Star Meh: The Wormhole - SciFi Animated Short dwburman 2020-04-09 | Join our crew of intrepid space adventurers as they witness the astronomical event of a lifetime. Will they survive the encounter or will their hubris be their downfall?Hoo Boy! dwburman finally got around to making a cartoon short that wasn't for someone else. I hope you like this little sci-fi comedy spoof created by Dana W. Burman. This project has been years in the making, although, to be fair, most of that time was spent not working on it. :)The 3D modeling and animation were done in LightWave 3D. You can see some samples and technique videos in the archives of this channel. Most of 2D animation was done in Adobe Character Animator with some shots done in After Effects. Editing and some basic compositing were done in Premiere Pro. 3D Coat, Photoshop, Illustrator and even a bit of Moho (the artwork for the first version of the 2D captain character) were used in making the visuals. Dana's audio was recorded in Reaper. While the 3D bridge set was built and textured over the last several years (along with early versions of the captain character), the actual recording and animation of the episode and all the rest of the character artwork were largely made between December of 2019 and February 12, 2020 with a few more updates in March and April.
Star Meh - A look at the workflow and project files. dwburman 2021-02-08 | Hang out with Dana W Burman as he takes an unscripted, unplanned look at the project files from the cartoon he released nearly a year ago. You can see the short here: youtube.com/watch?v=BgtUXxqcbCoSee how LightWave3D, Adobe Character Animator, After Effects, and Premiere Pro were used to make this 6 minute animated Star Trek parody.Support the stream: streamlabs.com/dwburman
WMR home environment test dwburman 2020-01-28 | This is actually over a year old at this point. I tried making a custom home environment for the Windows Mixed Reality portal. I suppose this may have worked better if I made it in pieces instead of one object. Still, it mostly works. The main problem is that pitch black shadow that covers half the set. Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.com dwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
LightWave3D Nodes Placing Images With Transparency dwburman 2019-08-24 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Select By Map: Lightwave3D Tip dwburman 2019-08-08 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
LW3D Idea: Rotate Null To Flatten Normals dwburman 2019-07-17 | This does not work as I'd want it to, but I thought I'd put this out there in hopes that it would spark some ideas in others.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Lightwave 2019 Make Your Own Custom Cel Shader dwburman 2019-07-15 | Remember when Lightwave 3D 2018 didn't have shader nodes in the node editor so you could no longer make your own custom cel shading set ups? Well, they're back in LW2019! You just need to use 2 nodes where before you only needed 1.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Adding Settings to Print Setup Panel in Cura dwburman 2019-05-08 | This is a quick video demonstrating how to access settings that are hidden by default in Cura 3.6Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
LW3d Tip Photoshop Path to LightWave 3D dwburman 2019-04-01 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Exit Wound Pendant Product dwburman 2018-11-14 | Sculpted in 3D Coat and printed at Shapeways.com. Available for purchase in many materials at shapeways.com/shops/dwburmanThe original sculpt was was made in 3D Coat and exported as a hi res mesh. I had to do a bit of editing to get it to be printable and I did that in Lightwave and Chronosculpt.This was printed with the Polished Bronze Steel material.
Lightwave 3d Swirly Procedural Textured Environment dwburman 2018-11-08 | This video is the result of a project where I generated a slew of pictures that were supposed to look like someone making abstract art. To make this video, I slowed down the action and rendered a ton of frames.The music is just some stock music from Youtube.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Design Your Own Oreo-like Cookie - 3D Builder Tutorial dwburman 2018-08-27 | This video shows just how fast and easy it is to make a 3D Printable custom Oreo cookie shape using the free Windows 10 3D Builder software. This project was inspired by the Oreos episode of Bon Appétit's fantastic Gourmet Makes series.Pastry Chef Attempts To Make Gourmet Oreos | Gourmet Makes | Bon Appétit: youtu.be/-pAOuR8s03QThe cookie blank made from the screen grab could use a bit more reworking both in design and in finishing, but it was mainly something I did for fun and to demonstrate the usefulness of 3D Printing in this application.I admit I walk through the process probably too quickly for beginners. I wanted to demonstrate how quick the process can be. I apologize if it's too hard to follow along with me.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
When STL files open in the wrong program - Windows File Associations dwburman 2018-08-18 | This is a response to a question I saw in a 3D Printing facebook group. It shows how to make a file open in the program you want it to open in. Unfortunately, the screen capture software did not track the mouse pointer properly. Hopefully, you can still tell what I'm doing. The pointer jumps to the correct location when I click the mouse button.
