Lightwave 3D 2015

LightWave 3D 2015 Education (download version) Mac/Windows – $199.95

Lightwave 2015 provides the tools that you need to solve your animation and design challenges

Numerous new workflow enhancements and features designed to streamline your creative process. Lightwave makes the impossible possible with its easy, robust workflow for everything from visual effects, motion graphics, and game […]

Maxwell Render’s Integration with 18 3D/CAD and post production applications

Maxwell Render offers seamless integration with 18 3D/CAD and post production applications, allowing you to work comfortably within your usual platform. Maxwell Render Suite licenses are universally compatible – so you can download and use as many plugins as you need with just one license.

Find further information about your 3D/CAD platform compatibility here.

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LightWave 3D 11

LightWave 3D 11 $209.95 NewTek LightWave 3D modeling, animation and rendering tools brings out the artist in you — not the technician.

Yafka breathes life into Greek history for History Channel.

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Back in 1999, a film project was produced about the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek computer. That was part of Producer Antonios Kotzias’ postgraduate research at Glasgow School of Arts in Scotland. Wild Dream Films, a production company in the UK, saw a story reporting his project and contacted him to […]

A 3-D look down the RabbitHole

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Filmmaker James Cameron (“Titanic”) has dubbed the new technology “the Holy Grail of advertising.” Eric Miller, a digital artist and the director of online training for the Gnomon School of Visual Effects notes, “A new medium for artists to explore doesn’t come along very often, and this is one that really […]

Maya and LightWave bring to life the new Terminator

Maya and LightWave bring to life the new Terminator

“Being a designer/visual effects supervisor, I was designing like a good engineer designs in terms of the economy of later for when I actually had to build this thing. We did build an extremely articulate, expressionistic, emoting Terminator. It’s a very complicated Maya model that […]

AMD Phenom 9600 Vs. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600: Fight!

AMD Phenom 9600 Benchmarked and Reviewed: Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering Benchmarks AMD Phenom 9600 Vs. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600: Fight!

Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering Benchmarks

Now we turn to performance using actual working applications. We’ll take a look at a pair of popular 3D modeling and rendering tools: 3ds Max […]

Does Quad Core Matter?: Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering

Does Quad Core Matter?: Content Creation: 3D Modeling and Rendering

Now we turn to performance using actual working applications. We’ll take a look at a pair of popular 3D modeling and rendering tools: 3ds Max 8 and LightWave 9. 3ds Max performs double duty here, as we run the SPECapc 3ds Max 8 test, […]

CG Restrospective 2006 from CG Society

Whoosh! 2006 was a year full of new releases, massive CG movie performances, product surprises, and the inevitable mergers and takeovers. With the active CGSociety community assisting, we have compiled a comprehensive list of events, films and product upgrades that were related to CG in 2006. The criteria for selection, is that the event had […]

A first look at LightWave 9.0

The long awaited update to NewTek’s LightWave 3D v9 is now available. No major interface changes this time, but rather a ton of new features and speed improvements that should have other 3D applications a little nervous. In this first look review, Digital Media Net’s Stephen Schleicher gives you a peak at what you can […]