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The most complete, extensive, and accessible guide for LightWave 8. Inside Lightwave 8 is chock full of step-by-step tutorials on every topic LightWave users need to know. It is also clear, well-organized and easy to use--essential for a comprehensive book when you need to find answers to their questions quickly. Dan Ablan, award-winning animator and LightWave author, offers Inside LightWave X to get you up-to-speed and enhances productivity with NewTek's LightWave 3D software. No other LightWave book is more comprehensive, packed with clear step-by-step tutorials and helpful tips. Coverage includes plug-ins, Motion Designer, SubPatch modeling, Graph Editor, expressions for complex animation control, Motion Mixer, compositing techniques, inverse kinematics to control complex characters, modeling and surfacing methods for architectural animation, skeletons and bones for precise animation control, logo creation, camera and lighting techniques, particle animation, and using motion-capture files.
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The most complete, extensive, and accessible guide for LightWave X. Inside Lightwave X is chock full of step-by-step tutorials on every topic LightWave users need to know. It is also clear, well-organized and easy to use -- essential for a comprehensivebook when you need to find answers to their questions quickly. Dan Ablan, award-winning animator and LightWave author, offers Inside LightWave X to get you up-to-speed and enhances productivity with NewTek's LightWave 3D software. No other LightWave book is more comprehensive, packed with clear step-by-step tutorials and helpful tips. Coverage includes plug-ins, Motion Designer, SubPatch modeling, GraphEditor, expressions for complex animation control, Motion Mixer, compositingtechniques, inverse kinematics to control complex characters, modeling andsurfacing methods for architectural animation, skeletons and bones for preciseanimation control, logo creation, camera and lighting techniques, particleanimation, and using motion-capture files.
Inside LightWave 8
Inside LightWave 8,Dan Ablan,New Riders Press,0735713685,Computer Bks - Other Applications,Computer Books: General,Computer Graphics - General,Computer animation,Computer graphics,Computers,Interactive & Multimedia
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