2 March 2002,

About 16 members turned up for the 2nd MYWAVE meeting held on Saturday, 2 March 2002 and this session saw many seated more comfortably. Members who turned up for this meeting comprised mainly of industry professionals who had an interesting afternoon with Stan Lee and Jin Ho on several features from LightWave and REALVIZ.

The Topics Covered

• Basic character setup
• Non-linear animation setup using Motion Mixer
• Half an hour with Stan
  - Discovering the largely untapped power of the Morph Mixer
  - Planning your animation
  - Building and organising the morph maps in modeller
  - Key framing the main moves
  - Tweaking the action with more morph maps
  - The use of nulls to move things around
  - Things to watch out for
  - ' Melting ' and how to take advantage of this problem in your animation
• Faster and more accurate image modeling with REALVIZ Image Modeler .

More interesting bits and useful tips are in store for coming meetings so be sure to be there for the third MYWAVE meeting next month. Watch out for more details at www.clickgrafix.com.

For members who would like to get a copy of Inside LightWave 7 by Dan Ablan, the book is available from Click Grafix at *RM140.00 (Normal retail price RM 160.0) only.

And for those who would like to join us at the next meeting but have yet to sign up for membership, we do welcome your registration.