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Casio Wristwatch LightWave Modeler and Octane Render Bundle
Get both of Lewis’ awesome tutorials covering the modeling and rendering in Octane Render using LightWave3D in one easy-to-follow bundle pack. Check out the images below! Check out the hyperlapse videos of these two tutorials! Get it now for just $59.95
Octane for LightWave Casio Edifice Wristwatch Rendering
This is a LightWave3D Octane Render Project of a Casio ECB-500 Wrist Watch. If you picked up the modeling tutorial, then this is the next logical step if you are a LightWave3D+Octane Render user.This tutorial uses LightWave3D version 2024 and Octane Render 2023.1.3 and can be easily followed with LW 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018 using Octane Prime (free) or Studio+ from Otoy. LightWave3D 2023 and 2024 come with Octane Prime (free) ready for you to use, so if you have been a recent upgrade or new seat participant, all youRead More
Casio Edifice ECB-500 Wristwatch – Modeling Tutorial
Hello, my name Is Elvis “Lewis” Blazencic and I’ve been a professional 3D generalist for 20+ years. In this video, working in LightWave3D Modeler, I show you how I created a complete project of a Casio ECB-500 wristwatch.This video shows how to model a fully SubD Mesh of a Casio ECB-500 Whist Watch including UV map techniques on how to apply textures. It’s a full-on Modeling course spread across 19 chapters (ranging from 10 to 60 minutes per chapter) in total of 11 hours of high-quality instructional video. This titleRead More
Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 4
In this 4th volume of the Advanced Space Scene Creation Series, Kat brings forward ancient assets from pre-LW 2015 era and updates them to LightWave3D 2024.1, incorporating PBR materials adapted from the original “standard” material surfaces, in order to re-create the legendary Apollo 8 “Earth Rise” Photograph. This is a 90-minute tutorial that provides you insight on several surfacing and material properties techniques as well as Pixel Filter and Post Render (comp ie Fusion) tweaks to achieve the realism of the original 1968 Photo. This is a great tutorial thatRead More
Meowy Christmas Sale! Get 30% off until Jan 1st 2025
Aha! It’s apparently Christmas or something. A meowy Christmas? Yup and Christmas Kitty wants you to save. You thought we had forgotten with all the stuff going on in the world of LightWave and elsewhere. Nope, we just wanted to give people some breathing room with all the sales and upgrades and all that jazz.But now it’s time for our annual Christmas Sale here at Liberty3d.com and we are providing you a nifty 30% off coupon that is valid pretty much store-wide on everything from bundles to tools to tutorials.Read More
Quetzelcotal – From Old To New
Here is a fun little video and content bit, featuring the Queztecotal from “Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon”. At about 48 minutes, Kat brings this 2007/08, LW 9.6 era asset from LW2015 to LightWave 2024. It’s a great study for those just getting back into LightWave after many years. Rigged by the legendary Timothy Albee and designed by Kat with Greg Charest for the Syfy network show, “QwetzyCow” as he was affectionately known – lives again and is ready to get down to the business of eating livestock, stockRead More
Practical Production Techniques Vol. 24 – Vampire Tricks
In this title, just in time for Halloween (2024), Kat brings you a fast-moving, hard-hitting, real-world VFX pair of shots that shows you how to dissolve Vampires similar to how the original Blade movie series, Buffy the Vampire TV Series, but can easily be adapted to work like The War of The Worlds Tripod “death beam to dust” and even the “Thanos Snap” dissolves are done. Working in LightWave2023/24 with TurbulenceFD (concepts work going back to earlier versions so long as your TFD is working) and Fusion Studio (or Resolve FusionRead More
Alien Rubicon Trailer
Here is another LightWave3D movie from The Asylum. I have 9 shots in this show, with 3 of them in the trailer. Most of this is still being done in LightWave3D 2015.3. It would be awesome if we could were allowed to use LW 2023/24 more. Certain factors keep us held back. Mostly human. For one of my shots, I used 2023 because 2015 wasn’t cutting it for a number of reasons. Someday I would like to do a tutorial or overview of all of these shows and why andRead More
TurbulenceFD Advanced Concepts and Projects – Napalm
Have you ever wanted to drop some “snake and nap’e”? Of course you have! In this tutorial, Kat brings you through the steps of working in LightWave 2023/2024 and TurbulenceFD (which is now included in LightWave) to create a “Napalm” bomb drop effect. Every aspect of the creation process is covered in this 3.5 hour tutorial split into 10 easily consumable segments. Scene setups saved along the way, from the bombs dropping from the A-10 (included!) using Bullet and all the TFD workup and scene settings ready to simulate andRead More
Katnadoes for Embergen!
