Follow along the path to LightWave enlightenment as 30 of the world’s leading 3D artists share their secret tips and tricks with you. In this book of collective wisdom, you will learn about hidden software features, time-saving tricks, and professional techniques for achieving better results in less time. More than a collection of hints from a single user, you’ll learn from specialists -- masters in the fields of character modeling, animation, texturing, lighting, digital cinematography, special effects, and programming. Featuring 11 topics ranging from pre-visualisation to plug-ins, containing more than 70 distinct categories, and including 1001 unique tips and tricks, this is an invaluable resource for any LightWave user.

In this collective wisdom, you will learn about hidden software features, times-saving tricks, and professional techniques for achieving better results.

A Five Star-Rating Isn’t Enough!

There are lots of great books and DVDs available to teach the intracasies of Lightwave. This one is a stand-out! Densely packed with useful little tricks that you probably won’t find anywhere else, this indispensible book can’t help but increase your productivity and enjoyment of Lightwave 3D. You won’t get just one author’s School of Hard Knocks-earned knowledge, you get to learn from the experiences of thirty! This book is a must-have that you’ll reach for again and again. This little gem proudly sports the most worn covers of any Lightwave reference book on my (full) shelf.

CC Clarke

Bathroom reading

Yeah nice book, can’t wait to get in the bathroom to read some more, 3D animation
is making a big red ring around my a _ _ , Empire of the Sun is starting I’ll sit here and watch that too! It’s cold in here, is that true about cold surfaces and what they do to your *&#%@^( ?

Bathroom reading

Yeah nice book, can’t wait to get in the bathroom to read some more, 3D animation

is making a big red ring around my a _ _ , Empire of the Sun is starting I’ll sit here and watch that too! It’s cold in here, is that true about cold surfaces and what they do to your *&#%@^( ?

Most have for Serious LightWavers

The book, 1001 Tips & Tricks, has straightforward techniques approach to Learning Advanced LightWave Skills and Knowledge. I purchased Timothy Albee’s Lightwave 3D, "Getting Started Guide" which came with my purchase of the program, LightWave from Newtek. The Book got me started back in 2005. (A general skills book covers a broad range of LightWave. But does not get too deep, which is good for beginners.)

I was very interested in and loved cartooning and character creation in 3D. So I purchased Jonny Gorden’s "Cartoon Character Creation-Volume 2". If ya don’t know and wanna learn Rigging right, get this book. Jonny be getting off with his techniques in this bad boy. Loved the book.

(Jonny’s book covers A through Z in Rigging and Animation mostly plus overviews on general knowledge stuff as well. But since I already learned the basics with "Getting Started" I was able to get deep into Jonny’s techniques.)

I was a professional Graphic Designer who wanted to move over to the 3D world, I desired to be a power-user at 3D animation. So I purchased Dan Alban’s "LightWave [8]," extremely good learning tool. Dan’s book got my doing just about anything I could imagine.

(In Depth book cover almost everything. Big pictures illustrations and nicely written make learn easier. Ya gotta get this one.)

But in some areas I was still creating very slowly. Like how to optimize a detailed and completed scene for a render farm, so that I could not only render, but also render scenes very fast. How to build a scene for a real movie that would render quicker than if I built it another way.

For example, I built a scene which took four months to render on a 4 node render farm of fast G5 with 2 gigs of Ram. I’m thinking that, I’ve got to be able to create the same scene, but in such as that it would render in say, two weeks. I wanted to learn the fastest power moves, since I work alone in my home studio. I do not have peers and co-worker to exchanged knowledge with

Then, I order this book, and it fit the bill. It helps to complete my learning needs and answered and reconfirmed, other books and technique that I pick up off of the Internet.

This is an excellent book it is a most get. Although I got it for advanced how tos; there is beginner level help here as well. A lot of the dudes and dudettes that I’ve learned from through downloading Internet QuickTime movies from the Newtek website and other places, these movies are excellent show and tell ways to learn. But with expressions and certain dynamic it is good to have it in a book form as well.

(Since there are so many experts contributing to this book, you get a really balanced guide to knowledge. If you are going to be a power-user, this book completes the other books and knowledge that I have accumulated. You got to it as well.) "1000 Tips and Tricks," book is worth every penny of the cost.

Fantastic but a bit redundant

The blurbs about this book are right. There are no other places I have found for the kind and quality of information contained in this book... at least for a non-super expert in Lightwave 3D.

Yet at the same time, there is much redundancy within the book itself (several tips are essentially identical) and with the reference manual provided by NewTek.

So there are really quite a few less than 1001 super neat and fantabulous tips and tricks here, but there are plenty enough to make the purchase a valuable addition to your reference library for LW8.

More is more

I’m one of the authors, so take that into account. Still, there are around thirty authors total so I’m at most 1/30th biased.

That being said, this is a real standout among LightWave books and one I’m proud to be part of. The strength is in the numbers - never before have you gotten such a wide and varied number of opinions in one place. Because there are so many different approachs to creating 3D art, this book is really a must own and it’s a book you’ll go back to again and again. I keep a copy on my desk, within easy reach and I pick it up for reference or for some quick reading during a render.

It also covers a wide variety of topics, from lighting to surfacing to LScripts. Not every tip is something I agree with, but that’s the beauty of this book - there’s just so much information here that you’ll be finding new things to think about or to add to your work for years to come.

Should Be Bundled With the Lightwave CD

Without wasting time here...if you’re a Lightwaver, you should get this book. Put the bills on hold, if necessary, and eat cereal for a week. :-) As a beginning - intermediate Lightwave user/student, I’ve bought and read most of the new Lightwave books, and this one is the most valuable, by far. Having this book lying beside your computer is like having 30+ Lightwave gurus at your elbow, whispering their secrets in your ear as you model, texture, and render. There’s nothing out there like it...well, Killer Tips maybe but 1001 T & T has tons more information. If ever a book deserves a 5 star rating, this is it.

The best lightwave tricks there is!

I must say that i have bought loads of lighwave books in my time, but no one is as helpful in my ordinary day of work like this book. Its simply awasome! It has loads of tips that isnt covered in any other lightwave book!
Buy it!

Buy it!

Even an odd glance at this book whilst rendering tests or previews will change the way you work. Some tricks and tips will take seconds to read but will save hours of your life. Some tips are common sense ideas only picked up from years of experience but others are flashes of genius from the best Lightwave artists in the world. Well worth the money and probably the best Lightwave learning guide I have bought.