Essential LightWave v9: The Fastest & Easiest Way to Master LightWave 3D Book/DVD Package

Description

Essential LightWave v9 offers an unparalleled guide to LightWave 3D. Written to help users quickly take control of the software, this book is filled with easy-to-understand explanations, time-saving tips and tricks, and detailed tutorials on nearly every aspect of the software, including the new features in LightWave v9.2!

Key features of this book:

    * Learn to model, light, surface animate, and render within the first seven chapters!
    * Master the LightWave v9 Node Editor for advanced surfacing, texturing, and deformations.
    * Learn to model with polygons, Catmull-Clark/Subpatch SubDs, and splines.
    * Uncover the secrets of distortion-free UV mapping and high-quality texturing.
    * Learn to seamlessly composite 3D objects with real-world images.
    * Create professional-quality character animation using FK, IK, and IK Booster.
    * Enhance your animations with expressions, particle effects, and dynamics.
    * Set up a render farm to rip through complex rendering tasks.

On the companion DVD:

    * Nearly 14 hours of bonus video tutorials, including 18 tutorials on the new features in LightWave v9.2
    * Trial versions of LightWave v9.2 (Win/Mac)
    * Object, image, and scene files from the tutorials in the book and on the DVD
    * All the chapter images from the book at full size and in full color

CONTENTS:

An Introduction to the World of 3D
The LightWave Suite
Basic Skills: Modeling
Basic Skills: CG Filmmaking
Basic Skills: Lighting
Basic Skills: Surfacing
Basic Skills: Rendering
Intermediate Skills: Modeling
Intermediate Modeling Exercise: Architectural Modeling
Intermediate Skills: Lighting
Intermediate Skills: Projection Mapping
Intermediate Skills: Environments, Hierarchies, and Motion Modifiers
Intermediate Skills: Particle Animation
Intermediate Skills: HyperVoxels
Advanced Skills: Subpatch Modeling
Advanced Modeling Exercise 1: Modeling a Stylized Character
Advanced Skills: Spline Modeling
Advanced Modeling Exercise 2: Modeling a Realistic Human Head
Advanced Skills: The Node Editor
Advnced Skills: Hair Simulation with SasLite
Advanced Skills: Adaptive Pixel Subdivision
Advanced Skills: Dynamics
Advanced Skills: Character Rigging
Advanced Skills: Character Animation with IK Booster
Advanced Skills: Expressions
Advanced Skills: Network Rendering
Plug-ins and Utilities