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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      

Video: LightWave to After Effects with AE Link

For years it’s been a real chore to get camera and other data from LightWave to After Effects. There were ways to do it, but none were nearly as easy to use as AE Link.

LightWave Plugin of the Week: Radial Move

Hi there, It’s been a crazy few weeks for me, so the plugin of the week kind of slipped through the cracks. I wanted to post something this week, butRead More

LightWave Plugin of the Week: UberCam

This week’s plugin is our very own UberCam plugin. UberCam is actually a set of over a dozen cameras for LightWave. UberCam is still being maintained and improved and version 1.9 was just released.

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: Align & Distribute

Another Modeler plugin I’ve been using lately is Artur Wawrzonkiewicz’s Align and Distribute. This plugin brings Adobe-like alignment and distribution tools to Lightwave Modeler. This is an Lscript-based plugin, soRead More

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: Truss2

After several weeks off, the Lightwave Plugin of the Week is back with another classic (i.e. older) modeler plugin: Truss2 by Koki Morioka. This plugin takes makes tubes or discsRead More

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: c-plane

Cplane is an old and free plugin that gives LightWave users some of the functionality of a construction plane.

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.

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: DP Instance

This week’s plugin is DP Instance by Denis Pontonnier. Why? because I already had a video recorded for it. Instancing is a great way to fill your landscape with trees or hive with bees without having to fill your scene file (or RAM) with hundreds or thousands of objects.

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: Rope Editor Plus

Rope Editor Plus: If you need to make ropes or cables or anything that is rope-like, this is a plugin you should look at.

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: Worley Labs

This week we highlight a whole bunch of plugins from Worley Labs. Sure, they’re not new, but most of them are still useful, and now they’re a whole lot cheaper!

Lightwave Plugin of the Week: vRoom

Test of the vRoom plugin

Hi, and welcome to the first LW plugin of the week post here at Liberty3d.com. There are a lot of amazing plugins for Lightwave out there, and not all ofRead More