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LightWave 3D 9 Rigging & Animating with IK Booster by Larry Shultz 9+ Hours of Training Price - $59.95	The Ultimate Guide to: 3D Modeling by Steve Warner 15+ Hours of Training Price - $79.95
The Ultimate Guide to: Modeling 101 by Steve Warner 4+ Hours of Training Price - $24.95	The Ultimate Guide to: Polygonal Modeling by Steve Warner 4+ Hours of Training Price - $24.95
The Ultimate Guide to: SubPatch Modeling by Steve Warner 4+ Hours of Training Price - $24.95	The Ultimate Guide to: Spline Modeling by Steve Warner 4+ Hours of Training Price - $24.95
LightWave 3D 9 Introduction to Character Modeling by Larry Shultz 14+ Hours of Training Price - $34.95	LightWave 3D 9 Introduction to Hypervoxels by Larry Shultz 4+ Hours of Training Price - $34.95
Exploration of Facial Topology and Polygonal Modeling by Dick Ma 2+ Hours of Training Price - $34.95	LightWave 3D 9.2 Logo Design and Creation by Larry Shultz 4+ Hours of Training Price - $44.95
LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks Volume V: Pyro FX by Larry Shultz 1.7 Hours of Training Price - $24.95	LightWave 3D 9 Introduction to Node Based Textures by James Willmott 3+ Hours of Training Price - $29.95
LightWave 3D 9 Water Visual Effects by Larry Shultz 3+ Hours of Training Price - $44.95	LightWave 3D 9 Adaptive Pixel Subdivision by Larry Shultz 3+ Hours of Training Price - $49.95
LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks Volume IV: Bubbles & Waves by Larry Shultz 1.7 Hours of Training Price - $24.95	LightWave 3D 9 Rigging: The Definitive Guide by Larry Shultz 10+ Hours of Training Price - $69.95
LightWave 3D 9 Practical Lighting by Nicholas Boughen 2+ Hours of Training Price - $59.95	LightWave 3D Foundations of Character Animation by Timothy Albee 3.5 Hours of Training Price - $44.95
LightWave 3D Introduction to Modeling and Special FX by Larry Shultz 3.5 Hours of Training Price - $19.95	LightWave 3D Advanced Texturing & Rendering: Project Viper by Kevin Phillips 7 Hours of Training Price - $49.95
LightWave 3D Advanced Modeling: Project Viper by Kevin Phillips 6+ Hours of Training Price - $44.95	LightWave 3D Foundations of Rigging: Rigging a Quadruped by Larry Shultz 4.5 Hours of Training Price - $49.95
LightWave 3D UV Texturing by Larry Shultz 3.5 Hours of Training Price - $44.95	LightWave 3D Combination DVD Displacements and Weightmaps by Larry Shultz 9+ Hours of Training Price - $99.95
LightWave 3D Modeling a Head with Spline's by Larry Shultz 4+ Hours of Training Price - $44.95	LightWave 3D Get into Weightmaps by Larry Shultz 2+ Hours of Training Price - $34.95
LightWave 3D Displacements and Endomorphs by Larry Shultz 3+ Hours of Training Price - $34.95	LightWave 3D Displacements and Endomorphs II by Larry Shultz 4+ Hours of Training Price - $44.95
LightWave 3D: From the Beginning by Layne Smith 10+ Hours of Training Price - $39.95	LightWave 3D 8: Get into Spline Modeling by Larry Shultz 3+ Hours of Training Price - $34.95
LightWave 3D 8: Introduction to Lighting and Shading by Nicholas Boughen 2.5 Hours of Training Price - $39.95	LightWave 3D Tips and Tricks Volume III by Kevin Phillips 7+ Hours of Training Price - $44.95
3D Print and Illustration for 2D Artists by Brad Krause 3+ Hours of Training Price - $39.95	LightWave 3D 8 Cloth and Vehicle Dynamics by Mike Pauza Cloth and Vehicle Dynamics Price - $39.95
Taming Sasquatch by Nicholas Boughen 3+ Hours of Training Price - $34.95	LightWave 3D 8: Taming Sasquatch Lite by Nicholas Boughen Video Training on Sas Lite, 1.5 Hours. Price - $29.95
LightWave 3D 8 IK Booster by Larry Shultz Only video covering LightWave 3D's IK Booster Price - $24.95	LightWave 3D 8 Bone Tools by Larry Shultz Only video covering LightWave 3D's Bone Tools Price - $24.95
LightWave 3D Industrial Modeling: Product Modeling Series Volume I by Larry Shultz Covers Modeling to Rendering Price - $29.95	LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks Vol I: Next Dimension Tour by Larry Shultz 9+ Hours of Tips and Tricks Price - $24.95
LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks Vol II: World Tour by Larry Shultz 9+ Hours of Tips and Tricks Price - $24.95	LightWave 3D 8: Vehicle Modeling Volume I by Gerald Abraham LightWave 3D Modeling Price - $34.95
LightWave 3D 8: Vehicle Modeling Volume II by Gerald Abraham LightWave 3D Modeling Price - $34.95

