Lightwave #1 The beginning

This week was our first class with Start for this, our last semester. We are learning how to use the program Lightwave. So far it has been quite an experience.

We started of the class with a little discussion followed by some play time! Well I call it that because we got to play with playdoh! It's been years since I touched the stuff!!! Stuart claimed it to be a great way to start to get our minds working on how to use Lightwave. i think it worked as well! We were instructed to create a few different objects using one piece of playdoh.

Here were my creations! As I watched the others create their objects I was surprised to see so many different ways in which to create the different objects. Some would roll, or cut or even squish!

After our play date was over we dived right into Lightwave. Now I like to think of myself as quite good on a computer and using different programs. Well this one is very different from anything else I have ever used. But I can manage!!!

Our first task was to create a box... Too easy. Next we had to create a human figure using these boxes. My guy looked like some body building dude with a huge chest!


After a matter of minutes I realised that this program and all the tasks we would have to complete will be really tedious. I can see most of us in the class raging it!!!

Not being able to do little things and having to do them differently will take a while for all of us to get our heads around. I mean really, why the hell isn't there a select all layers button/feature!!!

Even though it was a pain I actually enjoyed looking at my finished robot dude. But alas... That wasn't our last task.


Next we were to create a human figure using any shapes we wanted. Boxes, spheres, cones and even disks.

This was much more harder then the square task. Now, it actually had to resemble a human. I started with the head followed by legs and arms. I placed a few joint points. Looking at my guy now, I realise that there should be a lot more joints! Elbows, knees, wrists, the list goes on.

The beginning of my guy. Thankfully there is a copy feature so keep the same proportions will be easy.

You can also see the joints I created for the arms. I found that part tricky. Should the joints be bigger then the apendiges or smaller? I did what looked right, but that doesn't mean it is!





















The finished product! The leg joints look too large...

Even though this was my first time using Lightwave I found it quite enjoyable and refreshing. Learning new things is always cool. Our future tasks are going to be fun... I can tell!






Once we had created our figure we learned how to color it. I tried making it look like it was a robot with like one eye and stuff. It didn't really work = (

























Me and Trav messin... Some old skool curb stompin! Yeah boi!