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	Bruce Branit	09/06/2009
Four Emmy Award nominations, an on-going collaboration with world-famous series - Lost, Pushing Daisies, Surface -, advertising campaigns for prestigious brands...

	Giorgi Rekhviashvili	01/06/2009
To Giorgi Rekhviashvili, a talented animation director, learning about LightWave 3D® has literally changed his life! He shared his thoughts and experience with us, telling us more about his past–commercials and film projects mostly- and future projects.

	François Kalife	28/04/2009
Yves St Laurent, Lancaster, Sisley, Canal+ and Canal Jimmy, Gemey Maybelline… and so many more: François Kalife has acquired a strong reputation in photography advertising. As a strong proponent of Lightwave, he tells us to what extent professional photography now requires the use of 3D softwares.

	The "King of Bling Bling"	27/04/2009
The "King of Bling Bling": 3D caricature hits the charts! Directed by Sylvain Delmé and produced by Mixus-

	Eric Zingraff	04/02/2009
We spoke to Eric Zingraff, CG artist fascinated in History, Art and Architecture who founded GREZ Prod, a 3D’s documentary maker company. The last DVD is a total immersion in the middle of the mediaeval Paris…

	Antonis Kotzias	13/07/2007
We revisit Antonis back at home in Greece. Tight deadlines and small teams are nothing new to longtime LightWavers but Antonis really pushed to generate over two hours of CG in less than ten months.

	LightWave is used by Sony to promote PlayStation® 3	06/07/2007
Sylvain Pellodi and Fabien Bonali (alias Bloom) sponsored by the famous French Studio Partizan Lab recently won the 1st prize in a Sony PS3 contest on Artcade Playstation with a video entirely produced in LightWave.

	Jasper Scheepbouwer	20/04/2007
We speak to this LightWave artist who needed to produce gunfire effects for a low-budget film and so created this stunning piece of R&D in his spare time. Warning: Jasper's film contains scenes of violence

	LightWave® Bring Hyper-Reality to Box Office Smash "300"	21/03/2007
"300" is the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel. From set extensions to living smoke, oceans, skies, arrows, shield, swords, helmets and armies, LightWave visual effects artists working with visual effects supervisor Chris Watts brought it all together in the production of "300"

	Graham Toms	09/03/2007
Ask an industry veteran the most important thing to have to get into the business and you'll probably get, "a strong background in traditional art." Most will ignore this though and go straight for a technical understanding of a specific 3D. One person who can be considered to be on a crusade against this is Graham Toms.

	LightWave v9.2 Sneak Peek Video	22/02/2007
LightWave 9 Artists Dave Jerrard & Jennifer Hachigian share their thoughts at the recent sneak peek of LightWave v9.2 in L.A. This video features them talking about their favorite new developments in the upcoming release.

	MIR Visuals	12/01/2007
We speak to a talented pair of Norwegians about their growing architectural visualisation company and their first Middle Eastern animation project.

	Luma Studios	08/12/2006
Nigel Schutte and the LightWave team of three at Luma have recently finished work on a vertiginous ad for a car tracking company in South Africa. We talk to him about how it came about and their other recent projects.

	Maas Digital	29/09/2006
We recently spoke to Dan Maas, owner of Maas Digital about the company's experience working on this highly technical real world sci-fi film.

	Christo Smit, Virtualscape Visualizations	30/06/2006
These guys have to qualify for the fastest LightWavers in the South with the creation of websites devoted to housing estates completed within two weeks. We speak to Christo Smit about just how it's done.

	Roger Harris	05/05/2006
Roger amused his son with rhymes about imaginary creatures when he was little, and that evolved into a whole book of the bonkers beasts. We talk to him about the process.

	Samuli Torssonen	24/03/2006
Samuli has spent seven years working on his masterpiece Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, the last year of which he was unemployed. We ask him about the tests he faced.

	Mark Hennessy-Barrett	03/02/2006
Mark has been poring over ancient and venerable tomes, much like the monks of old, but creating something very up-to-the-minute.

	Yann Couderc	16/12/2005
A final year project at university has been turned into a splendid ride film at Futuroscope in France. We talk to one of the creators about Akryls.

	Fellah	18/11/2005
We speak to this truly versatile artist who is equally at home in Sweden or Paris - with clay or LightWave 3D modelling tools. He discusses his unique approach to art and reveals his alter ego in the process

	Pål Syvertsen	05/09/2005
Pål is a multi-talented LightWaver. He got his start in the demo scene on the C64 and Amiga, designed the icons for Opera (using LightWave of course!) and has recently completed a six-screen animation for an Anti-Virus company...

	Thomas Mangold	22/07/2005
Octopuses aren't as simple as they appear from first glance. Thomas Mangold describes how he went about creating one for Sony.

	Rob Powers	24/06/2005
Rob has recently finished work on James Cameron's Aliens of the Deep. He also holds the honour of being the very first person to complete, single-handed, the world's first 64-bit animation.

	Antoine Moulineau	03/06/2005
After an absence of nearly four years Gorillaz are back with a new video that, as always, mixes 2D and 3D to great effect. We speak to the supervisor on Feel Good, Inc.

	Khalid Al-Muharraqi	13/05/2005
Khalid is a well-known LightWave artist straddling the line between PC and Mac. We talk to him about the architectural projects he is currently working on.

	Luke Carpenter	15/03/2005
BBC3's Monkey Dust is a late-night animated comedy sketch show that's distinctly adult in approach. We spoke to Luke about the 3D in the series.

	Richard Smith	04/03/2005
Richard Smith is a one-man Shockwave machine. He not only comes up with the ideas for the games, does all the graphics and sound, he even provides the silly voices.

	Antonis Kotzias	18/02/2005
Globe-trotting LightWave artist Antonis has worked in Athens, Glasgow and Sydney, but that doesn't stop him from also playing in a death metal band.

	Juan Gonzáles Díaz	04/02/2005
It's amazing what one man can do in a little over a month of work with LightWave. We speak to Juan about his most recent architectural visualisation work in Spain.

	Adam Sharp	21/01/2005
Adam Sharp has spent the last eighteen months working on his own short film in his spare time. We ask about how a person can commit to a project on that scale, and who his influences are.

	Emile Smith	07/01/2005
Over 400 effects shots in a four hour mini-series makes nearly two shots per minute for Zoïc Studios when they did the effects for a remake of 70s classic Battlestar Galactica. We speak to the show's Visual Effects Supervisor, Emile Smith.

	Jose Perez	17/12/2004
We speak to the Floridian responsible for turning the Mini into a robot for BMW and much modelling for TV, music videos and soon film.

	Peter Lake	19/11/2004
Peter works for Criterion making art for games. He's recently finished work on what some are calling the fastest car racing console game ever - Burnout 3.

	Kevin Phillips	05/11/2004
We speak to this community evangelist about how he got started with LightWave, what he's working on right now, and also how his accounting package plug-in is coming.

	Ian Fullwood	29/10/2004
We speak to the man responsible for all the illustrations in the forthcoming STAR WARS - Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology about how he achieved the images he's made for it.

	Gary Bidwell	24/09/2004
Dyson has always been at the forefront of technology. We talk to Gary Bidwell, the Graphics IT services manager, about how Dyson is using LightWave to show its wares to the world.

	Jacques Defontaine	17/09/2004
Well-known for his incredible realism and eye for detail Jacques Defontaine has just co-written a book on photorealism and animated some mineral water.

	Seneca Menard	03/09/2004
We speak to Seneca who's been busy modelling hell-flesh and machines for Doom 3 for the last three years, when not working on his ultimate fighting game arcade machine.

	Alex Poupard	27/08/2004
We speak to this classically trained illustrator who has harnessed the power of 3D in his work to great effect.

	Colin Larkin	30/07/2004
Colin works for the Railway Procurement Agency in Dublin creating visualisations of traffic planning and the recently unveiled tram system.

	Ectonull	09/07/2004
Marco and Gianni got into 3D to attract girls. It didn't work brilliantly but they discovered they were having a lot of fun anyway, blowing up aliens and racing across deserts.

	Jurgen Ziewe	02/07/2004
Jurgen came to England nearly thirty years ago and became a well-known illustrator producing posters, postcards book covers and more. We speak to him about his work, his inspiration and why he uses LightWave.

	Ron Thornton	25/06/2004
We spoke to Ron, an Englishman who made his name in the States working on a variety of ground-breaking TV shows, who's now back at Pinewood managing probably the largest team of LightWave artists ever gathered in one place in Britain to remake a version of Captain Scarlet in 3D.

	AtomicVFX	18/06/2004
We spoke to the guys and girls at Atomic about their training scheme and their other work over the last couple of years.

