In this fifth volume of the LightWave 2023 Series 3D Instructor Adam Gibson introduces LightWave 2023's powerful Rigging and Animation toolset for Rigging and Animating cool characters like Sharks, Fish, Snakes, Sea Snakes and Eels!! A great place to start for beginner LightWave Users.

Some of the Topics Covered: 1) How to Add Bones, 2) Parenting Items, 3) Spline Control Tool, 4) Creating Spline Paths for Characters to Follow, 5) Keyframing Animations, 6) How to Import/Re-Use Rigged/Animated Scenes into other Scenes and More!!

able of Contents

Chapter 1- Intro

Chapter 2- How to Find Free 3D Shark and Snake Models on the Internet

Chapter 3- Setting Up your Models on the Positive Z-Axis

Chapter 4- Moving 3D Parts to the 1st Layer in Modeler

Chapter 5- How to Add Bones to your Shark

Chapter 6- How to Create Spline Control Nodes

Chapter 7- How to Animate the Shark with the Spline Control Tool

Chapter 8- Animating the Camera for the Shark Scene

Chapter 9- Adding a 360 Degree Underwater Environment Map to the Scene

Chapter 10- Adding Bones to a Snake in Layout

Chapter 11- Creating Spline Control Nodes for the Snake in Layout

Chapter 12- Animating the Snake with the Spline Control Tool

Chapter 13- Combining Both Shark and Snake Scenes into one Animation in Layout

Chapter 14- Creating a Fully Animated Render of the Shark and Snake Swimming

Chapter 15- Converting the Animation Sequence to an MP4 Video File in After Effects

Running Time: 2 hrs. 40 mins. High Quality (Screen-Res 1920 x 1080 pixels) Video Format: MP4 (.mp4) Level: Beginner