Ball-tearingly cool showreel

Cel shading in LW

A Spinquad thread repository for Celshading tips
- great starting point with a lot of info from "Celshader"

Mirage 1.2 review

Kretin's - Character: Martin Bird

Cgtalk thread
Bird wings rigging
Awesome character from author of LW8 cartoon character creation

Collision obj and 2 point poly video tutes

2 point polys

Using collision objects in dynamics

Tute: copy and paste UVs

"Hi Guys, I´ve seen a couple of threads on various forums about copying and pasting UV´s from one object to the other, given both share the same pointorder. As example you want to texture your model with a UVmap you made in LightWave but want the displacementmap to have the cool but cryptic GUV Tiles from Zbrush. A lot of answeres on these threads where like: "It´s impossible, do it with maya" or something like that. I even saw people saying that who i thought should know better, but that´s ok. i looked in the doc´s and it is not mentioned there so i guess it´s ok not to know the way to do it. I found a way like i guess others too, so i will share it with those who didn´t."

The tute is on Spinquad
Here is the CGtalk thread which inspired the tute

LW -> Quake3

CGtalk thread

Morphtrack v1 released

Bundled with Joytrol

Street Texture & Striping

In depth very clear tute

DOOM type ref photos

Mayang Texture site

Streetwise Tute - Tesselator

Awesome tutorial for making roads (and it looks like a lot of other useful info as well)

Tadeo Jones

Lightwave short film

Jack the Worm

Downloadable cartoon worm model

Shaolin Monk - Pisong

Wow.
Great facial animation test there too, wires, body to come...

Alix - by Astro

Hot bondage sheninja - I'm blushing

New Motionbuilder Forums

Old Kaydara ones are still there, but there's these new ones at Alias

Eadweard Muybridge walk cycles

Carpaint

Layered specular+reflection plugin, called CarPaint.

MT timeline - free plugin

MT Timeline is an alternative to LightWave's internal timeline.
Its advantages are that it can be placed anywhere (even outside the LightWave window), it has an advanced zooming feature that allows you to zoom in on to a section of the timeline, and, you can add/remove markers and skip to the next or previous ones.

Character Studio tute

Wardevil

AWN Article: Adult Animation 2004

Talks about surge in adult animation, Adult Swim etc.

Cloth Bones

I think I already posted this but anyway...

I don't get what's good about it? You have to calculate first - what's the difference between this and ClothFX?

Lip Service

Demo

Release version

Motion Mixer video tutes

Wires depository

Model wires here
- PiSong stuff and more
- invaluable resource

Dynamite Job

Motion Mixer vid tutes

Melbourne P2P site is up

DStorm

Vid tutes: Flare2Alpha and Luxigons

Christophe Desse skin shader

Needs TD skin shader

Zbrush & Messiah work - amazing

FPrime Render - broadcast quality

Newtek Thread discussion

Plugins from Kevin Phillips

- weld pairs (select multiple pairs of points and weld them in 1 go)

and

- weld strip (select a row of points, then select the row to weld them to, and weld)

Instructions are in the ReadMe-file.

Modeler to Modo

CGtalk thread discussing the pros cons and speed bumps involved in moving from Lightwave's Modeler to Modo

Glowing texture discussion - newtek forum

FPrime & Sas

(FPrime and) Compositing

Kvaalen's Aquaman

Has a cool little reflection tute in this Spinquad model WIP thread

Rendering discussion

Mocap talk

Visual Marker - cheap Mocap solution which might be worth exploring

Making games with LW

Some relevant gems in there like discussion of game engines, texture and poly sizes/limits etc.

Aurora's diary for LW8 cartoon character books

Awesome "diary" by Aurora as he runs through the tutes in this book.

Also well worth a look when you get the book for the errata, tips and FAQ type info.

astro-sanchez - character: Nixx thread

Very cool model WIP thread, lots of great wires to study

Pisong BMX thread - insane level of coolness

- Wires to study
- scene to download and pick apart
- skin texture to look at
- insane coolness to bask in

Wires to study

More video tutes from Proton

Using Gradients and Particle Age

This demo shows one of the many uses of gradients when working with LightWave's particle system.

Particle Demo

Creating Custom Tabs

LightWave allows you to customize your interface in many ways. This demo walks you through setting up a custom tab to your interface.

Add Tabs Demo

SpinQuads Tool

This demo shows how easy it is to clean up polygon flow using this powerful tool.


Spinquads in Action

C-bend

Bend foreground geometry with spline in background layer

Stop Motion effect in LW

Effects on channels, and lots more tips on getting this looking right

UV map discussion

render targa sequence to video

Ultrapatcher

This lascript is just like autopatcher, but better in that you have splines in foreground layer, select a background layer as destination for patched geometry, and once you run it gives you the option to flip polys.

This will speed spline patching workflow - nice!

Decimate - better than Qemloss

Tool for reducing polys and keeping your UV and weight info

SSS thread - CG chat

This CGchat thread has some interesting SSS work done with incidence translucency layers (I think)

Modeling Tutes

Joan of Arc

Hand Tute

UV Chalk

UV Chalk allows you to sketch on an textured object in Lightwave's Modeler. After a uv map in created and a image loaded, UV Chalk will pop up it's own interface where you can sketch on a model and save the resulting image. Nice way to test UV maps and sketch out a rough texture with your UV's.

