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LightWave3D 2025.0.4 Now available in your accounts + LW 2026 previews!

That was a really fun presentation this morning from LightWave Digital regarding LW 2026 news, functions and features! In case you missed the live stream of the 2 hour session discussing all the new goodies coming in LightWave3D 2026, plus fixes now found in the patch for LightWave3D 2025 (now at 2025.0.4) – then check it out here.You should also know that, as promised during the live stream, the patch for 2025 is now available in your accounts. Go and log in at www.lightwave3d.com and grab it. LightWave3D has really turned a corner and is picking up speed now. You mustRead More

LightWave3D 2025.0.2 is out now!

That was fast! Just released, very early Saturday morning on the 14th of June.  LightWave3D 2025.0.2 hit all registered LW 2025 users accounts.You can grab the update by logging in to your accounts at www.lightwave3d.com. For those of you interested in the change log details, you can check them out here. https://docs.lightwave3d.com/2025/2025-change-log.htmlThe LightWave Digital Development team seems to be moving at a very rapid pace. With LightWave 2025 hitting accounts on May 4th, and then 2025.0.1 arriving a little more than a week or so later, and now in the middle of June, we are already at another patch withRead More

The LFS Project

If you have heard me (Kat) refer to a “Project Genesis” over the past few years, you should know that it is on going and is a series of micro projects that over all, form a whole. It’s purpose dates back to our founding. To our foundation. It is now time for us at Liberty3d.com to take the next step in this series of micro projects. This one in particular being the last that Larry Shultz was directly aware of. The LFS Project is now activated as part of “Project Genesis” and today it will serve as a vehicle forRead More

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,

IpiSoft Releases IpiSoftDMC 2.0 Beta

Ipisoft has introduced its latest update for their Desktop Motion Capture line of products. 2.0 is now in beta and you can test it today. http://www.ipisoft.com/V2_0_beta.html Some interesting functions thatRead More

The stupid things distributors do.

There are several great and then not so great distribution companies out there when it comes to feature film and TV, game and other media distribution. Having dealt with manyRead More

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.

NewTek Magazine Article on Iron Sky.

NewTek is really pushing hard with Iron Sky it seems. This is good. People need to know that you can do that much more with LightWave than you can doRead More

NewTek Releases LightWave3D 11.0.1

NewTek just announced a few minutes ago that LW11.0.1 is now available for download for LW11 Users http://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=127457 You can read all about the announcement and initial reactions at theRead More

LWCAD 4.1 Released

Everyone knows how powerful LightWave is, but match that power with LWCAD and you get an incredibly awesome amount of tools for hardsurface modeling geared towards set design for games,Read More

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.

IpiSoft Announces DMC 2.0

IpiSoft has announce that it will release its latest version of their Desktop Motion Capture software that has taken the industry by storm, sometime this April. With added support comingRead More

NewTek Europe Interviews VFX artists behind Iron Sky

Interviews of the VFX artists from Energia and Iron Sky in general are going to start popping up a lot over the next couple of weeks. Here is one ofRead More

TurbulanceFD v1.0 Released

Jawset TurbulanceFD Promo Image

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 haveRead More

NewTek Ships LightWave11!

Yes, its finally out! LightWave11, the biggest single upgrade in the history of LightWave since, well a long long time – perhaps even since 5.6 came out is now available.Read More

New Iron Sky Trailer now out!

Here is the newest Iron Sky Trailer now in full 1080p on youtube.com Special thanks to the Entire VFX Team, especially the fellow LightWave artists who saved this production byRead More

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’sRead More

LWCAD 4.0 Released

LWCAD 4 showing UV map created in boolean cut

Once again Viktor Velicko supercharges LightWave with LWCAD 4.0; a suite of tools that make modeling faster and more powerful, especially architectural modeling.

LightWave3D Eleven (That’s 11)

For those of you who are not paying attention. http://www.lightwave3d.com/features-lightwave-menu.html When you are done drooling, stop doing that and get your credit card out and pick up the pre-release versionRead More

5 years of exrTrader – 25% off all products at db&w

exrTrader by db&w has turned five. To celebrate, db&w are offering a discount of 25% on all products until the 7th of October. The voucher code is HAPPYDAY For moreRead More

Urban Pad2 Viral Marketing Campaign!

It seems the original viral marketing campaign that PMG did with Messiah has caught on with another vendor. This time its for Urban Pad version2 from Gamr7.com. For 29 bucksRead More

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