LW3D Free LipSync Nodes dwburman 2018-05-18 | Download the .node files at Liberty3d,com: http://www.liberty3d.com/2018/05/mouth-selector-node-setup-for-lightwave3d-free-files-from-dana-burmanYou can download the mouth shapes template at http://okaysamurai.com/puppets, but they are all in one .psd file and will need to be separated into separate images.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
LightWave 3D: Seeing Limited Region Handles in VPR mode. dwburman 2018-05-14 | This is just a quick look at how to enable the Limited Region handles with the viewport in VPR mode. The handles do work even if you cannot see them. Turning on either of the OpenGL overlays will let you see the handles.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Update: Character Animator to Lightwave 2018 dwburman 2018-05-13 | Two updates to my earlier video (youtube.com/watch?v=trlcb0uAZrw) : 1. I show an LScript written by a viewer that makes it easier to move data from Character Animator to LightWave.2. I show an alternate node flow for selecting morph maps.Special thanks to YouTuber, "Quick Programming" (a.k.a. Eathorne Choongo) for sharing the LScript he wrote to streamline the process!Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
LightWave Node Editor Organization Tips dwburman 2018-05-11 | In this video I cover renaming nodes, adding comments, using compound nodes and renaming their inputs/outputs and saving and loading node setups.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Using Character Animator Lip Sync in LightWave3D 2018 dwburman 2018-03-05 | How to take lip sync data from Character Animator to LightWave to control Morph Maps or textures without having to export a video or image sequence from Character Animator.There is an update to this video that shows off a script someone wrote to automate some of this process. youtu.be/TCSNpBiyVioTutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videosThe basic workflow is:1) Do the Lip Sync in Character Animator.2) Copy / Paste the Lip Sync solution to an item in After Effects that can be sent to LightWave (like the Y position channel on a light)3) I'm AE, Use the 'Export Selected Layer to LightWave 3D' plugin to send the layer with the Lip Sync data to LW4) In LW's node editor use the Lip sync item's animated channel as the input to a gradient and plug the mouth shape morphs or images into gradient key that correspond with the visemes used.
Safety Action Team GO! :60 promo dwburman 2018-02-24 | ** March 1, 2018, 1:45 at the Emerald City Comic Con, I will be showing an excerpt of this show as well as a demonstration of how we used Character Animator and other Adobe software to make the it. **Here's a faux commercial for my 80's cartoon inspired educational series for http://safetyambassadorprogram.com.At this point, there are no plans for a public release of the series, so there's really no need to stay tune.The 3D artwork was made in LightWave3D, and much of the 2D artwork was made, or at least started in Moho. Of course, any of the 2D artwork could've been made in Illustrator or Photoshop.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Making a Cartoon Backdrop: LightWave3D to After Effects dwburman 2018-02-11 | This video shows how I sent position data and cameras from a LightWave 3D scene into After Effects to build out a set for a cartoon series I worked on.Is there something else you like me to show about how I made this? Let me know in the comments.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Face Mask: Fun With LW2018 Edges dwburman 2018-01-16 | Here's a little project I did for fun when I discovered the Lightwave3D 2018's Time node.There's only audio in the first part of the video.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
LW2018 Test render: Fleshy tile test. dwburman 2018-01-13 | I was experimenting in LightWave 2018, but things weren't working out quite the way I wanted, so I decided to play around a bit and set up surfaces and a 600 frame camera animation and render it out. Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Nebula-esque loop dwburman 2018-01-08 | This is a render from a quick test of Lightwave 3D's new volumetrics system. The setup was quick, but the render took a while, but I didn't try to get the render times down. I just let it render when I wasn't using the computer for other stuff.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Old Scene in LW2018: Space Toon Troubleshooting dwburman 2018-01-07 | LightWave 2018 has been released and it brings with it some fantastic changes, but your older assets may require some updating. In this video I open up an old scene in Lightwave 3D 2018 and troubleshoot some texturing and lighting issues.In this scene I have to rework some textures where some things are no longer options and I have an issue with the falloff distance on some lights interfering with the new Cel shader.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Using Edges for a Light Rim Effect in LightWave3D (Repost) dwburman 2017-11-14 | Reposted with louder audio.LightWave 3D's edges are very versatile when using the node editor. In this example I show how to set the color and width to simulate a painted highlight on a cartoon building. I also show using a gradient to 'turn off' edges on the more vertical surfaces to better match the reference art. I plugged this into the taper, but I could've also plugged it into opacity instead.If you noticed I'm using an older version of LightWave, it's because I recorded this on my laptop which I use for audio recording and hadn't bothered installing the latest version of LightWave on it yet.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Quick Cartoon Asteroid Field in LightWave3D (Watch Me Work) dwburman 2017-05-15 | This isn't a tutorial per se. This is a front row view of how I made a quick cartoon asteroid field in LightWave 3D using a (probably) rarely used modeling tool. I also do a bit of procedural texturing, deforming as well as instancing to turn one asteroid into a whole field.
