Inside LightWave 3D 5.5

Great books except the book is in black and whit

I read a few books about modeling and Animating with Lightwave 5.5 And this book tops my scale. The Author uses clear and easy to understand Language. This books various Chapters take you trough all of the basic aspects of 3d modeling and animation in lightwave and more. It has many tutorials that take you step by step to high end animating and modeling. It even gives you tips on Planning, How to work and what you can aks of you're employer and what rights you have as an employe. The only advise i can give to you about this book is : BUY IT !!

I've read all the reviews you are reading now. After compare with other Lightwave 3D books, I bought this one, and at the same time I bought Inside Softimage. These two books are among the best book I've ever read (others are the Adobe Class in A book series)! One thing many people didn't tell you is that this book doesn't have colored pictures, which is kind hard to really see the differences of the rendered pictures. You will, however, learn a great deal of skills about lightwave 5.5. there are a lot of illustrations will help you go through each step. More than that, you will learn what Pro animators do (how to make money :) there are 2-3 typing (printing) errors of refering to the objects in the CD-ROM that came with this book. If you really want to learn lightwave, buy this book.

Now you have probably read other peoples reviews about this book some say it's not for the beginner some say it is. Well I can only tell the honest truth here it is for the Beginner it deserves 5 stars because if YOU are a beginner you want a book that teaches you something valuable something that can be useful. The only flaw about this book is that Dan Ablan skipped some stuff which for any user above "Beginner" would have thought to be shown something but instead was juat a few words on it and skip to the next section. But if you are a beginner don't know where to start BUY THIS BOOK you will get a understanding and grasp the information Dan throws at you with ease.

Mr. Ablan wrote a great book about Lightwave 3D. This book covers topics from installation, modeling, animation to post production. This is a well organized and easy to follow book. Architecture rendering and character animation are both covered in this 743 pages book. You don't have to be a Lightwave user to benefit the technique that it teaches here. I especially love Chapter 17's (Video Post Effects) creative approach to post-production. This book is a must for all lightwave user. I give it a perfect ten!