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Friday, December 22, 2017

MORE LIGHTWAVE 2018 VIDEOS

More LW 2018 videos, showing its features



By Antti Järvelä



By one of the LW masters, Andrew Comb

Monday, October 30, 2017

LIGHTWAVE 3D CITY BLOCKS INSTANCES AND MORE...



Lightwave 3D city blocks instances by 5parky777. His Youtube channel has another interesting videos. Take a look there and you'll find interesting tuts like this, about how to create clouds using hypervoxels


Monday, October 16, 2017

'ANATOMY FOR 3D ARTISTS' BOOK



Recently I bought this book. Nice and handy reference for sculpting the human body. Different examples of anatomy (curvy, slim, bodybuilder), all the human muscles and bones, proportions, canons...

 I miss more topology pages, probably the biggest lack of this book: just a few pages and not very descriptive.

 A video of the book to see its contents:


'ANATOMY FOR 3D ARTISTS' BOOK



Recently I bought this book. Nice and handy reference for sculpting the human body. Different examples of anatomy (curvy, slim, bodybuilder), all the human muscles and bones, proportions, canons...

 I miss more topology pages, probably the biggest lack of this book: just a few pages and not very descriptive.

 A video of the book to see its contents:


Wednesday, September 20, 2017

3D AMMO FOR ARTISTS






POLIIGON commercial textures (very good stuff there).

PBR MATERIALS BY 3D-WOLF (2.79+ principle node included).

TEXTURES.COM  (old CGTextures) commercial and free textures.

BLENDER CLOUD. Tutorials, models,scenes, textures... subscription required.

References? Inspiration? Try PINTEREST

Commercial Archviz models, textures, materials... 3DSKY

ARCHIVE3D for free models

BLENDSWAP . A lot of free stuff for Blender here

FREE3D... yes, free 3D models

BIM FURNITURE FREE OBJECTS  If you don't know how to use them, import them to Blender with this ADDON

A lot of Blender stuff for Archviz here, at BLENDER3DARCHITECT 

Commercial models and materials for 3D: FLYINGARCHITECTURE




3D AMMO FOR ARTISTS




Another AMMO entry. 

Remember if you want (sorry for some unavailable links, but old entries) The First, Second and Third 'editions'.

This time, as said before, Blender stuff included too.

POLIIGON commercial textures (very good stuff there).

TEXTURES.COM  (old CGTextures) commercial and free textures.

BLENDER CLOUD. Tutorials, models,scenes, textures... subscription required.

LIGHTWAVE ASSETS . Search your LW plugin here.

References? Inspiration? Try PINTEREST

Commercial Archviz models, textures, materials... 3DSKY

ARCHIVE3D for free models

BLENDSWAP . A lot of free stuff for Blender here

FREE3D... yes, free 3D models

BIM FURNITURE FREE OBJECTS  If you don't know how to use them, import them to Blender with this ADDON (and later as obj to LW if you want)

A lot of Blender stuff for Archviz here, at BLENDER3DARCHITECT 

Commercial models and materials for 3D: FLYINGARCHITECTURE




PBR MATERIALS 3 ADDON

Let's play with Principle node. New Addon PBR Materials for Blender 2.79



Monday, June 5, 2017

TUTU, ANIMATION SERIE



TUTU is a new animation serie I was working on. Lightwave 3D was used for the shading, lighting, fx and rendering. This serie was created by FICCION PRODUCCIONES (Spain) for the Spanish National TV, RTVE.

Here you are the TUTU YOUTUBE CHANNEL

RTVE TUTU link






You can download for free the Tutu APP where  Lightwave was also used




Tuesday, March 21, 2017

'PROTON' VAUGHAN TUTORIALS. OLDIES BUT GOLDIES



PUSHING POINTS is the site of William 'Proton' Vaughan, previously LW 'evangelist'

Maybe Proton Vaughan is not sharing so many tuts as before, but Youtube is plenty of useful tutorials for beginners (and not so beginners) with Lightwave






Interesting thread started by Vaughan at Foundation 3D  with a lot of tutorials. Maybe old but useful.

Sunday, February 19, 2017

WORKING WITH TEXTURES


Very useful tutorial about creating tileable textures using Photoshop. When you have different shadow levels it seems a nightmare to fix it, but just a few of Photoshop steps to get it. Take a look to this (and others) tutorial by Neil Blevins






 Probably you know textures.com (previously cgtextures) one of the most popular textures resources site. There you can find another tuts about textures  and, of course, tons of texture for free or commercial. You only have to sign up.

Sunday, January 29, 2017

BLACK HOLES SHORTFILM




This shortfilm, selected at 2017 Sundance Film Festival shows how great can be Lightwave 3d for film production. Created by David and Laurent Nicolas at NOODLES


BLACK HOLES site

BLACK HOLES Facebook page


Interesting pictures of the making of  and more info at LIGHTWAVE 3D site

Here you are the trailer



...and a  bit of fun...


Sunday, January 1, 2017