Welcome 'wavers!

The London Lightwave User Group is an informal band of graphics types whose main tool is Lightwave 3D (and related apps - Modo, Zbrush, Maxwell etc). We talk about anything that takes our fancy, and it's mostly 3D graphics, though not restricted to graphics alone.

Generally we don't tend to have anything formal arranged in terms of what happens, though people often bring along laptops or files to show what they've working on. We did have a very impressive demo from Ben Haines of Preset Central one time though, Whatever you like! All levels of ability are welcome, from "ooh that’s a nice picture" to discussing the mathematics of subsurface scattering algorithms, We are a very constructive bunch!

We normally meet up every couple of months and try to have a mix of tech demos and general socialising. And beer!

We've set up a facebook group here. And of course, we also frequent the Newtek forums here.

News and Announcements

September 2014 Event - We're back!

*UPDATE* I'm incredibly excited to announce that courtesy of our friends at the Lightwave3D Group we're going to have some awesome giveaways at this event. We have one full license of Lightwave 11.6 and one for Chronosculpt too. Thanks again to the awesome guys at LW3D group for supporting this event!

A year has passed since the last official event (though I know some of us have met for beers in town since then!). Anyway, I'm delighted to announce we have a new event coming up imminently - on Thursday the 18th September. We're hoping to have some awesome demos of nodal motion and anything else cool we can find! It's being hosted at the offices of Absolutely Cuckoo, run by the awesome Kevin Snoad (who you might have met at previous events!).

Absolutely Cuckoo,
Units 32 & 33 Earlsfield Business Centre,
9 Lydden Road,
London SW18 4LT, United Kingdom

It's a bit futher afield than our previous central London meets, but we hope that doesn't put any of you off from joining your fellow 'wavers! Tell everyone you know, and if you facebook - join the London Lightwave User Group here, and add your name to the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/331108560394998

Here's the flyer:

August 2013 Event - Post-Siggraph goodies

We'll be hosting this at Darkside again (fingers crossed), but - most excitingly - we should have the awesome Ben Vost with us from the Lightwave3D group, and he's mentioned something about demoing Nevron Motion with a Kinect (and hopefully some Chronosculpt and LW11.6 too, for good measure!)

Date: Tuesday 27th August, 2013 @ 6.30PM.
Venue: Darkside Animation, Lower Ground Floor, 43 Eagle Street, London WC1R 4AT

May 2013 Event

Our thanks to Darkside Animation for allowing us to host May's event at their office again. Content is subject to change, but it's looking like:

Andrew Bishop of Darkside Animation will be doing an introduction to Turbulence 3D CFD.
Dan Sollis of Digital Distortion will be talking about how he built his recent BBC Radio1 Promo in Lightwave and After Effects.

Date: 30 May, 2013 @ 6PM.
Venue: Darkside Animation, Lower Ground Floor, 43 Eagle Street, London WC1R 4AT

February 2013 Event - LW 11.5 - It's here!

Been a while since the last one - but at last we have a great reason to hang out. Lightwave 11.5 is here and it's a cracker of a release. Come along and take a look at it - plus chat with other 3D users. There may be some Zbrush demos too as I (Dan) have been really getting into it recently - and 4r5 has some very cool features too!

*BIG UPDATE!* There's a change of venue. Simon Percy at Darkside Animation studios has graciously offered us the use of their office (and conference room) for Wednesday's meet. Darkside have done some really cool work in LW (and might be looking for LW people for work too!). Their address is:

Darkside Animation
Lower Ground Floor,
43 Eagle Street,
London WC1R 4AT

Here's the revised flyer!

August 2012 Event - LW 11.5 - will it be a record-breaker?

Siggraph this year brought us some unexpected goodies in the form of a rather awesome-sounding 11.5 update to Lightwave: Auto-rigging, UV tools, After Effects integration and much more!

Meet up with fellow LW-ers this Friday (17th August) to have a look at some of these features (or videos of them if the beta isn't released by then) - plus demos of the new Element 3D plugin by Video Copilot.

Be there, or be a cubic-shaped piece of geometry!

If you are on facebook and haven't already done so, join the LLWUG group here for the latest announcements.

 

May 2012 Event - The LLWUG returns!

It's been ages since the last one, so let's try and gather this Friday. Beer, pringles and LW11-related goodness will be on offer! I've recently finished a short film - Liminal States - which made heavy use of the new instancer in LW11, and I'd be happy to talk about how I put it together.

If you are on facebook and haven't already done so, join the LLWUG group here for the latest announcements.