Special LightWave 3D Holiday Offer

For a limited time all 2D and 3D artists can add the powerful LightWave Production Suite including LightWave 2015, ChronoSculpt, and NevronMotion to their creative tools for just $695 and save $998! Owners of earlier versions of LightWave can upgrade to LightWave 2015 and get the Production Suite as a special bonus for only $395! Offer Ends December 31st, 2015. Take advantage of this offer now!

Artist Spotlight: Louis du MonT

Co-founded in 2012 by Creative Partner Louis du Mont and Managing Partner Jon Reidy, We Are Formation uses all of the power of LightWave to produce stunning 3D animated characters, visual effects, virtual reality and other digital media experiences for a broad range of agency and corporate clients. Check out this inspiring interview!

New LightWave Blog Posts!

This month, some incredible news and videos have been shared on the Official LightWave 3D Blog. Following his first post, Rob Powers elaborates more on the new modern Unified Mesh System that will appear in the next release of LightWave Layout. In another blog post Lino Grandi shows us how the new Modifier Stack in Layout will bring deformations in LightWave to a whole new level!

Minuet, a 17-minute short film

Mats Jørgen Sivertsen is a contemporary visual artist living and working in Oslo, Norway. Through the use of various artistic media - from comics to photography, film and installations - Sivertsen expresses his talent and his point of view on topics such as transhumanism and cyborgs. In this interview Mats Jørgen Sivertsen shares his thoughts on the creative power of LightWave 3D and tells us about his latest LightWave project Minuet, an impressive 17-minute sci-fi/drama.

A Very Special LightWave Holiday Challenge!

The 2015 LightWave Holiday Challenge is officially underway! In the spirit of the season, we are looking for one outstanding, original image or animation created with LightWave 3D. This year we are looking for something special from our amazing LightWave community of artists and designers! Follow this link to get the full details and show us and the world your unique creativity!

A.ero II, a Sci-Fi Drone

From modeling to animation, LightWave gave the Italian artist Massimo Zuanazzi all the tools he needed to create this stunning Drone project called A.ero II. Read all about his creative process and be sure to check out the video!

Making of Cavius Maximus

The very talented artist Farkas Ekho Zsolt impressed us this month with an amazing architectural project which we would like to share with the LightWave 3D Community: the creation of an entire ancient city, Cavius Maximus, inspired by the Roman architecture and visualized in LightWave. Watch the video and get ready for some fantastic work! If you are curious about his creative process, you should definitely take a look to his website!

OctaneRender 3.0 plugin for LightWave

Juanjo Gonzalez released a new version of the OTOY OctaneRender™ plugin for LightWave 3D. This is the first alpha build of the 3.0 plugin and it's available for Lightwave 10.1, 11.6 and 2015.3 Windows x64 (the OSX build will be released as soon as possible). Enjoy!

From 2D to 3D

LightWave Artist and co-founder of the award winning studio Lemonade3D, which has received over 50 international awards, Milivoj Popovic reveals to the LightWave Community the amazing process of creating his latest 3D work Granny.

Procedurals, LightWave baked textures & Instancing

Using procedurals, LightWave baked textures and Instancing, Simon Smalley shows us his amazing talent in this tutorial video. Step by step, you will discover the quick process of creating this beautiful grass image and how fast instancing in LightWave can be!

PBR workflow in LightWave

This month, the talented LightWave 3D artists Andrew Comb and Umberto Celentano share with the LightWave Community insight into their Substance compound node, which makes rendering Physically Based materials in LightWave very straightforward. Working together to improve the quality and the performances of the PBR node, they explain how to use the Substance Painter Compound Node in LightWave.

3D Kits in LightWave

Almost everyone has assembled a toy model kit of an airplane or vehicle at some time in their life. With that in mind the UK-based artist Spooka Pooka shares with us the digital equivalent of model assembly. Using the power of the LightWave Modeler tools Spooka Pooka created this impressive 3D Kits series. Says Pooka, "The beautiful ergonomics of LightWave Modeler [...] make the Kits a joy to work on. Starting with the intuitive layer system I can very easily experiment with the composition of numerous elements."