Creating an Army of Running Bipeds
Handling an army of UFO’s is one thing, but things become complicated when you want to handle a mass of Bipeds which on top of that are animated !! In ...

The making of i.2k3.
The123d spoke to Pascal Beeckmans about his work and the making of i.2k3. - his winning entry for the 3DVF competition in september 2003. The theme ...

Creating a Jack Daniel’s Bottle
Philip Meyer has written this extensive Lightwave tutorial about modeling, surfacing and lighting a Jack Daniel’s Bottle. The tutorial focuses mainly ...

Project Overview: My Son Marcus by Benoit Patterlini
Hello everyone, Since 3 years I create backgrounds and architectural images. I wanted to work on human model and my son was the perfect subject...

Modeling a World of Warcraft Orc by Eric Williams
Welcome to my first tutorial. You see what we’ll be working on right above. The low poly model should come out to about 800 triangles. When I say Smooth ...

CharacterStudio to Lighwave by Brent Alleyne
Step 1: Load your polygon character model into LW’s layout. Create a null titled “FBX_Root”. Parent you’re character model to the “FBX_Root” null. ...

Box Car by Chris Jennings
This box car is based on a train model hand painted by Ron Thornton. This project took about a week and a half. I used reference pictures of the model ...

WarChild by Kevin Hand
The WarChild is a texturing challenge that I took on as an endeavor to further my texturing abilities using what I know of LightWave’s layer based textures ...

The Making of the SimTech MTS.Arach by Dave Wilson
Ok well I was quite pleased when I heard I was going to get to build this little guy for the new Wicked Pixels shortfilm that will be released by the ...

A Self Made Man by Dave Maas
A modeling stroll... The word ‘tutorial’ implies a learning girdle to be followed step-by-step in order to accomplish a specific task. I like the idea ...

Water Drop Tutorial Continued by Gerardo Estrada
Here is my original animation. As you can see above, I’ve improved the technique a bit, now the drop bounces and separates from the water tank. To achieve ...

Project Overview - "The Nature of Man"
This scene was made using Lightwave for modelling, Photoshop was used for the textures, background image and post work. FPrime was used for final rendering. ...

How to Combine a Photo and a CG Object by Da Duke!
It is good to shoot some more photos with different exposure if you haven’t a digicam or only 24 bit rgb images. we haven’t so much time befor the demo ...

OW Media Projects Tutorial by Cesare DeRossi
"OW media projects" is an italian media design agency. The following article describes the making of a 20 sec. commercial i did for the above mentioned ...

The Street Racer by Kenji Gozum
Welcome to this mini-tutorial. This tutorial is about texturing a car using one of my previous models I have created. The car itself is based on the Nissan ...

Modeling Nissan 350 Z by Allan Jay Soriano
This tutorial is suitable for beginners to intermediate users of Lightwave 3d and im assuming that the basic knowledge from the software is at your hand.The ...

Animated Snow Trails by Andy Nicholas
This tutorial shows a technique I came up with to create displaced trails in the snow. (I won’t claim to be the first ever person to invent this, since ...

Fantasy Letter by Erik Brimstedt
Okay, we’ll do a tutorial on heavy texturing now, turning a simple flat plane with a bunch of polygons ...

A Realistic Lighting Rig by Andy Nicholas
This tutorial will show you how to create a lighting rig that will simulate daytime lighting conditions. ...

Making the head of the Moria Orc by Leigh van der Byl
A brief look at the modelling of my orcs head, and a nice in-depth look at how I did the UV mapping, ...

Water Drop Tutorial by Gerardo Estrada
This tutorial assumes you have the basic knowledge of the software you are working with. It’s meant ...

Texturing: Concepts and Techniques
Written for serious digital animators and for use in an art college course, this book explains the theory ...

Inside LightWave v9
You hold in your hands the best-selling guide to NewTek’s LightWave 3D animation software, completely ...

Lightwave 3D Character Animation
This title available in a book and CD format. It provides beginning-through-advanced LightWave 3D character ...

Lightwave 3D 8 Texturing (Wordware Game and Graphics Library)
This title is available in a book and CD format. Creating interesting and detailed surfaces for objects ...