Animated titles and logos are also used widely in
corporate and industrial videos, professional wedding videos, and even home videos.
LightWave is powerful enough to even make simple logos look cool. You??™ll see in this chapter
how simple models put together with proper surfacing and lighting can create a cool and
unique 3D look.You??™ll take it a step further using top lighting techniques and slick reflections.
Often, text and logo animation jobs are done in multiple passes and composited together
in programs like Adobe??™s After Effects, eyeon??™s Digital Fusion, or Apple??™s Motion. But
because those tools are not always available, this chapter will show you how you can model
text, import moving backgrounds, and then animate text using nothing but LightWave
(and your growing modeling and animation skills).
Working with Backdrops in Modeler
For this project, you??™ll start by working with text in Modeler. One thing you should
remember when working through these tutorials is that text modeling is not just for titles
and logos. You can use text to create shapes or various animation elements, such as using
a 0 (zero) for a doughnut shape, or the letter I for an I-beam in a construction scene.
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