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Vincent Mesman
Нидерланды
Добавлен 16 ноя 2019
CHARACTER ANIMATION in LightWave 3D, now even better with my free tools, bundled in Legato Suite.
For example CONDUCTOR (Animation Project Management), BREAKDANCE (Pose/Motion Assistant), CHORUS (Render Assistant), and more... (Legato, Selector, Sliders, Monitor, Oscilloscope, Fake Onion, Slit Scan, Subdivision Master, Organizer, MIDI Keyboard Player). Each tool shows in its own unique way the area in which LightWave 3D could still grow, in my opinion.
Follow me on my journey as I try to get my own 3D animation skills up to a decent level. This includes self-written scripts, an Open Conductor Demo Project to test drive the project management features in Conductor, production reels, tool tips, exercises based on the 12 animation principles, etc.
All this is non-commercial. Feel free to join!
Discussion & Download in the 'focused-discussion-forum - Legato Conductor' section of the 'Welcome to the Future of LightWave' server.
For example CONDUCTOR (Animation Project Management), BREAKDANCE (Pose/Motion Assistant), CHORUS (Render Assistant), and more... (Legato, Selector, Sliders, Monitor, Oscilloscope, Fake Onion, Slit Scan, Subdivision Master, Organizer, MIDI Keyboard Player). Each tool shows in its own unique way the area in which LightWave 3D could still grow, in my opinion.
Follow me on my journey as I try to get my own 3D animation skills up to a decent level. This includes self-written scripts, an Open Conductor Demo Project to test drive the project management features in Conductor, production reels, tool tips, exercises based on the 12 animation principles, etc.
All this is non-commercial. Feel free to join!
Discussion & Download in the 'focused-discussion-forum - Legato Conductor' section of the 'Welcome to the Future of LightWave' server.
Legato Selector Item Picker - part 2
Legato Selector is a light & fast vector based Item Picker with Tool control and direct access to tool channels. Apply Selector to your scene if selecting controls becomes difficult due to crowded viewports. Use it for animating complex rigs for multiple characters or props. Select a single Item, or multiple Items. Spread Markers and their hotspots over multiple Marker Sets, with or without LineArt to sketch their context.
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Legato Selector Item Picker - part 1
Просмотров 8114 дней назад
Legato Selector is a light & fast vector based Item Picker with Tool control and direct access to tool channels. Apply Selector to your scene if selecting controls becomes difficult due to crowded viewports. Use it for animating complex rigs for multiple characters or props. Select a single Item, or multiple Items. Spread Markers and their hotspots over multiple Marker Sets, with or without Lin...
Legato Accelerando Performance Controller.
Просмотров 7914 дней назад
Overcrowded shots? Accelerando controls visibility and regulates cpu/gpu workload, affecting playback performance and final rendering, for single Items or Actor rigs. Focus animation previews on the character(s) that you need to polish. Only render characters with adjusted animations, and stack each layer on your NLE timeline. With a few mouse clicks you decide if rendering takes a weekend or 1...
Legato Presto, image sequence playback in DJV with a single key stroke in Layout.
Просмотров 5114 дней назад
Legato Presto lets you to start playback of an image sequence in DJV or similar, from the LightWave Layout interface with a shortcut key. For example to watch the Final_Render channel of your rendered output, or any other image sequence you specify in the Presto Master Plugin. The Presto plugin comes with four Remote Control plugins (Presto Play 1 .. 4) so you can trigger up to four different i...
Legato Conductor 3, LATEST UPDATES - animation project management system for LightWave 3D
Просмотров 1102 месяца назад
Somebody stop me - version 3 is HERE !!! Conductor is part of my FREE set of Legato plugins for LightWave 2024. Download it from my OneDrive, link available in the LightWave Discussion forum 'Legato Conductor' on Discord.
Episode 1.5 - Conductor Inspired Updates
Просмотров 2434 месяца назад
While working my plugins, creating Episode 1 and making preparations for Episode 2, I could not resist to add improvements (and bug fixes) in some of the plugins. Find out in Episode 1.5 - Conductor Inspired Updates
Episode 1 - Staging
Просмотров 995 месяцев назад
A first real project is needed to test the new Conductor plugin. Will everything work properly? Find out in Episode 1 - Staging
Legato Conductor 2, INTRO - animation project management system for LightWave 3D
Просмотров 2085 месяцев назад
Fasten your seatbelts - version 2 is HERE !!! Conductor is part of my FREE set of Legato plugins for LightWave 2024. Download it from my OneDrive, link available in the LightWave Discussion forum 'Legato Conductor' on Discord.
Legato Conductor 1, BASICS - animation project management system for LightWave 3D
Просмотров 2655 месяцев назад
Conductor is part of my FREE set of Legato plugins for LightWave 2024. Download it from my OneDrive, link available in the LightWave Discussion forum 'Legato Conductor' on Discord.
Legato Breakdance 2 - character animation tools for LightWave 3D
Просмотров 1616 месяцев назад
New Actor features: Pose Shift, Insert/Cut Frame, and Range Awareness for existing functions: Erase, (Tolerant) Copy/Paste, and Bake. Breakdance is part of my FREE set of Legato plugins for LightWave 2024. Download it from my OneDrive, link available in the first post of the LightWave Discussion forum 'Legato Conductor' on Discord.
