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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’s poweful render engine and the LightWave Surface Baking Camera along with your favorite compositing tools to produce photo-realistic surface baking of just about any object you can imagine and get them ready for use in a video game engine such as Unity3D or Unreal UDK. With a run time over 200 minutes, Practical Production Techniques Volume 6: Advanced Surface BakingRead More
Liberty3D releases TA-Tools Suite
In case you haven’t noticed yet, Liberty3d.com is now the official and exclusive distributor of Timothy Albee’s TA-Tools Suite for LightWave3D. You can read more about this package here. https://www.liberty3d.com/tools/ta-tools/ In brief though, this package of tools were built for production use and to help artists do things that are incredibly difficult to do with LightWave through normal means. From Modeling Helpers, to Rigging and Animation Tools, you will wonder what you did before these were around. Get your copy today!
A very handy Lscript – Modeler_PointNormalToSkelegon
Stephen Culley is no stranger to the LightWave3D community. With dozens of Lscripts on his site he continues to release some really cool gems. Here is one that caught my attention as I’m doing a lot of research for facial animation with bones at the moment. http://stephenculley.blogspot.com/2013/09/lscript-modelerpointnormaltoskelegon.html?spref=fb
TFD Advanced Projects and Concepts – FireBall
Kelly “Kat” Myers is back with the first in the Advanced Concepts and Projects Series for Turbulence FD by Jawset.com In this video, Kat shows you step-by-step the process in creating a fire ball effect similar to a ground burst or that of a gas bomb explosion. Popular on set for Special Effects, but now you can create this effect in your computer with LightWave3D and Turbulence FD for LightWave. This is an extension of the concepts shown in the Introduction to Turbulence FD for LightWave3D video available here fromRead More
Liberty3d Labor Day Sale – Get 20% off Training and Plugins!
Well it’s the long weekend and we thought we would have a sale featuring 20% off on our training and plug-ins to go with your BBQ festivities. By using the coupon code L3DLABOR, you can get 20% off when you use the coupon at the checkout in our store. This sale will end September 6th, so get in on this deal now. Have a happy holiday weekend and enjoy! The Liberty3D Citizens.
Kat’s Siggraph 2013 LightWave Group video is up!
Finally! Kat’s Siggraph 2013 appearance has made it to the interwebs. It was a bit of a wait but its finally up on The LightWave Group’s youtube.com’s page. It’s short, only 1/2 hour long but interesting nevertheless. Check it out here.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYeFsqaGSw0 Or just watch below. Here is a copy of HierCloneSelect for you. HierCloneL3D: DOWNLOAD
Some neat tools from Iron Sky for you :)
Luke Whitehorn is a smart kat for sure. Some of the tools that we needed in production we had built by Luke who is a very talented TD and LightWave plug-in developer and he’s shared two of those tool today. Check em out. I will be doing a further explanation of what these things do and how we used them on Iron Sky in my upcoming video series on the VFX of the show. In the mean time check Luke’s tools here www.euriskostudios.co.uk/es/plugin_pages/free_plugins.php You should also look at ChainMove2.0 ifRead More
Coming soon…Turbulence FD – Advanced Concepts and Projects
Now that things have calmed down a bit in terms of production and trade shows, Kat is prepping his latest video – Turbulence FD – Advanced Concepts and Projects. This video picks up where his “Introduction to TFD for LighWave” video left off and will be made available through our store hit at Liberty3d.com shortly. While still being recorded, this video discusses in depth the benefits of GPU (Cuda) and SSD accelerated work flows, Network Rendering considerations on the technical side. On the Artistic side, Kat has a lot inRead More
Post Siggraph Report
Hello there in Internet-Landia! Wow, what a whirlwind week. Now that we are back from Siggraph, Liberty3D is already working on new tutorials, new product development and more. For the moment I would like to report on some of the stuff we saw and the conversations we had with many people at the LightWave3D Group booth. First off we had a fantastic time at the show and we would like to thank the LightWave3D Group and the presenters for making it a lot of fun. Of course everyone was veryRead More
Liberty3d Siggraph Report
HI there happy Liberty3d.com fans and fluffy kat types! Liberty3d.com is here in Anaheim, dodging Mickey Ear Wearing children and booth bunnies wearing… some stuff, and it’s an already very interesting show… but wait! It’s not even started yet. However we got an amazing behind the scenes preview of some really really cool stuff. We unfortunately have to hold back any information until the morning where and when The LightWave3D Group is going to release to the world some really really spiffy awesome goodies! Ok that’s enough wacky mouseRead More
Siggraph Schedule
The LightWave Group has published the schedule for Siggraph 2013 on their website. We will be there all week so make sure to catch my presentation on Tuesday 11:30 at the LightWave Group Booth! Great give aways from Mushkin and Liberty3d.com to be had! Make sure you have your pass if you don’t already. You can sign up for one directly off of the LightWave3d.com website. Check it out and see you at the show! https://www.lightwave3d.com/siggraph_2013/
Pacific Rim
Ok for anyone who has any doubts about Pacific Rim, go see the film in Imax 3D if you can. It’s very well done and delivers on exactly what a blockbuster film should be. Entertainment!
