Philip Nelson » LightWave

WOAI Shows San Antonio the Magic of NewTek

Philip — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:44:39 +0000

San Antonio NBC affiliate, WOAI recently made a trip to NewTek to do a behind the scenes look at the magic we make!

Early Viral Video: Dancing Baby

Philip — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:08:35 +0000

The Dancing Baby video aka Oogachaka Baby swept through the internet like a wildfire and even catipulted the dancing baby to a co-starring role on “Ally McBeal”..

Interesting piece of NewTek trivia.. The dancing baby scenes for Ally McBeal were done by NewTek’s VP or 3D, Rob Powers.

Learn how the virtual worlds in Avatar were created!

Philip — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:21:33 +0000

My good buddy Rob Powers was the mastermind behind the virutal worlds in the hit movie Avatar. During SIGGRAPH 2010, he did a presentation in the NewTek booth that showed you how he created these award winning effects. In this video he’s not show the actual Avatar worlds but he is show how they linked real cameras into LightWave 3D and allowed James Cameron to see the virtual worlds in realtime.

Nuclear Waste Disposal in Downtown Topeka

Philip — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:28:03 +0000

Was visiting with some friends from NOWCastSA.com today and we were discussing some of the old school NewTek antics and the old Nuclear Waste Disposal prank came up.

Enjoy..

William Vaughan turns KISS into M&M’s!

Philip — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:50:41 +0000

LightWave legend, William Vaugh aka Proton recently created an awesome KISS ad for M&M’s.

Splashlight's William Vaughan created this KISS M&M's add for publication in magazines across the nation.

William is also the creator of Tofu the Vegan Zombie!

See more of Williams work HERE

What is the LightWave CORE all about? Find out at 3PM today!

Philip — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:09:51 +0000

Image by Elmar Moelzer

Everyone is trying to figure out the mystery of the CORE.. The entire 3D animation world is waiting on pins and needles.

Today at 3pm Central Time, log onto http://www.ustream.tv/channel/newtek-core for answers!

Who wants Free LightWave and upgrades for 5 years?

Philip — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:29:49 +0000

I recently posted about NewTek taking the entire staff to see the new Indiana Jones movie.. ON THE CLOCK.. Yes.. It’s a cool place to work..

Now, NewTek is doing something even cooler for our clients and cool friends…

It’s called “LightWave 3D Model, Animate and Render Contest 2008″ and the prizes are pretty sweet..

The grand prize is a license of LightWave 3D with FREE upgrades for 5 years, a license of SpeedEDIT (our HD non-linear editor), a 3D content pack (Sports Theme), Free Desktop Images training, a LightWave baseball hat and a LIMITED edition LightWave T-Shirt!

Pretty sweet stuff!!!

For more info on the contest, click here!

New to LightWave? Don’t be intimidated! This contest wants to see not only the cool stuff from Hollywood animators but also work from someone JUST getting into 3D!..

Good luck with your quest for the prize!

Note: Image above comes from a great LightWave Lightsabers tutorial by Mike Hobson. Wanna check it out? Click HERE