And not every job is for broadcast television; a significant market exists
for logos in corporate and industrial video environments. This chapter focuses on modeling
text in LightWave Modeler that can be animated into broadcast-style animations for
television and corporate video. This chapter takes you full-speed ahead into a complete
broadcast-style animation that goes beyond the typical chrome flying logo you might be
familiar with. LightWave has a powerful rendering engine and excellent texture tools that
will make your job easier, especially when creating logos. Figure 7.1 shows a still from the
finished logo that you will create.
Figure 7.1 The final logo you??™ll create in this chapter.
A typical ???flying logo??? is not so typical these days; with more than 200 channels of programming,
you need to stay ahead of the curve. In this chapter, you??™ll learn how to model
text and elements to create animations of text elements??”all in LightWave v9. This chapter
instructs you on techniques you can use for broadcast quality work. You??™ll put things
in constant motion, not just move one text object from point A to point B.
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