LightWave 3d Trial Edition announced
John Nack with Adobe discusses LightWave Rendition for Photoshop CS3 Extended in his daily blog
3D World interviews Newteks Jay Roth about the release of LightWave 3D v9.5
NewTek Announces Open Beta Program for LightWave Rendition for Adobe Photoshop
On-line magazine reviews LightWave 3D v9
7 May 2008
No. You got it backwards, not me. Apple did buy a video editing engine called Key Grip from Macromedia that later became the product known as Final Cut Pro.
4 May 2008
Researchers at Intel are working on ways to mask the intricate functionality of massive multicore chips to make it easier for computer makers and software developers to adapt to them. These multicore chips will also likely contain both x86 processing cores, as well as other types of cores.
10 Apr 2008
by news at beyondunreal.com (hal)
Image Metrics ExplainedCGSociety has a pretty interesting look at the Image Metrics facial capture and animation system that is used in titles like Unreal Tournament 3. To the right is our man Malcom. The eyes, even the tongue are returned fully animated, captured from the actor without any markers and no set up time, all...Read the full post from BeyondUnreal via Blogdigger blog search for "li... continues
8 Apr 2008
LightWave Rendition adds new 3D power to PhotoshopI'm pleased to see that NewTek, the folks behind the LightWave 3D modeling, animation, and rendering package, have announced a new product, LightWave Rendition for Photoshop. This plug-in technology builds on the 3D file format support in Photoshop CS3 Extended, adding on high-quality renderin...Read the full post from John Nack on AdobeTags:... continues
27 Mar 2008
XDepth - the compatible high-depth image format - available for LightWave 3D free of charge.Trellis Management Co. Ltd. announces availability of XDepth HDR for LightWave 3D , bringing Jpeg-compatible High Dynamic Range image compression to NewTek's award-winning 3D software....Read the full post from Press Release and Top News From 24-7 Press Release Newswire via Blogdigger blog search for "li... continues
26 Mar 2008
WireFusion 5 available for Mac, OpenGL compatibleDemicron recently announced support for the Mac platform by unveiling WireFusion 5 for Mac, its architectural and industrial design software for small and medium sized design firms. According to Architosh,WireFusion allows designers to create realtime 3D visualizations using content imported from Ma...Read the full post from MacNN | The Macintosh Ne... continues
25 Mar 2008
by Visual Editors Groups and Blogs
Lightwave 3D two-day hands on beginner classIf anyone is interested in learning Lightwave there is a two-day SND Quick Course at San Francisco... [www.visualeditors.com]...Read the full post from Visual Editors.com via Blogdigger blog search for "lightwave 3d" NOT torrent -site:livejournal.com NOT crack NOT cracked NOT torrent NOT warez -blogID:28479 -blogID:133915 -blogID:133792 -blogID:49981 ... continues
18 Mar 2008
AcklayLightwave 3D Author: cybrax21 Keywords: Starwars Galaxies Acklay Lightwave 3d Added: March 17, 2008...Read the full post from Jedi Knights of Star Wars | Jedi KAOSTags: Star Wars via Blogdigger blog search for "lightwave 3d" NOT torrent -site:livejournal.com NOT crack NOT cracked NOT torrent NOT warez -blogID:28479 -blogID:133915 -blogID:133792 -blogID:49981 -blogID:4352 -blogID:142486 -b... continues
13 Feb 2008
More Feedback on OS X 10.5.2/Leopard Graphics Update 1.0I've updated (again) the page of Feedback on 10.5.2/Graphics Update (Page includes general reports, benefits seen by a PCI USB 2.0 (Belkin) card owner, notes from two 30in Cinema Display/ATI X800/X850 card owners that still have some issues, notes on an Linotype FontExplorer X 1.2.2 problems (and li...Read the full post from AccelerateYourMac... continues
27 Jan 2008
Lightwave 3D ModelerAnimator...Read the full post from craigslist | computer gigs in las vegas via Blogdigger blog search for "lightwave 3d" NOT torrent -site:livejournal.com NOT crack NOT cracked NOT torrent NOT warez -blogID:28479 -blogID:133915 -blogID:133792 -blogID:49981 -blogID:4352 -blogID:142486 -blogID:115525 -blogID:160029 -blogID:93973 -blogID:241675 -blogID:143388 -blogID:142263 -bl... continues
