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Iron Sky 24/02/2012

A conversation with the CGI masterminds behind the feature film that everybody is talking about.

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Olivier Michon 04/07/2011

What’s New? A wonderful adventure, produced by Grand Angle Distributions, co-produced by France 3 and Thalassa, a series of investigations about the myths and legends buried in the oceans.
Back on the story of an Artist Explorer.

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Salif Eric N’Diaye

19/11/2010

From the Ivory Coast to Paris, via Senegal, Salif Eric N'Diaye has conquered his space in the world of computer graphics. This keen LightWave user has been working on projects for brands like Peugeot, Etihad, SNCF, L'Oreal, Europcar, Lucky Strike, Mobalpa.

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Studio Spotlight: Ark VFX

24/08/2010

Based in Sheffield, UK, Ark VFX hit the ground running in 2003 with their first music video for Muse's Sing for Absolution, put together entirely with LightWave and Fusion.

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Iron Maiden’s music video “The Final Frontier”

12/08/2010

Darkside Animation Films and Nick Scott Studio came together to imagine and create a universe for Iron Maiden’s new title track video “The Final Frontier".

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Carthago Nova

06/07/2010

Spain-based animation studio Digital Mind takes us back 2000 years ago to the legendary city of Carthago Nova

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"URS", a short film by Moritz Mayerhofer

01/07/2010

For many years, Urs looked after his aging mother in a town that has long since seen better days. Determined to find a better life for the both of them, he embarks on a perilous journey up a mountain, carrying his mother on his back. But is it all worth it?

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Gosu Design

24/06/2010

Using insight, creativity and LightWave 3D, Norway-based Gosu Design delivers strategic design competence to TV stations, production houses and other businesses in the digital industry...

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Nicolas Crombez

24/06/2010

All it takes is one look at Nicolas Crombez's work and you’ll recognize a true master, diligent in his craft. His beautifully disturbing imagery conjures an emotional experience no viewer will soon forget, as I suppose art should. The pictures speak for themselves, telling stories without text, narration or movement.

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Repo Men 02/06/2010

Repo Men, is a Sci-Fi action-thriller based on the novel, The Repossession Mambo, by Eric Garcia. In this movie version of our future, humans have become dependent on expensive mechanical organs, created by a company called "The Union"...

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West Notthinghamshire College 19/05/2010

The evolution of visual digital technologies is continuously revolutionizing the world of entertainment. Animation, video games, cinema and advertising are only some of the many fields involving 3D computer generated images. No need to mention the many vocations this leads to. We asked Anthony Hall, passionate of LightWave 3D®, to tell us about his experience as a LightWave trainer at West Nottinghamshire College, in the UK.

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Neil MacCormack 14/04/2010

When he is not working for a specific client, Neil MacCormack, founder of Bearfoot Films and author of “Future Station”, “Overlander” and award-winning “Recon”, let his imagination and artistic talent flow to complement an already impressive portfolio… Armed with an array of skill-sets and a passion for great work, Neil tells us about his CG experience, his artwork and LightWave 3D®

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555 Lab 18/01/2010

Dior, Thalys, RG512, Le Petit Oiseau Va Sortir, GDF, Suez, Kia… Four years only after its creation, 555Lab has already done impressive work! Interview with Cédric “Khan” Magne, Creative Director and co-founder of this “creative experimentation lab”.

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Clockwork VFX 17/09/2009

Mia, Jason and Marc met in Cape Town – South Africa – in the early 2000s. After spending a couple of years in an animation studio, they collected their savings and jumped in a plane to take up a big challenge: start their own 3D animation studio in Dubai! Clockwork VFX was born. Hard work and good fortune did the rest! They told us their story…

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Kiss & M&M's 03/09/2009

NewTek Inc spoke to William Vaughan, Animator Director at Splashlight (and former LightWave 3D Evangelist) about his recent work on the Kiss M&Ms campaign.

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Vida en Marte 20/07/2009

Always reach for the moon!... That could have been Paco, Goyo, and Enrique’s motto: these brilliant LightWave artists are now living a dream come true. They were hired for the biggest advertizing campaigns and were even recently given the chance to reenact Sci-Fi movies scenes for Antena 3, starring Spiderman and the vessel of Starwars.

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Bruce Branit 09/06/2009

Four Emmy Award nominations, an on-going collaboration with world-famous series - Lost, Pushing Daisies, Surface -, advertising campaigns for prestigious brands...

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Giorgi Rekhviashvili 01/06/2009

To Giorgi Rekhviashvili, a talented animation director, learning about LightWave 3D® has literally changed his life! He shared his thoughts and experience with us, telling us more about his past–commercials and film projects mostly- and future projects.

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François Kalife 28/04/2009

Yves St Laurent, Lancaster, Sisley, Canal+ and Canal Jimmy, Gemey Maybelline… and so many more: François Kalife has acquired a strong reputation in photography advertising. As a strong proponent of Lightwave, he tells us to what extent professional photography now requires the use of 3D softwares.

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The "King of Bling Bling" 27/04/2009

The "King of Bling Bling": 3D caricature hits the charts!
Directed by Sylvain Delmé and produced by Mixus-

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Eric Zingraff 04/02/2009

We spoke to Eric Zingraff, CG artist fascinated in History, Art and Architecture who founded GREZ Prod, a 3D’s documentary maker company. The last DVD is a total immersion in the middle of the mediaeval Paris…

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Antonis Kotzias 13/07/2007

We revisit Antonis back at home in Greece. Tight deadlines and small teams are nothing new to longtime LightWavers but Antonis really pushed to generate over two hours of CG in less than ten months.

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LightWave is used by Sony to promote PlayStation® 3 06/07/2007

Sylvain Pellodi and Fabien Bonali (alias Bloom) sponsored by the famous French Studio Partizan Lab recently won the 1st prize in a Sony PS3 contest on Artcade Playstation with a video entirely produced in LightWave.

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Jasper Scheepbouwer 20/04/2007

We speak to this LightWave artist who needed to produce gunfire effects for a low-budget film and so created this stunning piece of R&D in his spare time. Warning: Jasper's film contains scenes of violence

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LightWave® Bring Hyper-Reality to Box Office Smash "300" 21/03/2007

"300" is the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel.
From set extensions to living smoke, oceans, skies, arrows, shield, swords, helmets and armies, LightWave visual effects artists working with visual effects supervisor Chris Watts brought it all together in the production of "300"

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Graham Toms 09/03/2007

Ask an industry veteran the most important thing to have to get into the business and you'll probably get, "a strong background in traditional art." Most will ignore this though and go straight for a technical understanding of a specific 3D. One person who can be considered to be on a crusade against this is Graham Toms.

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LightWave v9.2 Sneak Peek Video 22/02/2007

LightWave 9 Artists Dave Jerrard & Jennifer Hachigian share their thoughts at the recent sneak peek of LightWave v9.2 in L.A.
This video features them talking about their favorite new developments in the upcoming release.

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Norway MIR Visuals 12/01/2007

We speak to a talented pair of Norwegians about their growing architectural visualisation company and their first Middle Eastern animation project.

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South Africa Luma Studios 08/12/2006

Nigel Schutte and the LightWave team of three at Luma have recently finished work on a vertiginous ad for a car tracking company in South Africa. We talk to him about how it came about and their other recent projects.

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Maas Digital 29/09/2006
We recently spoke to Dan Maas, owner of Maas Digital about the company's experience working on this highly technical real world sci-fi film.

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South Africa Christo Smit, Virtualscape Visualizations 30/06/2006
These guys have to qualify for the fastest LightWavers in the South with the creation of websites devoted to housing estates completed within two weeks. We speak to Christo Smit about just how it's done.

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Roger Harris 05/05/2006
Roger amused his son with rhymes about imaginary creatures when he was little, and that evolved into a whole book of the bonkers beasts. We talk to him about the process.

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Samuli Torssonen 24/03/2006
Samuli has spent seven years working on his masterpiece Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, the last year of which he was unemployed. We ask him about the tests he faced.

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett 03/02/2006
Mark has been poring over ancient and venerable tomes, much like the monks of old, but creating something very up-to-the-minute.

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Yann Couderc 16/12/2005
A final year project at university has been turned into a splendid ride film at Futuroscope in France. We talk to one of the creators about Akryls.

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Fellah 18/11/2005
We speak to this truly versatile artist who is equally at home in Sweden or Paris - with clay or LightWave 3D modelling tools. He discusses his unique approach to art and reveals his alter ego in the process

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Pål Syvertsen 05/09/2005
Pål is a multi-talented LightWaver. He got his start in the demo scene on the C64 and Amiga, designed the icons for Opera (using LightWave of course!) and has recently completed a six-screen animation for an Anti-Virus company...

