Forum: Animation


Subject: Animation created in Lightwave

CyBoRgTy opened this issue on Nov 16, 2015 ยท 9 posts


CyBoRgTy posted Thu, 17 December 2015 at 7:43 AM

I think the Lightwave sale is a very good deal. Since you have Poser/Poserfusion, you can continue to use the assets that you purchased from Daz. I have been mainly using characters that I create, but I plan to use poserfusion in a future project (one for which I am tempted to use Carrara). Mark B is correct about where the Poser animation adjustments have to be made (of course if the animation is exported as an mdd or other cache format, then chronoscope could be used for some adjustments).

I really like nevron motion and how it brings motion retargeting to lightwave. With it you rig your character with a certain rig. After that any motions imported can be regargeted to your character. I used it in a couple of places in the above movie; retargeted perception neuron motion and retargeted motion generated in iClone). Most of the animation in this was key frame method and not mocap. , There will be a learning curve. How steep depends on what you already know technically and what skills you process that can be used in any 3d package. Lightwave is powerful but different when compared with Cararra.