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Water Tutorial

How to create a realistic looking water, night and day.

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'Modelling Clothing Details' by Angel Nieves

After posting some work in progress images of a dress for my Grand Space Opera challenge entry at CGTalk, I was asked if I could show how I go about making the folds and wrinkles I did for the dress. Hope you'll like this tutorial.

Rated: with 9764 hits  Added on: May 21, 2006

Landscape Modeling and Texturing

Modeling a landscape can be done in many different ways. In this tutorial we will explore 2 ways to do it: one using the SDTS loader, the other by using procedural textures.

Rated: with 8291 hits  Added on: May 21, 2006

Ice Cubes with Surface Thickness

This is a great tutorial for using surface thickness in lightwave. You can get a great ice cube effect but can be used for many more ideas.

Rated: with 7904 hits  Added on: Mar 28, 2006

Animated Snow Trails

This tutorial shows a technique I came up with to create displaced trails in the snow. (I won't claim to be the first ever person to invent this, since most good ideas are usually not new ideas!).

Rated: with 6115 hits  Added on: May 11, 2006

Logo Animation

Animated logos show up just about everywhere from Commercials, TV shows, to Movies. They can also be easy to create using LightWave®

Rated: with 5866 hits  Added on: Apr 12, 2006

Texture Building

Very good study of Texture Building in Lightwave by Vance Kovacs and Vera Milosavich, Black Isle Studios/Interplay.

Rated: with 5730 hits  Added on: May 21, 2006

Wood Texturing

This Wood Texturing tutorial will require intermediate skills and knowledge of Lightwave and Photoshop. So you have been given the task of creating a specific looking wood texture whatever you are working on.

Rated: with 5719 hits  Added on: May 21, 2006

Car modeling

This tutorial here teaches you how to model a car.

Rated: with 5599 hits  Added on: Oct 16, 2005

Camera Mapping

Want to make something photoreal? Start with a photograph. This tutorial will show you how to create a photorealistic 3D scene directly from a photograph using Front Projection Mapping (aka Camera Mapping).

Rated: with 5572 hits  Added on: Apr 28, 2006

All Road

This tutorial teaches you how to make the scene 'All Road'

Rated: with 5514 hits  Added on: May 11, 2006

Texturing 101: Building Textures

Texturing is a powerful and yet easy to use way to add complexity to computer generated images. The image to the left was created using only one subdivided polygon, no drawings, nor photographs, nor images of any kind, and this comes straight from the renderer, no post processing applied.

Rated: with 5350 hits  Added on: May 21, 2006

GSM Phone - Detailed 3D Modeling tutorial *

GSM Phone (Sony Ericsson T610) 3D modeling tutorial by Elvis Blazencic aka Lewis. one of the highly Detailed 3d Modeling tutorial for LightWave 3D users.

Rated: with 5331 hits  Added on: Feb 27, 2007

Texturing Organic Objects (Raptor Study)

The basis of any complex texturing on an organic model begins with the creation of a good UV map. However, because of the complexity and variety of methods for creating UVs I have chosen to leave this process out of this tutorial.

Rated: with 4655 hits  Added on: May 21, 2006

Superman logo

Learn how to model a Superman logo.

Rated: with 4323 hits  Added on: Oct 16, 2005

Left Behind

This image was created using Lightwave for all 3D-work and Photoshop for textures and post-processing.

Rated: with 4214 hits  Added on: Apr 24, 2006

Monkey Business - Surfacing a Coin

You may have wondered what kind of money is used for monkey business. Well wonder no longer...Let's take a look at what I did to create the surfacing on the coins in this 3D Illustration.

Rated: with 4094 hits  Added on: May 21, 2006

Sketch Animation

Just about everyone has played around with the various Cell Shaders available for LightWave®, and the result has been some very convincing 2D images and animation

Rated: with 4073 hits  Added on: Apr 28, 2006

animating blood cells

Ok this was pretty simple to set up (well for the first time it worked how I imagined!!!!)

Rated: with 3981 hits  Added on: Apr 12, 2006

Birth of a new Dawn

A tutorial about making of the Daen in Lightwave.

Rated: with 3890 hits  Added on: Apr 24, 2006