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Massive LightWave3D 2026 Presentation!

For those of you who missed it, all 5 hours and 55 minutes of awesomeness, you really need to check out the presentation LightWave Digital did on Saturday, May 2nd. So many things were demonstrated. You can watch the presentation below. If you don’t have the time for that, but want to know more about what was demo’ed, here is a very short list.Advanced Placement, MotoRig, 2D and 3D tracker system, Ocean, RIPR2, GODOT interchange, Construct enhancements, The New Fracture System, Asset Browser that does more than models, images, scenes but also VDB!, a new UV Packing Solution, Ivy, The Read More

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 must Read 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 with Read More

LightWave 2023- Volume #1- Getting Started I

In this first volume of the LightWave 2023 Series 3D Instructor Adam Gibson introduces LightWave 2023’s powerful toolset. A great place to start for beginner LightWave Users. Some of the Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read More

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 Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read More

Kat’s Car Paint Collection Vol 1 (LightWave3D 2018+ Surface Presets)

Kat has been hard at work preparing these for you! Get 99 amazing presets that are in many cases factory color correct and based on year of issue color schemes Read More

Kat’s DTLV Texture Pack Vol. 2

Kat has released Volume 2 of his DT Las Vegas Texture Pack. Taken throughout the late summer months of 2021 in the downtown Las Vegas area, these lovely photographs are Read More

Kat’s LW 2020 Presets Vol. 1. Glass, Gemstones, General Metals

Get awesome new surface presets covering Glass, Gemstones and General Metals!55 Presets (.pst files) for Glass and Gems featuring smooth, double sided, opaque settings that range from physically accurate to Read More

Get 30% off during our Annual Back to School Sale here at Liberty3D.com!

Back to school with Liberty3D.com has never been better! Save 30% on almost everything in the store from August 26th until September 8th, 2021 by using the coupon code: L3D2021BTSSaving Read More

Ultra Bundle! Practical Production Techniques Vol. 1 – 20!

Yes, you read that right. After all we know how much you love bundles from Liberty3D.com. Get all 20 (current total as of August 17th, 2021) video titles of Kat’s Read More

LightWave 2020 -Volume #13- Getting Started I

In this thirteenth volume of the LightWave 2020/2019/2018 Series 3D Instructor Adam Gibson introduces LightWave 2020’s powerful toolset. A great place to start for beginner LightWave Users. Some of the Read More

Model a Wheel in MoI 3D

Phil Nolan walks you through the finer points of modeling a car wheel in Moment of Inspiration (MoI 3D) and how to export and render it in LightWave3D 2019.1.5. This Read More

Practical Production Techniques Vol. 18 – Bullet Dynamics Ferris Wheel

As we all know, Bullet Dynamics in LightWave3D as with any program that supports Bullet, has a lot of uses beyond smashing and crashing stuff. Or a stupid box and Read More

Practical Production Techniques Vol. 17 – Megascans

In Kat’s Practical Production Techniques Volume 17., Megascans is the subject and how to produce a scene using them quickly, is the goal! This tutorial introduces New and Older LightWave3D Read More

Practical Production Techniques Vol. 16 – Kitbash3D.com “Brooklyn” to LightWave3D

In this installment of the Practical Production Techniques series, Kat is back with a KitBash3D.com to LightWave3D conversion tutorial dealing with PBR nodal based surfacing using the metalness and roughness Read More

Practical Production Techniques – Volume 15

In this 15th volume of the Practical Production Techniques series, which contains approximately 1191 (that’s almost 20 hours!) minutes of video, multiple award-winning VFX artist and CG Supervisor Kelly “Kat”Read More

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