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Thomas Mangold 22/07/2005
Octopuses aren't as simple as they appear from first glance. Thomas Mangold describes how he went about creating one for Sony.

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Rob Powers 24/06/2005
Rob has recently finished work on James Cameron's Aliens of the Deep. He also holds the honour of being the very first person to complete, single-handed, the world's first 64-bit animation.

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Antoine Moulineau 03/06/2005
After an absence of nearly four years Gorillaz are back with a new video that, as always, mixes 2D and 3D to great effect. We speak to the supervisor on Feel Good, Inc.

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Khalid Al-Muharraqi 13/05/2005
Khalid is a well-known LightWave artist straddling the line between PC and Mac. We talk to him about the architectural projects he is currently working on.

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Luke Carpenter 15/03/2005
BBC3's Monkey Dust is a late-night animated comedy sketch show that's distinctly adult in approach. We spoke to Luke about the 3D in the series.

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Richard Smith 04/03/2005
Richard Smith is a one-man Shockwave machine. He not only comes up with the ideas for the games, does all the graphics and sound, he even provides the silly voices.

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Antonis Kotzias 18/02/2005
Globe-trotting LightWave artist Antonis has worked in Athens, Glasgow and Sydney, but that doesn't stop him from also playing in a death metal band.

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Juan Gonzáles Díaz 04/02/2005
It's amazing what one man can do in a little over a month of work with LightWave. We speak to Juan about his most recent architectural visualisation work in Spain.

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Adam Sharp 21/01/2005
Adam Sharp has spent the last eighteen months working on his own short film in his spare time. We ask about how a person can commit to a project on that scale, and who his influences are.

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Emile Smith 07/01/2005
Over 400 effects shots in a four hour mini-series makes nearly two shots per minute for Zoïc Studios when they did the effects for a remake of 70s classic Battlestar Galactica. We speak to the show's Visual Effects Supervisor, Emile Smith.

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Jose Perez 17/12/2004
We speak to the Floridian responsible for turning the Mini into a robot for BMW and much modelling for TV, music videos and soon film.

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Peter Lake 19/11/2004
Peter works for Criterion making art for games. He's recently finished work on what some are calling the fastest car racing console game ever - Burnout 3.

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Kevin Phillips 05/11/2004
We speak to this community evangelist about how he got started with LightWave, what he's working on right now, and also how his accounting package plug-in is coming.

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Ian Fullwood 29/10/2004
We speak to the man responsible for all the illustrations in the forthcoming STAR WARS - Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology about how he achieved the images he's made for it.

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Gary Bidwell 24/09/2004
Dyson has always been at the forefront of technology. We talk to Gary Bidwell, the Graphics IT services manager, about how Dyson is using LightWave to show its wares to the world.

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Jacques Defontaine 17/09/2004
Well-known for his incredible realism and eye for detail Jacques Defontaine has just co-written a book on photorealism and animated some mineral water.

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Seneca Menard 03/09/2004
We speak to Seneca who's been busy modelling hell-flesh and machines for Doom 3 for the last three years, when not working on his ultimate fighting game arcade machine.

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Alex Poupard 27/08/2004
We speak to this classically trained illustrator who has harnessed the power of 3D in his work to great effect.

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Colin Larkin 30/07/2004
Colin works for the Railway Procurement Agency in Dublin creating visualisations of traffic planning and the recently unveiled tram system.

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Ectonull 09/07/2004
Marco and Gianni got into 3D to attract girls. It didn't work brilliantly but they discovered they were having a lot of fun anyway, blowing up aliens and racing across deserts.

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Jurgen Ziewe 02/07/2004
Jurgen came to England nearly thirty years ago and became a well-known illustrator producing posters, postcards book covers and more. We speak to him about his work, his inspiration and why he uses LightWave.

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Ron Thornton 25/06/2004
We spoke to Ron, an Englishman who made his name in the States working on a variety of ground-breaking TV shows, who's now back at Pinewood managing probably the largest team of LightWave artists ever gathered in one place in Britain to remake a version of Captain Scarlet in 3D.

