LightWave D Group Offers Educational Pricing for NevronMotion Plugin for LightWave .6

The LightWave 3D Group, a division of NewTek, Inc., announced today a new educational pricing program for NevronMotion , motion capture and retargeting software for LightWave 11.6 on Windows. Qualifying students and educators can now take advantage of the full-feature version of NevronMotion for the special price of $99 (USD); regularly priced at $299 (USD).

With NevronMotion, artists and animators can quickly and easily extend the Virtual Studio Tools in LightWave to capture, adjust, and retarget motion data to 3D models in LightWave 11.6. NevronMotion features the ability to:

Capture live rig motion with the Microsoft Kinect camera

Retarget motion capture directly in LightWave Layout

Save and adjust captured motion data from the Kinect camera

Easily adjust arm and leg mocap positions and layer hand-keyed animation on top of motion capture files

Save and load retargeting presets for FBX, BVH, or custom set ups

Preset rigs for Kinect and other motion capture formats

Quickly bake out motion to character rigs

About LightWave 3D Software

Created by artists for artists, LightWave 3D is award-winning software that offers an end-to-end production pipeline for artists and designers to model, animate, capture, retarget, render, and input and output to 3D. A full feature license of LightWave 11.6 is available to qualified students and educators for $149 (USD); regularly priced at $1495 (USD).

Some of the many features of LightWave 3D include:

Modeling - Robust polygonal sub-d modeler with real world units

Surfacing - Stunning photoreal layer-based and nodal surfacing tools

Rigging - Instant rigging presets with or without weight maps

Object Referencing - Flexible object referencing architecture or ASCII scenes

Animation - Procedural, nodal, flocking and keyframe animation tools

Rendering - Integrated state-of-the-art renderer with unlimited nodes

Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR) - Interactive shading, raytracing, DOF, motion blur, lighting and GI

Bullet Dynamics - Fast and simple rigid and soft body Dynamics Engine

Industry Standards - Supports Alembic, FBX, Autodesk Geo Cache, Python, DPX, ZBrush Goz, After Effects, MDD, and OBJ

Pricing and Availability

The full feature educational version of NevronMotion for Windows is now available and priced at $99 (USD); the educational license of LightWave 11.6 for Windows and Mac is priced at $149 (USD). Visit http://www.lightwave3d.com/buy for more information on educational pricing for NevronMotion or LightWave 11.6, or to locate an authorized LightWave reseller.

For more information about NevronMotion, LightWave 11.6 or the LightWave 3D Group, please visit: http://www.lightwave3d.com, Twitter, Google+, YouTube or connect with us on Facebook.

About NewTek

NewTek is transforming the way people create network-style television content and share it with the world. From sporting events, Web-based talk shows, live entertainment, classrooms, and corporate communications-to virtually any venue where people want to capture and publish live video, we give our customers the power to grow their audiences, brands and businesses, faster than ever before.

NewTek is privately owned and based in San Antonio, Texas. For more information on NewTek please visit: http://www.newtek.com, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr or connect on Facebook.

NevronMotion is a trademark of NewTek.

LightWave 3D is a registered trademark of NewTek.

NewTek, TriCaster, 3Play and LightWave are trademarks of NewTek.

All other products or brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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