Digital Character Design and Painting: The Photoshop CS Edition by Don Seegmiller

Digital Character Design and Painting: The Photoshop CS Edition



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Digital Character Design and Painting: The Photoshop CS Edition Don Seegmiller
Language: English
Page: 377
Format: chm
ISBN: 1584503408, 9781584503408
Publisher: Charles River Media

This brilliantly illustrated book blends two unique subjects: character design and 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 edition has been completely updated to use Photoshop CS as the primary tool, and includes many new characters and tutorials.

Written for artists interested in learning how to use Photoshop CS 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!

On the CD! Tutorial Files: Includes the sketches, texture images, brushes, and gradients, needed to complete the tutorials in Chapters 12-23 Brushes Folder: Provides all of the custom brushes, in their rough state, as used in the painting tutorials for each chapter Textures Folder: Contains 137 different textures to experiment with when making your own patterns and brush files Photoshop CS: Contains both the Mac and PC tryout versions

System Requirements: Both systems require Photoshop CS. WINDOWS: Intel Pentium III or 4 processor; Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or Windows XP, 192 MB of RAM; 280 MB of available hard-disk space; Color monitor with 16-bit color or greater video card; 1,024x768 or greater resolution; CD-ROM drive; Internet or phone connection required for product activation. MACINTOSH: PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor; Mac OS X v.10.2.4 though v.10.3 with Java Runtime Environment 1.4; 192 MB of RAM; 320 MB of available hard-disk space; 1,024x768 or greater resolution; CD-ROM drive.

About the Author

Don Seegmiller is the author of the Painter edition of Digital Character Design and Painting (2003)He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and teaches senior-level illustration,traditional head painting,figure drawing,and digital painting courses at a variety of schools.He worked for six years as art director for Saffire Corporation,is a regular speaker at the Game Developers Conference,and was the keynote speaker atthe American Association of Medical Illustrators convention in 2003. His work is featured in the The Painter 6 Wow Book, The Painter 7 Wow Book, Electronic Step by Step Design, Spectrum 7, Spectrum 8 and it has also been on display at Wadle Galleries of Santa Fe since 1981.

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