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AtomicVFX 18/06/2004
We spoke to the guys and girls at Atomic about their training scheme and their other work over the last couple of years.

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Partizan Midi-Minuit 11/06/2004
We spoke to Aurelien and Loïc from Partizan about their work on the new ads for 7-Up featuring Fido Dido.

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Ben and William's European Tour 2004 28/05/2004
3D Festival comes around quickly and after the success of our user meeting the year before we thought we'd have another! You can read about our great time in Denmark and also at fmx/04 in Germany herein.

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Richard Vaucher 13/05/2004
We speak to this Swiss artist who left business school and Switzerland far behind him to end up in England working on his first short animation

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Shaun Lee Bishop 23/04/2004
We spoke to the man who put a pretty LightWave face on Cunard's largest cruise ship ever, the Queen Mary 2, which set sail this January.

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Marc Hermann 07/04/2004
Marc's a physicist, no wait a minute a journalist, no hang on, a talented animator.

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Mark Wilson 22/03/2004
We speak to Mark about his plug-ins, his work at Passion on the new music video for the Offspring and what he thinks of Gorillaz.

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Jan Ebo 08/03/2004
Jan's a supervisor at GRID, one of Belgium's largest CG companies. He worked last year on the Oscar-nominated animated film, Les Triplettes de Belleville, a story by acclaimed animator Sylvain Chomet.

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Erik Wernquist 27/02/2004
The artist behind the animation of the Annoying Thing tells us about just who it was that made the sound, his architectural and astronomical animation and what he's up to now.

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Iain Anderson 13/02/2004
Iain is a renaissance man. He has worked on films, TV and other projects with LightWave. He's worked full-time for effects companies and as a freelancer. We ask him what he's up to now.

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Tajino 30/01/2004
We speak to this talented young Malaysian artist about his work with turtles, his satellite views of the earth, spaceships and unfinished Fridays.

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Simon Percy 23/01/2004
We speak to one of the founders of Darkside Animation about their effects in the excellent new children's TV series Powers.

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Pawel Olas 09/01/2004
We speak to this Polish artist who now calls Sydney in Australia his home about his plug-ins and photography and what he would like to do next.

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The Hive 24/12/2003
The Hive's director of animation, Nathan Laud, gives us the low-down on the new piece they have just completed for BBC TV's comedy selection for this Christmas.

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Toonafish 15/12/2003
We speak to Ronald van Vemden about his caricatures, including George Bush, theatrical animations and gay guinea pigs. It does all make sense, honest!

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The Worms of Art 05/12/2003
An odd name? Yes, maybe, but it doesn't stop David Todman and his brother Richard creating their Pshelf textures and graphic masterpieces for a variety of uses.

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VEF 28/11/2003
They've always made graphics to wow people, ever since the Amiga Demo scene but now Ole and Zafar produce fantastic commercials, music videos and more with LightWave.

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Paul Baguley 21/11/2003
Ex-BBC graphic designer Paul Baguley still does the majority of his work for the BBC, but being freelance gives him a much shorter commute to work and the chance to see more of his kids.

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Craig A. Clark 14/11/2003
This excellent LightWave artist works for Argonaut Software on their forthcoming game Powerdrome - a remake of the seminal Atari ST/Amiga game of the late 1980s. He talks to us about himself and his work.

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Niklas Andersson 07/11/2003
He may be Swedish, but this superb young LightWave artist has already lived in Mexico and now resides in Canada where he's busy creating tutorials for his "Soviet propaganda"-style web page. We talk to him about his plans for the future...

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Jared "Dzogchen" Lim 31/10/2003
This high-flying LightWave artist always asks his two-and-a-half year old niece Nana her opinion about his work before he's satisfied with it and his designs will soon be gracing the front of t-shirts across America. We wait for him to fly back from Zurich to talk to him.

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Matt Gorner 24/10/2003
We speak to an industrial designer who uses LightWave for all his visualisation work. He also created the LightWave vX project that got a lot of people talking, but, all things considered, he would rather be playing Dragon's Lair.

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Frédéric Durillon 17/10/2003
This French artist got started with computers at a young age because of his interest in film special effects and now he's working hard on the second series of an archaeological documentary for French TV.

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Gregory Glezakos 19/09/2003
Gregory tells us about his infatuation with Jurassic Park, working on clouds and creating the new ident for Viacom - all in a day's work for this talented Greek.

