MODELING FOR 3D PRINTING: TIPS

If you have to model something for 3D printing take into account things and links like these:



FORMLABS TIPS

SHAPEWAYS TIPS

SHAPEWAYS

MAKEZINE TIPS

3D PRINTING FOR BEGINNERS TIPS (if you own a 3D printer)

3DPRINTINGFORBEGINNERS

SKIN SHADING AND TEXTURING

Let's mix a few resources to get a nice skin . Take a look:
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Vamos a mezclar unos cuantos recursos para conseguir una piel chula. Echad un vistazo:




The amazing tutorial by James Busby: "The patient" at 3DTotal tutorials

And a classic VAughan's tutorial

QUIXEL SUITE. GREAT SOFT, GREAT PRICE

Copyright Wiktor Öhman

Nice soft, nice prize. NDO PAINTER, DDO PAINTER, 3DO BAKER. If you own Photoshop this is for you. Take a look.

BAKING TEXTURES FROM H-POLY to L-POLY

By Mentalfish AKA Petter Sundness. Baking textures from a High poly object to another Low poly object.

Detailed description HERE AT NT FORUMS by SKONK

TUTU SERIES: CGI GENERALISTS WANTED

Ficcion Producciones is a Spanish company located near Santiago de Compostela (Spain). They produce feature films, documentary films, etc.  

Ficcion Producciones is going to start a new TV serie called TUTU where LIGHTWAVE generalists will be needed for lighting,rendering and shading. Only in-house jobs. Work remotely not available.

If you are interested, please write to toni(at)ficcion-producciones.com or julioc(at)ficcion-producciones.com
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Ficcion Producciones es una empresa española cerca de Santiago de Compostela (Spain).Allí se producen películas, documentales, series de tv, etc.

Ficcion Producciones comenzará en breve la serie para televisión TUTÚ donde se necesitarán generalistas LW para lighting,rendering and shading. Solo para trabajar dentro de la empresa. No es posible trabajar en remoto.

Si estáis interesados escribir a  toni(arroba)ficcion-producciones.com or julioc(arroba)ficcion-producciones.com

LWCAD 5.0 RELEASED!

WTOOLS3D has released its latest version of LWCAD: V 5.0

Not sure what you can do with LWCAD? Take a look to their gallery

WIKIHUMAN PROJECT

http://www.wikihuman.org

The Wikihuman project is a collaborative by the members of the Digital Human League to advance the study of digital humans. For more information on the Wikihuman project, please visit their blog at wikihuman.org

HERE you can find models, references, scenes, images, etc to play with

An amazing video example you can find in that blog wikihuman.org



Facial animation test from mathieu aerni on Vimeo.

ARTPIX

Another company that uses LW , this time from Finland: ARTPIX

Take a look to their reel

LWER: OSCAR ANCHONDO

Copyright Oscar Anchondo

OSCAR ANCHONDO is a great Mexican lwer. To prove it you can take a look to his site, to his blog, to his gallery.

He says he will share some of his stuuning models in his site, so stay tuned :)

LWER : MICHAEL SCARAMOZZINO

Write a book, create nice blog entries, create nice shortfilms, help other lwers and you'll be almost Michael Scaramozzino. That's what he do and we can prove that in the following links:

Creating a 3D Animated CGI Short:

The Making of the Autiton Archives Fault Effect - Pilot Webisode

DREAMLIGHT BLOG

(LW tagged entries)

TELEBITES

THE AUTITION ARCHIVES (TM)

WEBISODE

CORRECTIVE MORPH BY ERIKALST

Master Erikalst helping again. Corrective morph for all those rebellious characters :)

 More videos at ERIKALST YOUTUBECHANNEL

MAKING OF "SHADOW OF THE COLOSUS"

Making of "Shadow of the Colosus" game for PlayStation with LW. Very interesting video and pdf document.

You can download the pdf HERE at SOMNIART FACEBOOK PAGE

Thanks to Jerome LeCrap for the pdf!!

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Making of del juego "Shadow of the Colosus" para PlayStation con LW. Muy interesantes vídeo y documento pdf.

Podéis descargarel pdf  AQUÍ en la página FACEBOOK de SOMNIART

¡Gracias  a Jerome LeCrap!!