Legato Organizer - organize schematic viewport in LightWave 3D
Просмотров 2576 месяцев назад
Organizer is part of my FREE set of Legato plugins for LightWave 2024. Download it from my OneDrive, link available in the LightWave Discussion forum 'Legato Conductor' on Discord.
Open Conductor Demo Project
Просмотров 726 месяцев назад
This is a first exploration of the main stage in a story project to test the capabilities of my Legato Conductor plugin for LightWave 3D. It's an assembly of images with possible story locations combined with temp voice recordings. All voices are mine.
Legato Chorus - render time prediction and evaluation for LightWave 3D
Просмотров 1176 месяцев назад
Chorus is part of my FREE set of Legato plugins for LightWave 2024. Download it from my OneDrive, link available in the LightWave Discussion forum 'Legato Conductor' on Discord.
Legato Conductor 1, INTRO - animation project management system for LightWave 3D
Просмотров 1226 месяцев назад
Conductor is part of my FREE set of Legato plugins for LightWave 2024. Download it from my OneDrive, link available in the LightWave Discussion forum 'Legato Conductor' on Discord.
Demo Reel 2022 rev.2, a collection of experiments, and first steps toward character animation.
Просмотров 346 месяцев назад
The most important lesson I learned here: PLANNING IS ESSENTIAL. Both project planning and shot planning. The second most important lesson I learned here: I NEED PROBLEM SOLVING TOOLS. It's fair to say that these conclusions formed the basis for two new plugins: Legato Conductor, and Legato Breakdance.
Legato Breakdance 1 - character animation tools for LightWave 3D
Просмотров 5226 месяцев назад
Legato Breakdance 1 - character animation tools for LightWave 3D
In the last 15 seconds I copied the Markers inside the same Set. The result is you get multiple rigs in one Marker Set. To assign each copy to a different Actor, select one of its Markers and choose an Actor, then click button Assign. Legato Selector keeps track of each set of rig markers by remembering the first Marker.
This is mindblowing!
Awesome
In part 2 we'll deal with multiple characters.
In order to use my free plugins, you must own a license of LightWave 3D. If you don't have one yet, or need even more licenses, this is an interesting week to check the LightWave 3D website.
In order to use my free plugins, you must own a license of LightWave 3D. If you don't have one yet, or need even more licenses, this is an interesting week to check the LightWave 3D website.
In order to use my free plugins, you must own a license of LightWave 3D. If you don't have one yet, or need even more licenses, this is an interesting week to check the LightWave 3D website.
In order to use my free plugins, you must own a license of LightWave 3D. If you don't have one yet, or need even more licenses, this is an interesting week to check the LightWave 3D website.
In order to use my free plugins, you must own a license of LightWave 3D. If you don't have one yet, or need even more licenses, this is an interesting week to check the LightWave 3D website.
Version October 1, 2024 is ready for download on my OneDrive. See link in the 'Conductor' topic on the LightWave 3D server. It contains bug fixes, modifications, and some interesting new features, e.g. 'External Activities', 'Switch To' (external projects), and some Activity manipulation features.
Discover the latest features in Conductor: every new Task will be assigned to Activity 'Unassigned Work' by default, Auto Schedule of FTE-job and Render-job of every Task in an Activity, license_id-based file lock mechanism for config file and LWS scene files, interactive html reports: Color Script and Contact Sheet, additional data fields for project/shot/scene/resources, Color Generators to generate new color palettes, GIMP color palette Import/Export, and a bunch of other general improvements. Trust me - this is not the end yet.
This is going to be fantastic!!
Together we can ensure that LightWave becomes more and more suitable for CA productions. Everyone is welcome to provide input, ask difficult questions, and raise your own CA-related wishes.
Next planned episode: Story Poses
I hope I find the time to test the tool. :)
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Please note that my provider stopped with their product 'homepages' so unfortunately my website is not available anymore. For now, I use the Discord channel for messages, and a public section on my OneDrive for distribution. Thanks for your understanding.
Please note that my provider stopped with their product 'homepages' so unfortunately my website is not available anymore. For now, I use the Discord channel for messages, and a public section on my OneDrive for distribution. Thanks for your understanding.
The lessons I learned from this: 1. You have to entice random viewers to keep them watching. With emotions, situations and frustrations that we recognize. 2. A logical shot sequence and set design makes your message stronger. 3. The performance of a figure should be easy to adjust. 1. and 2. inspired me to build Conductor, to support the story design process. 3. inspired me to build Breakdance, for fast performance setup & modification.
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This demo reel is a somewhat rough collection of some animation techniques. Although a bit old it is still nice as a benchmark. There is a lot to improve.
This video concerns Conductor v1. The successor is already available for downloading but is still being evaluated through a demo project, see also ruclips.net/video/OE9RdcyqT3s/видео.htmlsi=udbkIH3rbNUdD0dd After that I will put together an intro video for this successor.
Awesome, but I will never stop using sugar, hahah
Nice!
That looks so neato!
Wovvv!
Nice plugin! But I can´t find the the OneDrive link on Discord. Can you post the link directly here, please? Thanx!
Awesome
Impressive work and generosity
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