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Practical Production Techniques Vol. 23 – Top Gunner 3 Fighter Combat

Practical Production Techniques Vol. 23 from Kelly “Kat” Myers is a shot study and recreation of a VFX shot from The Asylum’s “Top Gunner 3” which was released in the early fall of 2023 on various streaming networks worldwide. In this title, Kat gets straight into it with a scene where an experimental 6th Generation US Fighter Jet (but production decided to use the YF-23 Black Widow model, which was the design loser in the F-22 competition back in the early 1990s) launches a missile and destroys a Russian Su-53 Felon fighter jet. Several areas of LightWave3D production are coveredRead More

Practical Production Techniques Vol. 21 – VFX Editing and Previs

Practical Production Techniques Vol 21 is a 5.5-hour (plus bonus video!) tour de force of VFX Editing and other Previs process and logic to approaching the shot breakdown and logging methodology found in modern visual effects budgeting and supervision. But this title is much more than that!Taking the last “big sequence” of VFX needed to complete the short film “Curse of the Phantom Shadow” which itself contains over 80 Visual Effects shots for 4 minutes out of the 30+ minute film that has over 400 vfx shots (so far); this process is critical for many reasons. Shot logging into aRead More

Model a Wheel in MoI 3D

Phil Nolan walks you through the finer points of modeling a car wheel in Moment of Inspiration (MoI 3D) and how to export and render it in LightWave3D 2019.1.5. This is a great tutorial for artists who want to get started using this very user friendly CAD software but don’t know where to begin. This is complete tutorial providing end to end project details and files so you are up and running fast! Just $19.95USD      

LightWave 2020/2019/2018 Bundle Pack (Volumes #1 to #23)

This LightWave 3D Mega Bundle contains: -LightWave 2020/2019/2018 (Volumes #1 to #23) + BONUS Content!! -Get it now for just 125.00 USD

LightWave 2020- Volume #22- Retro Spacecraft UV Mapping

Lightwave 2020- Volume #22- Retro-Spaceship UV Mapping In this twenty-second volume of the Lightwave 2020/2019/2018 Series 3D Instructor Adam Gibson introduces LightWave 2020 and UV Layout’s powerful UV Unwrapping Toolsets.Read More

LightWave 2020 Bundle Pack- Volumes #13 to #21(Contains 9 Titles + Bonus Content)

This LightWave 2020 Bundle Pack Includes: 1) LightWave 2020 -Volume #13- Getting Started I2) LightWave 2020 -Volume #14- Getting Started II3) LightWave 2020 -Volume #15- Getting Started III4) LightWave 2020 -VolumeRead More

Practical Production Techniques Vol 1 – 10 Super Bundle

Practica Production Techniques Vol. One

Kat has put together 10 of his Practical Production Techniques videos into a Super Bundle just in time for July 4th! Get up to speed fast on everything from surfaceRead More

Substance Painter- Volume #8- Sci-Fi Detailing II- Painting and Materials

In this eighth volume of Substance Painter for Lightwave Users 3D Instructor Adam Gibson demonstrates how to detail a Sci-Fi Dropship with Materials and Paint Tools. Learn how to addRead More

ZBrush Bootcamp- Volume #9- UV Mapping Secrets I

Learn the Secrets to UV Mapping in ZBrush 4R7!! In this ninth video volume of 12 volumes 3D Instructor Adam Gibson introduces the beginner 3D student how to get upRead More

Create Distortion Free UV Maps- UVLayout for Lightwave Users- Volumes #1 & #2

UV Mapping has always been one of the most challenging and dreaded aspects for creating amazing textures for 3D models. 3D artists around the world know this pain as itRead More

Practical Production Techniques Volume 6: Advanced Surface Baking

After almost a year since the last Practical Production Techniques installment, Kat is back with another amazing PPT Volume. This time Kat shows you how to take advantage of LightWave3D’sRead More

Free Video: Procedural Fire Texture

Procedural Fire I stumbled upon a pretty nifty way to make a rolling fire procedural texture last week and polished it up a bit for this week’s video. This isRead More

Free video : Creating Game assets in LightWave3D

Here’s a free 50 minute video on creating game assets with LightWave3D. We’ll be using LightWave to create an object, surface and texture it. Create UV maps and bake theRead More

Metablobs? Oh my!

Liberty3D citizens Kevin Philips and Dana W. Burman have made a few short videos on metablob animation.

First Kevin made a video showing how to make a metablob animation that is predictable and loopable using a morphing point cloud

Then he followed that up by making an instructional video that demonstrates how HyperVoxel blending works.

Dana built on Kevin’s work by showing how, if you don’t need the control or loopability, you can very quickly set up a similar animation using LightWave 11’s Flocking tools.