Nov 8, 2012

Kelly “Kat” Myers is back with a brand new video for LightWave3D 11.x in Practical Production Techniques Vol. 5! This video covers many of the new features found in LightWave3D 11 including the new flocking system, instancing, unified sampling overview, MDD baking techniques combined with quick IKBoost rigging and animation and more. A project based...

Apr 17, 2012

NewTek is really pushing hard with Iron Sky it seems. This is good. People need to know that you can do that much more with LightWave than you can do with Maya because of costs, time and people. If you want to run your production costs up, and or run it into the ground, then use Maya. If you want to stay in control and keep your show from nose diving – use...

Apr 8, 2012

Just a quick sample of what goes into making a movie with 800+ shots in it. Once the film has been out and about a bit more, I’m going to try and get Samuli onto a webinar with me and we can discuss the shots in the film in person more or less. Would you guys be into that? It would have to be a paid webinar unfortunately I think. But we would hope to make...

Dec 5, 2011

Luke has escaped from the clutches of this production and gone home to England today. Lucky bastard, except for the England part. The rest of us are here doing the last of the last bits. It’s all just pretty much render power vs. man power at this point. That and smart approaches to what seemed like nearly impossible problems. Tuomas has come up with an...

Nov 30, 2011

Yeah, 200 days! So what have we learned from all of this madness? Well the lesson or today which can carry on else where is the importance fo previs and how its not “just an animatic that you can screw with until the very last minute”. That’s one. Second, Have enough drive space. Third, when you get drive space, build it into a proper system...