Volume 2 Number 2 - February/March 2005

Product Updates:
 LightWave [8]
   version 8.2.1
   Available Now!

 LightWave at GDC

Special Offers:
 Competitive Upgrade:
   Electronic: $495
   Standard: $595
 Add-A-Seat:
   Electronic: $495
   Standard: $595

 Swift3D LW 3.0

Content:
 Texture Collection 7

Projects:
 Visual Effects:
   Sci Fi Fridays
 Inedependent Film:
   Spoonman
   Batman: New Times

Profiles:
 Nicholas Boughen
 Rich Helvey
 Mark Glaser
 Andromeda
   Productions

 Steve Primeau

Tutorials:
 Dynamic Parenting
   Using Parenter

 Multi-Select
   Property Cells

 Modeling in Layout
 Reference Objects for
   Texture Placement
 
The Art of Clip Maps
   for Object Reveals
 
Create a UV Map
   for a Head
 
Intro to
   Basic Modeling

Exclusive:
 Building and
   Animating a
   Simple Robot Arm

Events:
 Norcross, GA
 Toronto, ON
 Edmonton, AB
 Houston, TX
 North Logan, UT

Reviews:
 Animation Artist
 Evermotion

    
AVAILABLE NOW!
LightWave [8] version 8.2.1

 
March 03, 2005

NewTek is pleased to announce the latest free maintenance update to LightWave [8]. Designated Version 8.2.1, the update addresses a number of issues that effect the operation of plug-ins. The affected plug-ins are sceneeditor.p, sestandardbanks.p, alias.p, psd.p, sgi.p, drla.p, sgi64.p, tiff.p, cineonfp.p, rla.p, epsexport.p, and bonetools.p.

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SPECIAL OFFER!
LightWave [8] Upgrades

 
March 01, 2005

NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, today announced a limited time, best-ever competitive upgrade offer for LightWave 3D. Users of a select set of commercial versions of 3D graphics and design applications will be able to purchase a competitive upgrade to LightWave 3D for $495US. Current commercial users of LightWave 3D [8] will be able to add an additional seat at this price as well, allowing them to affordably run the software on multiple computers. The promotions are available today through NewTek authorized resellers, or directly from NewTek through April 30, 2005. More...

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Rob Powers Demonstrates
LightWave 64-bit at
Game Developers Conference

 
March 03, 2005

NewTek will be presenting LightWave 3D with an emphasis on 64-bit technology at this week's Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, CA at the Moscone Center. LightWave luminary Rob Powers, who recently completed work for James Cameron's Aliens of the Deep, will be representing NewTek in a stage presentation at the AMD Booth #610 on Wednesday March 9, 2005 from 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. Additionally, Rob will be presenting LightWave 64-bit at a station in the Microsoft booth on both Wednesday and Thursday. More...

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FREE CONTENT!
NewTek Texture Collection 7

 
February 23, 2005

The seventh edition of NewTek's free Texture Collection has been released. As with previous editions, this new set includes fifty high-resolution textures available for free download at NewTek.com. The total number of free textures available from NewTek is now at 350. The seventh edition of the texture collection contains images in the categories Asphalt, Landscape, Metal, Rocks, and Soil. As with the preceding sixth set, most images in this latest set are at even higher pixel resolutions than NewTek's first five sets. More...

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DAVE School Students
Create Spoonman
with LightWave 3D

 
February 28, 2005

Spoonman is an action-packed film created by the student production studio at The DAVE School, blending elements of traditional two-dimensional animation styles with revolutionary LightWave 3D animation and visual effects. More...

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DAVE School Students
Create Batman: New Times
with LightWave 3D

 
March 05, 2005

Batman: New Times brings Art Asylum's line of DC Comics-based C3 building toys and figures to life in an all new story created entirely in LightWave 3D by the December 2004 graduating class of DAVE School. Voice actors for this project included Adam West (Batman), Mark Hamill (Joker), Courtney Thorne-Smith (Catwoman), and Dick Van Dyke (Commissioner Gordon). More...

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LightWave 3D VFX
Dominate Sci Fi Friday

 
February 09, 2005

Artists from Andromeda Productions, Rainmaker Digital, and Zoic Studios rely on LightWave 3D® for the production of content and shots for all four shows comprising the Sci Fi Channel’s Friday night line-up. NewTek's Emmy®-winning 3D application is being used extensively for the visual effects for Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica. More...

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EXCLUSIVE TUTORIAL!
Building and Animating
a Simple Robot Arm

 
February 28, 2005

The "Building and Animating a Simple Robot Arm" tutorial is designed to take you through the steps of modeling, set-up, and animation of a robot arm. IK Booster and Scene Editor are some of the tools explored in this tutorial.
Open PDF File (815kb) ...

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Electric Rain introduces
Swift 3D LW Version 3.0
for LightWave 3D

 
March 08, 2005

Swift 3D LW allows LightWave 3D users to render 3D scenes as high-quality, low-bandwidth vector or raster Flash animations or vector graphics. Swift 3D LW 3.0 offers the broadest spectrum of vector output styles available, from cartoon to full gradient shading and now includes customizable Pen Style Outlines and Per-Object render styles. Additional export formats include Adobe Illustrator, EPS, SVG and PNT formats.

LightWave 3D Newsletter subscribers receive a 10% discount on the regular price of $295 USD. To take advantage of this offer, enter the promotional code: newteknews when ordering online at https://www.erain.com/store?erain=nn or call Electric Rain toll-free at 888-613-1500 (inside the US) or 303-543-8230 and mention the promotional code above. This offer ends 4/15/05. More...

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Thank you for your continued interest in LightWave 3D. Please visit our website at www.lightwave3d.com for all the latest developments and news of interest to LightWave entusiasts!

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