Chain Move 2.0
My wonderfully awesome Technical Director on Iron Sky who is a fantastic LightWave3D plug-in developer, Luke Whitehorn has updated his Chain Move plug-in. I have personally tested this with Luke just this past week and it’s incredibly simple to use and because it’s an Instancing Plug-in as well as doing the motion stuff, there really is no limit to what you can do with it. Check out his demo video here on youtube. Pricing and availability will be announced shortly. We will keep you posted.
AMD Announces the first 5Ghz 8-Core Processor.
Can you imagine with one processor, having 40GHz of combined rendering power across 8 cores? Well, AMD has a processor in store for you. Let me put that into perspective for you – what does this mean? Having 40GHz of processor power on your desk, or in a node on farm?Let’s do a flash back to the king of flash backs… Battle Star Galactica. I’m tired of bringing up that show, but it makes a great case study. On Battle Star Galactica during Season II our machines for the renderRead More
Nevada OKs TV/Film Production Tax Credit
As some of you may be aware, Tax Credits play a big part of where films and TV series get made. Vancouver was at one time the 3rd largest production center in the world after Los Angeles and New York. Over the years however it has lot this ranking to other centers like London, Toronoto and Montreal after extremely competitive tax credits and shifts in talent pools eroded its foothold on the industry. That combined with Vancouver’s snobby unions and elitist public with anti-American, anti-business attitudes, its homeless problem andRead More
New Video! Introduction to TurbulenceFD For LightWave3D
Kelly “Kat” Myers is back again with “Introduction to TurbulenceFD for LightWave3D”! Intended for first time users of TurbulenceFD as well as a reference for more experienced users of LightWave3D, this video tutorial will help in deciphering the various settings and meanings in the plug-in. Exploring the fundamental concepts behind computational fluid dynamics and TFD itself, Kat also shows you some of the “gotchas” that can easily frustrate new users. From tips on how to avoid certain types of crashes, unwanted artifacts in your TFD sims or renders to insightsRead More
Platinum Platypus Studios featured in LightWave Newsletter
Here is a great article on Pete Sussi’s studio Platinum Platypus. LightWave3D 11.5 plays a huge part in his Studios’ success. So for those of you who have not yet upgraded to 11.5, read this article and then upgrade! When it comes to motion graphics LightWave3D 11.5 has been kicking the door back in on a market it once dominated (did it really ever loose that position? Not really) and Pete’s work for multiple clients throughout the US and the EU shows why and how. Great reading!
The AMD Radeon HD 7990 is the world’s fastest graphics card
AMD seems to be running circles around nVidia when it comes to desktop graphics cards these days. One of the bonuses of having an AMD based graphics card in the classes above 5xxx is that they have quadbuffered stereoscopic support enabled. nVidia graphics cards in the Geforce class do not. You would have to get a Quadro instead, even though they’re Geforce class chips including the Titan and GTX680 have “3dVision”, its not the same thing as quadbuffering output, and its more costly to use 3DVision to get stereoscopic 3DRead More
Lino Grandi talks LightWave and the new Intel E5 Xeon Processor at NAB
More news from NAB, and this time right to the source. Lino Grandi talks about LightWave’s performance on the latest Intel E5 Xeon Processor which features 32 threads. Crazy stuff. Here is the link to the video http://waskul.tv/portfolio/wes-shimanek-of-intel-lino-grande/ And remember, you can get 20% off your purchases here at Liberty3d.com during NAB week. Just use the coupon code: NAB2013 when you check out of the store. We have 3 new videos from Adam Gibson covering LightWave3D 11.5 and Genoma’s rigging technology. So if you have been looking to get into GenomaRead More
NAB Starts today and we are there! 20% off on all Liberty3D products.
It’s only mid-day Saturday and already NAB is off to a big start and we are there celebrating with 20% off on all our products. Simply use the coupon code: NAB2013 at the check out and you will get 20% off of your purchase while NAB is running from April 6th to the 11th. NewTek has a big presence there as they continue to dominate the independent broadcaster and streaming markets with their TriCaster line of products. Where is LightWave3D in all of this? We hope to find out. AsRead More