Professional 3D graphics, special effects and broadcast animation

LightWave 3D is an industry standard 3D modelling, photorealistic rendering and high end animation system offering the most comprehensive tool set for professionals who make their living producing 3D animations, special effects and broadcast-quality film and videos.

These days, with the creative process, artists need to move at maximum speed in order to tackle incredible deadlines, demanding work and high expectations. Using LightWave® either exclusively or in a pipeline, makes it possible for an individual, a small team or a major facility to see their dreams and ideas come to life with award-winning quality work on time and on budget. Artists all over the world say the speed, flexibility, value and control they gain with LightWave throughout the creative process lets them get it done.

LightWave is a complete modeling, rendering and animation system. Used extensively in broadcast television production, film visual effects, video game development, print graphics and visualization, LightWave is responsible for more artists winning Emmy Awards than any other 3D application.

The influence of LightWave 3D artists is all around us – if you watch television, enjoy movies, blast your way through video games, flip through the pages of the latest magazine, are spellbound by a new skyscraper or are entranced by the motorcycle that just pulled up next to you, you've seen their creations. LightWave® artists who bring all this to life are 21st century sculptors – artists who work beyond the dimensions of paint or photography, shapers of forms fantastic and mundane for purposes as far apart as library books and missions to Mars.

With the creative process these days, artists need to move at maximum speed in order to tackle incredible deadlines, demanding work and high expectations. Using LightWave either exclusively or in a pipeline, makes it possible for an individual, a small team or major facility to see their dreams and ideas come to life with award-winning quality work on time and on budget. Artists all over the world say the speed, flexibility, value and control they gain with LightWave throughout the creative process lets them get it done.