Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art

Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art
By Les Pardew, Don Seegmiller
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Number Of Pages: 344
Publication Date: 2004-12-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1592005616
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781592005611

Product Description:

Digital art opens the door to new techniques and methods of painting that would be impossible to achieve in traditional art. It eliminates the worry of ruined surfaces, toxic chemicals, and expensive materials and introduces powerful tools that are able to realistically simulate water color, oil paint, and air brush techniques. What used to take artists hours to accomplish can now be completed in a few short steps. "Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art" is designed to help the traditional artist make the move to digital media. It includes step-by-step projects that show how to create both 2D and 3D art and offers helpful hints regarding the digital art programs that will most effectively help you meet your objectives.

Summary: Should be titled: Beginning Painter and Maya
Rating: 3

To help out folks looking to buy this book, I just want to point out a few things I wish I’d known before buying it. First, if you are buying it for the Don Seemiller portion, you’d be much better off buying his "Digital Character Design and Painting" book, recently updated. I can’t recommend that book highly enough. The current volume presents something resembling an excerpt from the Seegmiller book, taking up the first 90 pages, with the remainder of the book being a basic introduction to Maya. It’s TONS of screen shots (in color, unusual for this publisher), with very little verbiage.

In short, I’d only recommend this book if you are looking for a nice short intro to character design with Painter and a beginner’s guide to Maya. The title is very misleading.

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