LightWave 3D 2018 offers a variety of new tools and features, as well as many workflow enhancements, all providing an expanded functionality set and a faster, more streamlined process.

Many LightWave artists are among the elite of VFX award-winners in the industry, including Emmy-winning productions. LightWave has been used to create 3D illustrations for magazines such as TIME, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly, to design a CG image of a football stadium for a Hyundai commercial, for visual effects in numerous films, TV shows, commercials and web series such as a Duracell spot, Sleepy Hollow and Breaking Bad TV shows, and in the 3D animation process for everything from modeling and beyond.