Companion CD included!
LightWave 3D is one of the most powerful and popular tools for creating computer graphic imagery, animation, and visual effects. This update to the best-selling Essential LightWave 3D 7.5 introduces you to the incredible new tools available in LightWave [8] and expands upon LightWave’s existing feature-rich toolset.
- Get up and running quickly with straightforward, easy-to-follow tutorials.
- Learn industry-proven techniques for modeling and animation.
- Discover the secrets of creating special effects quickly and easily.
- Expand your knowledge of splines by building a feature-quality head model.
- Imbue your objects with real-world physical properties using LightWave [8]’s new hard, soft, and cloth Dynamics.
- Explore the basics of character animation using inverse kinematics, forward kinematics, and IK Booster.
- Delve into SasLite to simulate hair, fur, and grass.
