Lightwave 3D Animation - Video Toaster Follow Up Micro Episode
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- In this short follow up to the NewTek Video Toaster episode, Bill renders the little Commodore Amiga logo animation that he was working on in Lightwave 3D and also talks about the plan for TheGuruMeditation CZcams channel over the next couple of weeks. If you like short and sweet episodes like this, please let me know and I can make more. They are really fun and don't take too much time. I hope you enjoy some of the unreleased Vintage Computer Festival East footage that I have uncovered during my time in quarantine due to COVID-19 on the next couple of episodes of TheGuruMeditation!
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LOL. I remember waiting minutes to c4d draw just the wireframe.
I still use c4d today and when I complain about render time, I just have to remember the old days. :)
Ha ha nice. I started with Imagine on my A500. I was rendering an animation with a complicated object. The actual render time was about 3 days (72 hours-ish), but It took me over a week to finish it because I kept loosing power due to summer thunderstorms, ha ha!
Poor Anthony being trapped in your HDD 😪 Stay safe AmigaBill!
Ahhh ha haa ha! Every now and then I have to take him out and dust him off!
Love Amiga... been with 2014 til now.. All the best Bill and everyone. 3D Animation is cool. Keep doing great videos. Amiga forever..:D
Short and sweet; I love my wife, so I gotta love this idea! :)
Ha ha, nice! Most of out upcoming videos will be short and sweet
Great Amiga LightWave 3D Video, thanks for this!
Cheers! Thank you so much!
Oh this was a delight. I remember playng with Lightwave 3D back when SeaQuest was still airing (and from your videos I've realized the renderer has always been so painstakingly slow, lol). But I had more curiosity now that they've released a remastered version of Babylon 5 on HBO Max and I was wondering if they only upscaled or rerendered the CG scenes (I'm thinking it's the former).
I saw the original airing of the pilot of Babylon 5 and for the longest time I actually thought it was done on Softimage (there was another news broadcast about that around the same time), but I'm glad it was Lightwave 3D. I thank you for answering how it actually saved renders and introducing the more complex Video Toaster. It really takes me back to a wonderful time in my childhood.
Wow how to pack a heap of interesting stuff into 4 minutes. Nice work. I never touched light works back in the day but cut my teeth a little later on infiniD and later 3DS Max. Love 3D stuff 😁
Thanks! I like videos that are short and sweet. I am looking forward to doing some more complex stuff in Lightwave
Nice! I love playing with LW on the Amiga. Have fun!
Thanks Cotter! I can't wait to get more into Lightwave. It is amazing how intuitive it is
Very clever! That worked out very nice. I bet it would look fine as a 16 color Hi Res too.
Thanks Doug! Yeah, no need for AGA here, lol
super cool. the final render is sooo distinctly lightwavey.
Thank you!
I rendered so much with my Amiga 500 back in the day that I melted one of the chips!
Yeeea a new video toaster video!!!
It is a quick one! But there will be more in-depth ones coming soon
@@TheGuruMeditation already looking forward to it! Love this blast from the past! I feel I get what I wanted 25 years ago! :P
@@roartjrhom4932 Awesome so glad the videos take you back and thanks for all the support Roar!
Lovely video as usual Bill , keep going my friend !
Thanks Max!
New episode! *clicks like then play*
Aw, you are too kind George. Are you interested in seeing our friend's Atari exhibits at VCF East as well as a demo of an ultra-rare Apple One? I am so nervous about releasing a few non-Amiga videos, lol
Hahaa..me too!! When it is a new video here it is fantastic no matter what! :-D
@@roartjrhom4932 Thanks Roar!!!
yay I'm in the video ! :D
Good eye my man, good eye :-)
I used to use Sculpt 3D and the images were stunning but would take hours and some times days to render a single image or frame. Sculpt 3D was able to pull off some amazing ray tracing 3d images and animations for a product that came out in the late 80s
Yeah for sure. I was an Image guy. I left my A500 on for days doing renders, LOL! It is amazing how much power the Amiga gave us back then though
@@TheGuruMeditation Yep and they are just now talking about ray raytracing today in video games like its something new LOL.
Great to see a new content from you guys !
Thanks To Masz! Lots more to come!
SMOOOTH.... love it!! ;-)
Ohhh yeahhhhh! ha ha
Thanks for doing this Bill! I would love to see a textured version and also I would love to see how you actually create the frames.
Thanks Graham! You can see me make the frames in the previous video czcams.com/video/6yFdaCmRkBk/video.html
And yes, I will make a textured version too!
This is great.
Thanks Daniel!
nice!
Thanks Manny!
Like these Micro Episodes Bill :) Imagine (not the software), using your photos or videos as a reflective map (eg your recent Tron image 24bit) on the Amiga logo, Look forward to more :)
Oh snap, that is a great idea! Thanks Kev. And glad you are enjoying the micro episodes!
