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News a Safe Harbor blog LightWave Visual Effects Houses Bring Hyper-Reality to Box Office Smash "300" 0 Posted by Safe Harbor Staff March 16, 2007 If you enjoy this post, please share it! NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, has announced the release of a behind-the-scenes video featuring the creation of visual effects sequences for Warner Bros., "300", the visually stunning adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel. Creating over 200 visual effects shots, Pixel Magic and Screaming Death Monkey put the full feature set of LightWave 3D® to work creating everything from set extensions to living smoke, oceans, skies, helmets, shields, swords, arrows and armies. The video may be viewed here. "The majority of the work we did in 3D was LightWave, for us it encompassed everything from the ocean and armies to spears, arrows and shields that the guys held and threw," said Ray McIntyre Jr., Pixel Magic visual effects supervisor. "We love the LightWave renderer. It makes beautiful, motion-picture quality images and it's fast." "We are very excited to present this insight into how Pixel Magic and Screaming Death Monkey achieved these amazing effects," said Jay Roth, president of the NewTek 3D division. "These exceptional artists took total advantage of all of the strengths that LightWave 3D has to offer from stunning rendering to fast efficient modeling to a creative, flexible pool of talented artists." "I like LightWave because it’s easy to use and can make really pretty pictures," comments Jeremy Hunt, founder of Screaming Death Monkey. "Straight out of the box it can do a lot of really, really interesting stuff and it's fast. Rendering is fast, set up and manipulation is fast." "We prefer LightWave over some of the other programs," said Tyler Foell, Pixel Magic in-house digital effects supervisor. "I think the advantage of using LightWave is that it’s more of a generalist’s tool, meaning one person can do so many things using LightWave, you can start with pre-vis and work all the way through, rather than having to specialize." Follow-Up Articles in this Series NewTek Releases Free Live Virtual Set Authoring Tool 0 responses to "LightWave Visual Effects Houses Bring Hyper-Reality to Box Office Smash "300"" Leave a comment You can use select BBCode tags to format your thoughts including: [b], [i], [s], [u], [url], [quote] and [code].

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