Newtek

Lightwave [8]

Lightwave 3D has constantly dominated the television, film and game markets. Designed for production use, Lightwave boasts the most beautiful rendering engine, now with radiosity lighting, complete subdivision modelling and an animation system built upon the worlds fastest, most accurate 3D Inverse Kinematics (IK) engine give you the power and flexibility to create what you want, where you want.

of Lightwave 3D

• New hard body dynamics: collisions, physics, editing individual interactions

• Character animation tools: DopeTrack, MoveTCB, Animation baking

• Improved cloth & soft body, particles system

• New suite of bone editing tools: edit your rig and setup in Layout

• Faster IK (Inverse Kinematics) and FK (Forward Kinematics) tools

• Extensive in-line help

• New Scene Editor with integrated Spreadsheet and Dope Sheet

• New Morph Mixer

• New modelling tools: Rounder, Edge Tools, Modeler Tools.

• Significant speed & workflow improvements.

• OpenGL: multilayered textures, wireframe textured mode, speed improvements

• Rendering enhancements: expanded command set for Screamernet, arbitrary frame range renders, speed improvements.

Lightwave  has a host of features to help make the 3D artists life easier including new animation tools like X-ray - allowing you to see bones when working with your character in a solid shaded OpenGL mode . Coloured Shadows allow you to not only tint shadows, but to also create less intense shadows.  For full feature list click the Newtek button on our links page.

Other Lightwave features include radiosity lighting, caustics, subdivision surface animation, IntellegEntities (Skelegons, Endomorphs and MultiMeshes), particle effects (with gravity, wind & collisions), volumetric effects (HyperVoxels), weight maps and soft body dynamics (for cloth & hair simulations).

Aura VideoPaint

Make digital images roar into life in video multimedia and animation with Aura. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in today's competitive world adapting images to video multimedia and animation is invaluable. Aura is the way to do it, a unique palette of paint tools, composting, cel animation, special effects, 2D animation and character generation Aura combines key features of all these in one system..So you can take any digital image.....no mater what the source.....and add motion, colour, 2D and3D elements, effects and titles. Add Aura's rotoscoping, video painting and layering and it's all here.

• Toaster Edit
• Toaster CG
• Production switcher
• Chroma keyer
• Cross keyer
• Downstream keyer
• 300+ real-time transitions
• Aura[2.5]
• Lightwave 3D Express

• CG Player
• Toaster Vision
• Toaster Scope
• Audio mixer
• Background generator
• Toaster DDR
• External deck controller
• Proc amps
• Capture module

Other Streaming & Pro-Editing products from  ZEN:-
 Digital Rapids,   Leitch,   Matrox,   ViewCast,  Avid,  Pinnacle
Note - all prices quoted on this site are UK pounds - ex VAT & delivery