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TFD Advanced Concepts And Projects - FireBall [KAT]
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. This is an extension of the concepts shown in the Introduction to Turbulence FD for LightWave3D video available here from Liberty3d.com. With a run time of 150 minutes this video includes all the scene files you need to follow along and experiment with your own settings while learning more about the shading and emission techniques used. Each of the Advanced Concepts and Projects videos in this series are designed to get you the information and scene examples you need to quickly produce an effect covered in a project. Pick and choose which ones you need when you need them.
Price: $14.95
Intro to TurbulenceFD For LightWave3D [KAT]
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 users from tips on how to avoid certain types of crashes, artifacts in your TFD sims and tips on optimization. This video has 24 main parts and 2 smaller sections introducing the video as well as plug-in installation covering all of the basic functions of the plug-in while addressing techniques and concepts behind fuel masking, normal force and pressure, surface texture emission and more. The first in a two part series, "Introduction to TurbulenceFD for LightWave3D" is an essential video in getting you up and running fast. The second video "TurbulenceFD For LightWave3D: Projects" will be released shortly at a discounted price. Get your copy today and start setting things ablaze with TFD for LightWave! Video Resolution: 1920×1080 Approximate Duration: 325 min.
Price: $34.95
Practical Production Techniques Vol. Five [kat]
Practical Production Techniques Vol. Five [kat]
Continuing on in the popular Practical Production Techniques series, Kat is back and brings the next in the series a great tutorial package that runs 120 minutes. It covers many of LightWave3D 11.x new functions in detail while working in project based "real-world" use tutorial environment. If you have been looking at the new features in LightWave3D 11 but were unsure of where to start or where to use them in your shots, this video is for you. This video deals with the new flocking system, instancing, IKBoost, MDD baking and playback techniques applied to instances, Unified Sampling overview, touches on the benefits of the advancements made to the Adaptive Sampling system and more. Additional videos in this series are planned, advancing each time in complexity and techniques as LightWave3D improves and will be made available exclusively through Liberty3d.com
Price: $24.95
VFX Training Bundle Vol. 1 [kat]
Available for a Limited Time only! Get all of Kelly "Kat" Myers' current collection of LightWave3D training for just $89.00 USD! That's almost 100 dollars off their total regular price! You get the following videos: Practical Production Techniques Volumes 1 - 4 Advanced Space Scene Creation Volumes 1 - 2 Mars Planet Creation Tutorial Advanced DP Light Kit Volume 1 That's 8 Videos in total!! Get this bundle now while you can. This deal won't last for ever! Just $89.00 USD
Price: $89.00
Practical Production Techniques Vol. Four [kat]
Practical Production Techniques Vol. Four [kat]
Continuing on in this series of videos, award winning VFX artist Kelly "Kat" Myers walks you through an actual production shot from a low budget film in Practical Production Techniques Vol. 4. Understand work flow for completing a visual FX shot using live action footage that has to be tracked in 3D, technical considerations of the footage itself and then tracking the seemingly impossible shot with ease. Jumping into LightWave gain control over you new world and then smash a meteor into it. Don't get complicated! Get it done! Do it all all in under 100 minutes! This is how fast you need to work in order to get work and keep it. The techniques in this video are major time savers, and will let you expand on the concepts into your own shots right away. Example Scenes are included!
Price: $18.00
Practical Production Techniques Vol. Three [kat]
Practical Production Techniques Vol. Three [kat]
Continuing on in this series of videos, award winning VFX artist Kelly "Kat" Myers walks you through several handy concepts battle tested on productions that you can take advantage of in Practical Production Techniques Vol. 3. In this video learn about "Light Boards", Light Cookies or "Gobos" and how to link up controllers to give you control over just about any aspect you can think of in LightWave's Lighting system and be able to expand on these concepts to just about anything that can be controlled via an envelope. At a run-time of 110 Minutes in 7 parts at a glorious 1920x1200 display resolution this video gives you the low down on time saving techniques and ultra simple but elegant ways of controlling light arrays from just a few lights to literally hundreds if not thousands. Example Scenes are included!
