Day 3.

Videos: 8 and 9

Total time:  60 minutes

Goals: Panels, Layout Intro.

Today I started off with Lightwave's Panels (video #8).  Dan takes you through most of the panels, and their contents (very briefly).  He stresses the importance of each panel, and how it could relate to your workflow.  The important thing to remember here, is not to get hung up on how everything works; just understand that Dan's showing you what's there.  You'll get more into depth on how certain functions work later on.  If he doesn't cover it in this series; there are many resources to be had for more specific areas/functions of Lightwave.

Video #9 will finally get us out of Modeler, and into Layout.  Layout is where you'll be doing all your animation and rendering.  Dan takes us through the basic interface and panels (though not going into depth on what tools do what.....yet), and some of the nuances of each.  Again; a little dry, but it's necessary to lay the groundwork first.  I'll see you all on Monday (where I should have more hours to work on this)!

-Keith