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Modeling a spoon

Learn how to model a spoon.

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Modeling Stone Benches

This tutorial teaches you how to modela stone benches.

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Export Aura [2] Stroke Recorder to LightWave

In this tutorial, we will show how powerful the combo Aura [2] + LightWave® [6.5] is to create natural motions in LightWave.

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Making Objects Follow a Path

During Siggraph, I had a guy walk up to me after I got down from the Main Stage at the Newtek Booth and he wanted to know how he could set up a sort of train animation, or "roller coaster" type of animation in LightWave®.

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Lighting Techniques Part 1

Owing to excessive workload, I've had to split this tutorial up in to two parts. The next part will cover outdoor and indoor lighting and general techniques for a 3D artist

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Expression Physics

The following is a tutorial designed to illustrate the execution of hardbody dynamics using LightWave®s' Motion Designer.

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Modeling and Animating "Janet the Surf Punk"

This six-part tutorial is written for beginner / intermediate users of Lightwave 6.x / 7.x. It deals with modeling a simple character, texturing it, setting up bones, and exporting the boned animation to morph targets, suitable for many game engines.

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make your own dice

So you are working on a casino scene and your boss asks to make a pair of dice. At first glance it might seem hard but follow the following steps and this part will be done in no time.

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Adding Detail to a Spaceship's Hull

Lean how to detail a spaceship hull using stencil tool.

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Booleans

Sometimes, when modeling a complex objects, you may need to create a hole in a solid object. One way to accomplish this task is using booleans.

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Position objects using Powergon

This tutorial will demonstrate how Powergon can be used to efficiently create and position multiple clones of an item to the parent object.

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Smart Skin Deformation

A great video-tutorial about ssd(smart skin deformation)

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SkyTracer 2 For Dummies

OK, so there I am, working on a shot that needs a very specific type of sky – looking through my collection of images I don’t find anything I can use for this one “I know” thinks I, “I’ll use SkyTracer – how hard can it be…”

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Sub - surface light scatter

The topic of sub-surface scattering (SSS) has received much lip service on the net of late. However, after reading anything I could get my hands on, I was still unsure about how to implement this real-world effect into my renderings.

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modeling step - 002

've always been in the habit of saving out many copies of my objects while creating them. Below are several models that you can download and learn from, I hope that you will find them as a good resource.

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Making a Pen

This is a good tutorial on how to make a pen.

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3D Logos from a vector file

To add new life to companies' logos many are looking into the world of 3D.

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Model and Animate a Flag

This tutorial requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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3D Text

Creating 3D text in LightWave 3D® is probably one of the easiest things to do. 3D Text can be a great way to dress up your webpage, animation, or even a Word Document.

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Expression Basics: Rotating a Gear

Our goal in this setup is to have the gears automatically rotate when the Thigh "Crunk_rightthigh" is rotated.

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