About LightWave 3D 9.x:
The combination of the most complete professional toolset in the industry at the most affordable price makes NewTek’s LightWave 3D® the best choice for any 3D job anywhere. Designers and artists from Malaysia to Norway, U.S. to Australia, and everywhere in between are producing award-winning work and making a living with LightWave 3D. LightWave® fits the bill for any size business from a one-person shop to Hollywood special effects titans with hundreds of animators on staff. Whether you are watching television, browsing the web, reading a magazine, taking in a new movie at the theater, or watching billboards and buildings go by on the highway on your way to work, you are encountering work produced or visualized using LightWave 3D.

LightWave 3D is the common denominator between an architect in Egypt who brings his building designs to vivid life, complete with furnishings, landscaping and people, a game artist in Croatia who produced the multi-award winning Serious Sam, and an animator in Dallas whose two-minute short gave birth to an Oscar-nominated CGI movie. Bring anything to life from buildings to characters with the broad range of tools included in LightWave right out of the box, ready to go.

LightWave’s tools are designed for fast productivity and easy, intuitive use. They are set in an interface that you can customize to your needs, so the tools you use most are right where you want them. Buttons are plainly labeled with the names of the tools so you know what they do instantly, not with cryptic icons that take months to decipher and memorize. Nothing in the industry is faster to learn, easier to use, or more productive. And no other 3D application offers a native renderer of world-class speed, power and beauty with virtually unlimited render nodes.

Look for Training by Topic
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Beginner, Covers all Aspects
LightWave 3D: From the Beginning
Introduction to Modeling and Special FX
LightWave 3D Industrial Modeling: Product Modeling Series Volume I

Modeling:
The Ultimate Guide to: Modeling 101
The Ultimate Guide to: Polygonal Modeling
The Ultimate Guide to: SubPatch Modeling
The Ultimate Guide to: Spline Modeling
The Ultimate Guide to: 3D Modeling (combo pack)
LightWave 3D 9 Character Modeling
LightWave 3D Introduction to Cartoon Modeling
LightWave 3D Facial Topology and Modeling
LightWave 3D 9 Adaptive Pixel Subdivision
LightWave 3D Advanced Modeling: Project Viper
Introduction to Modeling and Special FX
LightWave 3D 8: Get into Spline Modeling
LightWave 3D 8: Vehicle Modeling Volume I
LightWave 3D 8: Vehicle Modeling Volume II
LightWave 3D Modeling a Head with Spline's

Texturing:
LightWave 3D Introduction to Node-Based Texturing
LightWave 3D Advanced Texturing & Rendering: Project Viper
LightWave 3D UV Texturing

Lighting:
LightWave 3D 9 Practical Lighting by Nicholas Boughen
LightWave 3D 8: Introduction to Lighting and Shading

Rigging:
LightWave 3D 9 Rigging & Animating with IK Booster
Introduction to Cartoon Rigging
LightWave 3D 9 Rigging: The Definitive Guide
LightWave 3D Foundations of Rigging: Rigging a Quadruped
LightWave 3D Get into Weightmaps
LightWave 3D 8 IK Booster
LightWave 3D 8 Bone Tools

Animation:
LightWave 3D 9 Rigging & Animating with IK Booster
Introduction to Cartoon Animation
LightWave 3D Foundations of Character Animation
LightWave 3D Facial Topology and Modeling

Dynamics:
LightWave 3D 8 Cloth and Vehicle Dynamics
LightWave 3D 9 Introduction to Hypervoxels

Rendering:
LightWave 3D Advanced Texturing & Rendering: Project Viper

Special FX:
LightWave 3D 9 Introduction to Hypervoxels
LightWave 3D Displacements and Endomorphs
LightWave 3D Displacements and Endomorphs II
Introduction to Modeling and Special FX
LightWave 3D 9 Water Effects, Visual Effects

Tips & Tricks Series:
LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks Vol I: Next Dimension Tour
LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks Vol II: World Tour
LightWave 3D Tips and Tricks Volume III
LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks Volume IV: Bubbles & Waves
LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks Volume V: Pyro FX

Sasquatch or Fur Training:
LightWave 3D 8: Taming Sasquatch Lite
Taming Sasquatch

Print Artists:
3D Print and Illustration for 2D Artists

About Our LightWave 3D 8 & 9 Training
KURV studios is different from other LightWave 3D training companies, read why.

