COVER
Kaze of Timothy Albee's Ghost Warrier
UV TEXTURING AND SURFACING WITH LIGHTWAVE AND PHOTOSHOP
Did you like airbus on the cover of Issue 35? Gregory shows you how to create
his realistic airliner using LightWave 7.5 and Photoshop 7. The first two parts
of this series are about creating the plane's UV maps for the textures. The
last two cover painting various realistic textures in Photoshop and applying
them in LightWave.
BY GREGORY GLEZAKOS
MODELING, TEXTURE AND RENDER
Applying Photoshop textures to your LightWave projects can give you absolute
control of your image 's look. For this tutorial, Stephen chose to model, texture
and set up a scene portraying a workspace, complete with a graphics tablet and
pen on a glossy wooden table surface. Stephen Burns exhibits his digital fine
art internationally, some of which has won 1st place in the Seybold International
Digital Arts Contest. He teaches digital manipulation workshops throughout the
US.
BY STEPHEN M.BURNS
TEXTURING OBJECTS
Even if your drawing abilities are less than perfect, painting character textures
is no longer a daunting task, thanks to the great tools in Photoshop and LightWave.
This tutorial takes you through the steps in building a texture rig: Preparing
your model, painting, surface, and setting up the textures.
BY C.S. MONINS
CHANGING THE FACE OF FILMMAKING: "MICRO-TEAM" PRODUCTION
Computer hardware and software have evolved to a point where one person alone
can now do what would have required hundreds of highly skilled Artists even
a few years ago. The creator of "Kaze, Ghost Warrior" explains how the latest
advances in technology are changing the way movies get made.
BY TIMOTHY ALBEE
LIGHTWAVE 8: THE DOPE TRACK
This hidden feature offers you even more control over your keyframes. Dan explains
how and when to use the dope track.
BY DAN ABLAN
LIGHTWAVE ESSENTIALS
How to modify an object's motion path in Layout while the object is moving.
BY BRAD CARVEY
KILLER TIPS
LightWave 8 tutorials from Dan Ablan 's new book.
CONFESSIONS OF A KEYFRAME COLLECTOR
A closet Keyframe Magazine collector tells his story.
BY HUNTER WOLF
ADVISORY BOARD INTERVIEW: LEIGH VAN DER BYL
A person with many faces and many talents... A well known digital artist in
the professional world of computer animation. Specializing in texturing, you
may know Leigh from CG Talk.
BY AKIKO ASHLEY
FINAL RENDER
Being Organized and other myths.
BY ANDREA CARVEY
BOOK REVIEW
CGI Filmmaking: The Creation of Ghost Warrior by Timothy Albee
REVIEW BY MIRIAM TAYLOR-COOPER
DRAWING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
A review of Alias SketchBook Pro, a software application used in combination
with a Tablet PC or graphics tablet to create a digital sketchbook for artists.
BY AKIKO ASHLEY