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"The Maxon team has been very receptive and responsive to our needs and suggestions. This kind of collaboration is necessary to ensure that the quality and complexity of imagery for which Imageworks is known is always apparent on the screen,"
René Limberger,
Senior Technical Director,
Sony Pictures Imageworks

Unrivaled 3D Painting

MAXON BodyPaint 3D will revolutionize the way you texture your 3D models. Regardless of how you have textured in the past, 3D texturing is now easier then ever. BodyPaint 3D makes painting by vectors as easy as painting by numbers.

Forget flat compromises and paint in three dimensions.

The LightWave 3D Connection
With BodyPaint 3D, MAXON gives users great connectivity to LightWave 3D. If you are looking for the ultimate texturing solution for LightWave 3D on Windows or Macintosh, BodyPaint 3D should definitely be your application of choice. Let yourself be inspired by the RayBrush mode that allows you to paint your textures in a rendered image with full control - even over specular maps, transparency or reflection. Not to be forgotten: the MutliBrush which, in conjunction with RayBrush, enables you to paint in up to 10 texture channels simultaneously.

BodyPaint 3D's Projection Painting tool makes distortion-free painting a snap. This quick and easy tool lets you paint across UV seams or even multiple objects in a scene.

Using the link is easy: Create your mesh in LightWave 3D's modeler and apply a simple material. You choose whether you want to set up the UVs in LightWave 3D or with BodyPaint 3Dīs sophisticated set of UV tools. The Setup Wizard prepares all necessary textures and UVs for a given object with just three easy clicks of the mouse. It is even possible to set up a complete group or hierarchy of objects in this manner.

The complete layering system, tons of painting tools and filters and a full-feature render engine that lets you see all your efforts in real-time makes texturing with BodyPaint 3D a pleasure.

Go ahead and take the Highlight Tour to find out what else BodyPaint 3D has to offer...