I am self-taught, having started with Dan's 'Inside Lightwave 3D' (5.6). His books seem to read my mind and anticipate questions, responding with clear and logical answers. He consistently explains the 'why' along with the 'how to'. One of Dan's much appreciated qualities is his global outlook - he gives a specific answer to a problem but also explains how this method/solution can be applied toward other situations. Dan presents and addresses a range of problems in a matter-of-fact manner with thoughtful, detailed guidance, and there is a good dynamic among degrees of difficulty. Well laid out, well-organized, intelligent, insightful, and interesting. Don't know how the book ends yet, as I am savoring every page every chance I get, to learn the details and techniques and remember them as I work with Lightwave on my own projects.ĭan Ablan is an extraordinary teacher, and 'Inside Lightwave6' an astonishing achievement. This is serious training with an honest teacher who knows whereof he speaketh.He is a Lightwave prophet, and has many friends in the business that collaborate with him to bring the best to the forefront of his writings. I can honestly say I take instructions and suggestions to heart from the in-depth chapters and throw them into commercials and my show on Fox Sports Net. Thankfully, he has written down many words of wisdom in various books. It was easy to get lost in Lightwave, on many levels.Dan Ablan loves to teach - I took a seminar with him years ago in California next to Universal Studios at the Newtek Convention. So the learning curve got steeper as new tools were demanded by the trade to do cooler tricks. They went ballistic - took Lightwave into Quantum Leap, Babylon V, Star Trek, games and MTV. The manuals were detailed, the learning curve steep, but, if you just jumped in, you could actually create a box, or a building, and with supplied objects, voyage into space - all this on an Amiga computer with 16 megs of ram.Then Lightwave grew into an enormous tool of the Hollywood young guns. Most of us were intimidated by the new fangled concepts and modus operandi of this secretive beast. Over the last decade, I have seen Lightwave grow from a mysterious program attached to the Video Toaster system, to a full-blown Ferrari that takes no prisoners.
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