Price: $18.00
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 and discusses cinematography rules, in CG. Learn to set up a multiple camera shot so that it "cuts" together nicely from camera to camera and make use of the Camera Selector in LightWave3D. Learn about "Soft-Stops", craning moves and more in this "get in, learn and get out" format video. Also discussed are the new Liberty3D Multi-Cam and Dual Cam tools from the Liberty3D UberCam package.
Price: $16.00
Liberty3D UberCam 2.6
Liberty3D UberCam 2.6 for LightWave3D 9.3.1 - LightWave 2015 (and beyond!) More Awesome Cameras and tools for LightWave3D that you can use in production right away. We have updated our VR Cameras in this release to provide for "back seam" free rendering as well as a completely re-written algorithm for our VR Stereo Camera giving you the best stereoscopic rendering for VR video out there. You get the following Cameras: Liberty3D VR Stereoscopic Camera (New in 2.1) The ultimate solution for creating stereoscopic Spherical 360 Degree VR Video! Liberty3D VR Camera (New in 2.0!) Make Spherical 360 degree videos on youtube.com, Facebook and more! Liberty3D Surface Baking Camera (New in 2.0!) Liberty3D Spherical Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D Radial Shift Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D OverScan Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D SuperPano Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D Dual-Cam Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3d 4-Up Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D 12-Up Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D Perspective Camera (DOF) (Motion Blur) (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D Perspective Camera (No DoF) (Motion Blur) (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D Perspective Camera (No DoF) (No Motion Blur) (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D Panoramic Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D Cylinder Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D Skybox Camera (Updated for 2.0!) Liberty3D FishEye Camera (Updated for 2.0!) You get the following Tools: VRHeadset Manager (For use with both Oculus Rift DK1.1 and DK2 Virtual Reality Headsets) Virtual Studio Tools VR Headset Device Node (For connecting your camera in lightWave to the Oculus Rift via virtual Studio Tools) UberRift Viewer (A brand new floating viewer window that works with the Oculus Rift in stereoscopic, properly applying the barrel lens distortion effect to your layout camera viewport) L3D Oculus Rift Barrel Distortion Image Filter (For use with our Stereoscopic camera so you can render out images using LightWave's renderer for viewing on the Oculus Rift) This release of UberCam 2.6 is jammed packed with features and comes with an awesome 60+ page manual covering everything you need to know about how to set up your Oculus Rift and use it with LightWave3D plus handy tips on VR content creation using our new VR and VR Stereoscopic Cameras MacOS 32bit/64bit (Universal Binary), Win64bit and Win32bit versions are shipped in this plug-in along with our new manual. Please note that at this time the UberRift viewer works on Windows PC platforms (32bit and 64bit) only and requires at least LightWave3D 11.6.3. Most camera plug-ins are backward compatible to LightWave 9.3.1. LightWave 2017 is supported.
Price: $109.95
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Practical Production Techniques Vol. One [kat]
Practical Production Techniques Vol. One [kat]
In Kelly "Kat" Myers latest video, Practical Production Techniques Volume One, you will find several secrets and newly evolved technologies being applied in LightWave3D. From DP Custom Light Uses to additional render passes described in detail for practical uses just as they are deployed on VFX jobs for TV and film productions this video expands on concepts from Kat's other videos but now puts them into directly applicable techniques that can be used just about anywhere. Using real-world content (included in this video) learn not only how to apply these techniques in LightWave3D but also how to manipulate the render results for maximum flexibility in compositing. 80% of this video deals with LightWave Layout and Modeler, while the remaining 20% jumps over to Eyeon's Fusion compositing system, bringing everything together. Learn to avoid traps, while exploiting functions not commonly used in LightWave 9.6 such as the refraction buffer on export through exrTrader or LightWave's native rendering buffer saver system. Learn to break out the shot using Kat's system and see how changes to refractive surfaces play with DP Light Kit Additional lights like the DP Dome light, Custom Light, and Infinite Light. You get everything needed to follow along, models, scenes, rendered images and the Fusion composite flow! This is an incredible value and more in this series are being produced. Don't let the product image fool you, it really is largely a LightWave based tutorial!
