[mtmckinley]

seriously, guys, if no ones wants an animation challenge, let me know and they'll stop coming.

[puppet]

i would enter if i had the right models :bored:

[Fallenswordsman]

Just speaking for myself here, Mike. I love the idea of an animation challenge! But for me, personally, I don't think I'm ready to try and make a short anim in a month. I'd have to stick myself down as extreme noob for this one since I don't have a clue about rigging or animation at all. I think it would be a mountain for me to climb to even get anything that I was remotely happy with. Maybe once I've learnt animation then I'd be ready for something like this. I think its a good idea to have other flavours of contests rather than just being a modelling contest, but I just doubt I'll be able to have a go at this one at my current level of knowledge. (Only speaking from my own perspective)

[ShadowFox]

maybe you can put an exception to the rules do to the fact that the tools we need dont ship with lightwave.

[Sharp]

took the words right outa my mouth, fallen

although most people join these to learn i know i do.. and im terrible at thicking up something to do by my self

so im going to try and animate this but looking at my riging etc i did in my last challage. it look like a statue. stiff all over

so im thinking of doing robots like the person who entered in maya as they'll be easyer to move without them looking rediculous

[puppet]

i might do something simple like a bug so i dont have to model too much. as for the sounds can we modify them like cutting it up and having spaces in between to fit in animatioon?

[Sharp]

i might do something simple like a bug so i dont have to model too much. as for the sounds can we modify them like cutting it up and having spaces in between to fit in animatioon?

yea i agree being a noob and never doing any animation, and my first try at moveing bones was last months challege where i discovered the animation is not as easy as i thought. onto what will be most difficult is getting the moveing at the same time as the sounds as iv had 0 practice with it so ill try

[mtmckinley]

Attached is a LW file of a rigged character, provided by lostpencil.com.

You might need to replace the head, however, to get good facial expression and mouth movements.

[mtmckinley]

Another, provided by lostpencil.com.

[mtmckinley]

If you find any more free rigs, feel free to post them here. Let me know how good these 2 were, as I dont' have Lightwave in order to test them.

[puppet]

cool i like the noodle model nice rig too

[mtmckinley]

Take a look at www.10secondclub.org to see some examples of this kind of challege.

[Zeeman]

perhaps i could come into this one, but i can't animate for beans! Rigging and all is fine but...

*When do June results come in, i was leavin town for a bit so...*

[mtmckinley]

June winners have been posted in Announcements.

[Cchristensen]

Proton has several rigged characters for download at his site (spinquad.com). Lightwave 8 comes with some rigged characters and if I remember right, so did LW7.

Also, if you have Windows XP, you have the software to do this challenge. Look for Windows Movie Maker (under accessories).