Transformers: Rig Demo

During my latest session on Cgtalk.com website I encountered this great post by Mattias Jervill about rigging and animating a special Optimus Prime character from Transformer's movie / tv series. Mattias is an advanced user and works for many hollywood movies as character TD.

In this post you can download a great video (65Mb) and see how Mattias has rigged his character, and see from the software interface how he can transform it (Robot> car > helicopter) in a realistic mode using sliders, values, and understanding in each great 3d work - before starting with modeling and rigging - we must plan our work deeply.

For more info about Mattias Jervill, see his personal website.

Iron Man Movie Trailer

Via Youtube, an interesting movie trailer about Iron Man, the newest superhero (marvel side) movie coming soon in cinemas around the world.
Obviously, great special effects are guarantee! :)

New week, new Lightwave Tutorials (part 5)

Another week, another set of (very good) videos by William Vaughan for Newtek's Lightwave3d modeler and layout. This week William published 35 new video tutorials! WOW!

Modeling and animating a basketball net

Introduction to the Surfaces Tab in the Scene Editor

Introduction to the Items Tab in the Scene Editor:

Introduction to Motion Blur

Introduction to the Limited Region and Mask options

How to create custom shadows or have surfaces not cast shadows at all

Introduction to the Standard Material Node

Introduction to the BRDF shader

Introduction to the Surface Mixer shader

Introduction to the Weave shader

Introduction to the Occlusion shaders in the Node Editor

Introduction to FX MetaLink Morph

Introduction to Dynamics Effect and Record Motion

Introduction to the Text tool

Maintaining proportions when creating a UV map

Introduction to Bone Split, Bone Connect, Bone Fuse and UnParent Bone

Introduction to Sticky and Sticky Surface

Creating a Slug using Hypervoxels

Introduction to Make UVs

Creating a UV map for a Head

Customizing Modeler's Workspace Viewports

Creating an eye setup for animating eyes with ease

Introducing the 4 point triangle

Adding thickness to single-sided geometry

Creating an animation of a crowd of people

Introduction to the UV Spider command

Introduction to the Jolt Motion Modifier

Creating a 2D Cel Shade look with the Node Editor

Introduction to Edit Skelegons

Introduction to the Weld, Unweld and Weld Average commands

Introduction to the Set Value command
Note: Not to be confused with the Set Map Value command

Animating a basic walk cycle:
Note:If your new to animation and setting key frames this could be a good quick start for you.

These 3 new videos pushes the collection over 19 hours now:

Introduction to the Schematic View

Introduction to the Target Item option

Introduction to the power of Powergons: