| ||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Trade in Digital Sci-Fi Art: A Step-by-step Guide to Creating Stunning, Futuristic Images for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Synopsis
Visions of future worlds have always exercised a powerful fascination. From the pulp artists of the '30s, through the airbrush artists of the '70s and '80s, to today's CGI animators, science-fiction has always provided the artist with a blank canvas on which their imagination could run wild. Today, as more artists enter the digital arena, these alien vistas, towering cityscapes, vast spacecraft and strange lifeforms are becoming breathtakingly realistic. With the right tools, you can bring your wildest dreams to virtual life. At the heart of Digital Sci-Fi Art is a detailed survey of the key techniques involved in creating these visionary masterpieces, with step-by-step workthroughs showing in detail how science fiction art takes digital form. These examples sit alongside a showcase of some of the best contemporary sci-fi illustration being produced anywhere in the world. With users of both 2D and 3D graphics applications catered for, Digital Sci-Fi Art is an inspirational as well as practical volume for digital artists at every level.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great primer,
By ravells (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Digital Sci-Fi Art: A Step-by-step Guide to Creating Stunning, Futuristic Images (Paperback)
Being reasonably new to SF digital art I found this book an excellent primer on techiques to improve my work. The book covers the use of 2d art applications (e.g. photoshop or PSP) and 3d applications (Bryce etc.). The tutorials comprise a finished product and a step by step guide by the artist as to how he got there. Burns deals with general principles rather than specific applicaitons (although these are mentioned) so the techniques descibed have a universal application. My only small gripe is that the screenshots of the works in progress are too small, so it is hard to make out all of the information on the screen (e.g. layers). Nevertheless this is a great book to get if you are just starting out, but will not tell advanced users anything new.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very good,
By
This review is from: Digital Sci-Fi Art: A Step-by-step Guide to Creating Stunning, Futuristic Images (Paperback)
If you're inspired to get into sci-fi art, 3D, matte paintings whatever, this book is a great starting point. It tells you about all the various softwares available, what they do and what can be achieved. It covers things you might need to consider. It's not strictly a technical manual, but it gets the points to consider across. Many many wonderful renderings and pictures to get you motivated as well.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
By
This review is from: Digital Sci-Fi Art: A Step-by-step Guide to Creating Stunning, Futuristic Images (Paperback)
I by no means intend to insult the artists used in this book, but the standard of a lot of work included as examples is incredibly amateur looking in comparison to most other digital art tutorial books on the market. Not only that, but the book says it covers 2D and 3D art, when in fact about 10 pages cover 2D work, meaning its pointless for any 2D artists out there wishing to learn any techniques.
Also the rest, covering 3D is poorly presented, in such that it doesn't really teach you anything about modelling. As a reference for beginners it's pointless, it wont teach you anything in nearly enough detail. It'd be a lot better to get books focusing on 3D modelling, regardless of whether they cover sci-fi designs. And for anyone who's progressed beyond a beginner level, you'll find it far too basic to teach you anything productive. The one thing it really covers is composition, setting up a scene. I'd advise against this book, as I was very disappointed being an avid sci-fi fan and games design graduate. It's a huge shame, as I was hoping this would be a perfect book for me (and sci-fi designers and artists alike)
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
|
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
