For about 8 months I have been working on a feature length animated film using Lightwave 3D. The film is an epic fantasy called "DragonWars" where all the characters are, you guessed it, dragons!

I have some WIP of some of the opening scenes so please check them out and tell me what you think.

Here's the link, click on the "Media" link:

http://www.digital-sorcery.com/feature.htm

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http://www.digital-sorcery.com/web/XML/dwars_production.xml


I have about 20 minutes of "first pass" animation and many characters modeled and rigged already. To my knowledge, once the film is made, it will be the first feature length 3D animated feature film entirely created by a single artist (although I do plan on having some real voice actors come in at the end and redo the dialog).

The plan is to complete the film by 2008 and show it at SIGGRAPH, animation friendly film festivals, then either get distribution or self distribute on DVD.

Great concept and visual work.

looks great, keep up the good work I cant wait to see the finished product

nice, can't wait until you texture them in your final stages.

That looks cool and the story sounds interesting. Careful with the camera moves though, some of them were too much in the chamber talking with the council. When Sorn was looking around, I would've preferred a locked down camera or one with consistent motion. The move that was there seemed to be locked to his gaze and moved around quite a bit in unnatural ways.

That looks cool and the story sounds interesting. Careful with the camera moves though, some of them were too much in the chamber talking with the council. When Sorn was looking around, I would've preferred a locked down camera or one with consistent motion. The move that was there seemed to be locked to his gaze and moved around quite a bit in unnatural ways.


I agree. I've heard this problem with the camera moves on other forums I posted this on. One of my film instructors was famous for saying "I HATE unmotivated camera moves!". I have to keep that in mind.

Do you have an updated link for your film? I do Lightwave animation, too and would like to see.