Price: $21.00
Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 2 [kat]
Continuing on with the concepts and techniques from Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 1, Kelly "Kat" Myers takes you to another level showing you how to mix LightWave volumetrics and objects to create even more fantastical space scenes. This video includes the assets for you to immediately open up, drop in your own space ship and go. You can follow along with the tutorial video (which is over 2 hours in length) and make your own scene easily, building on these techniques which are widely used in space scenes as shown on TV and in Film. This video tutorial compliments Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 1 and makes a great addition to that volume, but can be used and understood without having it in your collection. At this low price of just $17.99USD, Advanced Space Scene Creation Vol. 2 is a great deal. More videos in this series are planned, advancing each time in complexity and techniques and will be made available exclusively through Liberty3d.com
Price: $17.99
Mars Planet Creation Tutorial [kat]
Mars Planet Creation Tutorial [kat]
SciFi Style Planet Creation: Making Mars! You get the assets used in this video (The mars planet, images for the textures, and the scene set up). You learn how to create and texture your planet using the same techniques used on SciFi network space TV shows (Like BSG for example), then light this scene while understanding the principles of functions like “Fast Fresnel”, “StarMatte” objects and other neat tricks that used to be exclusive and well guarded secrets of the pros! Now this knowledge is yours! This is a rapid fire video and jams a huge amount of hand project based practical use techniques. A super great value at just $17.99USD Buy it now, get it now via instant download!
Price: $17.99
Advanced Lighting DP Light Kit Volume One [kat]
Advanced Lighting DP Light Kit Volume One [kat]
Here is Kat’s training tutorial video using LightWave 3D, Fusion and the DP Light Kit for Lightwave3D 9.6. Check out the scene using LightWave 3D and then work with the images saved via exrTrader for use in a compositing program such as Fusion or AfterEffects. You also get the Fusion 5.0 and up compatible .comp file. Drop it into your seat of Fusion and see how it was put together right away. This is a rapid fire video and jams a huge amount of hand project based practical use techniques. A super great value at just $17.99USD Buy it now, get it now via instant download!
Price: $17.99
Advanced Space Scenes: Volume One (Fast Nebula Creation Techniques) [kat]
Advanced Space Scenes: Volume One (Fast Nebula Creation Techniques) [kat]
This new video is just the beginning of a series of videos that I am starting showing you how to create awesome looking space scenes. You get the assets used in this video (You get the scene files, additional scene examples and a rendered sequence of this shot in motion so you can see it working immediately) for you to experiment and follow along with. You learn simple but fast techniques on how to take advantage of hidden (aka secret) functions in LightWave 3D that used to be exclusive and well guarded secrets of the pros! Now this knowledge is yours! This is a rapid fire video and jams a huge amount of hands on project based practical use techniques that will help you to build a project like this right away. Take advantage of LightWave 3D’s awesome speed for rendering what you might have passed off as a useless function – fog! and turn it into a wicked looking Nebula in minutes, fully controllable and animated! Fly your ships through it with maximum creep factor as this video is inspired by effects scene in movies such as Event Horizon, StarTrek II and Serenity. But this is just the beginning! Many of our site visitors and customers have been requesting nebula space scene creation tips and tricks and this is just the tip of the iceberg! The fundamentals shown in this video set the stage for even more advanced techniques to be featured in videos in this series coming very soon from Liberty3d! This video is a great value, with a run time of over 1 hour and 15 minutes (approx). Buy it now, get it now via instant download!
Price: $17.99
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