The Next meeting will be April 17th at 7:30pm at GMD's Studio.

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Submitted by AntonioVP on March 22, 2008 - 10:45pm.

The Next Meeting,

There will be an NYCLightwave User Group Meeting Thursday,April 17th.


Please arrive at 7:00 PM Our meeting will start at 7:30 pm.

Please note that this meeting will be at GMD's Place in Canal St, not at Merlin studios.

If Possible, please bring some images of animation for the group to discuss.

There are several plugins that will be discussed as well as Lightwave 9.3
Nodal Texturing, TimeWarp Camera Plugin,
We will be going over the Character Challenge Reference Submissions and Video's.


Guest Speakers Include:


Malisa on Character Animation
Mike Ling on using Skelegons
Antonio Profetto on using the TimeWarp Camera Plugin and Nodal Texture Tips.




Also, the deadline for the character Challenge is April 17th. To qualify, please upload your animation.


YOu can do so either as an attached zip file, or video file.


Any Last minute questions please email me at antoniovp@gmail.com


Thier will be a $5 cover charge for food and Drinks.
If no objections, I think It will be Pizza again.



Antonio Profetto
WebMaster
www.nyclightwave.com




The following are directions:


T:212 226 3653 
Between Forsyth St and Eldridge Street. 
About a block away from the Manhattan
Bridge.
Closest train:Take the B or D to 
Grand St. You should get out of the train
at Grand St. Walk South towards the
corner of Chrystie St and Grand.  
Make a right and walk down Chrystie
St. You should see a Custard King 
at the corner. Walk all the way down
Chrystie St for two blocks. pass the 
park and the Pace Highschool. It 
looks like a dead end but its not...
Once you see a Tak Yick Food store
in front of you, you've hit Canal St
Make a left. 95 Canal St, suite 301.
Buzzer # 4.

Take the F train to East Broadway. 
Go out at East Broadway Rutgers exit. 
As soon as you get out of the stop make
a left (or walk east) and you'll hit 
Canal St. We're five blocks down. 
95 Canal St, suite 301. Buzzer # 4.

G M D THREE studio
95 Canal Street suite 301 Buzzer #4
New York, NY 10002
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Forum topic: Character Challenge For July
Forum topic: Character Rigging
Forum topic: For the Next Meeting - Learn Character Animation
Forum topic: The Next Challenge 2008 Character Animation -Reference-
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AntonioVP's picture

So this meeting was cool 

Submitted by AntonioVP on April 18, 2008 - 1:03pm.

So this meeting was cool  We went over The timewwarp plugin, which on the mac did not work at all.  (Anybody with a mac, does the preview work?)
I had setup a demo but forgot to take out a plugin I was using.  Polk tracker.  I had thought unchecking it would of been ok, but bad news when loading up the demo.  IN future attempts, I will delete any plugins from motion panel or wherever else, rather than simply unchecking them.   If anyone else uses screamnet, I could not get TimeWarp to work with that.  I ended up having to use f10 to render a sequence.  The Preview did work for me.  I'll try to record a video on how to use it.  (time to haul out the free camstudio) 


 


Mike was able to get some basic skelegons into a character he created.   In layout he was able to move around his character abit.
I suggest for further review, these links here. 


Forum topic: Character Challenge
Forum topic: Character Rigging
Forum topic: For the Next Meeting - Learn Character Animation
Forum topic: The Next Challenge 2008 Character Animation -Reference-


 


Also I suggest downloading the boosterik.zip I put in the filebrowser/character challenge


It includes all the movies, zipped rigs, etc.


Also watch william's rigging tutorial on the newtek website.


Next month I think we will explore the ikrig provided by http://ikboost.com/


So everyone, look at the rig, play with it, and we'll talk about at the next meeting.


 


Malissa was able to talk to us about her animations, and how she handled certain aspects.
Cool parts:  The Giraffee, the caustics were added as a comp, the undersea particles were a comp, the little fish schools were boned. Everything was hand animated.


 


The Raffle will continue for the next meeting.  I strongly belive that we should at least have some participation, anybody have any ideas.  Please email me


or use this site's messenger feature.


 


Antonio

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Here are some inspirations

Submitted by AntonioVP on April 16, 2008 - 7:37am.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZItfldZrSGE&feature=related


http://youtube.com/watch?v=-qzvFD4IvoE&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Ap56o0kSk&feature=related


(search for jeb stuff. There seems to be quite a few)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dS7Psak-lg&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYxSJGGebXM&feature=related

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Where are the animations submissions?

Submitted by Assilam88 on April 15, 2008 - 3:47pm.

I haven't seen any submissions for the challenge yet, I hope someone is going to show some of their animations... doesn't matter how short or long it is, everyone would love to see what everyone is doing. I don't want to be the only one who has animations to show, I know someone else has something to show.  So, come on guys... I can't win my own prize. You have to give me something to talk about on the 17th, hehe.div
div~malissa

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