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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

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 methodology found in modern visual effects budgeting and supervision. But this title is much more than that!Taking the last “big sequence” of VFX needed to complete the short film “Curse of the Phantom Shadow” which itself contains over 80 Visual Effects shots for 4 minutes out of the 30+ minute film that has over 400 vfx shots (so far); this process is critical for many reasons. Shot logging into aRead 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 is a great tutorial for artists who want to get started using this very user friendly CAD software but don’t know where to begin. This is complete tutorial providing end to end project details and files so you are up and running fast! Just $19.95USD      

LightWave 2023- Volume #2- Getting Started II

In this second 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 theRead More

New!! Create Fire, Smoke, & Clouds in Lightwave 2019!! Lightwave 2019- Volume #5- VDB Creation Tools I- Basics I

In this fifth volume of the Lightwave 2019/2018 (12 Volume Series) 3D Instructor Adam Gibson introduces the powerful new VDB Creation Tools inside Lightwave 2019. VDB’s are amazing feature inRead More

Lightwave 2015- Character Rigging for Beginners & Free Character Creation Software

This massive Character Rigging Course is designed specifically for beginner 3D students who have never rigged a character in Lightwave or any other 3D package. -Basic rigging concepts and principlesRead More

Using Adobe Character Animator for Lip Sync 2: Triggering Morphs

Here it is. Part Two of dwburman’s free tutorials showing how to use Adobe’s Character Animator (Preview) to animate mouths for LightWave and other apps. This time it’s definitely aRead More

Using Adobe Character Animator for Lip Sync

Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers got a new app with After Effects when CC2015 was released. It’s a small, still-in-development app called Character Animator (preview). It’s designed to use a webcamRead More

RHiggit V2 – Released!

Finally… RHiggit V2 is here…Featuring unparallelled levels of functionality and ease of use, RHiggit 2 offers the most versatile, powerful, and artist friendly rigging toolset available no just for LightWave,Read More

4 Unity Pipelines for Animations

Unity Pipelines for Animations will walk you through the 4 methods of animation in Unity, using terminology and concepts familiar to LightWave3D users. It covers the new BlendShapes in Unity 4.3Read More

The Comprehensive Guide to IKBooster by Ryan Roye

The Comprehensive Guide to IKBooster IKBooster has baffled and bewildered Lightwave users for over a decade.

Chronosculpt Review and Demonstration

Since the Lightwave 3D Group recently made available a trial version of Chronosculpt, I decided to give it a try. In this video, I give some constructive criticism about Chronosculpt,Read More

Brand New IKBoost Manual Now Online!

Ryan Roye has taken it upon himself to create the first online set of documents covering the mysterious but stupidly powerful and awesome Character Animation Tool for LightWave3D (which ships withRead More

Free Video : How to use Virtual Studio tools in LW11.6

If you are unfamiliar with LightWave’s Virtual Studio Tools – the ability to capture live performance (think Mocap, Virtual cinematography, physically “driving” a vehicle and storing the animation for rendering,Read More

Free Video: Unfurling a plant using IKBoost and LightWave 11.5

In honor of Larry Shultz’ birthday yesterday, Chilton Webb posted a video on using IKBoost and LightWave 11.5 to unfurl a plant. http://youtu.be/fkuPmeu28Cc

Metablobs? Oh my!

Liberty3D citizens Kevin Philips and Dana W. Burman have made a few short videos on metablob animation.

First Kevin made a video showing how to make a metablob animation that is predictable and loopable using a morphing point cloud

Then he followed that up by making an instructional video that demonstrates how HyperVoxel blending works.

Dana built on Kevin’s work by showing how, if you don’t need the control or loopability, you can very quickly set up a similar animation using LightWave 11’s Flocking tools.

Mercenary Ship Rig Test – Updated: Light Rig Test Too

This is a quick render test of a ship [digitawn] created in LightWave 3d 11 to see if there were any hicups with the rig with over 300 moving parts.

RUIN – Animated Short

Wes Ball recently released his action adventure animated short, RUIN. This very impressive short was animated in LightWave and Modeled and Rendered in Modo.

Understanding Gradients in LightWave

Unlock the power of LightWave’s gradient system by discovering all of the gradient types found throughout LightWave!

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: AE Link

Motion graphics artists who use Lightwave rejoice! You now have a quick, easy, reliable way to get your Lightwave scenes (motions, renders & placeholder layers) into After Effects. Not only that, but you can change the animation in LW and update the AE project with the click of a button.

New Uberdeal – SplineGod Video Special

We have a new UberDeal special on right now that everyone should check out.

For $129.00USD you can pick up all 9 of Larry’s Videos that he has with us on Liberty3d.com and Liberty3d.com will throw in a copy of UberCam 1.5 for saying thank you for all of your support. That’s almost 50 bucks off what it would cost to get Larry’s Videos purchase separately on their own plus UberCam 1.5 which is priced at 39.95USD regularly brings you a savings of almost $90 dollars in total.

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

Iron Baby

Neat Iron Man parody by Patrick Boivin.
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