Silo 3 released

Topology pen sounds cool.
A little over $100 US, point upgrades free.
This might be worth looking into...

Proportions

justsopw.js

Use justsopw.js to display your larger images rather than an entire new window

The nice thing about justsopw.js is that the pop-up is the correct size
and closes at the next mouse/key click, thus making it harder for people
to save off your images.

3DA

Babelfish

Some tutes

Check these links out

Broadband

Toy designs for modeling inspiration

Courtesy Proton on Spinquad

Caricatures site

Courtesy Proton on Spinquad

Point Clone Extra 4 (flay page link)

Version 2 and 3 available HERE

Version 4 can be downloaded HERE

- Point Clone + on steroids. I'm bookmarking this here for use in cloning hair guides.

Joytrol is out

Joystick Facial Animation Setup Plugin

Spinquad forum Joytrol discussion thread HERE

Polygon Flow for Cloth Dynamics

You geometry can have a subtle effect on the cloth FX and how it settles...

LW CPU discussion

Interesting

Proton Mouth Tute

Quick and simple mouth video tute
Spinquad thread HERE

Also various tutes HERE :

Quick Spline Wing

Quick Thumb

Bridge Tool

Blend Groups

Unreal Cel Shader - helpful thread

Discussion by Cel guru Celshader, refers also to Shade01 thread

3D paint app within LW

Free, only v0.13 or something
Doesn't work on SubDs
Interesting though

Rain in LW

Simply LW TUTE
(videos to download)

Hair Shader

Armour moving on seperate layer

Some ideas in this thread

Low Poly Anime cel shaded work

Awesome work in MAX

Discussion of its application in LW

Concept art and model sheets

Steven E Gordon

Teen Titans

Hair technique idea to explore

Ribbon follow spline

Bleach Bypass:Minority report Look

Tute also Here

EXCERPT:

"Hi,
I figured out an easy way to do it without any plugins. Photoshop or any Compositing Tool will do. This is for Photoshop:

- select the layer with the image
- add a "channel mixer" adjustment layer
- set red, green and blue to somthing like +50%, +25% and +25% (you can tweak this later)
- check the monochrome box at the bottom and hit "Ok"
- Set the blending mode of the layer to "hard light"

Now you can tweak the channel mixer settings.

If you want more color in your image, use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and tweak the master Saturation level. Something between -60% - -80% is a good start."

Cloth discussion

Car animation rig setup - Tute

Stock Footage Explosions, muzzle flashes

Downloadable

Eye and face UV stuff ...

... in this MAX tute. Eye UV texture tips and more face stuff

Modeling eyelashes (MAX)

Self portrait tute

Has some UV texturing tips for human head on page 2

3D TOTAL

LW to Zbrush

HERE > Zbrush forum thread "What advice can you give for LIGHTWAVE?"
HERE > Newtek LW to Zbrush thread
HERE > Lynx's "Normal Displacement" & "16bit grayscale TIFF-loader" plugins
HERE > Steve Warners tute "There and Back Again"
"The tutorial is 6MB in size and is optimized for 1280x1024 resolution.
You will need the Flash player to view it."
HERE > further discussion of "There and back again"

See some of those threads for even more links to further discussion

PiSONG new direction

High level of detail on textures using photos etc.
See also THIS THREAD

Radial Background Lathe Clone

This script will, given an object in the background layer and a shape in the foreground, extrude and bevel the shape and then radial clone the resulting object around the centre point of that backround object. Whew. Good for "nurnies", "gak" and other "fiddly bits" on the outside of "stuff".

Straight LW Char anim - Tips and Tricks

See also
Speeding up Character Animation thread

Ogo Hikari documentation

"Akihiro Ogoshi has given me permission to put my translation of the Ogo Hikari documentation on my website."

Albee KAZE interview at VFX World

rigging tute

Notes not video, and downloadable mesh so you can follow along

quick way to create a cartoon ear

From Proton

Intro to Character Modelling Video Tutorial series

Wow, from the brief skim through I gave this site, it looks really comprehensive. Not just videos, it's html pages tutorial with video support material for parts. Also downloadable obj files etc, and a lot of ref pics illustrating poly flow etc.

T4D rigging tools UPDATE 2.5

And some more video tutes.

Fake Edge Shader

Fishing on the forums for advice re: my cloth issues (edge on cloth object which doesn't look paper-thin) Tudor pointed me to above shader, which I had seen before but assumed would not work on one poly edges.

Cloth Help

Excerpts:
Just make sure to make the first layer(body) a collision object, and that the cloth effects on layers 2 and 3 are set to detect layer 1 as the collision object.

In layer 1's properties, under dynamics, add "collision" and set it to bounce.

In the Cloth FX panels for layers 2 and 3 set collision detection to , or set the exclusive detection to layer 1.

Set layers 2 and 3 to follow the bones of layer one.

Also parent layers 2 and 3 to layer 1

Select the object;
B (shift-b);
At the top, tell it to use the bones from the object that has them.

It would be under the bone properties panel for that object (regardless if the object actually has any bones). So select that object THEN click on bones and then set it to "use bones from..." at the top of the popup panel.