Oh no! It’s a Katnado!Well, how about a bunch of Embergen based Tornadoes from VFX Artist Kelly “Kat” Myers, created for the Asylum film “The Twisterz” (TBD)? In this package you get all the tornadoes that Kat created for the film plus the work-up files and “bonus bits” VFX artists will need to create their own tornadoes ranging from a simple twister up into F4 category. Ground dust, base swirls, and funnel clouds are all included.With tornado season in full swing this spring/summer and with some big “tornado” movies comingRead More
Nuclear Power Plant For LightWave3D 2015 +
Here is the Nuclear Power Plant from the 2008 SyFy Channel Movie of the Week, “Fireball” in LightWave3D 2015 format (can easily converted to 2018+). It’s partially based on the physical location in the lower mainland (Vancouver BC) wastewater treatment facility where a portion of the film’s final sequences were shot as there is no nuclear power plant in Western Canada. Included as a bonus to this model/assembly, is the “reactor core” as a “half set”. This was used for certain shots including several that got cut for time. WithRead More
Advanced TubulenceFD for LightWave3D – Rising From the Fog
Now that TurbulenceFD is a part of LightWave3D 2023 (and up), Kat has produced a lovely tutorial that demonstrates some of the more advanced features while achieving a Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan “mutara nebula” spaceship rising through the gaseous cloud effect. Using the Iron Sky “Valkyrie” UFO as a subject in this case (included in the content files!), Kat walks you through the various aspects of more advanced functions in TurbulenceFD including Velocity Dampening, Velocity Weight, using helper objects, object vs. particle for “cloud” generation techniques and more.WithRead More
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-53Read More
Kat’s EmberGen Presets Vol. 1 – Ground Explosions
JangaFX EmberGen is a real-time computational fluid Dynamics simulation solution for smoke and fire. Similar in purpose to Jawset’s TurbulenceFD which Kat has been using for over a decade now and produced several video and preset scene packs for, the biggest advantage that EmberGen has is its immediacy. What you see is what you get, in real-time instead of simming for minutes or sometimes hours with TurbulenceFD and then having to try and shade things and then render it. EmberGen is a massive leap forward and Kat has been workingRead More
Kat’s Snow Pack for LightWave3D 2015.3
Here is a great little pack of 14 snow setups for use in your scenes with LightWave3D 2015.x (or above)Taken from several different feature films and TV shows Kat has done over the years, these are pretty much drop-in and go with minimal adjustment required. They are optimized to render fast, featuring 12 different unique snow flakes, making use of PFX and Instancing. Do everything from a Charlie Brown or South Park snow-like effect to full-on Blizzard scenes with these!This pack contains 14 scenes of various snow like conditions, usingRead More
Only 2 days left to get in on the new LightWave Digital Deal!
Greetings LightWavers! I know we have been a bit quiet over the last few months, but it has been for a lot of good reasons. Right now, while we prep new material and goodies for the LightWave community, we wanted to remind everyone that the LightWave Digital deal on upgrading and or new seats with extra goodies for an Autumn 2023 release of LightWave3D 2023 is almost over. Get in now to ensure maximum savings! Lightwave 3D deals. Ends Thursday 15th June. https://www.lightwave3dx.com Password: JeniSys
Practical Production Techniques Vol. 22
Kat is back with another in the Practical Production Techniques series, this time with Volume 22!In this installment in the incredibly popular series, Kat walks you through a complete VFX shot for “Curse of The Phantom Shadow” and continues off of the back of Project TowTruck (see Kat’s other titles for details). Everything from BG plate clean up and roto, animation, TurbulenceFD effect, to lighting, rendering, and to final comp working in LightWave3D 2020.0.3 and Fusion 18, this video has it all!Kat runs through everything needed to work with theRead More
A win for LightWave3D – Shark Side of the Moon on Tubi, Plus our Back to School Sale on now!
It’s time for our annual Liberty3D.com Back to School sale!Use the coupon code: BTS2022L3D and get 30% off your purchases of almost everything in our store until September 10th!While you are doing that, make sure you check out the Tubi Originals trailer for “Shark Side of the Moon”, made with LightWave3D, Fusion and After Effects by the artists of The Asylum. That includes Kat, Wes Sargent, Mojo, Jon Karner, David Morton, Glenn Campbell (VFX Supervisor), Tammy Klien, Neil Sopata, Sasha Burrow and many others. LightWave3D was THE 3D application that wasRead 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); thisRead More
NATO Alliance Medium Girder Bridge Model For LW 2015 and 2020
Originally Built in LightWave3 5.6 on my SGI 02 workstation back in 2002, for the Canadian Army via a tech company in Vancouver that I was sub-contracting with – The NATO Alliance Medium Girder Bridge is a standard all aluminum mobile field bridge system for crossing rivers, creaks, gorges, you name it. It is used by all member NATO countries Armies and is typically deployed in theater in under an hour for the Single Stack Configuration and under 3 hours for the Double Stack Configuration depending on conditions by armyRead More