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Spitfire

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This was done about the same time as the last one. What good is a spitfire plane with only painted teeth :)

Toon Plane

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Here's a plane I designed awhile ago, only if it could actually fly in the real world :)

Grampians in B&W

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These photos were taken way back in my university days, during an art camp. Some photoshop filters were applied as you might have guessed.

Mean Machine

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Here is another old model rendered using the latest version of Lightwave.

Ankara in the snow

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Just a couple of pictures I took last winter when I was in Ankara. I played around in Photoshop...kinda turned out ok.

Managing content/plugins the easy way

If you ever beta tested 3d software before you know it can be tiring to manually move your plugins, shaders and content directories etc. to each a new build. In the case of Lightwave, each file can be located in a different directory within the app folder, which makes it even more time consuming. I so designed a little app to do the work for me, it's basic but works and I might develop it further. The idea is, you color label the your important files and folders you want to keep (at the moment it only works with the red label). You select your current app folder from which you want to copy the files over to the new build, in the video example it's called "current_lightwave". The files and folders that are going to be copied are listed in the listbox, so you can make sure you labeled all your files. Then click on the destination button and select the newest build folder, again named "new_update_lightwave" in this example and you're done :) Also, if ...

Speed Buggy

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Introducing Speed Buggy, the worlds coolest talking car.

Yogi Bear

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Sometimes, things are easy to model and sometimes you need to take a break, just to view them with fresh eyes. This was one such character, but it turned up pretty well in the end :)

There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!

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Here's one of my old models, more based on the vinyl toy version than the actual cartoon.

Varoom Roadster

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I had this model lying around and I just had to see how it looks with Lightwave's carpaint node. I must say it turned out great, I'll try it on my version of the Mean Machine next :)