http://simplylightwave.com/lightwave-tutorial/t549/

Learn the typical studio production pipeline with pose planning and storyboarding to create a full 2D animatic, which is then converted into a 3D animation in LightWave by following the workflow of pose-to-pose blocking and refining.
This project will get you insight into the planning process for animation, as well as teach you how to apply important animation principles such as squash and stretch, timing and spacing, anticipation, weight, staging and arcs.

Information
Lesson 1: General overview of the animation workflow in LightWave
Lesson 2: Useful animation plugins and preparing the character
Lesson 3: Pose planning and thumbnail sketching begins
Lesson 4: Pose planning and thumbnail sketching continues
Lesson 5: A look at different programs available for storyboarding
Lesson 6: Storyboarding - creating the key poses
Lesson 7: Storyboarding - breakdown and inbetween poses
Lesson 8: Finalizing and exporting the storyboards
Lesson 9: Setting up the key poses and animation blocking
Lesson 10: Setting up key poses and animation blocking continues
Lesson 11: Setting up key poses and animation blocking continues
Lesson 12: Adding breakdown poses
Lesson 13: Adding breakdown poses continues
Lesson 15: Refining the animation and clean-up work continues
Lesson 16: Work on the timing
Lesson 17: Work on the timing continues
Lesson 18: Additional breakdowns and arcs
Lesson 19: Refining the timing and adding extra keys
Lesson 20: Improving the arcs
Lesson 21: Loosening up the animation and secondary action
Lesson 22: Reviewing and tweaking the animation
Lesson 23: Creating the club pick up
Lesson 24: Adjusting tangents and adding final details like blinks

http://simplylightwave.com/lightwave-tutorial/t548/

Take the mystery out of rigging and learn how to meet the requirements of a demanding animator by providing a fast, fully featured rig.
The topics covered in this tutorial include bones, animation controls and constraints, expressions, hybrid IK/FK setups, as well as efficient weight mapping and skinning. We set up constraints and puppet controls, while looking at good rigging practices, different techniques and how to avoid some common pitfalls, giving us a professional rig as an end result.

Information
Lesson 1: Creating bones for the spine and legs
Lesson 2: Creating bones for the arms and hands
Lesson 3: Adding animation controls
Lesson 4: Adding IK handles and testing deformations
Lesson 5: IK handles and testing deformations continued
Lesson 6: IK handles and testing deformations continued
Lesson 7: Refining the rig
Lesson 8: Creating bones for the head
Lesson 9: Rigging head and neck area continued
Lesson 10: Creating joint morphs and correcting deformations
Lesson 11: Joint morphs and deformation corrections continued
Lesson 12: Deformation tests and refining the rig
Lesson 13: Soft bodies and completing the rig

Learn how to create a number of different textures for your character work in this project. After laying out UV's in LightWave, we work with weight maps, gradients and procedurals to create a nice base for the textures, before bringing them into Photoshop for hand painting and detailing. Here you'll learn how to create color, specular and bump maps for all your organic needs including skin, eyes, gums, teeth, nails and cloth, and bring them together in LightWave.

Lesson 1: UV layout of the arms, hands and skirt
Lesson 2: UV layout of the head
Lesson 3: UV layout of the remaining body and texturing starts
Lesson 4: Procedural textures for mouth and teeth
Lesson 5: Creating weight maps
Lesson 6: Applying gradients to skin and creating the tongue
Lesson 7: Organizing workflow for texture painting in Photoshop
Lesson 8: Painting textures for head and face
Lesson 9: Painting textures for head and face continued
Lesson 10: Painting textures for hands and feet
Lesson 11: Painting textures for chest, arms and legs
Lesson 12: Painting textures for club and skirt
Lesson 13: Applying textures and creating a final render


http://simplylightwave.com/lightwave-tutorial/t547/

http://simplylightwave.com/lightwave-tutorial/t546/

Master organic modeling in LightWave with this course that takes a concept through to 3D model.
We start by blocking out the basic shapes for the head and body, focusing on good proportion, before moving on to the limbs and finer details. Working in polygon and subpatch mode you’ll learn how to create nice topology with clean edge-flow and geometry that’s suitable for rigging and deforms well when animated. Sculpting in details such as muscle tone and skin folds on the chubby character will aid you in more realistic work.

