Figures, Characters and Avatars: The Official Guide to Using DAZ Studio to Create Beautiful Art

Figures, Characters and Avatars: The Official Guide to Using DAZ Studio to Create Beautiful Art
Les Pardew | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Course Technology PTR | 227 | Drawing
Unlock your inner 3D artist as you create amazing 3D art using the powerful program DAZ Studio. "Figures, Characters, and Avatars: The Official Guide to Using DAZ Studio to Create Beautiful Art" will help you bring your artistic vision to life and enable even those who haven't mastered technical art skills to create beautiful, realistic art. Unlike other art software, DAZ Studio gives you the ability to compose striking scenes using a vast library of existing characters, props, and sets. DAZ Studio's easy-to-use toolset allows even beginning artists to set up an environment and populate it with characters that can move and interact. You'll discover how to construct, move, and pose figures, how to use lighting to make your art look lifelike, and even how to make the characters you create talk. Offering comprehensive coverage of the DAZ Studio software, "Figures, Characters, and Avatars" will help you become a better artist and show you how to stretch your creative imagination as you make unique digital art and animation.
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Watercolour Fairies: A Step-by-step Guide to Creating the Fairy World

Watercolour Fairies: A Step-by-step Guide to Creating the Fairy World
David Riche | 2004-01-01 00:00:00 | | 128 | Drawing
How do you see a fairy, let alone draw one? This enchanting book shows how you can invoke the fairy spirit and bring to life the nymphs, sprites, and sylphs of this fabled realm. Turn your brush into a wand and create an entire fairy kingdom in watercolours, the dreamiest medium with which to convey the spirit and nature of these fairy folk. Easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrations and photographs enable you to recreate flower fairies, celestial spirits, and mischievous dark fairies. Learn how to capture exquisite detail such as delicate wings and diaphanous gowns. Whether you believe in fairies, or just need a helping hand in order to really see them, this wonderful book contains all the inspiration and advice you will need in order to bring the magic and wonder of fairies to your artwork.
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The Art of the Storyboard

The Art of the Storyboard
John Hart | 2007-01-01 00:00:00 | Focal Press; 2 edition | 224 | Drawing
The Art of the Storyboard
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Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers

Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers
friends of ED | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | friends of ED | 872 | Drawing
Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to Rich Internet Applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better.

Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features, including better support for mobile devices, a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, improved inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much more.

This book is all you’ll need to learn Flash CS5 from the ground up. If you already have Flash experience, this book will allow you to quickly catch up on all the cool new features. Flash experts Tom Green and Tiago Dias guide you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS5, keeping the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects.

* Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step-by-step tutorials.
* Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design.
* Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and Tiago Dias.

What you’ll learn

* The ins and outs of the Flash CS5 interface
* How to use all of Flash CS5’s essential features, such as text, graphics, and animation
* How to use video and sound effectively in Flash
* How to create a mobile application
* The fundamentals of Flash CS5’s new animation and timeline features
* The basics of ActionScript 3.0
* How to populate a Flash movie with dynamic data such as XML.

Who this book is for

This book is for both beginners who want a solid grounding in Flash CS5, and designers with previous Flash experience, who want to get up to speed with the new features.
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