Digital Art Masters: Volume 5

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• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136130458
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Artist Monographs

Meet some of the finest 2D and 3D artists working in the industry today and discover how they create some of the most innovative digital art in the world. More than a gallery book or a coffee table book- Digital Art Masters Volume 5 includes over 50 artists and 900 unique and stunning 2D and 3D digital art. Beyond the breath taking images is a breakdown of the techniques, challenges and tricks the artists employed while creating stunning imagery. This volume, much like the previous volumes is not your standard coffee table book nor is it our usual how-to-book. New to this volume will be 5 artist video tutorials. Five artists will specifically detail an aspect of their gallery image from start to finish, offering further technique driven insight and expertise offering 2 ½ hours of additional inspiration. With a click of a mouse, artists willbe able to apply the leading techniques to their own work with access to additional video tutorials, source files, textures and digital brushes at the companion website: http://www.focalpress.com/digital-art-masters/index.html.

Index

3ds Max:

Christmas Eve, 167

Control Panel, 33–4

Eldorado, 15–16

Flower of Sounds, 87–8

Mountain Patrol, The, 114–15

Mouse Love, 289

Way I Feel, The, 145

Ace of Spades (Kis-Juhasz), 70–3

Ackermann, Pascal, 86–9

Aesthetic research, 201

Airbrush use, 276–7

Alba Gutiérrez, Miguel, 36–9

Anderson, Richard, 160–5

Area lights, 105

Baba Yaga (Yum), 132–6

Background elements, 56–7, 76, 120–1, 181–2, 209, 276

Backlights, 120

Baking process, 72–3

BarberShop Bear (Alba), 36–9

Battle scenes, 48–53

Bazán Lazcano, Ignacio, 258–61

Big Blue (Dominic), 118–21

Birault, Serge, 274–9

Blending process, 121

Blocking-in colors, 65, 134

Blocking-out shapes, 203, 214

Box modeling technique, 114

Brisson, Stephan, 228–31

Bubble effects, 260–1

Bulgarov, Vitaly, 232–5

Bump maps, 27, 88, 104

Butcher’s Bride, The (Puebla), 268–72

Caisson imagery, 201–2

Camera-based images, 243

Car images, 12–17, 18–23

Cartoons, 248–97

Cavity maps, 108

Characters, 57–8, 60–115, 190, 231 see also Cartoons

Charge of the Cuirassiers (Kozik), 48–53

Christmas Eve (Jiema), 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Foreword
• Eldorado
• Goldie
• The Retreat
• Control Panel
• Barbershop Bear
• In Waiting…
• Charge of the Cuirassiers
• Standoff
• Portrait of Nathan
• Ace of Spades
• Yakuza Girl
• Fog (Redux)
• Flower of Sounds
• Evening Glow
• Cross of Iron
• Mothma
• Frankenstein's Monster
• Poker Master
• The Mountain Patrol
• Big Blue
• The Last
• Nizari
• Baba Yaga
• We Found The Gate To Hell
• The Way I Feel
• Magical Forest
• Cowboy Vs. Sandworms
• Guild Wars 2: Mole Mine
• Christmas Eve
• Titanomachy: Fail of the Hyperion
• Deep Impact
• Icarus Day
• The Gateway
• A Frozen Caisson Under Construction
• Desert Station
• Steampunk Village
• Tree
• A Smoke
• Octopus's Diner
• Nebt-Het
• The Oath
• The Two Mighty Kings
• Steamnocchio
• Welcome
• Primrobb's Threshold
• Twisted Dolls: The Butcher's Bride
• Sashimi's Revenge
• Hoteru No Aoi
• Mouse Love
• Nightmare Creators
• Index