The LightWave 7.5 Primer (Graphics Series) [Paperback]

Patrik Beck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 29, 2002 | ISBN-10: 1584502223 | ISBN-13: 978-1584502227 | Edition: 1

LightWave is a versatile program that has been used for years in television, film, and games. It is also used to create graphics for print, web, industrial design, architecture, medical imaging, and a variety of other areas. The LightWave 7.5 Primer, is a complete, structured guide to the ins and outs of LightWave. Whether you are just getting started with LightWave, or are an intermediate user needing to hone your skills, this "course in a book" provides all the instruction you need to become proficient. You can work at your own pace through a variety of lessons, tasks, and self-tests that will improve your skills and help you master this powerful program.

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About the Author

Patrik Beck is the founder of Electric Crayon Studios, a full-time animator, instructor, and an original Lightwave user. He is also the author of the popular LightWave 6.5/7.0 Project Handbook.

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (October 29, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584502223
• ISBN-13: 978-1584502227
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,511,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A highly recommended instructional reference for the novice, December 7, 2002

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The LightWave 7.5 Primer (Graphics Series) (Paperback)

The Lightwave 7.5 Primer by professional animator Patrik Beck (Founder of Electric Crayon Studio) clearly, carefully, and accessibly instructs the reader in the fundamentals of using the LightWave toolset to craft three-dimensional animation. Individual chapters adroitly address the basics of LightWave, techniques for crafting surfaces with texture and luminosity adjusted to the right degree, animating object deformation, particles, hypervoxels, and much, much more. Numerous samples and black-and-white photographs enhance out the thoroughly "reader friendly" text. An accompanying CD-ROM offers a small but utilitarian library of files useful for undertaking the instructional projects of the primer, including images, objects, scenes, color versions of the book's figures, and rendered animations in MPEG and QuickTime. The LightWave 7.5 Primer is an essential and very highly recommended instructional reference for the novice, and has a great deal of informational value to offer even the more experienced LightWave user.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only useful for beginners, April 26, 2003

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"jlogs065" (Oklahoma City, OK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The LightWave 7.5 Primer (Graphics Series) (Paperback)

Being a fairly new Lightwave user, I pre-ordered this book. I also own all of the Desktop Images training DVDs for LW 7 as well as a few of Class on Demand's training DVDs. By the time the book arrived I'd been using Lightwave for only about 3 months and it was already useless.

There is some good information in here, and the book is fairly light reading, but the book tries to be too general and doesn't provide enough coverage of specific topics.

In all fairness, this book would be the perfect textbook for an Intro to Lightwave class. However, if you can model, texture, animate and render a simple object then this book probably won't offer you much. You would be better off buying another book by the same author, "The LightWave 6.5/7.0 Project Handbook"

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Calling all Lightwave Newbies, December 12, 2002

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Bruce Hart (Salem, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The LightWave 7.5 Primer (Graphics Series) (Paperback)

For any Lightwave newbies, save yourself some angst and get The LightWave
7.5 Primer (Patrick Beck)

Mr. Beck makes everything seem so clear and easy. I wish I'd had this when I
set out to learn Lightwave. I think this should be included with every copy
of Lightwave, especially now that the unwashed masses (like myself) are getting into 3D.