Creating a Dynamic Pie Chart using Lightwave & After Effects – Animation

Creating a Dynamic Pie Chart using Lightwave & After Effects – Animation

on Oct 1st 2010 with 3 comments
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 second and final part of this two day 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 2 in a series – Go to Day 1 now to see the scene setup.

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.

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I'm Joshua Jorgensen, a designer in Seattle who has worked for the past 6 years for a firm specializing in design for corporate clients. Before that I worked in the video game industry and as a freelance web designer. When not working on CG, I enjoy playing video games, watching anime, and writing reviews on Yelp. Check out my portfolio at http://meatycheesyboy.cgsociety.org/gallery/  

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Discussion 3 Comments

  1. Shavkat says:
    October 1, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    Thank you!

    Reply
  2. Eric says:
    March 30, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    Clever technique, but the use of SELECT CONNECTED would have sped up the morph map bit by 25%.

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    Reply
  3. Ludd says:
    May 21, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    Great tut. I stuck with it till the end. Thank you.

    Reply

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