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Dave Tracey 12/09/2003
We speak to this Sydney resident who is a self-taught artist not content with the usual head-building tutorial gathering. He has made a complete city and a science fiction film for television, for himself!

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Graham Toms 22/08/2003
We speak to this prolific ex-Disney instructor who pays for meals by scribbling on napkins, changes his Dalí-esque paintings into 3D and teaches animation and LightWave to anyone who'll have him...

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Khalid Al Muharraqi 08/08/2003
Son of a famous Bahraini artist, Khalid always used to paint and draw. Since 2001 though, he's been busy with LightWave, even creating coins and plane interiors for the kingdom of Bahrain!

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Darkside Animation 01/08/2003
We interview Andy Bishop, from Darkside Animation, about his long and varied career with LightWave and the projects he's currently working on...

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Worldwide FX 25/07/2003
We spoke to Scott Coulter, an American living in Bulgaria, about Worldwide FX's latest film project - Alien Hunter. The film, which has nearly 500 LightWave special effects, was shown on the Sci Fi channel on Saturday 19th July 2003.

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MIR Visuals 11/07/2003
Two Norwegian guys are attempting to put one of their buildings or bits of furniture in every city in the world. Read about how their attempt is going so far as we interview Mats and Trond...

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digi mice 04/07/2003
We spoke to Christof Frank at digi mice about Formula 1 animations and My Singing Secret - a new short animation film with a very specific look…

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David Drbal 27/06/2003
David, who's 25, only started using LightWave a year ago but he's already creating professional-level work. We spoke about animation in general and his outlook on life doing 3D in the Czech Republic.

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Christian Waadt 20/06/2003
Christian may only be 20, but already he shows an enormous talent with LightWave. He loves modelling cars and offers readers a free model.

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Lemonade Animation 16/06/2003
If you attended our user meeting at 3D Festival this year you would have been privy to the first public unveiling of Tinny Tom, the new animation by Lemonade, creators of Robots.

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Tolu Abisola 06/06/2003
There are plenty of places where grown-ups can learn LightWave skills around the world, but LightWave user Tolu Abisola has a first: a course for 9-13 year old children to learn not just LightWave but the art of 3D in general.

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Juan José González 30/05/2003
Juan is a 31-year old self-taught architectural artist working with some of the biggest scenes we've ever seen in LightWave.

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John Lee 23/05/2003
John and I met up again at the 3D Festival this year. He is a 21-year old student at Lincoln University where he's taking a course in animation. Of course, what he really wants to do is dir… I mean act.

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Ben and Will's big adventure 19/05/2003
NewTek Europe hosted a user meeting on the 7th May 2003 at the fifth 3D Festival, in Copenhagen, Denmark. We thought it would be cool to bring William "Proton" Vaughan over for the show.

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Profile: Christophe Desse 16/05/2003
We spoke to wandering artist Christophe Desse about his work in Singapore, role playing games and just why he put quality objects on CGTalk for free…

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Profile: Vassilios Kontodimas 09/05/2003
Vassilios, the head operator of LightWave 3D at the Foundation of the Hellenic World, is recreating the past for a realtime tour in time for 2004's Olympic games. We asked him about the methods used for bringing ancient Greece back to life.

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Profile: Eki Halkka 02/05/2003
We spoke to the creator of numerous excellent plug-ins for LightWave about his work, programming, tight deadlines and 12 hot women...

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Profile: Leigh van der Byl 25/04/2003
Leigh is only 23 but already she has a reputation online as a texturing goddess. We spoke about her forthcoming book and why she likes helping her fellow users so much.

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Profile: Elvis "Lewis" Blazencic 18/04/2003
Elvis, or Lewis is an excellent car modeller who works for his local TV station. Lewis, or Elvis, also freelances creating cars for court reconstructions and has been collecting computers for quite some time now. We ask about his techniques for modelling cars and the reasons behind his nickname…

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Profile: Jonny Gorden 11/04/2003
Jonn first came to prominence as the creator of the X-Men total conversion for Quake. His aborigine character has been used on all sorts of LightWave promotional material and now stars in an animation about lipsync.

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Profile: Daniel "da_duke" Renner 04/04/2003
This German artist loves to learn by creating tutorials for things he finds difficult and to play with fractals inside LightWave.

