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As we’re all waiting for some lightwave news…
Some kind of papers are still really groovy to read, for example this great article from groundzerofx.com about the variety of explosions that exist and how to give a visual framework for animating them.
It’s old now, but still worth the look. You can read it Here.

Quick apologies to everyone trying to visit presetcentral.com over the weekend. We experienced some hardware problems that needed a few days to work out.
Welcome back
Update, sorry to say we had a few more today… hopefully the last!

Fxguide just published a great article on hdri and it’s history. From the beginning of hdr to the latest improvements. You can read this really interesting text Here.
oh, btw, i was browsing this nice site (read upper ) when i discovered this ‘also very interesting article’ dealing with rotoscoping .

If you’re familiar with fluid animation, vfxworld.com as a really impressive article on fluid dynamics. Looks like future fluid-simulation tools are gonna be really efficient.
You can read the full article Here.
And for eye candy only (and those who don’t know him yet), be sure to have a look to the amazing work of Ron [...]

It seems PC owners may one day be able to run Lightwave on Mac OSX using their non-Apple approved Intel hardware
A leaked copy of Mac OSX build for the x86 platform has found itself onto the Internet and has promptly been modified to run on ‘most’ Intel based PCs.
Naturally you won’t be able [...]

As you may or may not be aware AMD has filed suit against Intel. One of AMD’s claims in the antitrust case is that their compiler creates code that is biased towards Intel processors.
All this got me thinking about how Newtek has made a big thing in the past of using the Intel compiler [...]

Photos, pictures and news about the attack on London 7th July 2005.

Over the last two days I have seen a number of questions posted on forums relating to this blog. Although I have answered most of them, I figured it would be a good idea to clear a few things up.
1. You cannot upload presets or any other type of content to PresetCentral.com yet. We are [...]

A new beginning, an email arrived in my inbox two weeks ago with an offer I couldn’t refuse. Newtek were offering an upgrade from any previous version of Lightwave to Lightwave [8] for a mere £130.
So two weeks later I’m sitting here all jacked up ready to tackle a new project. What better then PresetCentral [...]