Digital Character Design and Painting - The Photoshop CS Edition

Digital Character Design and Painting: The Photoshop® CS Edition, is a completely updated version of this beautifully illustrated, full-color book. In the first edition, users learned digital skills using Corel® Painter but in this edition, all the techniques have been updated and modified for use with Photoshop CS.

The book provides a unique combination of ideas and techniques that teach both the fundamentals of character design and the skills of digital painting. It explores the key principles of design and teaches conventional artists how to enhance their traditional skills and transfer them to the Web, computer/video games, commercials, and film production work. Using a variety of tutorials and exercises, artists employ Photoshop CS to learn the techniques, methods, and artistic theory of digital painting. They explore how to create images that will be viewed in two dimensions, but actually look three-dimensional. And, they work through detailed projects on sketching, color theory, lighting, and texturing, along with specific techniques for trees and foliage, eyes, faces, hair, clothing, and fur. Using the practical ideas and techniques covered here, artists learn how to create and beautifully illustrate their own life-like or fantasy characters for games, movies, and other commercial productions.

KEY FEATURES

• Presents a beautiful, full color guide to character design and computer art
• Completely updated to cover Photoshop CS
• Provides practical insights into how to master Photoshop CS as a powerful painting tool, including how to customize the brushes to achieve the best possible results
• Includes a variety of new characters to illustrate techniques and concepts
• Focuses on learning artistic skills that can be applied to a variety of 2D and 3D programs, with an emphasis on Photoshop CS
• 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 QuickTime movies of some of the material