the bit where anakin turns to the camera with that evul yellow eye actually made me jump and i nearly filled me kecks, not creamed em. EARLY TIE-FIGHTERS!! WOOKIES!! SLJ LIGHTSABRE FIGHTING!! capital ship battles!!
@Toku is that dynamic GI and lighting or baked lightmaps? if the latter, this is some awesome quality! I'm having crazy issues with lightmaps artefacts at the moment.
I have some tutorials on doing lightmaps in Maya. The process of setting up the lightmaps is the same. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3BBCEA0D6B70541
Modo is a derivative of Lightwave, while the question is legitimate the answer would be to go with Modo over Lightwave. There's many reason for this considering customer support and popularity.