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Otoy announces GPU Cloud Farm
Yup, those crazy kats at Otoy are up to all kinds of good. Check out their recent announcement about their new GPU based CloudFarm rendering network for Octane (which has LightWave support now). http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=29544 You can pick up Octane for less than a couple of decent nights out to the movies and make your own in the process and with 128 custom Kepler based GPUs that scale perfectly for performance you can do it faster than ever before…. hmmm… Tempting! Oh oh yes!
Site Maintenance – 2/19/2013
We just want to let everyone know that we are going to be doing some site maintenance this evening, Tuesday, February 19th from 9PM – 11PM PST (Approx.) in order to expand our capabilities and deal with some long standing issues with our hosting provider’s nonsensical set up. If you have purchased tutorials or other product from us, you will be unable to access the site during this time frame. However your download codes will still remain active and you can proceed or continue with downloading once the site is back up. WeRead More
LightWave3D Genoma Update
The LightWave Group is busy and at it again coming off of their powerful and awesome LightWave3D 11.5 release with an update to Genoma coming in the form of two tools. Lino Grandi has provided us with these two awesome and extremely useful tools for Layout that make managing Genoma rigs that much easier. First up is the Genoma Renamer This plugin can be used to rename and add prefixes to one or multiple items. After adding the plugin, simply assign it to a menu (the Genoma Setup tab wouldRead More
Modeling The M.A.C.O. in LightWave3D 11.5
Modeling the M.A.C.O. in LightWave 11.5 takes you through the process of creating a solid asset from concept art. 90% of the tools used in this video are only available in 11.5. So if you want to learn how to use all those shiny new 11.5 Modeler tools, here’s over 3 hours of tutorials, culminating in an asset for use in The Dark Reef video game! Modeling the M.A.C.O. In Lightwave 11.5 This video details using the new Modeler tools in 11.5 to go from concept art to a mostlyRead More
Iron Sky wins for Best Visual FX
Yup, it’s official. If you scroll down you will find the listing for Iron Sky. http://www.aacta.org/the-awards/2nd-aacta-awards/first-winners-announced.aspx While this next link is old, it covers some behind the scenes footage from Visual VFX at Energia Productions in Tampere, Finland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=czpYwqV22p4#! Special thanks to the LightWave3D team on Iron Sky from me personally, and also thanks goes out to NewTek/The LightWave Group for making the best VFX/3D Package on the market.
The Dark Reef – Unity3D/LightWave game for PC/Linux/Mac now available
Chilton Webb, Unity3D guru and LightWave3D developer (Formerly with NewTek’s 3D Division) has been very busy working on his latest creation and now it’s available! This is a great example of what one guy can do with LightWave3D and Unity and we want you to check it out. Here is some copy from the website with some screen shoots and links for the game on your favorite OS.
SplineGod Update: Legacy Videos Coming
Over the holidays we all missed Larry very much. However his wife Camilla has begun transferring to Liberty3d.com all of his videos including ones that he was working on at the time of his passing. This is a lot of information and the download is still going with 40 odd GB to go. But at least it is on it way. Once we have the videos we will be going through them and releasing them one at a time or several at a time here on Liberty3d.com for the LightWave 3DRead More
Render Presets For LightWave3D
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 contained the settings I switched between then, but for the public release most of LightWave’s common render settings are included. More settings might be added in the future whenRead More
3D Coat 3.7- Detailing a StarFighter Vol.2 – Color Maps
Adam Gibson returns once again with more in his 3D-Coat series with Detailing a StarFighter Vol.2 – Color Maps.
Coming Soon: OctaneRender for LightWave3D
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 juanjgon on Vimeo.
Practical Production Techniques – Vol. 5!
