Lightwave 3D 9 (digitmag.co.uk): "LightWave 3D has a long heritage in the computer graphics industry, and this latest release makes some important core improvements. The program's popularity has continued to grow in recent years, despite the suggestion from long-time users that it has started to show its age over the last few versions."
Studio ArtFX Releases Anime How-to Podcast (awn.com): "Focused on showing users the latest uses of some of the hottest new off-the-shelf tools on market -- like Vue 5 Infinite, Sketchup Pro 5, modo 202 and LightWave 3D -- ANIGEN is set to help content creators everywhere maximize their visual art dreams. In addition to 3D how-tos, ANIGEN will also cover the latest tools in the world of digital, paperless 2D animation, like Bauhaus Software's Mirage Studio Pro, and delve into drawing for manga, doujinshi, visual novels and comics."
Digit news - LightWave 9 goes Intel Mac:
"NewTek LightWave 9 is heading to Intel-based Apple Macs, according to the company. NewTek has used the Siggraph show running in Boston to release details of its move to release a Universal Binary version of the 3D software, which can run natively on the latest Intel-based Macs. "
Rainmaker Makes Dog Talk for Garfield Sequel (vfxworld.com): "Rainmaker Ltd. Partnership (Rainmaker) completed 170 CG shots on the new Fox release, GARFIELD: A TAIL OF TWO KITTIES. Full CG face replacements were completed on the film's new character, Winston the bulldog, and on eight other talking animals. Completing the task in just eight weeks, the Rainmaker team was led by visual effects supervisor Charlene Eberle and visual effects producer Jinnie Pak. ... For the film, in addition to proprietary software, Rainmaker used LightWave 8.5, Fusion 4, Sasquatch, Fprime, FrameCycler and Boujou 3."
DCCCafe Weekly : 3D for Non-Linear Editors: "It is for uses like this that NewTek created 3D Arsenal, which came out around a month ago ... The relatively cheap product, priced at $495, allows non-linear editors to make their own 3D logos, movements, and easily integrate simple 3D into their work."
