Few days ago Fox Television presented the new Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated “Terra Nova” television series where NewTek LightWave™ software played a key role in the delivery. The plot of the series is starting in the year 2149 where scientists discover a rift in time and space that allows humans to time travel some 85 million years into the past, in an attempt to save humanity. To make all visions os Spielberg to life, the team at Pixomondo studios used LightWave to create a large number of visual effects shots and renders for the first episode.
"We found LightWave 10.1 invaluable for our custom pipeline that was developed for the ‘Terra Nova’ two-hour premiere”. - Pixomodo
According to Pixomodo they will continue to use LightWave to deliver impressive visual effects. But, LightWave was not the only one 3D application used by this series. We can tell that the series is full of visual effects created in the leading software available for CG industry. The series is featuring environment created in Terragen 2.3 and also dinosaurs and other creatures sculpted using the award winning sculpting tool ZBrush.
“We’re modelling as part of the design process, rather than taking a lot of time doing orthographic drawings. So we’re starting very efficiently from the design process, using pretty much off-the-shelf software.” – Colin Brady, animation supervisor
Source and full article: Newtek