NAME NAMES; Who are the top LW artists?

[Sil3]

- Taron, i guess i dont need to speak much about him :D


- Todd Grimes
http://www.evil-plan.com/main.html

To me one of the best cartoon 3D modelers, if someone can take a cartoon drawing and make it a perfect 3d model with the same "feel", strenght and character as the hand drawn one, this is the man :buttrock:

Im sure im forgeting amounts of names, but this are the ones that pop right out of my mind.

[Roger Eberhart]

Kretin (Jonny Gorden) - http://www.zerogravity.com.au/gallery/

Proton (William Vaughan) - http://www.spinquad.com/forums/

Along with Todd Grimes, already mentioned, these are my favorite Lightwave artists. Speaking of Todd Grimes, what has he been doing lately?

[xasteycracker]

here are the best 3d cartoon modelers (in my mind) :D
PiSong http://www.pisongdesign.com/

xtrm3d http://www.xtrm3d.com (http://www.xtrm3d.com/)

Remi http://www.ryan-hagen.com (http://www.ryan-hagen.com/)

DreamTalks http://www.dreamtalks-animation.com/

also Kretin and proton but you got the links already :)

[HowardM]

Why, each and every one of you all of course! :D

[Jok]

there are so many great artists.

too many to mention them here.

[gruvsyco]

Not sure I agree with the idea of this thread much but... here is a link for taron.
http://www.taron.de/

[MattClary]

Didn't Dale Williams use LightWave? He had some pretty good stuff. ;)

[TheFreak]

I love this :) Give us a chance to see some really great work by the people we respect

I always liked Fellah's Stuff (Anders Ehrenborg)

http://www.fellah.net

[cousin it]

Jack the ripper.

http://www.tkio.com

[Nemoid]

Taron
Dan Maas
Tim Albee
Menithings


and Proton the great!

[xtrm3d]

here are the best 3d cartoon modelers (in my mind) :D


xtrm3d http://www.xtrm3d.com (http://www.xtrm3d.com/)

thanx feel veryu honored to see my name beside of such greta artist as taron and other ...

merci

[uncon]

I think this thread is silly, but I can't resist...
Dick Van Dyke

[E_Moelzer]

I think that this thread does a lot of people an injustice. There is many artists, that do not appear in public that often, but that do awesome stunning work with LW.
I had the honor to meet some of them in LA in summer. They work at Digital Domain, EdenFX, Area51, Zoic, CafeFX, Pixelmagic, Flash Film Works, Warner Brothers Animation and many other studios (there are to many to mention them all here, sorry).
You would not believe the passion and efforts these people put into their work every day. The downside is, that they rarely appear in public because of their work taking most of their time.
CU
Elmar

[leigh]

I think that this thread does a lot of people an injustice. There is many artists, that do not appear in public that often, but that do awesome stunning work with LW.
I had the honor to meet some of them in LA in summer. They work at Digital Domain, EdenFX, Area51, Zoic, CafeFX, Pixelmagic, Flash Film Works, Warner Brothers Animation and many other studios (there are to many to mention them all here, sorry).
You would not believe the passion and efforts these people put into their work every day. The downside is, that they rarely appear in public because of their work taking most of their time.
CU
Elmar

I couldn't agree more. Some of these studios are pushing out some absolutely incredible work, and yet we don't hear individual names because they're team efforts, and because most of the artists don't have time (or the inclination) to promote themselves individually.

I had the enormous pleasure of spending some time at one of those above mentioned studios last week (I won't say which one), and all I can say is that the artists there were doing absolutely amazing stuff. I felt humbled and honoured to be around them.

On a side note, I don't think Taron is using LightWave anymore.

[Keddy]

Jack the ripper.

http://www.tkio.com
I second that. The ripper's work are an awesome! He's my favourite LW artist and also master of LW!

And also my another favourite artists :-

Olivier van Tilborgh (The Black Tulip),
Timur Baysal (Taron),
Gerald Abraham (L akira)
Michael Blackbourn (Mike RB)
Jonny Gorden (Kretin)
Jason Wen

[E_Moelzer]

Hey Leigh!

Taron now works for Project Messiah, but he is still using LW, mostly for modeling. I had the pleasure to meet him in LA (we both spent a lot of time out of the conference- center, smoking ;-) ). He also did a wonderful demonstration of LWs character- modeling- capabilities at this years Siggraph...
He is a great character and has always been a very inspiring artist for me...
CU
Elmar

[leigh]

Yeah his work rocks :D I thought he was using Messiah for everything now though... guess I was wrong! Hehe :) I've heard that he's a really great guy, but I've not met him in person.

[Nemoid]

From the little i know Taron uses and abuses Lw for modelling, and obviously Messiah for everything other.
he uses also Zbrush and he released a little interview u can find in Pixologic website too. :)

[==Spawn==]

Amaan Akram: http://www.warpedspace.org (http://www.warpedspace.org/) ....flawless work on modelling and lightning ...

btw, does anyone know if he finished the "Lighting Techniques Part II" tutorial?? ....'cause it's about indoor lighning and the previous one helped me alot :)

[Roger Eberhart]

Terry Ford - http://www.terryf.dsl.pipex.com/index.shtml

[Carm3D]

Carmen Rizzolo - http://www.Carm3D.net (http://www.carm3d.net/)

This guy is really good and I hope to be like him when I grow up! :)

[PauHana]

I worked with Todd and he's awesome! He's also one of the coolest guys I've ever met!



