Tutorial Details
- Software: Newtek Lightwave & After Effects
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Completion Time: 3hrs
- Tutorial Files: Click to download
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In the first part of this two day tutorial tutorial, Joshua Jorgensen will take us through the process of creating a motion graphics style effect to animate a pie chart scene. Using a combination of keyframing and expressions in Lightwave 3D, we’ll build a flexible semi-automated system to create an impressive effect out of what would normally be a boring statistic!
This tutorial is Day 1 in a series – Go to Day 2 after watching to see the animation process.
The tutorial will cover the entire process from start to finish, including modeling, layout, animation, texturing, and compositing. Intermediate knowledge of Lightwave as well as basic knowledge of After Effects are required to complete this tutorial.
Video 1
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Its a thing of unbelievable beauty.
I am thinking of doing some sort of animation involving circles and all that. :)
really beautiful way of learning.
I’m glad you guys liked it. I had a lot of fun making it. Hopefully I’ll be able to make another one soon.
This was a rly good Tutorial, I like it alot. When is part 2 coming out?
Hi Darko, Glad you liked it! Part two will be coming out soon, so keep checking back :)
Cheers!
Matt