- Iron Man "making of" on DVD
- LightWave v9 wins Mac User award
- Emmy® win for Inside the Living Body
- Project list update
- SIGGRAPH videos
- LightWave 3D on Facebook
- 4h+ of v9.5 videos
- Picture of the Month
- Plug-in news: Blender fluids in LightWave
- KAFI contest
- "The patient" tutorial
- Los Angeles LightWave Users Group meeting
From the thread on the NewTek forum:
Here's the breakdown, courtesy of The EmbassyVFX
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The annual UK Mac User Awards were hosted on Thursday, October 23rd and LightWave won the category of Best 3D Application. Here were the nominations:
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| Digital effects company bandito has won an Emmy Award at the 2008 Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in New York. The digital effects company won the award for its visual effects work on the National Geographic documentary "Inside the Living Body". The award was in the category 'Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic Design and Art Direction' and is shared with effects cinematographer Dr David Barlow. Four other documentaries were nominated. Steven Gomez, Managing Director of bandito, was thrilled to have won. "I was so shocked when they read out our names that I almost forgot to get up and collect the award! It was a fantastic but quite surreal experience; I floated up to the podium to make my speech." The documentary was made for US television, and depicts the development and aging of the human body over a number of years. bandito produced highly detailed graphics using VoluMedic, which enabled Steven and his team to manipulate real CT scans to great visual effect. "We also put in a lot of meticulous morphing work ourselves. As a result, we were able to depict the human body with levels of visual accuracy that have never been reached before," Steven confirms. Steven is proud of the hard work his team put in to win the award. "The project was a real challenge. But I’ve always believed in 'staying with the problem'. I believe that tenacity is what won us the award." |
  Images ©2007courtesy of National Geographic Channel and Volumedic |
| Print: GEM car Chrysler recently unveiled a new all-electric car from its GEM subsidiary. The Peapod is first of a new generation of GEM electric vehicles that will be more user-friendly and efficient. Of course, with the car not yet built, they needed visualization to a high standardand so who better to contact than Joe Zeff? "We did all the exteriors. 16 renders in a week. It got a big response - we've been contacted about two other projects.", said Joe. |
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NewTek has posted 11 videos from SIGGRAPH 08. There are demos of features new to LightWave v9.5 (the fourth free update to LightWave 3D v9), tutorials on LightWave techniques and interviews with artists using LightWave for Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles; Postcards from the Future; and Dogfights. Come and see for yourself. |
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Over four hundred fans have signed up to the LightWave Facebook page. It's a good place to get notification of new versions of LightWave and other NewTek events, along with seeing other fans' work in the galleries for stills and video. It's also a good way to show other facebook users the software you favour. There's a discussion board to post ideas and projects, a wall to present yourself and being a fan will also guarantee you an update through email whenever an interesting item of LightWave news appears. |
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William Vaughan has made more than two hours of video tutorials presenting new and improved v9.5 features including rigging using new joints and constraints and new nodes like the carpaint material shown above. In addition he has also dedicated more than two hours to show just how to really get the best from FiberFX. This must-see material is free from NewTek here: (NOTE: On the title screen of later videos the four-digit number in the corner indicates the build number of LightWave used for the video in case you either don't have the tool shown in the video, or it has a different appearance) |
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This month's Picture of the Month is a series of images by Réné Falk Thomasius. NewTek posed some quickfire questions about Iron Devil:
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You can use the open source 3D application Blender to create liquid flows and bring them into LightWave for surfacing and rendering with this free plug-in by splotchdog: Blender Liquid import |
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The next Kalamazoo Animation Festival International (KAFI) will be held May 14-17, 2009, and is now looking for entries. KAFI is sponsored by Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Kalamazoo, Michigan and will give out more than $15,000 in prizes. Its reputation for excellence, education, range of speakers and commitment to art provides a continuing stage for media artists, educators and industry professionals. KAFI accepts entries in the commissioned, independent, student and Web animation categories. There is no entry fee. KAFI is also home of the famous Cartoon Challenge. Ten teams will stay at the Center for New Media to engage in a "24/4" cartoon-creating competition to create a 30-second PSA. Details on the Call for Entries and entering your school in the Cartoon Challenge can be found at www.goKAFI.com. |
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NewTek spoke to James Busby from Ten 24 about his incredible walkthrough: How long have you been using LightWave? See James' walkthrough in all its glory here |
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The next meeting of the LALW will be Sunday November 16, the tentative agenda will be space effects with Dave Jerrard. The time will be at 3:30pm at the Studio Arts. The address is: 570 West Avenue 26 Los Angeles, CA http://www.lalightwave.com/
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