Philip Meyer has written this extensive Lightwave tutorial about modeling, surfacing and lighting a Jack Daniel’s Bottle. The tutorial focuses mainly on surfacing. If you don’t want to do the modeling, ... more

In the next 20 minutes you will learn how to create a winter landscape. For this excersize you do need to have only a basic experience in Lightwave, so lets just start with it.

Okay, we’ll do a tutorial on heavy texturing now, turning a simple flat plane with a bunch of polygons into an old piece of paper with handwriting on it. 50% of the work will be done in Photoshop, and ... more

This Overview is about the 3.00am picture which Sebstian Nöll and me (David Kötterheinrich) created for 3dTotal. While we had already created an indoor scene a few months ago ("room for two" which ... more

A brief look at the modelling of my orcs head, and a nice in-depth look at how I did the UV mapping, and painted the different textures for his head. Well, this is how I made the head for my Moria ... more

Lightwave’s procedural surfacing features have dramatically improved since version 5, and they now provide a powerful alternative to using image maps. Although sometimes slower, they generally use less ... more

Welcome to this mini-tutorial. This tutorial is about texturing a car using one of my previous models I have created. The car itself is based on the Nissan Skyline GT-R R34, modified to look like a street ... more

In this short article I’ll talk about the lightwave procedurals and some of the many uses they can have, with a focus on the "FBM noise" and "puffy clouds" lightwave procudurals. This article aims to ... more