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Liberty3d 15th anniversary sale!
Summer time is here, and that means our anniversary sale is on now. We turn 15 this summer (unofficially 16, but hey, splitting polygons) and we want to thank you for all your patronage over the last decade and a half. We have certainly seen a lot! The summer of 2025 is also, according to the original US Trademark office records, the 35th birthday of LightWave3D! While we all know that Videoscape and Modeler originally came out as two separate products back in 1988, LightWave3D was born into the Video Toaster from NewTek in 1990, so that’s why we useRead 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
