Wordware Lightwave 3D.8 Cartoon Character Creation Volume 2 Rigging and.Animation.pdf

LightWave 3D ® 8 Cartoon

Character Creation

Volume 2: Rigging &

Animation

Jonny Gorden

Wordware Publishing, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gorden, Jonny.

Lightwave 3D cartoon character creation / by Jonny Gorden.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-55622-253-X (volume 1, pbk., companion cd-rom) -- ISBN

1-55622-254-8 (volume 2, pbk., companion cd-rom)

1. Computer animation. 2. Three-dimensional display systems. 3. Cartoon

characters. 4. LightWave 3D. I. Title.

TR897.7.G67 2004

006.6'93--dc22

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Contents

Introduction ........................xiii

Chapter 1 Getting Started .................1

1.1 Files and Folders .........................1

1.2 Modifying Shortcuts .......................3

1.3 Configuring Modeler .......................4

Options .............................4

Interface ............................6

1.4 Configuring Layout ........................9

Options .............................9

Interface ...........................12

Part I Morph Creation

Chapter 2 Morphs .....................18

2.1 Planning .............................18

Modular Morphs .......................19

What Morphs Do You Need? .................20

2.2 Eye Morphs ...........................22

Blink .............................23

Squint .............................24

Lid_Up ............................25

Lid_Low ...........................26

Frown.............................27

Sad ..............................28

High ..............................29

Lift ..............................30

Dilate .............................31

2.3 Mouth Morphs .........................32

Open .............................32

LipsOpen ...........................34

Pucker ............................35

Stretch ............................36

Smile .............................37

Pout..............................38

Sneer .............................39

Grimace ............................40

Jaw_LT ............................41

Jaw_RT ............................42

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Contents

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2.4 Phonemes ............................43

A ...............................44

E ...............................45

S................................46

W...............................47

O ...............................48

M...............................49

F................................50

L................................51

TH ..............................52

2.5 Creating the Morphs ......................53

Preparing the Object .....................53

Eye Morphs ..........................54

Blink ...........................54

Squint ..........................56

Lid_Up and Lid_Low...................56

Frown ..........................57

Dilate ...........................58

Mouth Morphs ........................59

Open ...........................59

Smile ...........................61

Pucker ..........................64

Jaw_LT and RT......................67

Phoneme Morphs .......................69

Asymmetry ..........................74

Base Asymmetry ....................74

Expressive Asymmetry .................74

Left and Right Morphs..................75

Layout ..........................77

Part II Character Setup

Chapter 3 Rigging.....................84

3.1 Planning .............................84

What Makes a Good Rig? ...................84

Character Deformation .................84

Animation Controls ...................85

Consistency ..........................86

Naming Conventions...................87

Anatomy and How It Relates to Rigging ...........87

Human and Anthropomorphic Characters ........87

Caricatured Animals ...................89

Joint Mechanics ........................90

Hinge Joint ........................91

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