Book description
You hold in your hands the best-selling guide to NewTek's
LightWave 3D animation software, completely updated for LightWave
v9 by award-winning animator and trainer Dan Ablan. Rather than
rehash the documentation like other books, this down-to-earth,
easy-to-follow guide offers an invaluable set of project tutorials
that teach you the ins and outs of LightWave and show you the
techniques you need to master this powerful 3D software. Inside
LightWave v9's accompanying DVD features hours of high- quality
video training tutorials that will help you take the projects in
the book to new heights. No other book has taught more LightWave 3D
users than Inside LightWave.
Featured tutorials cover:
Insights into the new LightWave v9 workflow
Powerful new surfacing with the Node Editor
Character modeling
Bones and rigging for character animation
Particle animation
Hard body and soft body dynamics
Rendering concepts with the new Global Render options
Advanced camera tools
Accompanying DVD-ROM offers hours of unique training videos created
just for this book, exclusively from 3DGarage.com (requires
QuickTime); a demo of LightWave v9 for Mac OS and Windows; all of
the projects from the book; royalty-free textures and reference
images; and full-color screenshots from the book!
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- About the Author
- About the Cover
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. LightWave v9 Modeler
- Chapter 2. LightWave v9 Layout
- Chapter 3. Understanding Basic Textures
- Chapter 4. Lighting
- Chapter 5. 3D Cameras
- Chapter 6. Principles in Motion
- Chapter 7. Text and Logo Creation
- Chapter 8 Modeling Still-Life Objects
- Chapter 9. Gadget Modeling
- Chapter 10. Character Modeling
- Chapter 11. Node-Based Texturing
- Chapter 12. Bones and Rigging
- Chapter 13. Particles in Motion
- Chapter 14. Dynamics in Motion
- Chapter 15. Advanced Cameras and Rendering
- Chapter 16. Compositing and Postprocessing Techniques
- Appendix A Plug-ins and Resources
- Appendix B What’s on the DVD
- Index
- Media
Product information
- Title: Inside LightWave v9
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2007
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780321426840
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