Por supuesto, entre sus herramientas estará Lightwave 3D.
El estudio se llama Leonard Blum ( www.leonardblum.com) y está compuesto por 10 profesionales de la industria.
Mucha Suerte compañeros y nos vemos pronto!!!

Gracias a Andrés de Somniart y a Iñaki González por avisarme






Thursday, November 28, 2013

CHRIS JONES: LW MASTER


http://www.chrisj.com.au/

One of the greatest LW artists you can find: Chris Jones
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Uno de los más grandes artistas LW que podéis encontrar, Chris Jones



Probably you already watched this
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Seguramente ya hayáis visto esto, pero no cansa 



Not only 3D
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No solo 3D




Saturday, November 23, 2013

Asteroid field tutorial




  

Thanks, David Agüero
Nice idea that cool background music.
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Gracias, David Agüero
Gran idea esa música de fondo, hace el tuto más agradable.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

MONSTER 500



BY CLOCKWORK FX STUDIOS

LightWave 11.6 - Spline Control Tutorial

LightWave 11.6 - Bullet Dynamics

DIELECTRIC NODE & WINE



Spanish tutorial (very descriptive video though) about creating wine shading using the dielectric node. Ole! More tuts at Somniart3d

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Tutorial en español sobre crear el shading de vino en una copa. Más tutos en Somniart3d

SHORT PEACE」九十九15秒PV




Preselected for Oscar nomination (animated shortfilm). Good luck, Lwers :)
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Preseleccionada para las nominaciones de los Oscars (cortometraje animado). Suerte,lweros

Friday, October 18, 2013

TOOLS FOR LW: TIMOTHY ALBEE

Timothy Albee has released again his updated tools for Lightwave thanks to Liberty3D

For those of you that don't know about Albee this is his reel, a lot of LW!

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Timothy Albee ha vuelto a sacar actualizadas herramientas para Lightwave gracias a  Liberty3D
Para los que no sepáis qué ha hecho Albee ahí va su reel con mucho LW



Kaze, Ghost Warrior


Wednesday, October 9, 2013

BLENDER 2.69



2.69 is out!!!

Some new modeling features, bugfixes overall, but...

FBX included at last!!
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2.69 ya está lista.

Algunas herramientas de modelado, bugfixes, pero...

FBX por fin incluido para importar!

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

MOTION GRAPHICS WITH DPKIT

BRYPHI is a LW user that shares a lot of videotuts whit us. Some of his recent work are these videos

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BRYPHI es un usuario LW que comparte muchos tutos. Parte de su trabajo más reciente son estos vídeos




Sunday, September 15, 2013

FX ANIMATION DEMOREEL


RH RIGGING TUTORIALS V2


RebelHill rigging tutorials are updated. I own the V.1 and it worth the price to improve the basis of LW rigging
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Los tutoriales de RebelHill se han actualizado. Tengo la versión anterior y merece mucho la pena para quien quiere profundizar en el rigging con LW


Sunday, July 21, 2013

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

ROB POWERS MEETS BARCELONA

Rob Powers at FX Animation (Barcelona). May the 24th

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 Rob Powers en FX Animation. Allí estaremos

Friday, May 10, 2013

Eternity-Nu: My Robots.

 Eternity- Nu Strikes again: Lightwave + Maya + Zbrush

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Eternity-Nu ataca de nuevo: Lightwave + Maya + Zbrush


http://www.eternity-nu.blogspot.com: My Robots

 

Saturday, March 23, 2013

LIGHTWAVE AMMO AGAIN


Some of my favorite lscripts and plugins that worth a dedicated button for each of them (even a shortkey):

 Isolate-like: toggle that hide/unhide unselected items. Nice for see only your selected items in visor and VPR: ef itemfocus by Evenflow Demonstration video

Invert selection (and others) by Simon Coombs. I don't know why this tool is not native in LW.

Exclude-include lights: Akira Asagi

(Only for 32bit but you always can use them and use the result in 64bits version)
 Paint Weightmaps in Layout
Edit the mesh in Layout
Sketch mesh over the background model
by "Magic" 3dcel.jp 

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Algunos de mis plugns y scrpts favoritos. Merecen un botón e incluso un atajo de teclado.