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Profile: Phil Lunt 28/03/2003
Although Phil heard about LightWave ages ago, he didn't start using it until last year for visualisation work, but he's made up for lost time with the quality of his renders! We talk to him about his work and his plans for the future.

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Profile: Olivier Michon 21/03/2003
We spoke to Olivier Michon, a great artist who lives in Bordeaux and who has used LightWave and Aura since the start. French people should know his work, especially the little "jingles" that come before and after the ads on French TV channel TF1.

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Profile: Atlanteq

14/03/2003
We interview Dino "Mascio" Mascitelli about his work on forthcoming sideways scrolling shoot-em-up T-Zwei and his love of the work of Keith Haring.
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A new LightWaver is born!

11/03/2003
Ben Vost offers his apologies for a lack of user stories over the last two weeks. He was distracted by the birth of his son - Finn Vost. A new story will appear this week on Friday 14th March 2003.
 

Profile: Hector Moratilla

21/02/2003
The LightWave Expo Madrid takes place on the 20th and 21st February 2003. We talk to one of its founders Hector Moratilla about his role there and what he wants to see improved in LightWave.
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Profile: Obraz Studio

14/02/2003
Since the demo scene on the Amiga to the present day Cyril Kravtchenko has sung the praises of LightWave 3D. He's currently working on a game called Star Ancestor using LightWave for all the graphics, both real-time and cut-scene.
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Profile: Partizan Midi-Minuit

07/02/2003
I spoke to Loïc Bail and Aurélien Delpoux, two young directors who work for the well-known Paris studio Partizan Midi-Minuit.
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Profile: Niels Rawoens

31/01/2003
We talk to this young Belgian artist who was once thought talentless about his stunning short film - the inspiration and techniques behind it and what was like studying at RITS.
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Profile: CroTeam

24/01/2003
We spoke to Admir Elezovic at CroTeam about their use of LightWave to help create the top-rated shooter Serious Sam series.
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Profile: Veli-Antti Rautiola

10/01/2003
Veli-Antti is a self-taught Finnish LightWave artist working for an effects company in Helsinki. We talked about his skin rendering methods, working for Nitro FX and what working is like at different times of the year in Finland.
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Profile: William Vaughan

27/12/2002
William Vaughan is well-known to the LightWave community as the guy who most often says, "Wow!" and swiftly follows it up with, "Will you put it on Lightwave3d.com?" Long a fan of LightWave, he actually started out in… in… 2D graphics!
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Profile: Asylum 3D

20/12/2002
Asylum 3D is the warped brainchild of two talented Photoshop artists Robin Konieczny and Matt Westrup. I made the possibly fatal mistake of taking them both on at the same time for this profile, rather than taking the easy way out and selecting a company spokesman.
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Profile: Stuart Penn

13/12/2002
High Temperature Superconductivity to modelling for one of Europe's best-known CG houses doesn't sound like an obvious leap, but it's one that our artist Stuart Penn made with ease.
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Profile: Grzegorz Jonkajtys

05/12/2002
He's just turned 30, he has a love of creepy crawlies and all things dark and he gave up web design in favour of 3D. Sounds like a perfect candidate for a short, but sweet, profile!
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Profile: Andràs Kavalecz

29/11/2002
A new German LightWave training DVD is just the latest item on Andràs Kavalecz’s CV. As a young animator, originally from Hungary and now living near Frankfurt in Germany, he has worked on a number of games for a variety of German games companies and is now freelance.

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Profile: Emanuele Salvucci

22/11/2002
Emanuele is a talented young artist working at Revolution Software on the forthcoming Broken Sword 3. We spoke to him about his progress with that and also his other interests.
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Profile: Stormfront Digital

15/11/2002
Chris Morris is one of the UK’s most controversial comedians. From being thrown off the national radio station Radio 1, to writing a comedy programme about paedophilia, there is no subject that seems to be taboo for him. Right now, he is engaged in producing a one-off show bizarrely called "My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117". In it, a talking dog called Rothko and a garrulous baby provided some of the biggest challenges for LightWave, courtesy of StormFront Digital boss, Ben Smith.
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Profile: Olivier Jeannel

06/11/2002
We spoke to Olivier Jeannel, a 30-year-old lead animator who’s just completed work on a superb manga-style spot for Euro 2004 for Eurosport, a satellite sports channel broadcast throughout Europe.
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