Ah...the good old days of waiting several minutes per frame. I made one with Real 3D back in the day that took 3 *DAYS* to render and it wasn't that long! Of course, I had a stock A1200 so that didn't help... Paid hundreds of dollars for just a 40 megabyte (not gigabyte) hard drive for that thing too. Seemed so HUGE at the time...
Oh yeah I feel you JW3HH! I was doing a 3 day render on my Amiga 500 but it took like 2 weeks because the power kept going out due to thunderstorms, LOL!
@@TheGuruMeditation I had rendered the anim file as a DCTV-compliant video and the result was really fantastic. Mind blowing for me, but when I showed it to my mom she said, "Oh that's nice. Do you want chicken or fish for dinner?" LOL
Fascinating! I so wanted an Amiga as a kid. One minor detail is that the background music track is a bit too loud and tends to distract from/drown out your commentary.
I like Deluxe Paint IV , its a long long time :-)
Me too Deluxe Paint is one of the best programs on the Amiga, if not the best
"There may event the A-word involved" -> if it is Amstrad, Acorn or Apple then it is ok :P
ha ha, sorry it was one of the other "A-words" :-o
I was never a Lightwave user, but I was a big and early Sculpt Animate-3d person. My 1000 and later 3000 was connected to a Kurta tablet which let me actually draw and make 3d models pretty easily. One of the models I made was the Amiga Logo, which I hand vectorized on my tablet. I know I uploaded it to Compuserve, it may have ended up on a Fred Fish disk. I know I saw it being used as a demo by some company at one of the AmiExpos. I don't remember if LIghtWave could read Sa3d models, but I dunno! It's also not that hard to model the logo by hand with some graph paper.
Wow, that is a cool story! I have heard of a Kurta tablet, but never saw one in action. I really would like to see that. Compuserve FTW. 72457.3044 here! Wow, how the heck did I remember that??
Great. But you should have promoted Vampire 68080 or 68060 instead of Emulation. I know its faster but it is important to mention that Amiga's is not just 68030's. Great video btw.
Thanks Michal! A Vampire would have been great as well, but I don't own one so WinUAE is the best I have
What version of lightwave was installed and did it come with a dougle or can you use the program without the dougle in winuae? Good video, like to see more on video production.
Thanks! I will make more videos about the Toaster for sure. It is the standalone version of LighWave 3D v5.0. No dongle necessary
No matter what CPU/GPU you have, rendering always takes way too long. ;) Very nice rendering job. :)
Ha ha, very true!
@@TheGuruMeditation ;) By the way, can you show some tricks on materials, textures etc? Perhaps some "fancy" stuff?
Always love your content Bill! Where do I get lightwave 3D for the Amiga Emulator? I have the Cloanto set but I am finding it hard to find decent software for it.
Thanks Ducky! Lightwave 3D for Amiga hasn't been released for free as far as I know. But there are ways to get it. Let me know if you need help finding it
can i haz the lightwave file so i can test rendering this on my vampire v4? if it's @ AmigaBill and the answer is no i understand lol
Can you help me with getting my lw3.5 animation files to play back on something? What can I use? DPaint IV isn’t working I tried a ham6 anim file and it looks like crap and I tried separate ham6 file sequences but it won’t open all the frames. What am I missing here?
Is there an amiga video toaster emulator? Or is anyone remaking anything I think Video toaster was available for windows in 1999 . Super into vintage video making
No Toaster emulator that I know of, but you can run Lightwave emulated
Hi Bill! Are you in contact with someone on NewTek? I think NewTek could do a cool gift to Amiga community releasing latest Amiga Lightwave for free (on Aminet or on the Open Video Toaster webpage).
I am in contact with them. Many people want this. I will bring it up to them
@@TheGuruMeditation yess..it would be awesome!!! Lightwave is one of the most iconic Amiga programs ever. It would be cool even if some publisher like Amiga.net.pl or Amigafuture were able to re-release Lightwave in phisical format.. A dream?
OK U CANT EMULAT AN O60 WHICH IS TRUE 64BIT WITH TRUE 8BIT.. THEN U HAVE TRUE 8BIT GRAPHICS ON THE PC SIDE. I have had winuae. iits not as fast as a stock a1000 .I have a 8 core system, but in all truth 64 core 8x8 x8. Each single core is 8bit layered 8 cores. Pcs=mac started beating the Amiga Stock only , and only in number crunching ie rendering. Wonder why u need so much ram for rendering on the pc side .. for its fake"24bit"// its grouped , and layered . ore to the no multitasking , and no real-time on a pc=mac-closed source linux . Then again get more cpus ie Toaster screamer/oven .. nothing will beat that. Yeah Ill stick with my toaster 4000 .