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Companion CD included! LightWave 3D is one of the most powerful and popular tools for creating computer graphic imagery, animation, and visual effects. This update to the best-selling Essential LightWave 3D 7.5 introduces you to the incredible new tools available in LightWave [8] and expands upon LightWave's existing feature-rich toolset. Get up and running quickly with straightforward, easy-to-follow tutorials. Learn industry-proven techniques for modeling and animation. Discover the secrets of creating special effects quickly and easily. Expand your knowledge of splines by building a feature-quality head model. Imbue your objects with real-world physical properties using LightWave [8]'s new hard, soft, and cloth Dynamics. Explore the basics of character animation using inverse kinematics, forward kinematics, and IK Booster. Delve into SasLite to simulate hair, fur, and grass.

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9781556220821

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Timothy Albee is a well-known LightWave author and animator with a number of best-selling books to his credit and is a 12-year veteran of the industry. Steve Warner is a graphic artist and founder of Trinity Media, Inc., which specialized in graphic design, broadcast video post-production, and 3D animation. Steve has spent the last two years with CAE, an international supplier of military training and simulation services.

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