DIGIVISION DOCUMENTARIES

New documentaries where LW was used for CGI by DIGIVISION.Great lwers doing a great job, with Javier Torres as VFX director and Ángel Veloso. Some people outside Spain can't see the videos (maybe "geo-restricted"), anyway I link them HERE adn the trailer is below. Stay tuned, waiting for more info about those documentaries...

LWER: KFIR RAM

KFIR RAM

"This is not a showreel" KFIR RAM says, so nice "not-a-showreel" :)

MOTION GRAPHICS TUTORIALS

Amazing motion graphics tutorials by  Mark Warner  (Did you know FiberFx can be used for mograph?). Found at October Lightwave 3D Newsletter
 You can find many more at his Vimeo site  and personal site
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Muy buenos tutoriales de motion graphics por  Mark Warner  (¿Sabíais que se puede usar FiberFX par mograph?). Descubiertos en  October Lightwave 3D Newsletter
 Más sobre Mark en su Vimeo site y su sitio web

OFFICIAL LIGHTWAVE 3D BLOG

I hope you won't miss LIGHTWAVEBOX blog once you discover the NEW OFFICIAL LIGHTWAVE 3D BLOG
It starts with a very interesting article about the development of Lightwave 3D by ROB POWERS

LW NEWSLETTER 9,2015

Copyright Lorenzo Zitta

September,2015 NEWSLETTER by LIGHTWAVE 3D
Nice content as usual :)
By the way, not sure if Lorenzo Zitta is from this planet. So amazing pictures he creates...!!!
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Septiembre de 2015, Newsletter de Lightwave.
 Como siempre buen contenido.
De paso decir que no sé si Lorenzo Zitta es de este mundo. ¡Menudas imágenes crea!

LIGHTING TIP

Have this picture near when lighting characters.

Tened esta imagen cerca cuando iluminéis personajes.

KRITA: FREE TEXTURE EDITOR

Copyright Ramon Miranda

Amazing freeware for editing images: KRITA. It includes predefined texture templates (1k,2k,3k,4k...8bits,16bits) to work with. Probably not Photoshop but a serious and no-piracy alternative.

https://krita.org

There is nice stuff in the KRITA SHOP also:

Software de edición de imágenes gratuito, KRITA

Útil para editar texturas. Incluye plantillas para crearlas con medidas y profundidad de color predefinidas. No es Photoshop pero es gratuito y por tanto, no-pirata :)

Material interesante en su TIENDA ONLINE

CG ALIENS IN SPACE CHALLENGE

CG ALIENS IN SPACE CHALLENGE at CGTRADER site.

Very nice prizes that include a Lightwave license for the first place winner !!

Ends in 2015-10-06

BRUCE BRANIT

Bruce Branit is a benchmark for all the Lwers. There is an interesting interview at Ligtwave site 

ITALICA ROMANA - APP

ITALICA ROMANA it's a blog about Ancient Rome culture and there are a lot of videos and pictures about it done by  Eduardo Barragán. Yes, I said that before but some of you probably missed it.




Please, visit his YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Now you can get an APP to see the ancient city Jerash done by Eduardo.

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ITALICA ROMANA es un blog sobre la cultura de la Antigua Roma y hay un montón de imágenes y videos sobre ello. Todo hecho por Eduardo Barragán usando Lightwave. Sí, ya hablé sobre ello más veces pero algunos podéis habéroslo perdido.

Visitad su canal de YOUTUBE

 Ahora también tenéis la APP para ver la recreación de la antigua ciudad romana de Gerasa hecho por Eduardo.

FLOCKING TUTORIAL

Tutorial about flocking by CODY BURKE

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Tutorial de flocking por CODY BURKE

GENERIC STACKIT LSCRIPT

Copyright Stephen Culley

Another amazing script by Stephen Culley. Very useful as usual: Generic Stackit:

"LScript (Layout) to stack an object upon another while parenting them. Select item to stack and then item to stack upon."

INSTANCES FLYING

Would you like to get the effect above ? Take a look to the new Bryphi tutorial.

Please, visit his Youtube site with tons of videotuts
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Queréis conseguir el mismo efecto de ahí arriba. Echad un vistazo a los nuevos tutoriales de Bryphi.
Muchos más tutoriales en su sitio de Youtube

CREATING LANDSCAPES

Tutorials about creating landscapes using Lightwave:




Dan Ritchie:

Advanced Landscapes in lightwave - Partr 1 from Dan Ritchie on Vimeo.



