Get into UV Unwrapping in LightWave 3D: Velociraptor

This is Adam Gibson’s fifth retail video for KURV studios and his first for LightWave 3D UV Unwrapping.

This title shows off not only Adam’s talent, but LightWave 3D’s easy of use. Adam will demonstrate with one free plug-in, how easy it can be to unwrap a full character. LightWave 3D is the 3D production tool of choice by many Hollywood studio’s from feature films to Television series. Now you can learn to UV unwrap an objects from space ships to creatures like this Velociraptor, to other complex objects.

In this video Adam shows you how easy it is to unwrap a character

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.

Adam uses a free plugin to unwrap a character

Adam explains his processes and why he is setting up the UV’s the way he does. This 3+ hour tutorial is designed with beginner LightWave artists in mind but even if your a seasoned LightWave 3D artists, UV unwrapping is not an easy task.

Adam shows the unwrapped items organized

This title was created with beginner to intermediate LightWave 3D users in mind. Adam’s approach of tool based training will have you using LightWave 3D more often in your work flow. After watching this video you will easily be able to master LightWave 3D’s UV unwrapping tools.

Artist Profile

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.

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.