1 Tutorials LightWave 3D Basic Car Setup Qua Jan 26, 2011 4:08 am
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by Alejandro Parrilla |
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This tutorial will show you an easy way to rig a vehicle that can be used for a car chase to have control over the animation to achieve some sliding, tilting and banking effects so you can emulate a realistic action. At the moment I'm working on an animated short about a very well recognized superhero, whose identity can't be revealed at this time, that contains long car chase sequences. Part of the animation team is currently working on it and I saw my team trying to animate the vehicles by adjusting the pivot point over time and of course creating several keyframes to achieve the right action. So I came up with the idea of creating a simple system of nulls parented in an order that allows you have control over all those movements without having to waist time trying to adjust the objects pivot point. Let's start by opening a clean new scene in Lightwave layout.
Now that everything is set we can move on and start animating. Test drive.
Here comes the magic. What we want to do now is to exaggerate the motion by making the vehicle bank rotate to one side and the other. Notice that until now I've been moving just the 'null_MASTER' object.
Make a preview. The result should be close to the preview movie attached to the Downloads section at the beginning of this tutorial. In this ocasion I animated a cartoonish van so I exaggerated the motions to a point where you can understand clearly the use of each controller. The null_front and null_back objects can be used to make the car roll over to the front when crashing against an obstacle or to make that fast launch effect in a race rising the front tires out of the road. Final note: The hierarchy of the nulls may vary depending on the desired effect. Have fun and keep working! Bio.- Alejandro Parrilla started his career as an illustrator in an age of transition between the traditional techniques and the digital world. After some time in that field he decided to take a further step and joined the 3D environment falling entirely in love with it. Now his goal is to find his place in the industry as a cgi artist. To contact Alejandro send an email to [Tens de ter uma conta e sessão iniciada para poderes visualizar este link]. |