Apr 30, 2013

Here is a great article on Pete Sussi’s studio Platinum Platypus. LightWave3D 11.5 plays a huge part in his Studios’ success. So for those of you who have not yet upgraded to 11.5, read this article and then upgrade! When it comes to motion graphics LightWave3D 11.5 has been kicking the door back in on a market it once dominated (did it really ever...

Feb 18, 2013

The LightWave Group is busy and at it again coming off of their powerful and awesome LightWave3D 11.5 release with an update to Genoma coming in the form of two tools. Lino Grandi has provided us with these two awesome and extremely useful tools for Layout that make managing Genoma rigs that much easier. First up is the Genoma Renamer This plugin can be used to...

Mar 22, 2012

This is a quick render test of a ship [digitawn] created in LightWave 3d 11 to see if there were any hicups with the rig with over 300 moving parts.

Mar 21, 2012

In this 3 1/2hr introductory video to Node Based surfacing by James Willmott, you will learn most of the basic functions of the node editor, and how to think 'nodally' for power and flexibility.

Mar 15, 2012

Item-Picker-Pro A nice little picker script like the ones in Maya. Draw out hit boxes on an image of your character to pick the rig items you’ve assigned to each box.

Feb 3, 2012

A couple of days ago, TrueArt announced a new free plugin named “UnMultishift” which was designed to make your modeling life a bit easier by ‘undoing’ bevel operations. Essentially, it’s a quicker, cleaner, and faster way to revert a bevel than the manual method of selecting a poly, expanding the selection, merging the polys and...