Advanced landscapes in Lightwave part 2 from Dan Ritchie on Vimeo.



Advanced landscapes in Lightwave part 3 preview from Dan Ritchie on Vimeo.





Tutorial at FOUNDATION3D by Simon Jones. Old but useful:

Another link at FOUNDATION3D . Simple example but exhaustive method by Joe Riddle aka Flashfire

Free edition of TERRAGEN to play with  and a plugin by Kevin Phillips to export Lightwave camera to Terragen

IMPROVE YOUR TILING TEXTURES

Have you found textures like this?

When you try to tiling it you get this result:

Do you want to solve it? Take a look to this CreativeCow tutorial and improve your textures

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Si encuentras problemas como los de arriba repitiendo una textura, échale un vistazo a este tutorial de CreativeCow sobre cómo resolverlo usando Photoshop

MORE ANATOMY

NOTODOANIMACION it's a nice site where you can find recopilation of pictures where you can find inspiration, references  and how-to-solve-that-pose

 Take a look to those links: Action posing, character sketches and Animal anatomy


(Warning: Nude content)

SCULPTING WORKFLOW AND LIGHTWAVE

Since not everybody can pay what ZBRUSH costs, I suggest you another workflow using Sculptris and Blender (although Blender has its own sculpting tools, if you prefer to use them). You can export the result to an .obj file and continue using our favourite 3D tool: Lightwave 3D

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Como no todo el mundo puede pagar lo que vale ZBRUSH , sugerimos aquí una manera de esculpir malla usando  Sculptris y haciendo retopología con Blender (aunque Blender tiene sus propias herramientas de esculpido 3D, si lo preferís). Exportar el resultado en obj y finalizar el resultado se puede hacer con nuestro software favorito: Lightwave 3D

A quick view



Basics of Sculptris





Retopology in Blender (También en español)


Remaking topology (Retopo) (English) from Oliver Villar Diz on Vimeo.

FREE TEXTURES

Nice thread at Creativebloq about where to get free textures.
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Buen post  en Creativebloq sobre donde encontrar texturas gratis

SPRING INTO SUMMER CHALLENGE

From Lightwave 3D website:

The LightWave 3D Group has launched a new design challenge  that offers  a treasure trove of terrific prizes for the winners! LightWave 3D artists will have the opportunity to participate and win in two design areas - ART and ARCHVIZ. The caveat is that all entries must incorporate Mechanical Spring objects into their designs to qualify and be entered in the challenge. There are no limitations to your designs. Use your imagination, be really outrageous or magnificiently realistic. The Spring Into Summer Challenge ends June 30, 2015.

More info HERE

Of course, one of the prizes is LIGHTWAVE 2015

TOOL CHEFS. LIGHTWAVE 2015 PLUGINS

Visit TOOL CHEFS and discover their plugins for Lightwave 2015: Lattice Tool, Edge slider and Sketch drag (this looks great for morphs).




Those ones are commercial but there is a free plugin, V-Deformer: "This tool will let you deform a mesh using multiple magnet handles, a polyline or a spline curve. It is particularly useful for morph creation and combing hair."

LIGHTWAVE & STOP MOTION

Conflictivos is an animation studio from Spain that used Lightwave for FX in their shortfilms "Werepig" and "Vicenta" and feature film "POSESO"


SAM´S "THE WEREPIG (O GÜEREPORK)" from IB CINEMA Motion Picture Films on Vimeo.




"VICENTA"



"POSESO"

SEVEN YEARS WITH OUR FRIENDS

Seven years sharing Lightwave content,links,tutorials,artists,resources,animations,etc  So we have to say...

¡Gracias, España!

Thank you, USA!

¡Gracias, México!

Dank, Deutschland!

¡Gracias, Argentina!

Thank you, Australia!

Merci,France!

спасибо, Россия!

Thank you, UK!

Велике спасибі, Україна!

 ...

 And thanks to all the other countries are visiting this site!!

NATURA by CHAMAN ANIMATION STUDIO

CHAMAN ANIMATION STUDIO is starting a 20 minutes shortfilm... but they need our help. The teaser looks great!!



Natura - The most beautiful short to be made. from felipeesquivel on Vimeo.

In their own words

"Natura is a wonderful story which we wish to tell as a short film full of action and adventure. We will use a mix of animation with real footage. It will be likeMicrocosmos meets Indiana Jones: sounds great, doesn’t it?