 Isolate-like: oculta/muestra los objetos no seleccionados. Útil para ver en el visor y en VPR solo lo seleccionado con pulsar una tecla si se la adjudicáis ef itemfocus por Evenflow Demonstration video

Invert selection (y otros) por Simon Coombs. No sé cómo es que no la hay nativa en LW
Exclude-include lights: Akira Asagi

(Sólo para 32bits aunque el resultado se puede recoger en la versión de 64 y continuar :)  )
 Paint Weightmaps in Layout
Edit the mesh in Layout
Sketch mesh over the background model
por "El Mago" 3dcel.jp 














Adjusting flocks after a simulation

By James Wilmott


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

MOCAP,MOTIONBUILDER & GENOMA

I found some trouble working with Genoma and MotionBuilder at work, but when you know how to do that it works fine. Some tips at Newtek Forums.

Interesting not re-parenting the bones

Thanks, Lino Grandi!!
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Me he encontrado con algún problema trabajando con Genoma y MotionBuilder pero ha sido por no  tener en cuenta algunos consejos que se pueden leer en los Foros Newtek

Interesante lo de no re-parentar huesos

¡¡Gracias, Lino Grandi!!




LIGHTWAVE 11.5: NEW MODELING TOOLS

Thanks to Kevman for this video
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Gracias a Kevman por este video

LightWave 11.5 Flocking. Agents to surface

LightWave 11.5 Workflow Enhancements

LightWave 11.5 Flocking - Conforming agents to a mesh

Thursday, January 31, 2013

LIGHTWAVE 11.5 IS HERE!!!!

LIGHTWAVE 11.5 IS HERE!!!
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LIGHTWAVE 11.5 YA ESTÁ AQUÍ!!!



Dongle-Free Licensing

Dongles are no longer required to access the many features of LightWave

Bullet Soft Body Dynamics

Soft body effects are now possible with Bullet, including cloth

Bullet Forces

Several force types are now available within Bullet

Genoma

Fast, modular instant rigging system for Modeler that includes presets for rapid-rigging

VPR Update

Depth-of-Field, Motion Blur and Anaglyph Stereo now visible in the renderer

Rolling Shutter

Rolling Shutter camera effects are now possible to aid matching footage that has this effect present

Edge Rendering Node Control

Control edge opacity, taper and color using nodes

Flocking Update

Predator / Prey behavior, new Director types and Node control

FiberFX Update

Multiple styles per object - stored with the object, new styling controls, updated UI

GoZ™ Fiber Mesh™ Support

Building on the robust GoZ support in LightWave 11. LightWave 11.5 now supports ZBrush Fiber Meshes

Adobe™ After Effects™ Support

'GoZ style' After Effects interchange for Cameras, Lights, NULLs and animation

Instancing Update

Per Object control, speed and memory improvements

Modeler Tools Update

ABF UV Unwrap, Edit Edges, Place Mesh, Slice, Thicken, Heat Shrink, Tweak, Transform, Axis and alignment tools and more

Workflow Enhancements

Many enhancements to streamline and improve workflow

THE RAVEN

LIGHTWAVE 11.5 Feature Release Video

Friday, January 4, 2013

LIGHTWAVE & ARNOLD


LWtoA IPR new functions from juanjgon on Vimeo.

LWtoA stereo rendering workflow from juanjgon on Vimeo.


Juan J. Gonzalez at Lightwave Newtek Forums:

"Hello Folks,

Maybe some of you have seen a video that I have made about animated mandelbulbs that use Lightwave 11 as host app and Arnold as render engine. I want to say that yes, this video was rendered with Arndol using my own Arnold plugin, a project that I call LWtoA. I want to add some facts about it ...

- LWtoA is a custom plugin that integrate Arnold seamless inside Layout 11, with near all features suported by Arnold, including for example interactive rendering, all Arnold shading nodes, all Arnold lights, etc. The plugin is near to be features complete, and it is also near to be as complete as oficial Solid Angle plugin for Maya or Softtimage.

- LWtoA is a personal project, it is not developed by Solid Angle and they don't support it. Of course Solid Angle team is aware about the project, but LWtoA is a personal project not designed by Solid Angle. Please don't ask them about this project.

- LWtoA is not going to be available at the moment. It is going to be available when Arnold leaves the closed beta state, and of course at this point it will need a long beta testing stage. As you know Arnold is currently only available for big studios.

Have fun and feel free to ask any question about LWtoA ... remember that Arnold is in closed beta under NDA and I can't talk about any details of engine itself

https://vimeo.com/40443058
https://vimeo.com/40720491
https://vimeo.com/43833275
https://vimeo.com/51129309

-Juanjo"
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Juan J Gonzalez en los foros de LW de Newtek comenta sus pruebas con Arnold en LW. Por supuesto no está disponible para testar pero es un ejemplo de qué se puede conseguir con LW y Arnold :)