Being a LightWorks Material Supplier

LightWork Design is the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software. Our product, LightWorks, is embedded in over 80 software applications and used by more than 1 million users worldwide, far more than any other renderer.

LightWorks is renowned throughout the CAD industry as one of the best renderers in the world. Our internal technical expertise, coupled with our vast range of partnerships in a wide variety of industries has ensured us staying at the forefront of the industry, and looking at some of the images that can be produced by our software, it's easy to see why...

The idea behind directly supplying Content to our million-plus professional designers, is to fulfil a need by them to visualise and specify real world materials. In the past, designers have been happy with a generic brick pattern on the outside of their building designs, or a general colour on their interior walls. Now people want specific materials that, once the design brief is complete, can then be ordered and used to complete the contract in the real world, with the knowledge that the final contract will look exactly like the original design.

So in order to take full advantage of the ability for LightWorks to replicate the real world in a digital form, we created the LightWorks Archive (LWA) file format, a proprietary platform-independent , application-independent , secure digital file format designed specifically for the creation and secure distribution of real world digital Content. This file format has the capability of containing an infinite range of real world materials, from colour libraries , to metals , through to plastics , though to flooring – it allows us to cover the entire spectrum of architectural and design materials, and allow users of over 80 LightWorks-based applications to begin creating real world digital designs and specifications.

Simply put, becoming a LightWorks Content Supplier gives a company the opportunity to get its materials, in a digital form, in front of over a million CAD users worldwide. And the process is very simple. Once the Supplier has chosen a selection of ranges of materials, they can then pass them on to us in an appropriate format, e.g. digital photographs, along with a representative selection of physical samples. We will then convert them, in-house, into our LWA digital format, and publish them on our website (www.lightworks-user.com), publicising their existence to external parties.

Once on the user website, these can then be downloaded, by our professional designers, who can then use them in their design briefs.

Currently the process necessitates us being passed digital input from the Suppliers, for us to then author and publish on our own website. However, we are now starting to work with our Suppliers to give them the option of authoring their own materials themselves, handing over control of the whole creation process, along with the resultant materials archives. If this is something that you may find of interest, then contact us , and we’ll be happy to talk through the possibilities with you.

If you are a supplier and would like to have the opportunity of having your products published in LWA format, contact us. If you already have a selection of materials in mind for distributing in a digital format, we will be very happy to give you a personal demo. In the meantime, we have put together a selection of Case Studies to give you an idea of what we can do for you.