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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

Practical Production Techniques Vol. 26 – “Damage Vol. 2”

Kat is back with another installment in the Practical Production Techniques series with a sequel to Volume 25 “Damage”, now in Volume 26, Damage Volume II, this video picks up, and continues on with several concepts covered in the first “Damage” video but specifically covers in more depth and detail, LightWave Modeler’s fracture tool, how to use it,  how to avoid its pitfalls and what to do when it produces sub-optimal result.The tutorial goal is to build out a destroyed object for crashing a spaceship into it (included in this package!) and setting up Bullet Dynamics and additional displacement methodsRead 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-53 Felon fighter jet. Several areas of LightWave3D production are coveredRead More

3D Coat 3.5 for Lightwave Users – Retopology

In this videos series, artist Adam Gibson shows 3D students how to use 3D Coat and Lightwave 3D together as an easy and functional workflow and pipeline in your 3DRead More

Practical Production Techniques Vol. Two Now Available!

Practical Production Techniques Vol. Two [kat] Kat is back! Now in Practical Production Techniques Volume Two, Kelly “Kat” Myers walks you through setting a scene using appropriate camera angles andRead More

3D Coat 3.5 for Lightwave Users-Auto-Retopology

3D Coat 3.5 for Lightwave Users-Auto-Retopology-by Adam Gibson In this videos series we show 3D students how to use 3D Coat and Lightwave 3D together as an easy and functionalRead More

Classic VIPER spacecraft – Free textured model

As many of you may know, Kevin Phillips was responsible for a great training series for LightWave creating a classic style BSG Viper spacecraft.  Even though these products are noRead More

Creating believable rust using the free eeGritNode shader

Unlike the CG world, reality dictates that objects are affected by rust, dust and decay. Being able to recreate this level of detail in your CG work will make yourRead More

Practical Production Techniques Vol. One now available!

Hi Everyone, here is my latest video for you guys to enjoy!

Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 2

Let artist Kelly “Kat” Myers take your skills to a whole new level. Learn how to mix LightWave volumetrics and objects to create fantastic space scenes.

LightWave3D 9.6 Modeler Vol. 3

This is the third volume in a tool-based learning series on Lightwave 9.6’s Modeler taught by LightWave Instructor Adam Gibson. Each tool is broken into it’s own video for quickRead More

LightWave3D 9.6 Modeler Vol. 2

LightWave 3D 9.6 Modeler Volume #2-by Adam Gibson This is the second volume in a tool-based learning series on LightWave 9.6’s Modeler taught by LightWave Instructor Adam Gibson. Each toolRead More

Lightwave 3D Video Collection Special!

LightWave3D Video Collection Special! 10 Powerful Instructional Videos (Download Only) for only $119.00USD! Adam Gibson has put together a fantastic collection of his videos at a fantastic limited time onlyRead More

LightWave3D Spacecraft Modeling by Adam Gibson

Lightwave 3D Spacecraft Modeling by Adam Gibson This video is great for those of you who wish to get into Sci-Fi or Vehicle modeling. In this training tutorial you willRead More

Lightwave 3D 9.6 Modeler Vol. 1

Adam Gibson is back in action with this excellent modeling video! This is the first volume in a tool-based learning series on LightWave 9.6’s Modeler taught by LightWave Instructor AdamRead More

More Siggraph Specials! Reduced prices on Kat Products!

To continue on with Siggraph Week activities – Kat has reduced the prices on his videos even further! Now you can pick up his videos for less than $18.00 USDRead More

New! Eyeon Fusion 6 Training Videos from Jeremy Hughes.

Just in time for Siggraph week, Jeremy Hughes has joined us here on Liberty3d.com and dropped a pair of great training videos featuring the techniques he used to produce aRead More

Creating Starfields in LightWave 3D

Unless you’re cruising around in a black hole, any self-respecting star fighter wouldn’t be seen dead out in the universe without a good dose of stars to fill the background.Read More

Using heightmaps in Modeler.

World machine is an amazingly cool terrain generator available from World-Machine.com. This video by Kevin Phillips (aka Kevman3D) shows how to use Heightmaps generated by World Machine to sculpt aRead More

Quick intro to World Machine.

Never heard of World Machine? World machine is an amazingly cool terrain generator available from World-Machine.com. This video by Kevin Phillips (aka Kevman3D) is a quick look and brief introductionRead More

Celshading without Shaders, Tips and Tricks

Celshading, the technique used to create a 2D visual style from 3D, is commonly associated in LightWave as an effect created through the use of custom plugins and shaders. WhileRead More

Colour Designer

Neat online colour selector tool discovered this morning over at William Vaughan’s Pushing Pixels site. http://www.pushingpoints.com/2010/06/color-scheme-designer/

Letter to Animators

I was sent this link early this morning, it is a transcript of a letter by Walt Disney in December of 1935 to Don Graham, a highly respected art teacherRead More

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