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Summary: Is this a joke?
Review: This book is the only book in history that virtually guarantees that you will be a worse 3d artist after you read it.If distorting the Lightwave Cow for several hundred pages is your idea of modeling, then this book is for you. This book feels like it was written by a first time Lightwave user that loaded the Lightwave Cow model into a scene and started playing with each and every modeling control with no idea what they were doing. I actually think the cow could write a book on how she was abused in the making of this book and it would be more insightful to 3d modelers. Save your money.
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Summary: This is an odd book
Review: This is an odd book and not at all what the title might suggest. For learning Modeler there are some excellent free tutorials online (but unfortunately I discovered this only after buying this book). I did find the Amapi chapter and the overall concept of how Lightwave might integrate with other apps interesting (which is why I rated this book two stars instead of one). I enjoyed Mr. Mortier's book on Ray Dream 5 but this book should never have been published (judging from some of the comments in the book I don't even think Mr. Mortier likes Lightwave and that alone should have prevented this book from seeing the light of day). This book also has some of the most frightening-looking artwork I've ever seen in any 3D book. Hopefully no one who learns on this book will ever get hired to do anything I'll have to see! There are many other vastly superior books on Lightwave and some of the best stuff is freely available online.
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Summary: Lots of helpful Lightwave modeling tutorials
Review: This is the best book so far I've found on modeling in
Lightwave, and Amapi is the best modeling enhancement for Lightwave. I found the chapter by Olivier Drion (chapter 18) especially helpful.
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Summary: Save your Money
Review: Worst lightwave book I've ever read. If you can model a box save you money. Many of the chapters (over 50% of the book) have nothing to do with Lightwave but deal with other programs. Other chapters have nothing to do modeling.
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