May 30, 2011
Well I have been here now for one full week with Luke Whitehorn and so far things are moving very nicely. The storyboard we have been given are pretty much previs’ed and outside of director approvals and commentary – are good to go to final shot stage. That’s where the real fun begins. Right now Luke and I are dealing with any of the smaller...
May 26, 2011
(Updates are at the bottom) Hello! From Finland (Tampere to be exact). As many of you may know, Luke Whitehorn and I are currently in Finland helping out as VFX humans (and feline) with the feature film VFX of Iron Sky. We are still settling in but over the course of the next few days we will be doing some updates and blogging here on Liberty3d.com and in the...
May 15, 2011
Alan Elder who is VFXAUS over at the BattlestarVFX.com boards has come up with a very special treat for us this weekend. After a lot of hard work and effort and rendering he has delivered on an AWESOME, BSG inspired video. You can check out the forum posting at http://battlestarvfx.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=171&p=1553#p1553 But more importantly here...
May 12, 2011
In this training video watch LightWave3DÂ Instructor Adam Gibson build a Sci-Fi Style Corridor/Hallway similar to many that have been created for big screen sci-fi action films. Learn how to take simple shapes and turn them into highly detailed geometry. Learn how to make your polygons glow to be used a light sources. A great video for the beginner 3D modeler...
May 6, 2011
Like Lightwave but don’t like Windows or Mac OS? Oleeblood Animation has posted instructions and a custom build of Wine (software that runs Windows apps without Windows) that lets you run Layout and Modeler on Linux. Unfortunately, the dongle driver is only 32-bit, so you can only run the 64bit version of Lightwave in trial/demo mode. Update: 64bit is now...