Inside Lightwave 3D (Inside)

By Dan AblanPatrik BeckBill Fleming, et al.

Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 builds on the documentation providing the only comprehensive professional resource available on LightWave. Building on the success of the popular Inside series for graphics professionals, Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 is full of tips, tricks, insider information, and step-by-step tutorials that show users how to achieve professional, high-end results. Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 is written by a team of expert authors coming from diverse backgrounds in the film/TV, video game, and advertising industries. These authors make full use of the example-based approach of the Inside series to reveal their secrets for creating world-class scenes and animations. Inside LightWave 3D 5.5 offers complete coverage of LightWaves capability, all of the new features of version 5.5, and the most popular plug-ins available. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562057995
• ISBN13: 9781562057992
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

This is by far the best Lightwave book you can buy. WOW !!!!

I read a few books about modeling and Animating with Lightwave 5.5 And this book tops my scale. The Author uses clear and easy to understand Language. This books various Chapters take you trough all of the basic aspects of 3d modeling and animation in lightwave and more. It has many tutorials that take you step by step to high end animating and modeling. It even gives you tips on Planning, How to work and what you can...

This is a good book...........

I've read all the reviews you are reading now. After compare with other Lightwave 3D books, I bought this one, and at the same time I bought Inside Softimage. These two books are among the best book I've ever read (others are the Adobe Class in A book series)! One thing many people didn't tell you is that this book doesn't have colored pictures, which is kind hard to really see the differences of the rendered pictures...

ARE YOU A BEGINNER ???

Now you have probably read other peoples reviews about this book some say it's not for the beginner some say it is. Well I can only tell the honest truth here it is for the Beginner it deserves 5 stars because if YOU are a beginner you want a book that teaches you something valuable something that can be useful. The only flaw about this book is that Dan Ablan skipped some stuff which for any user above "Beginner" would...

Inside Lightwave 3D is a great book!

Mr. Ablan wrote a great book about Lightwave 3D. This book covers topics from installation, modeling, animation to post production. This is a well organized and easy to follow book. Architecture rendering and character animation are both covered in this 743 pages book. You don't have to be a Lightwave user to benefit the technique that it teaches here. I especially love Chapter 17's (Video Post Effects) creative approach...