	Partizan Midi-Minuit	11/06/2004
We spoke to Aurelien and Loïc from Partizan about their work on the new ads for 7-Up featuring Fido Dido.

	Ben and William's European Tour 2004	28/05/2004
3D Festival comes around quickly and after the success of our user meeting the year before we thought we'd have another! You can read about our great time in Denmark and also at fmx/04 in Germany herein.

	Richard Vaucher	13/05/2004
We speak to this Swiss artist who left business school and Switzerland far behind him to end up in England working on his first short animation

	Shaun Lee Bishop	23/04/2004
We spoke to the man who put a pretty LightWave face on Cunard's largest cruise ship ever, the Queen Mary 2, which set sail this January.

	Marc Hermann	07/04/2004
Marc's a physicist, no wait a minute a journalist, no hang on, a talented animator.

	Mark Wilson	22/03/2004
We speak to Mark about his plug-ins, his work at Passion on the new music video for the Offspring and what he thinks of Gorillaz.

	Jan Ebo	08/03/2004
Jan's a supervisor at GRID, one of Belgium's largest CG companies. He worked last year on the Oscar-nominated animated film, Les Triplettes de Belleville, a story by acclaimed animator Sylvain Chomet.

	Erik Wernquist	27/02/2004
The artist behind the animation of the Annoying Thing tells us about just who it was that made the sound, his architectural and astronomical animation and what he's up to now.

	Iain Anderson	13/02/2004
Iain is a renaissance man. He has worked on films, TV and other projects with LightWave. He's worked full-time for effects companies and as a freelancer. We ask him what he's up to now.

	Tajino	30/01/2004
We speak to this talented young Malaysian artist about his work with turtles, his satellite views of the earth, spaceships and unfinished Fridays.

	Simon Percy	23/01/2004
We speak to one of the founders of Darkside Animation about their effects in the excellent new children's TV series Powers.

	Pawel Olas	09/01/2004
We speak to this Polish artist who now calls Sydney in Australia his home about his plug-ins and photography and what he would like to do next.

	The Hive	24/12/2003
The Hive's director of animation, Nathan Laud, gives us the low-down on the new piece they have just completed for BBC TV's comedy selection for this Christmas.

	Toonafish	15/12/2003
We speak to Ronald van Vemden about his caricatures, including George Bush, theatrical animations and gay guinea pigs. It does all make sense, honest!

	The Worms of Art	05/12/2003
An odd name? Yes, maybe, but it doesn't stop David Todman and his brother Richard creating their Pshelf textures and graphic masterpieces for a variety of uses.

	VEF	28/11/2003
They've always made graphics to wow people, ever since the Amiga Demo scene but now Ole and Zafar produce fantastic commercials, music videos and more with LightWave.

	Paul Baguley	21/11/2003
Ex-BBC graphic designer Paul Baguley still does the majority of his work for the BBC, but being freelance gives him a much shorter commute to work and the chance to see more of his kids.

	Craig A. Clark	14/11/2003
This excellent LightWave artist works for Argonaut Software on their forthcoming game Powerdrome - a remake of the seminal Atari ST/Amiga game of the late 1980s. He talks to us about himself and his work.

	Niklas Andersson	07/11/2003
He may be Swedish, but this superb young LightWave artist has already lived in Mexico and now resides in Canada where he's busy creating tutorials for his "Soviet propaganda"-style web page. We talk to him about his plans for the future...

	Jared "Dzogchen" Lim	31/10/2003
This high-flying LightWave artist always asks his two-and-a-half year old niece Nana her opinion about his work before he's satisfied with it and his designs will soon be gracing the front of t-shirts across America. We wait for him to fly back from Zurich to talk to him.

	Matt Gorner	24/10/2003
We speak to an industrial designer who uses LightWave for all his visualisation work. He also created the LightWave vX project that got a lot of people talking, but, all things considered, he would rather be playing Dragon's Lair.

	Frédéric Durillon	17/10/2003
This French artist got started with computers at a young age because of his interest in film special effects and now he's working hard on the second series of an archaeological documentary for French TV.

	Gregory Glezakos	19/09/2003
Gregory tells us about his infatuation with Jurassic Park, working on clouds and creating the new ident for Viacom - all in a day's work for this talented Greek.

	Dave Tracey	12/09/2003
We speak to this Sydney resident who is a self-taught artist not content with the usual head-building tutorial gathering. He has made a complete city and a science fiction film for television, for himself!