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Benefiting producers and artists with cost-effective
and groundbreaking technologies, NewTek is a worldwide leader in 3D animation
and special effects tools, portable live production and video editing including
LightWave 3D®, the TriCaster™ product line and 3PLAY™. NewTek has won numerous
industry accolades, including two Emmy® Awards. NewTek products have been used
in blockbuster films and television shows, including "Avatar”, "Repo Men”,
"Alice in Wonderland”, "Tintin”, "The Dark Knight”, "Iron Man”, "Caprica”, "V”,
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, "Lost”, "Fringe" and more. NewTek is privately
owned and based in San Antonio. |
3D artists gain interactive
viewport rendering, real-time stereoscopic preview, Virtual
Studio Tools for immersive walkthroughs and the first complete
linear color space workflow, all within an enhanced user
interface.
NewTek, a worldwide leader of 3D
animation and video products, has released NewTek LightWave™ 10—the
latest version of its Emmy® Award-winning 3D software. LightWave
10 delivers a whole new set of capabilities for 3D producers and
studio pipelines. Now, 3D artists have the ability to focus on
the creative process with tools that provide immediate feedback,
whether they work alone or in a multi-software studio.
These days, with the creative process, artists need to move at maximum speed in order to tackle incredible deadlines, demanding work and high expectations. Using LightWave™, either exclusively or in a pipeline, makes it possible for an individual, a small team or a major facility to see their dreams and ideas come to life, with award-winning quality work, on time and on budget. LightWave artists all over the world say they can count on it for speed, flexibility, value and control.
LightWave is a complete 3D solution to model, render and animate. 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 10 leverages new technologies developed in LightWave
CORE and showcases NewTek’s commitment to the creation of tools
that support the artistic process. With LightWave 10, artists
have the ability to interact directly in the viewport and see
changes to lights, textures, volumetrics and more, to view
updates to their stereoscopic work in real-time, and to deliver
realistic environment walkthroughs in ways never before
possible. With data interchange tools that enhance pipeline
integration and a fresh user interface, LightWave 10 is the most
artist-friendly, production-ready version of LightWave ever.
Developed through continued collaboration with 3D artist members
of the LightWave HardCORE community and key Hollywood studios,
LightWave 10 delivers the benefits artists count on.
“We upgraded to LightWave 10 with its linear color space
workflow because it lets us achieve photorealism so much faster.
It helps bring out all the qualities of the rock solid LightWave
render engine,” said Stefan Bredereck, supervising artist
EdenFX. “With LightWave, we achieved the needed results super
fast, and we accomplished even the most challenging tasks.
LightWave 10 speeds things up even more. The new features make
it a very valuable tool for our studio.”
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LightWave 10 New Features and Benefits include
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- Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR)--render
in real-time, with the ability to limit the render region,
for maximum performance
- New Anaglyph Stereoscopic
Preview—real-time interocular, ‘red-blue’ anaglyphic
separation delivers the ability to view changes as they
happen
- Virtual Studio Tools—supports InterSense
Virtual Camera Tracking System (VCAM) and 3Dconnexion 3D
mouse, allowing interaction with models and scenes in real
time
- Linear Color Space Workflow—supports
custom Look Up Tables (LUTs) for more realistic lighting,
and to maximize compositing flexibility
- New Data Interchange Tools—support for
MDD, Autodesk® Geometry Cache, FBX® and COLLADA™ make it
easy to move data from one application to another
- Updated User Interface (UI)—interactive
channel sliders, added control for custom colors, and
numerous workflow enhancements deliver a more dynamic user
experience
“Our goal with LightWave 10 is to deliver workflows that
best serve the artist and support their creative discovery
process, allowing them to interact with their 3D content like
never before,” said Rob Powers, NewTek vice president of 3D
development. "Technology should serve the artist, and not the
other way around. This is how the Virtual Art Department (VAD)
worked, which my team innovated on ‘Avatar.’ It helped transform
filmmaking to serve the director.” |
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System
Specifications for LightWave 10
Platform
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Windows®
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Mac®
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Hardware |
Intel® Core™ 2 or AMD
Athlon™ II (or better)
64-bit System RAM: 4GB
minimum
32-bit System RAM: 2GB
minimum
Available USB Port
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Intel processor
Available USB Port
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Operating System |
64-bit Windows Vista® or
Windows 7 64-bit Edition
32-bit Windows Vista or
Windows 7 Edition |
Snow Leopard® 10.6 or better |
Graphics Card |
Minimum: NVIDIA® GeForce®
8400 series or ATI X1600 |
Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce 8400
series or ATI X1600 |
Note: All systems require 750MB available hard drive space (excluding
content), CD-ROM for Program Installation, and DVD-ROM for Content.
Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
Specifications are subject to change without notice.
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