Like every year, we will produce a new short film with the members from Chamán Animation Studio. Our objectives are increasingly ambitious and this year is no exception since we will be combining film with realistic animation.

We want to use all our experience to make a twenty minute film. We wish to make a new short film with all of you, the fundraisers, to which you will have access, and will also include two exclusive premieres followed by a party for all the fundraisers who choose that.

Your help will be the water that will make the seed we have planted grow. We will take care of the hard work, since that is what we do best.

Natura is the story of a miniature world, a small park full of mysterious and magical things. Impulsive and cheeky, Rose, our heroine, lives within a world that is about to change. She will have to find a way to save her people and herself.

In a nutshell, Natura tells a story of adventure and solidarity. After all, we are not alone on this planet."

MORE INFO ABOUT CROWFUNDING HERE

CHAMAN ANIMATION STUDIO REEL 2013 from felipeesquivel on Vimeo.

LWER: LORENZO ZITTA

Grat Lwer, outstanding person: Lorenzo Zitta

Italian, living in Barcelona since 2006. Trained a master in "3D for Graphic Design and Photography" in FX ANIMATION BARCELONA 3D SCHOOL. Member of various photographic entities (AFIC Blanes CATALAN FEDERATION --- PHOTOGRAPHY --- AGEF) has won several awards and trophies by participating in numerous national and international competition, including the 57 Salón "ABEJA DE ORO" winning the art experimental session. Author of pictures and tutorials for 3DWorld And 3DARTIST magazines. Specializing in photomanipulation and CGI. He lectures and workshop photomanipulation and CGI. Currently working as a freelancer in the field of great graphics industry, colaborate with graphic studios in Italy, Spain and America.

Gran persona, gran artista: Lorenzo Zitta

Italiano, residente en Barcelona desde el 2006. Diplomado con un master en “3D para Diseño gráfico y fotografía" por la escuela FX ANIMATION BARCELONA 3D SCHOOL. Miembro de varias entidades fotográficas (AFIC BLANES---FEDERACIÓN CATALANA FOTOGRAFÍA---AGEF) ha ganado varios premios y trofeos participando en numerosos concurso nacionales y internacionales, entre ellos el 57 Salón "ABEJA DE ORO" ganando  la sesión de arte experimental. Autor de imágenes y tutoriales para las revistas 3DWORLD Y 3DARTIST. Especializado en fotomontaje, foto retoco y CGI. Imparte clases y workshop de foto manipulación y CGI. Actualmente trabaja como freelance en la grande industria gráfica colaborando con estudios de Italia, España y América.

LWER: RICARDO URBANO

Another Spanish Lwer, Ricardo Urbano. Take a look to his site http://efe9.es/
There are a couple of interesting tut's there

Copyright Ricardo Urbano

ALMOST ALL LIGHTWAVE LINKS

Lightwiki, Lightwavers everywhere

HERE YOU ARE  the main LIGHTWAVE related links. Almost every plugin,resource,author,artist,script,tutorial are there

Thanks to Facebook group Lightwiki, Lightwavers everywhere

Sites like Lightwave 3D, Denis Pontonnier plugins, Kevman3D, RebelHill, Mental fish... even this blog are linked there.

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AQUÍ TENÉIS los principales enlaces relacionados con LIGHTWAVE. Casi todos los enlaces,recursos,tutoriales,artistas,scripts,etc están allí.

Gracias al grupo  Facebook Lightwiki, Lightwavers everywhere

Webs como  Lightwave 3D, Denis Pontonnier plugins, Kevman3D, RebelHill, Mental fish... incluso este blog están enlazados allí.

DIGITAL HEAVENS

DIGITAL HEAVENS, a new site where you can find LW tutorials,scenes and textures.

This is its blog

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DIGITAL HEAVENS, una web donde podréis encontrar tutoriales LW,escenas y texturas.

Este es su blog

RH ANIMATION TUTORIALS

Copyright RebelHill

REBELHILL has released RH ANIMATION TUTORIALS From the basics you'll learn how to animate using Lightwave. Three chapters / 28 hours of learning content.

Remember there is more RH stuff at his site
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REBELHILL estrena sus RH TUTORIALES DE ANIMACIÓN. Desde lo básico aprenderás a animar usando Lightwave. Tres capítulos / 28 horas de contenidos para aprender.

Recordad que hay más contenidos en su web.