Ebook: Essential Lightwave 3D 8: The Fastest Way To Master Lightwave 3D

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.