LightWave 3D Texturing Tutorials from KURV studios

Looking for professional training in LightWave 3D for Texturing? KURV studios has worked closely with many professional artists to produce a comprehensive list of tutorials for texturing in LightWave 3D.  From Nodes to UV Unwrapping, KURV studios is your professional source for tutorials on LightWave 3D.  Click here to see our complete list of training for Animation in LightWave 3D.

Projects in this Series
Our videos on Rendering Techniques include training on the following subjects:

	LightWave 3D Surfacing Volume I Adam leaves no stone unturned as he explains every detail of the Surface Editor, from naming surfaces to adding comments. If you find these areas in the Surface Editor a bit difficult to use or you feel you don't fully understand what each of these properties do then this video is the perfect training video for you... read more here.
	LightWave 3D Surfacing Volume II Adam starts the training by getting back into the Surface Editor in LightWave 3D. But this time he is taking you into the more intricate tabs like Lighting, Specular, Luminosity and Reflectivity. If you find these areas in the Surface Editor a bit difficult to use or you feel you don't fully understand what each of these properties do then this video is the perfect training video for you... read more here.
	Advanced Texturing: UV Unwrapping Volume I UV Unwrapping can be and usually is a difficult  and time consuming process at best.  Adam's latest video will change all that for you.  In this new title, Advanced Texturing: UV Unwrapping Vol I Adam spends 6+ hours explaining how to use a free plugin to speed up the unwrapping process and then shows you the importance and how-to's of organizing your unwrapped mesh before texturing... read more here.
	Get into UV Unwrapping in LightWave 3D: Velociraptor In this video, Adam shows you how to unwrap a Velociraptor piece by piece using a free plug-in for LightWave 3D (PC or Mac included). You get to see the process as Adam takes parts of the character and prepares them for mapping. This video shows the unwrapping from head to toe leaving no steps unknown, read more here.
	LightWave 3D 9 Introduction to Node Based Texturing Texturing with nodes is very different than the traditional layered based methods LightWave 3D users are used to. While extremely powerful, nodes can also be very difficult to understand, even for experienced artists.  James Willmott has completed his first video training in his series on nodes. The focus of this video is not to teach you how James would use nodes but rather to show you how nodes work so you can design and create your own node based textures and surfaces, read more here.

For a complete list of titles, click here.

Other Training on LightWave 3D from KURV studios

Modeling	Rendering	Animation
Texturing	Dynamics	Special FX

About Our Artists

Adam Gibson is a 3D artist from Bowmanville,
Ontario, Canada.  He's been doing freelance work using Lightwave 3D and various other 3D/2D applications since the early Commodore Amiga/Video-Toaster days. He enjoys doing creature and sci-fi style modeling/texturing projects and has a passion for digital compositing using blue/green screens.

Adam is also a 3 x time published book author and has earned a Masters Degree in Taekwondo under the legendary Bill "Superfoot" Wallace-Undefeated World Kickboxing Champion.

Tim "aurora" Dunn is a freelance CG artist and programmer specializing in scientific visualization. He lives in a little town north of Boulder, Colorado and has two beautiful daughters that live in Aspen. He is also the Content Director for CGFocus.com and a moderator for several CG related forums. He is currently back in school at the University of Colorado studying more math, physics and programming.

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.

About NewTek
Benefiting producers and artists with its cost-effective and ground-breaking technologies, NewTek Inc. is a leader in portable live production, video editing, 3D animation and special effects tools, including the TriCaster™ product line and LightWave 3D®. NewTek has won numerous industry accolades, including two Emmy® Awards. Clients include: Fox News, BBC, NHL, NBA Development League, MTV, VH1, the Steve Harvey Radio Show, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). NewTek products have been used in blockbuster films and television shows, including “Iron Man II,” “Avatar,” “The Dark Knight,” “Iron Man,” “300,” “Hancock,” “Tropic Thunder,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Lost,” “Fringe” and more.

About LightWave 3D
LightWave® is a complete modeling, rendering and animation system. Used extensively in broadcast television production, film visual effects, video game development, print graphics and visualization, LightWave is responsible for more artists winning Emmy Awards than any other 3D application.

LightWave 3D has been used in the production of some of histories best visual effects films and television series of all time: Iron Man II, Avatar, The Dark Night, Angels and Demons, Alice in Wonderland, Eagle Eye, Iron Man, Spiderman I, II, and III, 300, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End and the list goes on and on...

From Battlestar Galactica / Star Trek on TV to Avatar and The Dark Night in Cinema, LightWave 3D can take you there.