Zelaron classes
 

Some free, educational classes on IRC are currently in the plans. However, we could use some help to decide the topic(s) for them, so feel free to vote and/or discuss the various options in here. Depending on what you choose, I'm sure the topic will vary quite a bit. Generally, this is just to check the interest from the board members in various categories.

I would really like a class in Lightwave.

I say LW too.

I'd be interested in anything, but mainly Web Design. I know nothing about any of that stuff.

Light Wave!!!

Assembly

Assembly classes would be a bit not-so-organized. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they're highly software/machine-based. There is no universial assembly (assembler?) code, it's unique for almost all machine types.

As you can tell, I don't know much about it either. WW might know his share, but I doubt he has the time to teach classes. Other languages, however, like C++ are more appropriate.

For the LW classes, I can take care of those. :)

i think a php/HTML/Java class would be great IMO

I could respond to LW questions tonight and assemble you all so you can help each other out in LW, but I haven't thought of any specific guides/tutorials yet.

Just connect to irc.zelaron.com, channel #zelaron, and be there at 6 pm EST tonight if you can.

uh...what is LW?

Plain and simple... MAYA! I mean c'mon, no one wants to learn lightwave, they just want to learn it because you use it Chruser =\ they should see some of the things that they make in Maya or 3dsmax... Like... Star Wars and err I dunno... The Cathedral? (actually i'm not sure what that's made in... but more likely some custom made 3d program for their studio... like Pixar... heh)

3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! 3dsmax! I say that is the best class :)

thank you :) well if chruser allows i'll be glad to teach 3dsmax

Fine, here are a few examples of movies LW has been used for:

2002
Black Hawk Down
Blade 2
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Half Past Dead
Halloween: Resurrection
Hart's War
Impostor
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
Master of Disguise
Panic Room
Race to Space
Rollerball
Scooby-Doo
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
The Time Machine
Undercover Brother
XXX

2001
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (pre-vis)
Behind Enemy Lines
Black Knight
Bones
Corky Romano
Driven
Final Fantasy (modeling)
Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
Jurassic Park III (pre-vis)
Kate and Leopold
Max Keeble's Big Move
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Monsters, Inc. (modeling)
The One
The Others
Scary Movie 2
Spy Kids
3000 Miles to Graceland

2000
Battlefield Earth
The Cell (modeling)
Charlie's Angels
Dracula 2000
Dungeons and Dragons
Gladiator
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Little Nicky
Mission to Mars (pre-vis)
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Pitch Black
Red Planet
Rules of Engagement
Scary Movie
The Sixth Day
Supernova
X-Men

1999
The Astronaut's Wife
Bats
Deep Blue Sea
Dogma
From Dusk Till Dawn 2
My Favorite Martian
The Thomas Crown Affair
Toy Story 2 (modeling)
The World Is Not Enough

1998
Armageddon
Blade
Blues Brothers 2000
Chairman of the Board
Deep Impact (pre-vis)
Lost in Space
Phantoms
Shakespeare in Love
The Siege

1997
Conspiracy Theory
Contact
Devil's Advocate
The Fifth Element
Flubber
Free Willy 3: The Rescue
The Jackal
Men in Black
Mortal Kombat II: Annihilation
Spawn
Sprung
Star Kid (aka The Warrior of Waverly Street)
Titanic (Visual Effects Academy Award Winner)
Wishmaster

1996
Courage Under Fire

1995
Goldeneye
Lord of Illusions
Nixon
Waterworld (pre-vis)

1993
Jurassic Park (pre-vis)

1991-1992
Freejack
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Of course, this doesn't include any games, tv series, commercials or short videos made with it. It's even been used for anime.

remind you... a LOT of those... the animations were done in maya... so i guess it'll be best to teach both! :D

a free class on pc repair/maintnence would be cool for ppl..
i could help out cus i have my A+ certification and iam workin on my Cisco CCNA
If not a class it would be a good forum to start up

All of the ones marked with pre-vis or modeling had the final results output in another program, yes. But no, that's not neccessarily MAYA, as MAX and SoftImage were used for are lot of those as well. :)

No offense for MAYA, of course... *cough* :D

how bout a class on BASIC/Linux/VB/C++ ? Basic and VB would be ez to teach.

oh ya... mind you LW was only used for architectual and enviormental modelling in final fantasy, the characters and such modelling were done in maya