May 11, 2013

This video covers some of the functionality, workflow and quirks of LightWave 11.5's Compositing Buffer Export. It's not a comprehensive video about the tool, or the concept of multi-pass rendering, but it does show the basics of how to use the tool and warns about a fairly big gotcha with it.

Mar 29, 2013

In this video dwburman takes an old technique and applies it to one of LightWave’s newest features to show yet another way to give a non-photo real (NPR) look to your renders.

Dec 15, 2012

Render Presets is a plugin written by Johan Steen in Python for LightWave 3D that has caught our attention and for good reason.   Here is an excerpt from his site. “Originally created when working on a project that had me switching between a couple of different rendering settings for the same scenes over and over again. The initial iteration only...

How cool is this? http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24959. Yes, it’s real and yes its coming soon. OctaneRender is a product of Otoy, but the plug-in is third party developed. More details soon as we get them! Check out some of the videos below! Looks very fun and useful for sure. Octane Render Octane Render for Lightwave from...

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...