Here's a set of great free video tutorials for Lightwave. They were done by Proton / William Vaughan. There are links to all of the videos in this one thread on the Newtek forums. There are some really great videos!!!! These are a must if you're a LW user. As of now there are already over 5 hours of tutorials!
Using Cloth FX to Tear/Rip Material:
Modeling a Texas star:
Creating Foot prints in the ground using Cloth FX:
Introduction to Cyclist:
Techniques for animating a spiral motion:
Animating a train or roller coaster on a curved track:
1 Weight Map, 1 Surface = Multi-Surfaces :
Introduction to Texture Guide :
Introduction to Color Vertex Maps :
Using Effector to displace a tube :
How to setup a cartoon oval eye for animation :
How to setup the spinning light trick and an introduction to Luxigons :
Introduction to texturing with image maps:
Buttons on a Shirt that uses Cloth FX:
Setting up an animation of multiple pins driven by a displacement map:
Setting up an animation rig for window blinds:
Creating a curved metal weaved mesh:
Animating carpet rolling and unrolling:
Animating a bouncing ball using a particle emitter:
Introduction to Compositing inside of LightWave:
Creating a bottle rocket type animation with particle emitters:
Winding a flag around a pole using Soft FX and then the same thing with Cloth FX:
Creating rain splashing on the ground using particle emitters:
Booleans vs Speed Booleans:
Setting up a Distance to Object Gradient in the Node Editor:
Relativity : Dr. Wheel Rotator:
Using Endomorphs in the Modeling process:
Creating spiderman type suit webbing:
Using a Clip map with Shadow Maps:
Animating a Page turning:
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Here are the videos that they have: (I think they are all available as a flash movie or a RM movie)
Basic Blender GUI:
Blender Default Scene rm U-01
Splitting and Joining Windows rm U-01
3D Viewport Navigation rm U-01
Viewport Shading rm U-01
Perspective/Orthographic Projection U-02
Maneuvering About U-01
Blender For Laptops U-01
Blender Layers U-02
Loading and Saving Files U-01
Blender Default File U-02
Undo / Redo U-02
Outliner Window U-03
(NEW) Blender Data Blocks Part 1
(NEW) Blender Data Blocks Part 2
Text Window U-03
Background Image U-06
Appending Objects U-09
(NEW) Blender Groups
Appending Materials U-09
(NEW) Display Speed and File Size U-05
(NEW) File Browser / Image Browser U-09
(NEW) Reset 3D Cursor U-05
(NEW) Keyboard Shortcuts Window U-09
Object Mode Modeling:
Primitive Mesh Objects U-01
Icosphere - Torus Objects U-01
Naming Objects U-02
Selecting Objects U-01
Moving Objects U-01
Scaling Objects U-01
Rotating Objects U-01
Transform Properties Panel U-02
Global and Local Orientation U-02
Pivot Poiints U-02
Object Centers U-02
Duplicating Objects U-04
Parenting Objects U-04
Deleting Objects U-04
Joining Objects U-06
Separating Objects U-06
Boolean Objects Part 1 U-06
Boolean Objects Part 2 U-06
Smoothing U-05
Plane - Grid - Circle Objects U-01
Empty Object U-05
Text Objects U-09
(New) Subsurf U-06
(New) Symmetrical Modeling Part 1 U-08
(New) Symmetrical Modeling Part 2 U-08
(New) Mirror Menu U-08
Decimator Tool U-08
(New) Curve Modifier U-09
Lattice Deformation U-09
Bevelling Tool U-09
(New) Blender Snap Menu
(New) Array Modifier Part 1
(New) Array Modifier Part 2
(New) Dupliverts
Blender Camera and Scenes:
Blender Camera U-04
(NEW) Align Active Camera U-04
Camera Constraints U-04
(NEW) Multiple Blender Scenes U-10
(NEW) Multiple Cameras U-08
(NEW) Set Chaining
Animation:
Posts
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Hours of Free LightWave Training (5+ Hours) - NewTek Discussions
cheers!
Jeff
I found this online class for Blender. Pretty cool...
Blender 3D Design Course
Here are the videos that they have: (I think they are all available as a flash movie or a RM movie)
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/cg_education.htm
Video FX Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGW-osN1Vc
How to project geometry onto a 3d surface. Great for molding things to a curved, arcing surface.