AE Experiment: Paint Bucket Effect dwburman 2017-04-23 | A few experiments with AE's Paint Bucket effect. I was mainly animating the tool's Fill Point (the point where the "bucket" "pours" the "paint") and then combining several layers to get the look I wanted. For the shots where I show a cross hair, that's just a shape layer that I have following the tool's fill point via an expression.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Moho Pro 12 to Adobe Character Animator dwburman 2017-04-16 | A demonstration of the pitfalls and workflow of using artwork made in Moho Pro 12 in Adobe Character Animator The video is a bit long and rambling, but the short version is:• Put your Moho Layers into groups that use the same layer naming conventions as seen in the default AI puppet template, and make sure all layers are turned on. • Export frame as svg. Open the svg in Illustrator and save it as a .ai file. • Import the .ai into Character Animator and fix any tags that aren't quite right.There may be some cleanup required and not all effects will survive the transition, but it does work.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Character Animator Squiggle Test dwburman 2016-10-16 | This was an Adobe Character Animator test using the Cycle Layers behavior on the artwork to try and achieve a rougher animation test. I find it interesting that the speed of cycling isn't entirely consistent.This was made in Ch Preview 4Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
360 3D VR Video What is this place? dwburman 2016-09-24 | A short VR experience experiment best viewed with a VR headset. Is this an alien forest or something on a microscopic scale, or something else entirely?--Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
360 Test - What is this place? 4k - AME test dwburman 2016-09-23 | I just wanted to test and see if the new VR checkbox in the Adobe Media Encoder would indeed set the correct metadata for uploading 360 degree video for YouTube, so I wasted a few hours putting a whole new scene together instead of simply transcoding something I had already done. Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Editing Voice Overs in Audition using the Spectral Frequency Display dwburman 2016-07-08 | This is a quick overview of the basics of editing a voiceover in Adobe Audition showing how to use the Spectrum Frequency display to find and edit breaths and clicks and mouth noise.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Adding MetaData to MP3 Files in Windows dwburman 2016-06-30 | This just shows how to add titles and artist info in MP3 files using only Windows.NOTE: This is for adding track details to MP3 audio files. Not all audio files are MP3s. This trick does not work on ALL audio file formats. For instance, it does NOT work on .wav or .aif files. It does seem to work on .FLAC and .WMA files.If you are on a Mac, you can use iTunes to add this info.If you need to add album art, are on a mac, or this isn't working on Windows for some reason, you can do an online search for "ID3 Tag Editor" or "MP3 Tag Editor" to find one of the programs made specifically for this purpose.I know some people who may find this tip handy.You can use the same technique on jpg files, but not all picture files.
ToonShip Bridge WIP walk in 3D 360 injected dwburman 2016-05-07 | a bit more paint on the walls, and the walk in animation in 3DTutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
ToonShip Bridge WIP 3D 360 dwburman 2016-05-04 | New Nav console with textures. (except for the screens and animation of button lights). It's only two frames playing back at 1 frame per second, with a little sound. It appears that something's gone wrong by the look of the main view screen. Still a lot more work to do in this set.This is a 3D panorama 1920 x 1920.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
still image toon ship hall test 3D 360 dwburman 2016-05-03 | Just taking a look at a new piece of a space ship model.... standard hallway set.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Centenial PelicanTest 360 stereo 3D low res dwburman 2016-04-11 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Centenial Pelican Cockpit 360 VR 4K dwburman 2016-03-28 | This is an incomplete old project I thought I'd have a little fun with. Rendered in LightWave 3D using Liberty3D's Ubercam Immersive Camera. Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w...
Spaceship Bridge Test 360 (low Resolution) dwburman 2016-03-28 | I just wanted to play a bit with Liberty3D's UberCam Immersive camera so I dusted off an old, incomplete project, added a little more to it and did a quick render. There's lots of texturing left to do as well as some lighting and animation before the set is ready.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Arc Racers 360 dwburman 2016-03-23 | Just for fun, I thought I'd rerender part of an old project in 360 for VR. It's the same ~8 seconds looping 3 times. It was done rendering when I realized that two of the 'cars' have the same paint job. Since it took about 19 hours on one computer to render the sequence (and the quality settings are a bit low for my taste), I don't think I'll bother rerendering it unless I get a real good reason to. :) Overall this was one of those projects where the end results were kind of disappointing for the amount of effort that went into it. Still, I think the concept is kind of neat. Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Adobe Character Animator Nervous Eyes Test dwburman 2015-09-26 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Premiere Pro Audio Track Channel Assignment Options dwburman 2015-09-20 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Ch to LW Morph Demo dwburman 2015-09-14 | A demo for the tutorial I just posted.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Character Animator Auto Lip Sync to LightWave 3D Morphs dwburman 2015-09-13 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Character Animator Auto Lip Sync to Image Sequence dwburman 2015-09-07 | This tutorial shows a workflow using Adobe's Character Animator Preview to export only an automatically lipsynced mouth so it can be used in other applications. Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Retro Fun: Revisited dwburman 2015-08-25 | A look back at the setup of an older test video: youtu.be/-bp4MwBknaoTutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
AE Layer Tips dwburman 2015-08-05 | Basic After Effects layer tricks to increase your AE efficiency.Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
a bit of retro fun dwburman 2014-12-28 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videos
Multiple Morph Maps with Single Control dwburman 2014-11-29 | Tutorials and More: http://www.liberty3d.comdwburman's tutorials: http://www.liberty3d.com/citizens/d-w-burman/danas-videosSorry this is so long and rambling.