- Taron, i guess i dont need to speak much about him :D


- Todd Grimes
http://www.evil-plan.com/main.html

To me one of the best cartoon 3D modelers, if someone can take a cartoon drawing and make it a perfect 3d model with the same "feel", strenght and character as the hand drawn one, this is the man :buttrock:

Im sure im forgeting amounts of names, but this are the ones that pop right out of my mind.

[Julez4001]

Taron's latest work over at Zbrush forum....http://www.taron.de/Storage/Images/Zbrush/Helloweenor_demo.jpg

[ages]

Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon, Otacon,
Lewis, Ethanger...

[kretin]

Wow, I'm honored to see my name here, thanks guys :bounce:

[telamon]

I agree with Leigh and Elmar... I can't actually say this one or this one is the best because they are all at a comparable level.

If this question was asked last month, I should have given a list different from today. Because I was more sensitive to X or Y's work...

Moreover, styles are so different. We all know how quickly some people may jump from one style to any other (e.g. from cartoon to hyper realistic and so on).


Nevertheless, I have to agree with all the people giving lists. I will do the same a bit more exaustic.

Kretin (for all), proton (for all), taron (for all), tim albee (for all), policarpo (for rendering & experimentation), pisong (for his twisted mind), leigh (for textures & rendering), xtrm3D (for all), facial_deluxe (for all), julos (for all), mikeRB (for all), mike_pauza (for dynamics), fender (for all), howardM (for dynamics), remi (for modelling), T4D (for rigging), sebek27, Lukas Paszera (pfiuuu the list gets long), chagidiel, LFGabel, Randy Sharp, RPG2003, Steve Worley, Steve Hurley, JUANJGON................. Crap, I have forgotten names and nicks....... And the list keeps on...

In fact this list are names that popped to my mind... Not a ranking at all.

Elmar, Digitaldeuce, julez4001, bytehawk, aurora, sam kvaalen....




I STOP !!!

[BookMansBlues]

Jose Perez, hands down probably one of the best Hardware guys I know. Basically just about all the best LW models that have come out of Zoic or Foundation I, and a few outher companies, you all know his work even if you don't know his name. Hardest working man I know as well.

[WillJohn]

Larry Schultz,

hes forgotten more about lightwave than a lot of people will ever learn :)


Keep em in line Larry

Believe me, Ive worked with the guy.

[Julez4001]

someone named me and I have to say I have to bow out,
when u say top artist, I tend to see those guys's work as unnapproachable yet
the standard in which we all inspire and thats definitely not me. Anyone can achieve my work and surpass it with ease.

Maybe we should say the Top Ten guys so we just not throwing names out.

[EsHrA]

Kursad Karatas :)

http://www.3dluvr.com/plecxus/



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[fraa]

Did anyone mentionned Panya Souvanna ? http://spady.free.fr/
and, err, can we name oursleves ? :P

[Guillermo]

- Dimitry Savinoff (I think I´ve written it well)

http://www.savinoff.com/

[cyroz2000]

Did anyone mentionned Panya Souvanna ? http://spady.free.fr/
and, err, can we name oursleves ? :P hmmm,
why nobody allready mentioned François "Fraa" G. ????? http://fra.dozign.com/ :shrug:


Ps : je kiffe réellement ce que tu fais!!! :)

[SplineGod]

Larry Schultz,

hes forgotten more about lightwave than a lot of people will ever learn :)


Keep em in line Larry

Believe me, Ive worked with the guy. LOL! Hey Will! LTNS....thanks too :)

[ThirdEye]

Easy question: The Ripper and The Black Tulip :)

[cyroz2000]

Up! :)
Anyone else???

[gruvsyco]

I don't know if they have sites but, gerardo and otacon have mad lighting skillz.

[wok]

here are just a few of mine


Kursad Karatas
http://www.3dluvr.com/plecxus/

Ken Brilliant
http://www.brilliant-creations.com/

Rowsby
http://www.rowsby.com/main.html

Dave Wilson
http://www.3dluvr.com/davewilson

Rob Powers
http://www.robpowers.com/

Krentin
http://zerogravity.com.au/gallery/index.htm

Grzegorz Jonkajtys
http://www.3dluvr.com/jonkajtys/

Werner Ziemerink
http://www.3dluvr.com/ziemdesign/

[blacknoise]

my vote goes to taron and jonkajtys

[CAClark]

As a lightwave nobody, I find this quite futile, as art is so subjective, there are far too many LW'ers to list, well beyond the well banded names seen here already. I'm not meaning to be off, just saying that there are too many to sensibly be listed ad done justice too :)

Cheers!

[dmaas]

Ron Thornton
Mojo
Meni Tsirbas
Andy Lesniak
and everyone else at Foundation and Station X... old school, man.

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