Take a look
at the bottom right. Those VCR-like buttons you see are
your playback buttons (Figure 2.4). Don??™t confuse these with a final animation or realtime
reference. These give you a pretty good idea of how your animation will play back.
Note
Keyframes
The best way to understand timing is to work with it, every day, all day. Timing is truly
the hidden art of animation.Without it, nothing works. Sure, you can make pretty images,
print ads, and the like. But if you??™re putting anything in motion, the timing needs to be
dead on. It needs to ???work.???With that said, follow this next simple tutorial to set up some
keyframes of your own, and see how LightWave interpolates motion.
Exercise 2.1 Creating Keyframes
1. Open LightWave Layout and make sure that nothing is in the scene. The scene is
like your current project, so if you??™ve loaded any objects, or sample scenes, be sure
to save your work, and then choose Clear Scene from the File drop-down menu
(or press Shift+n).
Never judge your animation entirely by the Layout playback buttons.This applies to
motions, timing, shadows, textures, and so on. Always save judgment until the animation
has been properly rendered out.
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