Authors Julian Kain is a student and artist. He practices both traditional and digital art, and believes that a perfect mix the two will someday create theLeonardo of the new millennium. He began working in 3D with LightWave 3D 5.5 in 1998. Julian has been a regular writer for Keyframe Magazine since May 1999, where he reviews graphics chips and their performance in LightWave. In his spare time, he writes photorealistic gold surfacing tutorials for great new LightWave 6 Effects books. You may e-mail him at [email protected] and visit his web site at http://www.juliankain.com. Jason Goodman lives in New York City and is the CEO of MSD a multimedia production company in Silicon Valley. Jason has been involved with 3D graphics since the days of Videoscape 3D on the Amiga (circa 1986). Contact him via email [email protected]. Michael Ash has been working with Newtek products since the Toaster 2.0 days and has worked as a Tech support specialist for Newtek and also served as Tech support Manager for Newtek. He has written articles and tutorials that have appeared in magazines such as Keyframe, 3d Artist and Newtekniques. Michael also wrote the Aura 2 manual and tutorials for the Lightwave 6 manual.