Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3 by Don Seegmiller (2007, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCharles River Apparel Media

ISBN-101584505338

ISBN-139781584505334

eBay Product ID (ePID)59071044

Product Key Features

Number of Pages432 Pages

Publication NameDigital Character Painting Using Photoshop Cs3

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

SubjectComputer Graphics, Digital Media / Photography (See Also Photography / Techniques / Digital), Digital

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Computers

AuthorDon Seegmiller

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight31.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7.3 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal776

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisDigital Character Design and Painting Using Photoshop CS3 is a completely updated edition of this brilliantly illustrated book that blends two unique subjects: character design and digital painting. It details how to put thoughts and ideas together to create characters that elicit specific emotions (joy, fear, anger, sadness, etc.), and it teaches how to beautifully render these characters by applying traditional painting skills with digital tools. This new edition has been completely updated to use Photoshop CS3 as the primary tool, and includes many new characters and tutorials.Written for artists interested in learning how to use Photoshop CS3 as a real painting tool, the book is divided into three primary sections.The first section deals with character design and provides strategies for developing worthwhile ideas. In the next section, you'll find fundamentals artistic principles that are often overlooked in the digital world, and learn how to incorporate them into your efforts. And in the final section, you'll work through practical tutorials that teach insightful techniques and tips for solving common visual problems that emerge when painting. The tutorials start off simple covering the basics of value, edges, color, and light. From there they evolve into in-depth techniques for blending, eyes, faces, cloth, hair, Photoshop brushes, and portraits. Whether you are a seasoned professional or aspiring artist, you'll find a plethora of useful ideas and techniques that will improve your skills and help you create and paint masterful digital art, Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3 is a brilliantly illustrated, full-color book that combines both the fundamentals of character design and the skills of digital painting. Completely updated using Photoshop CS3 as the primary tool, the book details how to create characters that elicit specific emotions and how to beautifully render those characters by applying conventional painting skills to digital tools. Written for both the seasoned professional and aspiring artist alike, Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3 explores the key principles of design and reveals how to enhance traditional skills and apply them to digital art for use in games, film, animation, and other commercial productions. Using practical tutorials, the book covers basic skills such as value, edges, color, texturing, and light, and then moves on to teach in-depth techniques on specific features including eyes, face, clothing, hair, and fur. Whatever your skill level, you will discover practical ideas and techniques to apply to your craft and to help you improve and create masterful works of digital art! Features: - Presents a completely updated, beautiful, full color guide to character design and computer art using Photoshop. - Provides practical insights into how to master Photoshop CS3 as a powerful painting tool, including how to customize the brushes to achieve the best possible results. - Focuses on learning artistic skills that can be applied to a variety of 2D and 3D programs, with an emphasis on Photoshop CS3. - Teaches how to combine traditional artistic values with today's graphics software. - Includes a CD-ROM with the figures and files for the tutorials in the book, along with aQuickTime movie showing how a painting is created., Digital Character Design and Painting Using Photoshop CS3 is a completely updated edition of this brilliantly illustrated book that blends two unique subjects: character design and digital painting. It details how to put thoughts and ideas together to create characters that elicit specific emotions (joy, fear, anger, sadness, etc.), and it teaches how to beautifully render these characters by applying traditional painting skills with digital tools. This new edition has been completely updated to use Photoshop CS3 as the primary tool, and includes many new characters and tutorials. Written for artists interested in learning how to use Photoshop CS3 as a real painting tool, the book is divided into three primary sections. The first section deals with character design and provides strategies for developing worthwhile ideas. In the next section, you'll find fundamentals artistic principles that are often overlooked in the digital world, and learn how to incorporate them into your efforts. And in the final section, you'll work through practical tutorials that teach insightful techniques and tips for solving common visual problems that emerge when painting. The tutorials start off simple covering the basics of value, edges, color, and light. From there they evolve into in-depth techniques for blending, eyes, faces, cloth, hair, Photoshop brushes, and portraits. Whether you are a seasoned professional or aspiring artist, you'll find a plethora of useful ideas and techniques that will improve your skills and help you create and paint masterful digital art!

LC Classification NumberT385.S366 2007