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Creating Terrain with LightWave 3D

Simon Smalley shows us his amazing talent in this beautiful tutorial video

Thu 17 Dec 2015

Using procedurals, LightWave baked textures and Instancing, Simon Smalley shows us his amazing talent in this tutorial video. Step by step, you will discover the quick process of creating this beautiful grass image and how fast instancing in LightWave can be!

A.ero II, a sci-fi Drone

Italian artist Massimo Zuanazzi created an amazing Drone project in LightWave

Thu 17 Dec 2015

From modeling to animation, LightWave gave the Italian artist Massimo Zuanazzi all the tools he needed to create this stunning Drone project called A.ero II. Read all about his creative process and be sure to check out the video!

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The VFX & digital postproduction studio i-real Studios released their lastest LightWave 3D work

Fri 06 Nov 2015

With branches in Madrid, Barcelona, Portugal, Peru and Chile, the VFX & digital post production studio i-real Studios released their latest amazing work, Jackpot City Casino. Modeling, animation, simulations, dynamics, and layout were entirely made with LightWave 3D and “LightWave successfully copes with absolutely everything”!  i-real Studios opens its doors and share with us all the details of their stunning project.

Crazy LightWave Renders

Beautiful renders from Oscar Anchondo, David Alexander Ary Agüero & Artur Zgódka

Thu 08 Oct 2015

This month, the talented group of LightWave 3D artists, Oscar Anchondo, David Alexander Ary Agüero & Artur Zgódka show the power of LightWave creating these incredible renders. Don't forget to share and submit your best LightWave 3D images on the LightWave Gallery.  It’s fun to show off and be noticed and we always love to include the best work in our worldwide advertising to give great exposure to our amazing LightWave artists.

Piranha in sight!

Jeremy Park shows off some of his character animation skills

Thu 08 Oct 2015

In the abyss, you can some make strange encounters! With this beautiful animation, Jeremy Park shows off some of his character animation skills. Animated and rendered in LightWave. Watch it now!

Gundam Tribute Renders

Amazing Gundam Tribute Renders from Xavier Enfruns

Thu 08 Oct 2015

After a few months away from 3D, Xavier Enfruns is back with more Gundam universe renders. Renders are done 100% in LightWave! For some of them, the texturing process has been done through Substance Painter and rendered in the LightWave native render engine. A special thanks to Andrew Comb for his outstanding nodes.

CGChannel: Review of LightWave 11 to 11.6

Darkside Studios co-founder Andy Bishop looks back over the entire 11.x series

Tue 12 Nov 2013

Darkside Studios co-founder Andy Bishop looks back over the entire 11.x series of releases up to the most recent release of LightWave 11.6. Bishop also offers up his own personal wishlist for LightWave 12 

ChronoSculpt Modeling Software is Simply a Delight

With simple tools that allow you to work directly with cached geometry its a real delight to use

Mon 21 Oct 2013

ChronoSculpt represents a fusion of several indispensable tools that artist Scott Wheeler already uses in his projects, but in ChronoSculpt the technologies are blended into one new application, with a timeline and simple interface that allows him to replace the time-consuming processes of correcting errors in animation and dynamic simulations with a new straightforward workflow.