How to Model for 3D Printing with Modo

This month’s peek behind the scenes tutorial will show you how to model for 3D printing with modo. It will walk you through the major steps I took to create a completely closed watertight mesh for use in 3D printing … Read More

How to Create a Bone Texture with Weight Maps in LightWave 3D

This month’s peek behind the scenes tutorial will show you how to create a bone texture with weight maps in LightWave 3D’s node editor. This is a relatively simple, quick and easy technique that I used for a recent series … Read More

How to Use Displacements in LightWave 3D to Animate Rippling Water Waves

In today’s blog post we’ll take a peek behind the scenes of a recent 3D Consumer Product Animation project and show how to use displacements in LightWave 3D to animate rippling water waves. This is a rather quick and easy … Read More

Trimming a Path through LightWave 3D Fiber FX Tutorial

LightWave 3D Tips & Tricks – Trimming a Path through LightWave 3D Fiber FX Tutorial from a 3D Product Animation Project This Trimming a Path through LightWave 3D Fiber FX Tutorial uses a relatively simple technique of animating an alpha … Read More

DLI SNUB Launcher Updated for LightWave 3D 2015 & Yosemite

We are pleased to announce that our DLI_SNUB-Launcher GUI utility for configuring & launching LightWave 3D ScreamerNet network rendering is compatible with the recently released LightWave 3D 2015 and Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Not only is DLI SNUB Launcher … Read More

Animating Dripping Liquid with LightWave 3D Hypervoxels

A LightWave 3D Tutorial – Animating Dripping Liquid with LightWave 3D Hypervoxels from a 3D Product Animation Project for Freelette This is a simple technique for animating dripping liquid with LightWave 3D hypervoxels. This is only one of many different … Read More

Hack Fix for Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin

One of the key services that we provide when developing WordPress web sites for our clients is Search Engine Optimization, SEO. SEO is important because developing a great web site isn’t going to be of very much use to a client … Read More

Happy Independence Day America! July 4, 1776

Happy Independence Day America! In celebration of America’s birthday today (4th of July – Independence Day) I whipped up this commemorative graphic after the festivities were rained out due to hurricane Arthur. It’s a textured image of the iconic colonial flag with 13 stars arranged in a … Read More

Legacy DreamLight Content Still Available

While this new WordPress site is being further developed we’ll be leaving the old static HTML site up and running until all the necessary legacy content is migrated over to the new site. This includes the following legacy content: DreamLight’s previous … Read More