Tryly a mountain to climb, just made my frst walkcycles in LW yesterday, about facemorphs nor audioimporting to LW I know nothing. At least I need audiofile in LW for sync. For this I would need a new character too. Count me in as a dummy noobie. Is all rendering to be done in LW?

Doesn't necessarily have to be, I suppose. How else would you do it?

I've got ready rigged characters in Motion Sudio/ Truespace, bought LW8 only two monts ago, and been busy that time. My goal would do all in LW but in case of deadline rush would working face rigs with sliders and familiar audio sollution would help a lot...back to storyboarding and scetching.

hmm, I suppose that should be ok.

One more quick question Mike. Do u consider Motion Designer work to be animation or would that be a waste of time?

what is motion designer?

its a hard and soft body, cloth simulation thingy that comes with lightwave. It can give animations really amazing effects, like clothes for the characters moving realistically.

oh but it might take a while

I suppose that would be ok, but the actual movement of the character(s) should be done by you.

Ok, Thanks!

I know it seems like I am asking questions like crazy here but I got one more for ya. Does our animation have to be the same length as the sound file or can we make it a littlelonger? Cuz I was wondering if I could have my characters walk into the scene rather then the animation just kinda start with 2 people talking to each other out of the middle of nowhere.

I would prefer they not be too much longer, but I guess it's ok.

OK thanks it will probably only be a couple seconds longer.

Out of curiosity, what is the grand prize this time?

same. A LW book of your choice with the option of a SimplyMaya DVD or first pick of a future SLW DVD.

Awesome! Now that is a prize I need. Now all I have to do is make an awesome animation, try and beat out a bunch of fellow animators, and get it all done in time. Definately easier said that done, but fortunately I have time on my side. Good luck everyone!

I've replaced the attachment in the first post with newly encoded wav files. Apparantly, the old ones were not working in Maya. I do not know if they also didn't work in LW, but these new ones do work in Maya, so hopefully they'll work in LW as well.

I'm considering extending this challenge to 2 months to make up for this over-sight. I'll let you know.

i posted a fixed version on page 3 of this thread after it happened to me too :)

I would vote no to extending the competition to 2 months b/c many people here didn't seem to like the idea of doing animation and although I personally enjoy it I don't think it would be fair to the others to make them wait another month. But this is Mike's call. Leave a message on your opinion!

I think keep this one for only a month. make way for something new.

Hmm,,, i dont know... but if it boils down to 1 month then i am ok with that also,,, hmm,, seems now i can work under pressure... Hehe

Ok,,, think here is a good resource for lip sync.... A thumbs up from me anyway...

http://www.comet-cartoons.com/toons/...c/lipsync.html

Oh ya almost forgot... Magpie and Magpie Pro,,,, have free versions you can use.... And here is their website...

http://www.thirdwishsoftware.com/magpiepro.html

One month is fine, two months is better. Probably won't finish either way so could care less. Heh.

Staying with 1 month. Carry on. :)

Nice, I can't wait for next month's challenge. I am just hoping that it doesn't involve modeling anything organic or human b/c we have done those for like 3 straight months and I'm ready for a change. Maybe vehicles or landscapes?

yea me to :) although im not bothered what it is i just hope is modeling, i carnt animate and dont yet want to bother learning i just see it as the boring part to do in the picture although it is very nessecary i havent got goodish at modeling yet.

I just read through all your posts guys! Why are you all so down in the mouth about this?! I made my 10 min toon all in lightwave 7.5a and had no problems - you can import sound using the scene tab, and its shows all the sound peaks for where to add in the morphs?

LW can do real cool things when it comes to animation. mtmckinley - this was a great idea and I got really excited to see it, I'd like this to come up more often - its a learning curve for all of us, we cant just model all the time and render. Animation is a big part of lw, so why dont we all stretch ourselves.

I spent the last 7 months on my toon and learned so much with lightwave. Good call.

- btw all the entries are magic!!!!

Mike,
is the Due Day 31/7 24:00 texas time?

not sure about the exact time but you got the date right :)

LOL,
You posted
31-07-2004 12:57 PM
All times are GMT. The time now is 12:59 PM.

I think whole world should live by my clock and let me adjust it every now and then. Also Rewind/Fastforward options included too.

Ain't got time to render anymore, guests are coming, I'll just try to make my entry with references.

lol, i ment i didnt know the exact time the challenge ended :)

Well, you guys can follow your own clocks if you'd like. By my reckoning, at the time of this post, it's 9:10 am, so still have the rest of the day. :)

Get those entries in!