Information :
Lesson 1: Setting up backdrops and blocking out the character
29 Minutes

Lesson 2: Adding details to the head
37 Minutes

Lesson 3: Adding details to the head continued
26 Minutes

Lesson 4: Cleaning up topology on the head
29 Minutes

Lesson 5: Adding details to the upper body
38 Minutes

Lesson 6: Continuing to add details to the upper body
37 Minutes

Lesson 7: Modeling the hands
26 Minutes

Lesson 8: Detailing the hands and nails
31 Minutes

Lesson 9: Modeling the feet
36 Minutes

Lesson 10: Modeling the skirt and tweaking topology
45 Minutes

Lesson 11: Adjusting topology in neck region
24 Minutes

Lesson 12: Modeling the gums with teeth
24 Minutes

Lesson 13: Creating the club and adding hair to the final model
32 Minutes

http://simplylightwave.com/lightwave-tutorial/t576/

http://simplylightwave.com/lightwave-tutorial/t577/

Welcome to a new tutorial from SimplyLightwave. This time we bring you the making of the Space Shuttle Discovery, as NASA has decided to retire their shuttle program we thought we'd have a go at making our own.
Unfortunately we didn't quite have the budget to recreate it in the garden, so we gave this to Milivoj Popovic and asked him to do it in Lightwave. Begin creating stunning photorealistic models with over 8 hours of project-based training in this new tutorial series from SimplyLightwave. Follow along with Milivoj, lead modeler at

Lemonade3d, in this comprehensive project where you will learn the complete workflow to create a realistic high-polygon space shuttle in Lightwave. After completing this project, you'll have a much better understanding of the entire process to make a realistic and believable vehicle in Lightwave. Perfect for intermediate users.

This tutorial was created in Lightwave 9.6 and is also suitable for users of Lightwave 10 and 11.

Part 2 in this series covering texturing and scene assembly will be released next month. Happy Easter!
Learn to paint textures for hard surface models to a high standard, as well as set up lighting and materials to get a photorealistic render of the space shuttle

Discovery. Through 20 hours of tuition, this project-based course will teach you all the texturing and lighting techniques you'll need to know to create your own top-

notch renders. We also covers post-production of images and creating seamless environment composites in Photoshop

Volume 1 : Information
Lesson 1: Cutting up reference images and blocking of the shuttle
Lesson 2: Blocking out the tail and connecting wing with fuselage
Lesson 3: Connecting fuselage with the tail and main shuttle body
Lesson 4: Modeling the parts of the back of the shuttle
Lesson 5: Cutting out holes and continuing to add detail to the back
Lesson 6: Creating ring structures and pipes
Lesson 7: Connecting surfaces at the back of the shuttle
Lesson 8: Creating the windows at the front and adjusting topology
Lesson 9: Continuing to add detail to the windows and trim
Lesson 10: Sharpening up edges and aligning window trim with body
Lesson 11: Aligning various surfaces of the body
Lesson 12: Modeling hinges and wires for landing gear cover
Lesson 13: Creating the wheels and other parts for the landing gear
Lesson 14: Realigning surfaces for mirroring
Lesson 15: Making adjustments to the nose cover at the front
Lesson 16: Freezing geometry and final tweaks

Volume 2: Information
Lesson 1: UV mapping begins
Lesson 2: UV mapping continues
Lesson 3: Adding details to the geometry for more realism
Lesson 4: Making adjustments to the model for landing pose
Lesson 5: Test rendering reflection maps and making window glass
Lesson 6: Creating the wing tile texture
Lesson 7: Making the termal tile texture for the bottom of the body
Lesson 8: Adding detail to the tile textures
Lesson 9: Surfacing and adding procedural noise textures to tiles
Lesson 10: Painting in detail on the wing color map in Photoshop
Lesson 11: Adding more detail and irregularity to the wing texture
Lesson 12: Texturing the area where the wing and belly meet
Lesson 13: Adding text and logo to the wing and painting dirt
Lesson 14: Texture painting of dirt and discoloration on metal
Lesson 15: Creating a color map for the cockpit and upper body
Lesson 16: Continuing to create textures for the upper body
Lesson 17: Painting in panel lines for the tiles of the upper body
Lesson 18: Painting of panel lines continues
Lesson 19: Finalizing panel lines and breaking up symmetry
Lesson 20: Texturing the bottom of the wing
Lesson 21: Texturing the nose
Lesson 22: Continuing to add detail to the nose textures
Lesson 23: Painting the texture maps for the tip of the nose
Lesson 24: Texturing the wing flaps
Lesson 25: Connecting lines where different texture maps meet
Lesson 26: Texturing of tail, wheels and shuttle exhaust
Lesson 27: Continuing to texture shuttle exhaust and back area
Lesson 28: Adding dirt to the sides of the shuttle
Lesson 29: Creating the bump maps for the shuttle body
Lesson 30: Finishing touches to the shuttle side maps
Lesson 31: Tweaking maps and assigning them to the model
Lesson 32: Painting the environment composite with landing strip
Lesson 33: Scene set up with grass and landing strip in Layout
Lesson 34: Adding weight maps and test rendering shuttle materials
Lesson 35: Tweaking lights and materials in Layout
Lesson 36: Creating materials for landing gear and windows
Lesson 37: Continuing to tweak textures and materials
Lesson 38: Adding smoke trails with particles and compositing them
Lesson 39: Color correction and finalizing composite in Photoshop

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