February 2019 LightWave Newsletter
A Roundup of LightWave Community and Industry News
Thu 28 Feb 2019
Our top news this issue is the release of LightWave 3D® 2019, an upgrade focused on quality-of-life improvements in the interface, navigation and workflow. The groundbreaker for this time around is the first real-time collaborative connection between a 3D application and the leading game engine – Unreal. In addition, there are lots of new capabilities for OpenVDB content creation and custom shading. The first question many folks have when there is a new release is how soon their favorite third party products will work with the new edition, so we have included a first look at popular offerings – and most are ready to go now! We round out the issue with tutorials for LightWave Bridge™ to Unreal Engine, Introduction to OpenVDB Creation Tools, Introduction to Smoothing Groups, and Introduction to Material Components.
August 2018 LightWave Newsletter
A Roundup of LightWave Community and Industry News
Thu 23 Aug 2018
This month we bring you up to date on the latest maintenance release for LightWave 3D® 2018, the release of OD Root from Origami Digital (OD), and updates of the plugins from db&w. We follow that with an interview with Oliver Hotz from OD about OD Tools Pack, and spotlight an exciting VR project from Salif Eric N'Diaye. We round the issue out with our tutorials section, which includes an introductory tour of LightWave 3D 2018 from artist Ryan Roye, and introductions to LightWave™ 2018 Lighting systems, Shading systems and the new Volumetric Primitives.
June 2017 LightWave Newsletter
A Roundup of LightWave Community and Industry News
Thu 29 Jun 2017
This month, we shine the spotlight on the Japanese-based studio Montage Inc. and their stunning, award winning installations for Panasonic. We also share Ghostlight's recent VFX showreel as well as some lovely projects from two LightWave users, Simon Smalley and Garry Mellor. Our own Lino Grandi gives us an insight of the LightWave Next’ FiberFX with some great tiger renders. We close out the month with a great example of 3D illustrations created for the popular ‘Time” Magazine and the stellar UK event, WNC Create Expo.
April 2017 LightWave Newsletter
A Roundup of LightWave Community and Industry News
Fri 28 Apr 2017
We have prepared for you a Special NPR (Non Photorealistic Rendering) Edition of the LightWave 3D Newsletter! Discover the amazing talent of Sublimation, the Japanese animation studio responsible for the CG effects of “Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love” and discover their latest stunning works entirely created in LightWave 3D! For the Star Blazers fans, go behind-the-scenes of the new seven-part theatrical film project done in LightWave 3D and discover all the secrets of this monumental work of sci-fi animation. Also, with the free YS plug-ins, add powerful tools to your personal toolkit and learn how these unique tools boost your creativity when creating beautiful cel-shaded animations. We finally round out the month with some very talented LightWave 3D artists showing how LightWave 3D can be used to realize stunning works! Happy reading!
March 2017 LightWave Newsletter
A Roundup of LightWave Community and Industry News
Thu 09 Mar 2017
This month we highlight some great LightWave 3D works and news! We shine the spotlight on Massimo Zuanazzi’s latest work, a highly-detailed 3D robot inspired directly by the universe of the French electronic music duo Daft Punk. A new LightWave blog post gives an insight of the new LightWave next features dedicated to Anime! Moreover, get ready to be impressed by the unique talent of Morita-san and his team of artists. We also got some great LightWave 3D inspirations to share with the community! Go behind the scenes of the latest creative projects of Louis Du Mont and discover the lovely 3D character created by Riccardo Zema. You can also support Black Holes' Kickstarter campaign, download a free architectural scene created by Peter Waldemar and see Steve Hurley’s new dynamics plugin in action. We finally close out the month with a great example of VFX created in LightWave 3D.
January 2017 LightWave Newsletter
A Roundup of LightWave Community and Industry News
Thu 26 Jan 2017
We ring in 2017 with some stunning LightWave works! Our Artist Spotlight shines on Fumito Ueda, the creative genius behind the hit video game “The Last Guardian.” LightWave artist Peter Waldemar gives the inside scoop on creating top-quality architectural visualization for the furniture industry and digital artist Graham Hutching give us a great example of 3D illustrations created with LightWave 3D for the popular GQ Magazine. We also feature the interview of Black Holes' team during the Sundance Film Festival 2017 as well as the teaser of the stunning 12 minutes’ 3D animated short created in LightWave 3D. We also share to the LightWave 3D community another great project from Muharraqi Studios, an overview of the FX Animation Barcelona's students’ creativity and a behin-the-scene of a new text-based game adventure, Tartarus. January turned out to be a pretty exciting month!
December 2016 LightWave Newsletter
A Roundup of LightWave Community and Industry News
Tue 20 Dec 2016
We finish this year with some great news to share with the LightWave 3D community! This month, Noodles Studio gives us an insight into their latest project --"Black Holes"-- a 3D Animated TV Series that will be presented during 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Go behind the scenes and see how LightWave 3D enabled We are Formation to create a set of 3D animated characters for the famous American battery manufacturer Duracell. We also got some great LightWave 3D inspirations from Engram Studio, a new blog post on the Official LightWave 3D Blog and we will finish this year with a great example of modeling and texturing project from a talented LightWave 3D artist.
November 2016 LightWave Newsletter
A Roundup of LightWave Community and Industry News
Wed 16 Nov 2016
The November newsletter is here and highlights talented LightWave 3D artists from around the world! This month we shine the spotlight on a mind-blowing piece of art -- Nanjin Road 20-509 -- created by the talented LightWave artist Farkas Ekho Zsolt. We also got some great LightWave 3D inspirations to share with the community! Go behind the scene of the funny and visually impressive CG image made by Lorenzo Zitta and see how LightWave 3D played a great role in rendering the project. You will discover also the first animated short film of the talented Japanese artist Hajime Kurono, the latest show reel of the Spanish-based studio Gosho and the new 3rd Powers tools in action. We finally close out the month with the LightWave Add-A-Seat Promotion.
