LightWave 3D 9 Water Visual Effects with Larry Shultz
 If you need to create special effects making water splash, poor, hit objects, or just make a growing puddle this video is made just for you.
If you just want to learn new and more dynamic ways to use LightWave 3D 9 with out the true dynamic render times, then this video is for you.
If you want to learn how textures, nodes, and gradients can affect animations, this would be a great video to watch. Larry goes into great details on how textures, gradients and nodal based changes can effect your work and how to use these tools to make these changes.
Lastly, Larry shows you the more traditional way of creating water using hypervoxels. The render times are much higher but Larry explains the pros and cons to both methods. Lastly you will learn both of these methods and when to use both of them.
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Artist Profile
 Larry Shultz - has been involved with computer graphics since the mid-1980s. He began using LightWave 3D in its early days for TV commercials and other projects at a CGI company he co-founded during the early ’90s called The Animation Factory in Albuquerque.
Since those days Larry has worked for such companies as American Laser Games, Sony Development, Discovery Channel, Netter Digital, Foundation Imaging, Amalgamated Pixels, and Squarehouse Entertainment, as well as working on a freelance basis for many other companies. Larry is very experienced in almost every aspect of LightWave, working as lead artist, technical director, and in many other positions on a variety of projects.
He brings all that experience to these videos. Larry is also heavily involved with LightWave training. He has taught seminars all over the United States and several schools including Newtek Inc., Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, Video Symphony, Foundation Institute, and 3D Exchange. Larry is known the world over for his training and vast knowledge of LightWave 3D. Since then Larry has contributed to the LightWave 3D [8] content CD and is a published artists on the LightWave 3D [8]: 1001 Tips and Tricks book by Wordware Publishing. |
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