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Summary: a smashing read
Review: Everyone MUST read this book, it's fabulous!
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Summary: Great book - Even if you don't have LW5.5!
Review: I have already got Dan's Power Guide, this is another fine addition to any Lightwave users library. Some of the topics are, by Dan's own admission, confusing, but this is still a book you can't do without if you want to learn more about LW. There is more here than just dealing with 5.5, a lot of the information and techniques are relevant even with 4.0 (which is what I had when I bought it). It's the concepts that are important. In a nutshell - buy it!
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Summary: a smashing read
Review: I've used Lightwave for a couple of small projects and learnt it a couple of years ago with a good teacher in a Multimedia course.Since then, I've become a little rusty. This book isn't for you if you want to quickly pick up a few points that you've forgotten. For instance, something as easy as a keyboards shortcuts listing is missing (and with Lightwave being such a "foreign" GUI when compare to Adobe products, you need them!) This book may be fine for those who have the hang of ii...
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Summary: A Bit Frustrating
Review: If you need/want to learn Lightwave quickly, this book may not be the best. The sections that cover planning and profesional issues are excellent. The explanations of software functions are OK, but don't expect to much detail into what each action you perform is doing. The tutorials vary in quality. The first few seem out of place. Most of them are lacking in description, and there are quite a few typographical errors and some missing files on the CD. I spend a lot of time reading manuals and doing tutorials for a number of software packages, and this book has some of the most poorly written and constructed I have ever seen. If you don't mind spending LOTS of extra time trying to work through where the authors (there are actually six of them) and editors totally screwed up, take the plunge. But I don't think this book will be worth the money unless it gets re-edited.
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Summary: Inside Lightwave 3D is a great book!
Review: Mr. Ablan wrote a great book about Lightwave 3D. This book covers topics from installation, modeling, animation to post production. This is a well organized and easy to follow book. Architecture rendering and character animation are both covered in this 743 pages book. You don't have to be a Lightwave user to benefit the technique that it teaches here. I especially love Chapter 17's (Video Post Effects) creative approach to post-production. This book is a must for all lightwave user. I give it a perfect ten!
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Summary: Frustrating
Review: The only reason I gave this book one star is because I couldn't give it less. The book is touted as a entry-level and intermediate manual, but right away it starts off in one of the more advanced aspects of the program (morph gizmo). If I had not been well-versed in 3D Studio Max & had previous 3d experiance, I would have been completly lost. The tutorials are fractured, B&W images in the book are misplaced, and phantom scenes the book refers to on the CD don't exist. I ended up frustrated, angry and uneccesarily $47 poorer. One should check NewTek's site to see what 3rd party instruction they recommend if they want to learn LW. However, if you DON'T want to learn Lightwave you should buy Alban's book.
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Summary: Not very well edited, more pulp from New Riders Publishing
Review: This is a great book. I don't have LW yet (getting it in about a week, but I feel I already know the whole thing. I can't wait to use it. As you can see, it's great for absolute beginners. If you are a beginner, buy it-now. It's worth $44, and lot's more. I'm sure it will prove as an invaluable tool for me and my future with LightWave 5.6.
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