RECON3D Vol.1 and 2 bundle Greek, Roman and Medieval Art multi-format edition delivers over 650 photo-quality 3D objects for users of almost any 3D animation, visualization, rendering and CAD software. RECON3D is the state-of-the-art 3D Content Collection of architectural and ornamental objects carefully recreated from the greatest heritage sites and the best historic data available. Bundle of Volume 1 and 2 covers Minoan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, Gothic and Romanesque styles in a great selection of various components. 3D Content is provided on CDs, completed with an electronic catalog in html format.

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I Have found this training video to be excellent, in it's demystification of spline modeling in Lightwave. The style of instruction is clear, and never expects the learner to jump through a series of hoops. All the why's and wherefore's are fully explained. Highly recomended, very enlightening.

I think I'm not a beginner in Lightwave, I ordered this DVD anyway to take a closer look on this 10 hour Learning stuff!
I found it very usefull to work through this Tutorial (Building a 50's TV), all the simple tools using in this tutorial comes back in my brain!

Our courses are from the leader in LightWave training. Dan Ablan has been writing tutorials, training professionally, and teaching through videos and seminars for 11 years. In addition to that, he has been working in the field of 3D Animation on a daily basis - in a field just like you with everyday projects and everyday problems for 15 years.

The years of knowledge and insight are brought to you in the 3D Garage Courseware. Why continually pay for parts when 3D Garage gives you the whole? With this Course, you'll Learn topics such as:

LightWave 3D basics,
Modeler Workflow,
Layout Workflow,
Understanding the HUB,
Pitfalls to watch out for from the very beginning,
Selection and De-Selection and Volume,
Understanding points vs. polygons,
Basic tool types
Building blocks of common, everyday objects,
Identifying surfaces
Grouping polygons and points,
Vertex Maps,
Booleans,
Basic Splines,
3D Text Creation,
LightWave Layout Basics and overview,
Surfacing Basics
Understanding the Texture Editor,
Using Gradients,
Basic Lighting
Radiosity,
Lighting Tricks,
Volumetric Lighting,
Animation basics
New Dynamics
IK Boost Tool
Scene Editor
Dope Sheet
Dope Track
Graph Editor,
Using the Scene Editor,
Understanding Menus
Creating Motion Files,
Keyframing,
Understanding the 3D Camera
Rendering Basics,
Saving Options and Output Formats
and much more thoughts,
tips, and tricks throughout the course.

Take your computer generated imagery to a new level with the ultimate in compositing control. Using NewTek's LightWave 3D and Discreet Combustion, Digital Effects artist Jarrod Davis demonstrates advanced compositing techniques that can be applied to many 3D and compositing applications. Set up the 3D scene to maximize compositing options, object lighting for textured environments, render individual layer passes, apply multi-layered effects, color correction, filters and grain to blend the elements for final output.

Background Radiocity
Multi-Pass Rendering
Compositing Techniques
Exhaust & Dust
Color Correction
Grain Matching

Discover powerful concepts and techniques used in the Visual Effects Industry to seamlessly integrate computer generated 3D elements with live action footage. Production proven tips and tricks that will save you time and deliver stunning visual imagery.

Nicholas Boughen literally wrote the book on Lighting. He has worked on feature films from I-Robot, Good Boy!, and Garfield to major television series such as Stargate SG1 and Dead Like Me. Did we mention he is an Emmy and Gemini nominated artist?

In this video Nicholas shares his knowledge on LightWave 3D 8 Lighting and Shading with you and holds nothing back. Nicholas starts the video by showing you the basic foundations of light and shadows then advances you to more complex areas such as light type and color hue. Then your walked though shadow types and global illumination.

Finally Nicholas walks you though 2 very comprehensive basic lighting techniques more than 45 minutes total. Lastly Nicholas shows you how to set up a lighting scene with LScript.

This video is more than 2.5 hours of training, and will give you a complete understanding of lighting, principals of lighting and introduce you to professional lighting rigs and shading.

A large percentage of computer artists have chosen LightWave as their animation package of choice because no other software makes it easier to quickly achieve "that big studio loosteredk". Now with version 8, LightWave has a whole set of incredible new tools that LightWave users will want to take advantage of.

In the LightWave [8] Dynamics DVD series Volume I, dynamics guru Mike Pauza, will walk you through killer examples of dynamics based animation that will not only familiarize you with the new software, but show you how take your animation to the next level.

