Lightwave 11
So on Tuesday, Lightwave 11 finally arrived, much to my relief. I have to say it was a nice little bundle. In with the Lightwave 11 DVD case was a free Tofu the Vegan Zombie (which while being of zero practical use, is kinda cool …
Copyright Infringements on eBay (and other outlets)
I was scouting around eBay, looking for good value used wrist watches, and chatting at the same time (it was evening so I was at home with my family). One topic of conversation was copyrights, and I just chance searched for Bugatti Veyron Prints. As …
A Tale of Two Softwares
Bunkspeed and Luxion Back in my days at Ark, I modelled and rendered a mechanical dragonfly in Lightwave, which many people have seen. I recently got around to bringing it in to other renderers, namely Bunkspeed Pro Suite, and Luxion Keyshot Pro. This has been …
Keyshot 3.1 : Realtime Environment Editing
With the Keyshot 3.1 update installed, here is a little demo of another brilliant feature built right in to the software. Have you ever got the preview render running and wished you could just make some little changes to the HDRI map you are using? …
Keyshot 3.1 : Metallic Paint
So I just updated to Keyshot 3.1, and pulled one of my vehicle models in to try out the new flake feature on metallic paint. I’m impressed with the results! After a little more work, I’ll post further results along with some examples of the …
Gems in Lightwave
Well having been rendering gemstones in Bunkspeed Pro and Keyshot Pro, I thought I should do the same with Lightwave. While the initial results are not quite there compared to the other two renderers, they are clearly not far off. The one thing that is …
Simple animation in Keyshot 3.0
Introduction Luxion Keyshot 3 Pro gives you the ability to animate as well as render. While you’re unlikely to be character animatig in Keyshot, more straight forward animation that you would associate with product and engineering visualisation are a real breeze. In much the same …
Model Previewing
Came across a twitter post and tried it out. It’s pretty impressing I think. This is the seat of my Veyron model. Try it yourself at P3D
Digital Tutors
I was approached not too long ago by Digital Tutors. They asked if I would be interested in making a video tutorial for their site. Of course I was interested! After some brain racking, I contacted Christopher Conte and asked his permission to use one …
Colour Related Links : 500+ Colours
So this is old news to many, but useful if you don’t have the link already. A database of over 500 colours with their colour (duh!), names, RGB values, and Hex values. A pretty useful reference when someone asks for a specific colour or shade. …
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