dwburman
Vue 11 Released
E-on has release the latest version of their line of 3D tools. It may not all be good news, however.
Robotech Valkyrie Project Teaser – A Fan Film with VFX that Wow
There’s a new teaser out for a Robotech Fan Film. There doesn’t seem to be much information out on it just yet, but the teaser has some impressive visual effects work in it. Robotech Valkyrie Project is a live-action Robotech fan film by Creavision. You can check out the teaser for yourself at the project website or just watch it here: http://vimeo.com/53092702 They also put together a shot breakdown for the teaser that includes shots from one of our favorite 3D packages. http://vimeo.com/53088872 There’s a little more information on theRead More
Free Video – LightWave Experiment: Fun With Normals
D.W.Burman just posted a new video showing some of the stuff you can do by blending the Geometric Normal and Smoothed Normal outputs of the Spot Info Node.
Save 30% now through Labor Day!!! (with coupon code)
It’s Labor Day and here in North America, and to celebrate we’re selling all our training and supplies* for 30% OFF your entire order. Be sure to use coupon code: L3DLABOR when you check out to claim the discount. This sale ends on Monday, Sept 3, so don’t wait too long to save! *3D Coat, Reference Image, AE Link and QuadPanels are not included in this sale, and have been made unavailable for the duration of the sale.
In case you blinked: Big LightWave News
Usually, there isn’t a lot of news surrounding LightWave. Sure, there’s the occasional plugin release or update, but in the run up to the 2012 Siggraph conference (August 5-9), Newtek has made several announcements about its flagship 3D product, and a couple of them are quite significant,
Quickstart Guide to AA in LW11
LightWave 11 includes some major changes to antialiasing and quality settings. This video is designed to get you up to speed quickly with a brief comparison with LW9.6 and a quick overview of the settings in LW11.
Official LightWave YouTube Channel
NewTek launched an Official LightWave YouTube Channel. Not only is there now a new channel, but there are a bunch of new LW11 feature tutorials by Lino and Matt.
KurtSmith3D’s Expressions Tutorial on YouTube
Kurt Smith posted a video on YouTube that shows how to use a null and some simple expressions to control a morph.
Mercenary Ship Rig Test – Updated: Light Rig Test Too
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.
RUIN – Animated Short
Wes Ball recently released his action adventure animated short, RUIN. This very impressive short was animated in LightWave and Modeled and Rendered in Modo.
TurbulanceFD v1.0 Released
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
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
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 LightWave 11 last November, they also announced that the discounted upgrade price for HC members would expire 60 days after the release of LightWave 11. LightWave 11 was officially announcedRead More
Mechanical Displays in LightWave 11
In this budget training video, D.W.Burman shows how to make a mechanical display in LightWave 11 showing modeling, using instances and texturing.
Understanding Gradients in LightWave
Unlock the power of LightWave’s gradient system by discovering all of the gradient types found throughout LightWave!
3D Coat 3.7 – StarFighter Detailing Volume #1 – Normal Maps
In this training video Instructor Adam Gibson shows how to detail a Spacefighter model that was created in Lightwave using 3D Coat’s powerful normal mapping and painting tools.
Valentine’s Day Sale! 25% OFF with Coupon Code – Ends Monday!
Love is in the air (along with the usual amounts of oxygen, nitrogen and other gasses) and we thought it’d be a good time to have a sale. For a limited time only, save 25% on your order* by using the coupon code “BeMine†(excludes 3D Coat) Sale Ends Monday Feb 20.
Latest Products
Check out the latest products available on Liberty3D.com! Recent products include tutorials for LightWave (both project and tool/technique based videos), Modo, 3D Coat and even a collection of brushes to use in 3D Coat, ZBrush or other paint programs.
Liberty3D Plugin of the Week: UnMultishift
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 deleting the orphaned points. There are nice, big pictures demonstrating it’s function on the UnMultishift page on the TrueArt website. While you’re visiting their website, be sure to check out their commercial plugins as well. They haveRead More
Video: LightWave to After Effects with AE Link
For years it’s been a real chore to get camera and other data from LightWave to After Effects. There were ways to do it, but none were nearly as easy to use as AE Link.