26.12.02
LightWave 3D® Discovery Tour Seminars |
NewTek Europe offers in-depth LightWave
3D® training seminars at a city near you!
NewTek Europe
is embarking on a tour of training seminars with stops
in several major European cities. Taking in England,
Spain, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Italy,
the truly European nature of the tour cannot be overemphasised:
"We want to offer European users access to high-end
3D modelling and animation techniques while demonstrating
what LightWave 7.5 is capable of", said the director
of NewTek Europe, Franck Lafage.
To ensure that the teaching is
of the utmost quality, class sizes will be kept to
a minimum. The seminars will be presented by renowned
artist and trainer Graham Toms and will be highly
structured. They will however be fluid enough to allow
for deviation into topics not covered by the course:
"The seminars will be highly organised with a
curriculum aimed at professional-level techniques
for modelling and animation. There will be also an
open session for other areas of LightWave 3D®
the students want to know about at the end of each
day", said Toms. Following Graham’s participation
in, and the resounding success of, the Next Dimension
training tour, the European LightWave Discovery Tour
is designed to create even more enthusiasm for NewTek’s
3D modelling and rendering package used in productions
from Star Trek: Enterprise to Star Wars: Attack of
the Clones.
About Graham Toms
The presenter of the seminars
is an ex-Disney animator and animation tutor who designed
the curriculum for the world-famous Disney training
programme. Not only is he an accomplished 3D artist
and trainer using LightWave 3D®, he also teaches
claymation and traditional pen and ink animation techniques.
He is currently making a short film called "Metamorphosis
of a Texas Longhorn" and has recently been involved
with 3D visualisation work for the scientific national
curriculum for the United Kingdom.
Lecture plan over the two days:
The lecture plan is as follows
with time for open sessions of questions and answers
at the end of each day.
Soft (organic)
modelling
Maquette design and construction
Body
Hands
Face
Anthropomorphism (cartoon creatures)
Inverse and Forward Kinematic
setups
Cycles (walk, run, etc.)
Using Motion Mixer
Hard (inorganic) modelling
Rocket design
Jet engine creation, animation and rendering
Particles
Using Motion Mixer
HyperVoxels
Setting up a final scene
Schedule:*
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Manchester, England
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20, 21st January 2003
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Bournemouth, England
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23, 24th January 2003
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London, England
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27, 28th January 2003
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Madrid, Spain
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30, 31st January 2003
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Barcelona, Spain
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03, 04th February 2003
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Paris, France
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06, 07th February 2003
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Amsterdam, Holland
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17,18th February 2003
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Hamburg, Germany
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20, 21st February 2003
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Munich, Germany
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23, 24th February 2003
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Milan, Italy
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26, 27th February 2003
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*Dates and locations are subject
to change
Timetable:
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Day starts
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0930
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Break
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1100
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Lunch starts
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1300
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Lunch ends
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1400
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Break
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1530
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Day ends
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1730
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Registration for any of the two
day events costs as follows:
295 €
or £185
Registered users for any NewTek
product receive a discounted price of:
265 € or £170
If an attendee purchases LightWave
7.5 within 30 days of taking part in one of our seminars,
they receive a discount equivalent to the seminar
fee on the recommended retail price of LightWave.
