![]() ![]() We have also included the change log list below so you can check it out, but what are you waiting for? Go and grab it in your accounts right now! Many bug fixes and those including fixes to features introduced in 2020.0 are present in this release. Use the force kitties! LightWave is the lightside of the force! “Simple tricks and nonsense…” Oh… Yeah… about that. This is one of those LightWave3D features that may seem ancient and obsolete on the surface, but when you dig deep, the mage is there and it provides much of what makes LightWave3D great. ![]() While someone once said “There is nothing more real than real”, I would counter with features and functions like this are what give “Movies their magic”. It’s now back! Woohoo! We really appreciate this one coming back. LightWave3D 2020.0.2 corrects for some very interesting bugs, but also some interesting development path errors made by later versions of LightWave3D such a the elimination of the Ambient Light feature in 2018. Have you ever used LightWave 3D in your 3D animation or character design work? Let us know in the LightWave 3D 2015 forum thread on about 1 hour ago, NewTek’s LightWave Group released the latest in the 2020 series of patches. The feature also supports the use of Math Expressions and Scripts, and it includes new and improved human, feline, and arthropod preset rigs. Users can take advantage of the Genoma 2 Character Rigging System – a rapid modular rigging system that at its base level is a complete rigging development kit (RDK) – to quickly rig characters for animation, and all without needing to set up those complex rigs from scratch. With functionality such as Point-to-Point, Hinge, Slider, Cone Twist, Spring and six degrees of freedom (DOF), LightWave 2015 also has Use Importance Sampling which greatly improves the quality of scenes lit by GI and HDR images or background lighting. The company says LightWave 2015 is ideal for artists who need to take control of dynamic simulations, and a series of new Bullet constraint types are key to this latest release. His animation and effects work includes the stereoscopic IMAX film “Aliens of the Deep,” Disney’s “Honey I Shrunk the Kids,” and Jet Li’s “The One.” He was the lead animator for the 3D dancing baby. Self-taught in digital filmmaking methodologies, Powers is a pioneer in of the CG revolution. ![]() He was also the Los Angeles-based Virtual Art Department Supervisor for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s animated film “Tintin,” a work based on the graphic novels by artist Hergé. He was also the first CG artist to join James Cameron’s team as Animation Technical Director for that film. Rob Powers, the President of the NewTek LightWave Group and the leader of the LightWave 3D software development design team, was a member of the original “Malibu Five” Avatar concept design team. LightWave 3D also includes the power to output files for 3D printing. Created by artists for artists, LightWave 3D is software that offers an end-to-end production pipeline for artists and designers which gives them the capability to model, animate, capture, retarget, render, and input and output to 3D. His decision to form a company was the best way to fuel his desire to create sophisticated, yet affordable video software tools that everyone could use and enjoy led to creations like LightWave 3D. Jenison learned about technology and electrical equipment from his father, who ran an electrical engineering firm, and by the late 1970s, he recognized that the computer would become the integrating medium for his various passions: electronics, music, film and video. Jenison founded NewTek in 1985, and he led the way in the development of a series of highly successful products, including DigiView (the first video digitizer for a computer), DigiPaint, and the Amiga Video Toaster. Tim Jenison, the founder of NewTek, is considered the visionary force behind the desktop video revolution. It’s all part of the release of LightWave 2015 trial, and as part of the release, the LightWave 3D Group has created a series of Quick Start LightWave 2015 videos dedicated to the powerful features and user interface of LightWave 2015. There’s only one caveat – to completely unlock all the features of the 90-day LightWave 2015 trial, a user needs to register the software - and today is the last day of the download in the limited offer valid August 10-17. Now for a limited time during Siggraph Week, artists can download their own, full featured 90-day trial version of LightWave 2015 3D – free. ![]() The LightWave 3D Group, a division of NewTek, Inc., is offering all 3D artists a unique opportunity. ![]()
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