the only lightwave rigging instruction i've seen that deserves the name.
lightwave is a world where rigging is viewed as a four letter word and is to be feared and hated in equal portions.
rh blows that attitude away and presents his instruction as instruction - for you to actually learn and understand the discipline. because if you're gonna do CA, you NEED TO KNOW IT. ESPECIALLY if you work in a typical lw environment where you're not gonna have someone else (or a separate department) who's gonna do it for you.
and i get this impression just from the free material he liberally shares through his forum posts and attachments!
can't recommend his stuff enough.
rock on rh.
JC
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I'm about 2/3's of the way through the first part now. Yeah I've been sitting here pretty much all day. My mind is so full of stuff now I think it's time for a break. Definitely some incredible information in here. If you can afford it Buy it. If you can't afford it, sell one of your kidneys and then buy it. It's that good. Every concept thus far is explained very clearly, with examples that make even abstract stuff make sense.
I'm not going to name any names but we've all watched training videos that may have good information, but the instructor is talking in such a dull boring way and going "ummm ah, now where was that tool" for about a 1/4 of the training. Not to mention the poor sound in most of them. These videos from Rebel Hill have excellent sound and video quality. He is an excellent teacher and speaker who is easy to listen to. The videos are also very well edited so there is no hunting for some plugin, or watching him search through youtube when he wants to show you a video clip. He simply cuts to what it is he wants to show, so you actually are getting 18 full hours of training and not a bunch of filler garbage.
I can't say enough god stuff about this training. Thanks a lot RebelHill for sharing your years of experience and giving the rest of us a huge boost in skill and knowledge.
RL
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I'm only 6 vids out of 46 and I've gotta say so far you've done a top notch job on the training Craig. It's been very informative, you've done very well at explaining what can sometimes be complex things. Your voice works nice for the training as well, it feels professional with out being stiff.
Very nicely done so far mate. (I just wish you'd pronounce "Z" correctly.)
LV
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I have watched roughly halfway through the first set and it's pretty damn good stuff here. As Robert mentioned, Rebel Hill does an excellent job explaining his views and how and why tools are working the way they are. His voice and the way he speaks makes it very entertaining as well.
On the note of information, I've already picked up a couple of things that I didn't know about, or just had vague knowledge of, so my guess is that there will be more such "Ahaaa" moments for me during this training.
Without having watched the complete traning yet, I can allready tell that this is one of the best rigging-tutorials ever released for LightWave.
Great stuff, RH!
MB
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A major reason why RH's training works so well is that he explains WHY you are doing something - that has been lacking in alot of rigging training so far. Intelligent grass-roots detail - I'm learning tons of stuff from these, and finally getting what's what and why - I find learning stuff very difficult if I don't know why something is such and such, so these are great for me.
Watching these, I've been feeling pretty aggrieved at the amount of money we've spent on training from others over the years, including books.
So here's my advice: look no further for LW rigging training than this
JT
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Source here. 