Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 builds on the documentation providing the only comprehensive professional resource available on LightWave. Building on the success of the popular Inside series for graphics professionals, Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 is full of tips, tricks, insider information, and step-by-step tutorials that show users how to achieve professional, high-end results. Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 is written by a team of expert authors coming from diverse backgrounds in the film/TV, video game, and advertising industries. These authors make full use of the example-based approach of the Inside series to reveal their secrets for creating world-class scenes and animations. Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 offers complete coverage of LightWave's capability, all of the new features of version 5.5, and the most popular plug-ins available.
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This book targets users who are intent on mastering the art of creating 3-D graphics and animations in this versatile, cross-platform program. There's a good combination of explanation of features and specific task instructions; for the latter, you use the project files on the included CD-ROM. The book starts off with advice on interface configuration and takes you all the way to sophisticated effects and animations. The authors explain the concepts of lighting, color, and motion and help you plan your project according to its purpose and intended audience. Next you learn about modeler, layout, and animation techniques such as physical, computer, and scanned models and polygons, layers, MetaNURBS, scenes, keyframing, virtual cameras, lenses, angles, and plug-ins. Part 2 teaches you to build 3-D scenes using the LightWave modeler. Part 3 has you create animation scenes and familiarizes you with Bones and Character animations and facial animation. The last part of the book focuses on rendering and postproduction processes. You learn compositing and output techniques, add video and sound effects, use the Super Cel Shader plug-in for cel animation, and learn the basics of Lscript. An appendix describes various Objects and Tools plug-ins. Besides project files, the CD-ROM also has demonstration versions of freeware and shareware plug-ins and sample models, tiles, and textures. --Kathleen Caster
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Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 builds on the documentation provide the only comprehensive professional resource available on LightWave. Building on the success of the popular Inside series for graphics professionals, Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 is full of tips, tricks, insider information, and step-by-step tutorials that show users how to achieve professional, high-end results. Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 is written by a team of expert authors coming from diverse backgrounds in the film/TV, video game, and advertising industries. These authors make full use of the example-based approach of the Inside series to reveal their secrets for creating world-class scenes and animations. Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 offers complete coverage of LightWave's capability, all of the new features of version 5.5, and the most popular plug-ins available.
The only comprehensive LightWave book available, master all aspects of 3D object creation and animation.
Presented using the popular Inside format, a favorite in the graphics industry.
Written by a team of expert authors who each reveal the secrets of their specialties.
Master LightWave through tutorials on the most popular areas in 3D: movie/television production and special effects, video game design and animation, commercial animation and visualization, and character animation!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Bit Frustrating,
By Peter Wikoff (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 (Paperback)
If you need/want to learn Lightwave quickly, this book may not be the best. The sections that cover planning and profesional issues are excellent. The explanations of software functions are OK, but don't expect to much detail into what each action you perform is doing. The tutorials vary in quality. The first few seem out of place. Most of them are lacking in description, and there are quite a few typographical errors and some missing files on the CD. I spend a lot of time reading manuals and doing tutorials for a number of software packages, and this book has some of the most poorly written and constructed I have ever seen. If you don't mind spending LOTS of extra time trying to work through where the authors (there are actually six of them) and editors totally screwed up, take the plunge. But I don't think this book will be worth the money unless it gets re-edited.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Should have been run by an editor first!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 (Paperback)
Half the time I'm going through this book, I'm enjoying and learning tons of stuff. However, the tutorials are written in a confusing manner, as the author leaves out steps that, while simple and basic, leave the rest of the tutorial in disarray, unless you figure out what was left out. He leaves out parameters to input, which foul the models, and leave one scratching their heads as to where they went wrong. I'm not saying that this is a bad book. It just needs an editor to go through it a second time and point out some glaring inconsistencies, omitted details and the such. After that, I would add at least two stars to my review.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a good book...........,
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This review is from: Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 (Paperback)
I've read all the reviews you are reading now. After compare with other Lightwave 3D books, I bought this one, and at the same time I bought Inside Softimage. These two books are among the best book I've ever read (others are the Adobe Class in A book series)! One thing many people didn't tell you is that this book doesn't have colored pictures, which is kind hard to really see the differences of the rendered pictures. You will, however, learn a great deal of skills about lightwave 5.5. there are a lot of illustrations will help you go through each step. More than that, you will learn what Pro animators do (how to make money :) there are 2-3 typing (printing) errors of refering to the objects in the CD-ROM that came with this book. If you really want to learn lightwave, buy this book.
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