About Our Quality
KURV studios brings you quality training from artists that use LightWave 3D in their professional careers. From artists working in Hollywood studios to professional VFX consultants KURV studios artists are the best in the industry.

Why We're Different
What makes KURV studios different from other video training publishers is our artists. Most visual effects artists have a specialty, be it lighting, 3d modeling, rigging, or 3d animation. We only ask these artists to train in these areas. This allows us to have the most comprehensive LightWave 3D training videos on the market.

Pricing!
KURV studios believes that LightWave 3D training should be affordable. For years LightWave training cost $60, $70, $80 or even 300 dollars, sometimes for a 2 hour video. Those days are gone!

KURV studios offers training videos starting at $24.95 and go up to $49.95. Our videos range from 2 hours in length to 9 hours in length. We cut no corners in our videos and do not skip important steps. How can you teach someone to model a car in LightWave 3D in 2 hours, or introduce someone to 3d animation in 2 hours?

Our videos show you step by step how to complete a project with no 'flash forward' leaving you to catch up on your own. Our 3D training videos show you every exciting minute of the project step by step and at your own pace.

Support After the Sale
We feel that we offer the best LightWave 3D training videos on the market but we know you might have questions after the sale. So we offer a support forum for you to directly talk to the professionals that created the training videos your learning from. In fact if your just thinking about buying videos.. feel free to post questions in our forums, you don't have to be a customer to get help from us. We want to help everyone in the LightWave 3D community as much as we can. Our forums are located at www.kurvstudios.com/forum.

Why do we do this?
Because we love the 3D community! We have such a great time talking to visual effects artists and people learning LightWave like yourself. Our ambition is to read film credits one day and recognize your name! We know it will happen one day and it will be amazing to know that we might have had a small part in your amazing career in 3D!

Artist Profiles
Gerald Abraham, formerly a print designer for numerous video game publications got into the 3D world in early 1999. LightWave has gone from being a supplementary tool to a primary choice for photo realistic imagery read more about Gerald.

Nicholas Boughen is an Emmy Nominated artist enjoying a career in feature film and television working for Rainmaker in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nicholas is an Emmy and Gemini nominated visual effects artist, nominated for an Emmy for his work on Dead Like Me and a Gemini for his work on Stargate Season 6 in 2004 and an Oscar for I-Robot in 2005.

Mike Pauza, holds a degree in computational physics, and has done simulation/animation work for clients such as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Sierra On-Line read more about Mike here.

Kevin Phillips - hails from the sunny shores of clean and green New Zealand, a country well known for its hobbits, orcs, and close resemblance to Middle-earth. His work week is currently split between doing CGI with LightWave at Flux Animation Studios (http://www.fluxmedia.co.nz) and teaching LightWave at Natcoll Design Technology (http://www.natcoll.ac.nz). Kevin has freelanced for several years, having experience in many areas of LightWave from plug-in development to character animation and modeling, has lectured on 3D, and has written, developed, and run 3D short-courses for the Auckland University of Technology.

Larry Shultz, a veteran of the visual effects industry working for studios such as Netter, Foundation and Warner Brothers. Mr. Shultz has been training students in LightWave 3D longer than most professional VFX artists have been in the industry.

Layne Smith is the Graphics and Multimedia Director at Dallas Morning News. His team of artists has been using LightWave 3D to produce graphics for daily publication, some of which have been picked up and used by web and television outlets, including CNN and Oprah. Their work has earned them multiple Texas Associated Press Managing Editors’ Awards for infographics (TexasAPME), multiple Katie Awards for infographics (regional media awards), and a Society of News Design award for infographics (world-wide).

Steve Warner In 2001, took a job with CAE, an international supplier of military training and simulation services. He now works for CAE’s Courseware Development Team at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to his work as an author and editor on LightWave 3D 8: 1001 Tips & Tricks, Steve is co-author with Timothy Albee on Essential LightWave 3D 8 and author of the upcoming LightWave 3D 8 Modeling, A Definitive Guide.