User group for Newtek's Lightwave 3d. Located in New York City. Share files, tips, tutorials. Collaborate online to create 3d animated shorts.
OPen leter to James Cameron, pulled from Huffington post. Sites a big problem for vfx artists.
The below is something I think all animators need to read.
Antonio
To James Cameron,
I'm addressing this letter to you because you and your films have been such an inspiration to so many who either watch or work in the movies. I'm asking for your help in addressing a problem that few in your audience have probably ever given a thought to -- the unfair treatment and working conditions of visual effects artists around the world. ...READ MORE
International Lightwave User Group Meeting...
HI,
Wes Beckwith of Kurv studios has Put together a website for Lightwave Users, and has been a real force in the Lightwave community...
International LightWave 3D User Group
Gun fire reference, smoke, kickback, ammo ejecting
good gun reference, Great smoke, and motion of the recoil. Just good reference.
Thanks for the link Tony (Stranges)
Antonio
Windows 7 and Lightwave 9.6 64bit Makelicense.ls problems.
Hello,
ANyone have this problem with windows 7 and lightwave 64bit version?
Basically I install lightwave 9.2 64bit with no problems. But when upgrading to 9.6 64bit version,
The make license.ls seems to have an error.
"line 31, illegal arithmetic operation on data type"
Newtek hasn't really helped me with this. I tried to install everything as an admin, used the register program to make a license,
everything. ANybody have a clue?
ANtonio
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays to all the user Members. And a Happy New Year.
p.s. Finally got the calander Module working properly, So you will now be able to see when new User Group Meetings will be available.
Next up the slideshow module... ANyone who has ideas for the group, please post, or email me @ antoniovp@gmail.com
Free hd converter, convert hd movies to different formats
WinxDVD.com is offering their WinX HD Video Converter software for free.
WinX HD Video Converter is a professional video converter specially designed for HD video conversion. The friendly interface can assist you to effortlessly convert HD videos mutually with no loss of image & sound quality, like MTS, M2TS, TS, HD MP4, MKV, HD WMV, and HD MOV, etc. Besides, it also lets you convert between HD videos and regular AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, etc.
Lightwave zig rig, anybody know if this is good. Youtube videos. Looks promising.
Zig Rig. Looks interesting. Will be checking it out.
Antonio
Members shaw, Lightwave Tutorials Website, tons of neatly categorized Tuts. (links)
http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm
This site is an old site, meaning it's been around forever. I still go back there sometimes.
At some point he added a down flag, so you don't waste time going to sites that are down.
Antonio
BIG APPLE Film Festival
Mesh weaver Tutorials
Found this at mesh Weavers. Nice tutorial section.
I like the ik strut they did, awesome.
I also like the smoothing work around, (to prevent smoothing errrors.) (They suggest adding a very small bevel.)
Promote yourself, do it to be effective.
Good advice.
Here is a quote from his site:
A short video about promoting yourself. I say it as bluntly as possible in the video – most artists suck at promoting themselves. I talk about how these promotion efforts directly relate to the Visual Effects Supervisor Boot Camp but the principle apply to ANYTHING you do.