12 Dec 2007
Fate of the SithMichael Myers vs the Sith.. A short clip I made of a up coming movie that I am putting together.. Again these are just clips… Author: crazyquisp Keywords: Halloween Michael Myers Sith Star Wars lightwave 3d animation Added: December 12, 2007...Read the full post from Jedi Knights of Star Wars | Jedi KAOS via Blogdigger blog search for "lightwave 3d" NOT torrent -site:livej... continues
5 Dec 2007
from William "Proton" Vaughn a fantastic set of LightWave tutorials. LINK
7 Nov 2007
Newtek and the Video ToasterHad a conversation with a buddy about the Video Toaster and the shrink-wrapped copy of the VHS marketing video I still own called "NewTek Revolution." This friend sent me a link to this video below which I haven't watched for at least ten years. Underneath the video is an original post from 2005 I d...Read the full post from Connecting the Dots via Blogdigger blog se... continues
22 Oct 2007
epicsoft Announces the Release of MULE 1.5! The premiere tool for LightWave network rendering and asset management is now compatible with LightWave 9.3 Green Bay, WI -- September 20, 2007 -- A pleasant bit of news for all you LightWavers! epicsoft has updated MULE --- the premiere tool for LightWave network rendering ...
22 Oct 2007
A great tut (LW8) that helps in creating surface thickness in a LightWave scene. You can easily translate this tut into LW 9 + LINK
20 Oct 2007
Picky Picky is an attempt to bring a decent color picker to Lightwave. it has a few useful features like the 'color tree' which allows users to file colors away for later use, and an image color picker that allows for picking colors out of images. it also has a ...
19 Oct 2007
by Ben Haines
Ben, the other one, contacted me the other day about the difficulties he was having with his host and Lightwiki.com. A few weeks later and PresetCentral is now the proud new host of Ben Vost’s site. Hopefully this will mean speedier and more reliable access for all. PS: If there are any other LW sites experiencing [...]
14 Sep 2007
by Ben Haines
Andrew Rowson, my dear friend who has been helping me put together the new version of Presetcentral.com, has put the finishing touches on the main site that is to host the PSPlant client. For those of you not familiar with PSPlant should have a look at this page. Andrew was keen for PSPlant to open source [...]
6 Sep 2007
by Ben Haines
Newtek have made their Siggraph 2007 Lightwave videos available online. You will need flash to watch them sadly… Lightwave Siggraph 2007 videos
8 Oct 2006
by Ben Haines
Found this rather good tutorial on how to model and render a mobile phone. http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/SE_T610_1.html
17 Sep 2006
by Ben Haines
Seems Proton has been busy putting together some entertainment for us http://www.iamproton.com/images/sq/LW9_Game.html
30 Aug 2006
by Ben Haines
A video of it in action can be found here: http://www.lwita.com/lwers/lcs/videos/DF_Sculpt_Tool.zip Download the plugin here: http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?p=147709
27 Aug 2006
by Ben Haines
Proton takes a closer look at the Connect Tool. Spinquad forums (plenty of screengrabs)
24 Aug 2006
by Ben Haines
An email ended up in my inbox advertising the fact that Tequila Scream had been updated to work with Lightwave 9.0. Its $50 for registered users and $190 new. Sounds like a good deal. Here are the features: Split frame support. Thumbnail browser. Mini anim preview. Pic viewer. Remote Node Start. No need to make ScreamerNet shortcuts. Add several scenes at once. Warnings: Warnings [...]
23 Aug 2006
by Ben Haines
TrueArt would like to present you little and free Layout Master plug-in NodeUpdater v1.0 that fixes problem with updating Node Editor window in LW9 while using animatable nodes. To read more please visit our website http://www.trueart.eu
23 Aug 2006
by Ben Haines
With its powerful 3D capabilities WPF provides a leap forward in user experiences; but how do you create compelling 3D models and then make them available to your applications? In this Channel 9 video, Microsoft UK’s Richard Godfrey interviews the developers of Shaxam (www.shaxam.com) about their experiences and approach to building a Lightwave 3D to [...]
