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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      

Advanced Placement 1.0 is shipping

Many of you have been following the development of Steve Hurley’s Advanced Placement over the past couple of years. You will be happy to know that the 1.0 version ofRead More

Rebel Hill Nodal Fundamentals is Now Free

Rebel Hill decided to distribute the first part of his RHN tutorial for free. Now everyone can get in on the nodal learning goodness by checking out his YouTube channel.Read More

Free Video: Fuzzy Edges in LightWave 11.5

In this video dwburman takes an old technique and applies it to one of LightWave’s newest features to show yet another way to give a non-photo real (NPR) look to your renders.

Free video : Baking Normal Maps in LW 11.5 with DP_Kit

New freebie video from DWBurman: Baking Normal Maps in LightWave isn’t quite as easy as it should be. There are a few plugins that can help. In this video IRead More

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.