LightWave 3D 8 Lighting

“This book will take your lighting to a whole new level and give your work that edge you’ve been looking for.”
William “Proton” Vaughan
Newtek LightWave Evangelist

Whether you are lighting your own scene or adding CG elements to a background image, LightWave 3D 8 Lighting can help you achieve your lighting goals. From a discussion of lighting principles and color theory to a number of tutorials demonstrating the application of lighting tools and concepts, the emphasis throughout is on making your lighting believable, accurate, and pleasing to the eye.

• Discover the new features in LightWave 3D 8 that can improve your lighting.
• Learn how angles, colors, shadows, light sources, and atmospheric conditions affect the emotional impact of a scene.
• Enhance effect lighting using projection images.
• Find out how to add effects such as radiosity, volumetrics, and lens flares.
• Understand the process that goes into planning and creating a production lighting rig.

ON THE CD:

• Images, objects, and scene files discussed in the book, including a 60-frame underwater texture image sequence used in the tutorials
• All the figures from the book

Nicholas Boughen has been a visual effects animator using LightWave 3D since 1997. Currently living in North Vancouver, British Columbia, he has a 20-year background as a scenic and lighting designer for the stage and video. Among his visual effects credits are the television movies Voyage of the Unicorn, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, and Snow White, the television series Stargate SG-1 and Dead Like Me, and the feature films Good Boy! and The Lizzie McGuire Movie.

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