LightWave [8] Dynamics | Cloth & Vehicles explores LightWave [8]'s ClothFX tool set, and shows you how to spice up your cloth and vehicle animation. You'll learn how to animate believable flags, footprints, clothing, hovering vehicles, motorcycles, cars, and more!

Creating the right texture is an essential element for achieving high quality computer generated imagery. Discover the building blocks for creating amazing multi-layered surfaces & textures. Rock, water, metal, glass, any texture you can imagine is possible. Learn to build rich, animatable surfaces that bring your creation to life.

Procedurals
Image Maps
Reflectivity
Translucence
Color Cycling
Texture Animation
Project Files Included!
Includes English subtitles for the hearing impaired.
From cartoon to photoreal, LightWave offers virtually unlimited layering capabilities to achieve amazing surfaces & textures. Cut months off your learning curve with this powerful video training series. Discover the techniques that will quickly enable you to harness the power of LightWave.

Apply advanced surface attributes to your object creations. Add depth with translucency, reflections & refractions. Discover weight map techniques that allow you to apply airbrush style painting to surfaces. UV mapping techniques that offer flexible image mapping capabities. Make your models warm & fuzzy with Sasquatch Lite.

Translucency
Color Filter
Soft Reflections
Soft Refractions
Advanced Gradients
UV Texture Mapping
Sasquatch Lite Cut months off your learning curve with this powerful video training series. Discover the techniques that will quickly enable you to harness the power of LightWave.

Harness the power of LightWave’s 128 bit output rendering engine. Master the concepts to create stylized to photoreal imagery. Understanding camera properties to avoid the pitfalls of output errors. Choose a variety of render settings for film, video, print, stereoscopic or any type of rendering. Discover a variety of blur options for film quality output. Explore a vast array of lighting & shadow options for maximum creative power.

Camera Properties
Resolution Concepts
Pixel Aspect Ratio
Render Output Settings
Motion Blur Options
Stereoscopic Rendering
Lighting Attributes Release the full potential of LightWave’s output capabilities. Optimize settings for rendering speed & efficiency. Maximize visual impact with a full range of imaging capabilities.

Begin with primitive shapes, then mold, bend and twist them into complex objects using LightWave's powerful modeling tools. Learn modeling conventions, point and polygon attributes, system functions and modeling tips. Tony Stutterheim will give you professional insight and shortcuts for speed and efficiency. The fundamentals of modeling in LightWave are at your fingertips!

Display Options
Modification Tools
Surfacing Attributes
Text Functions
Rail Tools
Boolean Functions
Includes English subtitles for the hearing impaired.
Discover the building blocks for creating custom 3D objects. Cut months off your learning curve with this powerful video training series. Discover the techniques that will quickly enable you to harness the power of LightWave.

Tap into LightWave's advanced modeling capabilities & powerful modification tools. Build multilayered endomorph objects, apply skelegons and weight maps for precise animation control. Discover advanced tool attributes, custom view & menu settings, symmetry tool tips, viewport options & menu configuration capabilities.

Custom Menus
Weight Maps
Endomorphs
Selection Sets
UV Mapping
Skelegons
Project Files Included!
Includes English subtitles for the hearing impaired.
Invaluable information & insight for all LightWave users. Cut months off your learning curve with this powerful video training series. Discover the techniques that will quickly enable you to harness the power of LightWave.

Twelve-year LightWave animation veteran, author and trainer, Dan Ablan puts it all together o­n a 4 DVD set! Character Builder teaches you all the steps necessary for creating digital characters using LightWave 7.5.

This set of tutorials includes:

Disc 1
* How to model your own digital character using
subpatch modeling techniques
* Proper surface identification
* How to work with layers
* Building bodies with simple clothing (Part 1)

Approimate Run Time: 102 Minutes

Disc 2

* Building bodies with simple clothing (Part 2)
* Preparation of animation
* Intro to Character Rigging
* Weighting techniques (Part 1)

Approximate Run Time: 103 Minutes

Disc 3
* Weighting techniques (Part 2)
* Bone weights
* Point weights
* How to rig ro skelegons
* Skelegons to bones in layout

Approximate Run Time: 106 Minutes

Disc 4
* Intro
* Eyeball set-up
* Keyframing characters
* Motion Mixer for Non-Linear Animation
* How to light and render a character scene

* Endomorphs

Approximate Run Time: 117 Minutes