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Title: Lightwave (6.5) Magic by Dan Ablan, Julian Kain, Stuart Penn, Graham McKenna, Phil South, Gary Whiteley ISBN: 0-7357-0996-3 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.04 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A departure from his best-selling formula, Dan excels again!
Comment: There are books, and then there are books. I bought Lightwave 6.5 Magic ready to work and was instead invited to dream. Much to my suprise, in tonality and visually, this book is different fron Dan's last two masterpieces, geared it seems to nurturing imaginative thought along with his dependable how-to education. LW Magic retains Dan's strong sense of command-language encouragement, is packed with valuable information, tutorials, and practical descriptions, but emphasizes associated possibilities, the open-ended projects a spark for the imagination presented in practical concrete form. Visually rich, its physicality is a delight. The actual text is minimalist, highly distilled and effective, the blank spaces eloquent, and the quotes, delightful...it takes backbone to present a philosophic idea so understatedly (that Lightwave is ultimately about imagination) and in Dan's case, real backbone to depart from a best-selling formula, but beyond the truth of how-to lies the greater part of 3D, which is the magic. This book is a key to the universe, everything else is simply construction. Anybody whining about buttons, boy, you've missed the point.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great addition to Inside Lightwave 6
Comment: I have to disagree with the negative reviews. This book delivers what it promises. It is a cookbook for some neat effects that goes beyond Inside Lightwave 6. The interface concerns are moot as you can easily switch from L6.5 to L6 to L5.6 interface layouts in L6.5, that is stated clearly in the opening of the book. This book is a launchpad for ideas and exploration, not a ticket to Lightwave mastery. It never claims to be anything else. The example scenes on the book are great for tinkering, they can take you beyond the tutorials if you invest some time.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Lightwave "Cookbook"
Comment: This book is an excellent collection of 21 "recipes" for Lightwave. Although it is aimed at users of version 6.5, it is still very applicable to version 7.0/7.5.
The book has easy to follow tutorials, and the book's format allows the user to work quickly through the tutorials, or leisurely browse through the additional notes and comments that the author(s) have provided with each of the techniques.
Definitely not a beginner's book, and the techniques are probably too basic for the seasoned Lightwave pro. This book appears to be targeted towards the intermediate user.
Dan Ablan is clearly the leading author in the Lightwave community. This book is a must have. And it is very easy to find it at a fraction of the $45US list price!
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Title: Inside LightWave 7 (With CD-ROM) by Dan Ablan ISBN: 0735711348 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 28 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Inside LightWave 6 by Dan Ablan ISBN: 073570919X Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 24 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Character Animation with LightWave [6]: Challenge Your Creativity with the Artist's Choice for Character Animation by Doug Kelly ISBN: 1576103803 Publisher: The Coriolis Group Pub. Date: 20 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: LightWave 3D 7.0 Character Animation (With CD-ROM) by Timothy Albee, Tom Roth ISBN: 1556229011 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Lightwave Applied, Version 6.5 & 7 by Dave Jerrard, Joe Tracy, Jennifer Hachigian, Advanstar Marketing ISBN: 092987059X Publisher: Advanstar Communications, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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