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 tutorial, you get 115 minutes of hands on training in these new functions guided by Kat who shows you the concepts behind the tools to create a school of swimming prawns, taking advantage of severalRead More
Stasys Production Update – 10.3.12
Hello out there in Liberty3D.com and Sci-Fi land! I just wanted to post here and provide an update on Stasys since we haven’t had one since the summer which is a huge amount of time that’s gone by. First off, I want to say again thank you so much for everyone’s support of the project and hats off to our great art team who are working with me on the show. In addition to you and them, I also want to welcome on board a few people who have joinedRead More
Digital Domain going down.
Once an incredibly powerful VFX company, originally founded by James Cameron in the early 90s – Digital Domain had for years been at the forefront of film, TV and game graphics(cinematic cut scenes) work. A few years back they tossed out LightWave3D from all operations and went to a completely “Maya/Houdini/Nuke” pipeline. Now they are on the the brink of bankruptcy. Â You know those tools that everyone says are awesome and you have to learn and use if you want a “job” in this industry?? Well guess what – Â theyRead More
Iron Sky finally in Vancouver!
Iron Sky is finally playing in Vancouver, Canada. We encourage everyone to go and see it and have a look at our LightWave VFX team’s work on the big screen! It has 4 dates at the Vancouver International Film Center Theater. Tickets are cheap too! 12 bucks! (*Look for the purchase link below!) Screening Times are as follows! (Go to the opening show you silly kats! I will be there 🙂 ) Friday, September 7, 10:15pm Saturday, September 8, 10:15pm Friday, September 21, 10:15pm Saturday, September 22, 10:15pm Buy ticketsRead More
Rebel Hill Training Added to Liberty3d!
Rebel Hill has joined forces with us here at Liberty3d.com and now you can access his training videos though us as well. Currently only a few products are listed, but more will be added shortly as we help him to place his product library on the site. Up first for offering this week is his RH Nodal Fundamentals video series. This series is over 11 hours of detailed explanations of all of the different nodal editor areas found in LightWave3D and also includes project based tutorials on the various practicalRead More
LWCAD 4.2 Released
Victor over at wtools3d.com has updated the incredibly popular LWCAD package to 4.2. Pricing for this release is as follows: $149 – LWCAD 4.2 upgrade from LWCAD 3.x $225 – LWCAD 4.2 upgrade from LWCAD 2.x $299 – LWCAD 4.2 full version Here are a couple of videos showing off its new features. For more details hit up the http://www.wtools3d.com website.
Fracturing without plug-ins or LW11!
SplineGod (Larry Shultz) never ceases to amaze. Here is a great tutorial series in 3 parts that show you how to bust up a piece of geometry and then use endomoprhs to control its “shattering”. While we very much encourage you to get LightWave 11 (because it rocks!) for those of you who haven’t upgraded yet, Larry gets into some interesting ways and techniques you can use to produce similar effects that you would need Fracture and or Bullet to get if you are not a HardFX expert. This isRead More
D. Drexler and others pull out of Space Command
I am not going to speculate on the reasons why Doug Drexler and others associated with the VFX creation for Space Command have distanced themselves from the project, some rumored to have pulled out all together. I will take them at their word as Doug and others have stated online via facebook and youtube that it’s really about creative differences. My only concern is that this was a LightWave show and we need more LightWave shows out there. Having had the privilege of working with Doug on BSG from 2005 to 2007,Read More
LightWave 11.5 Announced at Siggraph 2012
For those of you who are not paying attention – well here we go! LightWave3D 11.5 has been announced and demos are going all at the brand new LightWave3D group website. Go here and pay attention – Yes yes! https://www.lightwave3d.com/siggraph_2012/
Stasys Production update!
There has been a flurry of set building  and render testing by Andrew and Alx this week and the results are very, very impressive. Check out some of these images below. Something to consider here is that this has been built out in just over a week. Just imagine if Stasys was fully funded? You can help make that happen and we need your support! PLEASE make a campaign contribution today by visiting http://www.indiegogo.com/stasys-series More exciting images and test are coming! Stay tuned 🙂