LightWave 3D Applied, Version 5.6

There ain`t really much to say about this book than that it is very helful and you lern difficult tecniques by going throught cool tutorials. Fun and great book. If you have Lightwave and cant understand it, then dont resell it or let it lay around and use space but buy this book! Lightwave was not cool for me before I got this book.

This is an excellent book for any lightwave animator or even beginners. I concider it one of the best on the subject. Why? Because it gives all the steps you need to complete the tutorials, which are very detailed. It is one of the few books of it's kind without multiple errors that cause you to have to back-up and redo work, thereby losing valuable time. The tutorial on ocean surfacing alone makes the book well worth having! I like Dave and the other authors easy flowing writing style. I recommend it without reserve!Peter Davis Multimedia Instuctor

Between so few online tutorials and books that were poorly edited I had lost hope. Spectacular results are obtained by those with only a minimum of experience on the software. The castle, while work intensive is spectacular and highly tweakable to your own likes and the capsule landing covers advanced topics with an ease I haven not yet found. Some errors are easily caught if you have been paying attention throughout the book. Highly recommended and enthusiastically awaiting another with more advanced tutorials. Excellant work.

I had no problems going through any of the tutorials using Lightwave 5.6. I agree with the majority here, it is a great book worth every penny. Five stars all the way!!!

My LightWave 3D instructor uses LightWave Applied as his official textbook and I can see why. Having looked at all the LightWave books and magazines, I have found LightWave Applied to be the best. I say this because the step by step instructions not only helped me (and our instructor) to accomplish projects without problems, but the authors also went into some of the reasoning for the steps which gave me better insight into what I was doing. Almost as impressive as the book is the CD-ROM. I couldn't believe that most of Dave Jerrard's past Newtekniques tutorials were included on the CD-ROM along with large versions of all the figures that appeared in his columns. It was also a surprise to see some other new tutorials on the CD-ROM (plus objects!). I'm very impressed with this book, CD-ROM, and its strong learning curve that is easy to follow and understand. If I could give it more than five stars I would. Much more. Like my LightWave instructor, I would highly recommend this book. Thank you Dave, Scott, and Joe. Please write more!