Tom Roe | 3d Artist | What I've Learned

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Today I used Lightwave 3D 7.5 to complete a new character. I call it TEK-BOT. It's a robot character (duh) and it looks pretty cool. I'll post some artwork tomorrow, including an animated walk sequence. It took me longer than expected to rig this guy. Since he is articulated with many separate objects, I used rotational limits rather than bones to create the basic setup. That only took me 1.5 hours. The NULL/Inverse kinematics setup took four or five hours, because I'm not very good at it yet. After the third try, I got it! Well, close enough to animate anyway. I'll set up some more animations tomorrow. This is fun. It's been a long time since I had the chance to animate. I want to get good at this, it's such a feeling of power, muahahaahaahaha! Oh, forgive me a cruel chuckle, mm, power, yessss. It's ALIVE!!!