LightWave 3D 8 - Introduction to Lighting and Shading

Nicholas Boughen literally wrote the book on Lighting. He has worked on feature films from I-Robot, Good Boy!, and Garfield to major television series such as Stargate SG1 and Dead Like Me. Did we mention he is an Emmy and Gemini nominated artist?

In this video Nicholas shares his knowledge on LightWave 3D 8 Lighting and Shading with you and holds nothing back. Nicholas starts the video by showing you the basic foundations of light and shadows then advances you to more complex areas such as light type and color hue. Then your walked though shadow types and global illumination.

Finally Nicholas walks you though 2 very comprehensive basic lighting techniques more than 45 minutes total. Lastly Nicholas shows you how to set up a lighting scene with LScript.

This video is more than 2.5 hours of training, and will give you a complete understanding of lighting, principals of lighting and introduce you to professional lighting rigs and shading.

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What Others are Saying
"I started few days ago with this DVD and must say, I learn a lot by viewing the first lessons, Nick explain his lessons very clear and easy to follow (this is great to learn) after viewing the first lessons I start LW and make few test with a simple ground plane and few ball, I must say Nick gives me a lot of hints in his lessons to become great lighting results!" - Hans Jorge Jung

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"If you are relatively new to lightwave 3d this DVD will save you hundreds of hours in study time. It does a wonderful job of explaining what each light does, how it creates shadows and when and why to use them. If you're more experienced lightwave user, it will confirm or correct your lighting schemes. And make you a much better texture artist.

Then if you add up all of the bonus content available from the web site, this DVD is an excellent value..." Amazon Customer

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"I really loved this DVD, I use the techniques in all my projects now, it is a tool for everyone... I truly recommend this to everyone who want to make photo real images from Lightwave, and I dare say that you can use the knowledge of this to every 3d rendering system." - Michael Marcondes

Artist Profile

Nicholas Boughen - is an Emmy and Gemini Nominated CG Supervisor at Rainmaker Animation and Visual Effects in Vancouver, BC, Canada. For the MGM feature film Good Boy!, Nicholas was instrumental in creating a new technology to matchmove the 500+ talking-dog head shots in the movie. After training a team of eight artists on his ground-breaking technology, the team was able to produce a minimum of 20 shots per week. Nicholas has worked on countless television commercials, pilots, and miniseries including Dead Like Me, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Voyage of the Unicorn, Snow White, Time Tunnel, Stargate SG-1, and others, providing modeling, texturing, lighting, and animation. Nicholas' feature film work includes The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Good Boy!, Garfield, and I-Robot. Nicholas is the best-selling author of LightWave 3D 8 Lighting, which has changed how artists look at all aspects of lighting and is a must-have for every serious LightWave artist and he also co-authored LightWave 3D: 1001 Tips and Tricks.

Nicholas received his Emmy nomination for his Visual Effects work on the pilot of Dead Like Me. He received his Gemini nomination for his Visual Effects work on season 6 of Stargate SG1. Nicholas was also lead lighting artist on Rainmaker's contribution to I, Robot, which has been Oscar nominated for outstanding Visual Effects.