LightWave 3D
FAST • EASY • PROVEN
Create at the speed of LightWave
LightWave 3D® is designed for creative visionaries to bring their imaginations to life, offering a perfect combination of power, speed and value.
Professional 3D Modelling, Animation and Rendering Software
LightWave 3D is a complete professional 3D creation application for modelling, animation, visual effects, simulation and rendering. Built for independent artists, designers and production teams, LightWave gives you the tools to take an idea from its first shape to its final rendered image or animation, without assembling a complicated collection of separate applications. Create cinematic visual effects, animated characters, product visualisations, architectural imagery, motion graphics, broadcast content, game assets and entire digital worlds within a fast, flexible and proven production environment.
LIGHTWAVE 2026 - ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES
What can you create with LightWave?
Visual Effects and Cinematic Worlds
Create spaceships, creatures, environments, explosions and complete cinematic scenes.
LightWave gives artists the modelling, animation, simulation, lighting and rendering tools needed to take an idea from concept through to the final shot. Its fast, direct workflow makes it particularly effective for independent artists and small visual-effects teams producing ambitious work against real deadlines.
Motion Graphics and Broadcast
Create animated titles, channel identities, virtual sets, branded content and high-impact 3D graphics.
LightWave has a long history in television and broadcast production, where speed, flexibility and dependable results matter. Quickly build scenes, respond to creative changes and deliver polished animation without moving through a complicated collection of applications.
Product and Architectural Visualisation
Turn products, spaces and ideas into compelling 3D images and animation before they exist in the real world.
Model detailed objects and environments, explore materials and lighting, and create photorealistic or stylised presentations from one complete application. LightWave gives designers and visualisation artists the freedom to test ideas quickly and retain full control over the final result.
LIGHTWAVE 2026 - NEW FEATURES
LightWave™ has an unrivaled history of delivering the finest, most realistic art and animation the world has ever seen
2020 User Upgrade LightWave3D® 2025When asked why I use LightWave to generate my props or concepts for James Bond 007, Marvel, Disney, Star Wars etc.. – it is because I have found Lightwave to be the complete solution for my demanding role in the film industry. Lightwave may not be mainstream, but then again, nor am I.
Jet Cooper - Creative Director at Makinarium, Pinewood Studios UK
Pre2020 User Upgrade LightWave3D® 2025An incredibly deep and versatile piece of software. Always keeps pulling me back in! Really, looking forward to what the future holds
Mark Warner - 3D Motion graphics artist
New LightWave3D® 2025 licenceLightWave3D has been at the core of our 3D design business for many years and continues to be our go-to 3D software. The ease and speed it allows us to produce 3D assets is a boom, along with the ability for its integration into our work pipeline, working seamlessly alongside other software
Duncan Hewitt - Creative Director Albino Igil
TESTIMONIALS"For over 30 years LightWave has been my go-to 3D program for of its beautiful photorealistic renders and fast, logical workflow. From my work on James Cameron’s “Titanic" to my latest feature film “Timescape", where I created almost all the visual effects, LightWave can’t be beat for its rock-solid reliability, speed, and user-friendliness."
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