LightWave 3D 10 Upgrade (w/Electronic Manual)

Model | Animate | Render

• Easily create photorealistic scenes and characters
• A complete modeling, animation, and rendering solution
• New advanced camera tools and improved editing performance

NewTek LightWave 10 delivers a whole new set of groundbreaking tools for 3D artists. Whether you work alone or play well with others, LightWave 10 has the tools you need to turn your dreams into gorgeous graphics and amazing animation for film, television, print, design … or simply to satisfy your desire to create something really cool. LightWave 10 gives you more speed, flexibility and control, along with new, interactive tools that let you model, render and animate, quickly and affordably. Plus, LightWave artists have won more Emmy® Awards for visual effects and animation than any other CG artists. Now that’s cool.

LightWave 10 benefits artists with unique, new capabilities not found in any other 3D application, like instant feedback from the Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR), the precision of a complete Linear Color Space Workflow, real-time Anaglyph Stereoscopic Preview, and Virtual Studio Tools that deliver real-time virtual walkthroughs.

LightWave 10 Modeler and Layout, with an updated and refined user interface, deliver extensive new data interchange tools that provide seamless integration into multi-application pipelines. LightWave 10 also includes NewTek’s next generation CORE technologies with real-time OpenGL views of Ambient Occlusion, Bloom and HDRI background images, Python-based expressions and scripting, Bullet rigid body dynamics, sophisticated UV mapping capabilities and much more.

NewTek LightWave™ is the backbone of fast, efficient 3D pipelines. Day in and day out, LightWave artists deliver stunning graphics and animation on time and on budget. LightWave artistry is everywhere, from blockbuster feature films and primetime television, to the cover of Rolling Stone. The result of the collaboration between artist and LightWave is that more Emmy® awards for visual effects and animation sit on the mantels of LightWave artists than any others.

Today, that mighty collaboration between artist and NewTek has created a new LightWave. LightWave 10 is innovative, interactive and immersive. Built on a NewTek tradition of pioneering groundbreaking 3D capabilities, LightWave 10 maintains the fast, efficient workflow and powerful, proven render engine you’ve come to depend on, with seamless integration into diverse pipelines.

LightWave 10 benefits artists with unique features not found in any other 3D application, like a Viewport Preview Render (VPR) and CG hardware enhancements that give you an immediate look at changes to your rendered scenes, and real-time OpenGL views of Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, Anaglyph Stereoscopic and HDRI background images. LightWave 10 delivers the power of Modeler and Layout with next generation CORE technologies, such as immersive real-time and game tools, Python-based expressions and scripting, Bullet rigid body dynamics and sophisticated UV mapping capabilities.