KurtSmith3D’s Expressions Tutorial on YouTube

KurtSmith3D’s Expressions Tutorial on YouTube

Mar 25, 2012

Kurt Smith posted a video on YouTube that shows how to use a null and some simple expressions to control a morph.

IpiSoft Announces DMC 2.0

IpiSoft Announces DMC 2.0

Mar 14, 2012

IpiSoft has announce that it will release its latest version of their Desktop Motion Capture software that has taken the industry by storm, sometime this April. With added support coming for dual character capture, props tracking, hands and head tracking, female tracking and over all work flow improvements, this should really turn things upside down. More...

NewTek Europe Interviews VFX artists behind Iron Sky

NewTek Europe Interviews VFX artists behind Iron Sky

Mar 9, 2012

Interviews of the VFX artists from Energia and Iron Sky in general are going to start popping up a lot over the next couple of weeks. Here is one of the first ones that you can read in English. It’s only a couple of pages but it will help to give you some insight into the process with regards to Iron Sky’s visual FX and how LightWave played THE...

TurbulanceFD v1.0 Released

TurbulanceFD v1.0 Released

Mar 8, 2012

TurbulanceFD, the fire and smoke voxel plugin which has been used in productions such as Terra Nova & Iron Sky, has finally moved from beta to an official v1.0 release.

VoluMedic Creative Edition

VoluMedic Creative Edition

Mar 8, 2012

If you're one of those people who were impressed by the volumetric editing and rendering capabilities of VoluMedic, but couldn't afford the $1,000+ price tag, you'll be happy to hear that VoluMedic CE has most of that power at price point that's less than the cost of a LightWave upgrade.

LightWave 11 HardCore Member Discount Expiration Date

LightWave 11 HardCore Member Discount Expiration Date

Mar 6, 2012

In case you haven’t heard, If you are one of the people who bought into the Hard Core program (either from the start or when you purchased LW10), you have until April 23rd to upgrade to LightWave 11 at the discounted rate. If you do not upgrade before April 23rd, you will lose your locked-in-for-the-next-5-versions upgrade price. When Newtek announced...