Sketch Animation with LightWave 3D

Just about everyone has played around with the various Cell Shaders available for LightWave®, and the result has been some very convincing 2D images and animation. I recently discovered that you can also create great looking line art animation to give the effect of hand drawn sketch animation.

Texture Building

Three main variables determine the quality of your final texture map: quality of the texture model, quality of the color map, and render quality.

Motion Designer - Basics

To learn the basics of Motion Designer 2000 we're going to create a spinnaker sail.

Advanced Guide to UV Mapping

UV mapping is used extensively in real-time environments, like OpenGL and typical 3D games, where hardware-based shading routines can be re-used for texture interpolation. It is also useful on another level with NURBS, and other parametric surfaces, which have inherent u,v parameters defined continuously along the entire surface.

Creating a Quicktime VR Object

QuickTime VR Objects are QuickTime movies which display an object from multiple views. Special data embedded in an otherwise ordinary movie tells QuickTime how to play through the frames of a movie as a viewer moves the mouse across the image.

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