Ralph Canapa » Lightwave

A carpet rolling up

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:54:09 +0000

Found a tutorial on using Lightwave to animate a carpet rolling up. This technique uses the Layout deform tools instead of Bones. It does use one simple morph though. Pretty straightforward otherwise.

3D model of a double helix in a little over an hour

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:11:57 +0000

A friend of mine needed a 3D model of a double helix for a video he was editing. We went from the phone conversation to modeling, to rendering on an alpha channel background in a little over an hour.

3D model of a branch

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:00:32 +0000

This 3D model is inspired by a plant outside of the house we rented on vacation. It’s modeled in LightWave with basic surface textures nodes.

And a video…

[See post to watch Flash video]

B18H22 inspired object

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:24:59 +0000

B₁₈H₂₂ inspired object.

[See post to watch Flash video]

Lightwave animation of an object inspired by a nido-cluster.

Gold Constitution Class Federation Starship

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:16:24 +0000

It’s Gold! It’s in the upper atmosphere! Anathema!

Test animation of gecko lizard

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:13:56 +0000

I’ve done several 3D animations for corporate video – flying logos with effects and solid models, product shots, car parts, etc. – but here’s my first shot at 3D character modeling and rigging.

I’m using LightWave 3D version 9.6. All modeling was done with quads in Lightwave Modeler. Skin color was applied in modeler using vertex mapping. Surface texture comes from an image map of continuous lizard skin pattern. Rigging was with standard bones and not the new “joints” because I had some trouble with the joint-rigging around the bendable regions.

[See post to watch Flash video]