Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3, 2/e

Description

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 a QuickTime movie showing how a painting is created.

《使用 Photoshop CS3 進行數位角色繪畫》是一本精美插圖、全彩的書籍，結合了角色設計的基礎知識和數位繪畫的技巧。本書完全使用 Photoshop CS3 作為主要工具，詳細介紹了如何創造能引起特定情感的角色，並如何運用傳統繪畫技巧於數位工具上精美地呈現這些角色。本書適合資深專業人士和有志於藝術創作的人士閱讀，探索設計的關鍵原則，並揭示如何提升傳統技能並應用於遊戲、電影、動畫和其他商業製作中的數位藝術。通過實用的教程，本書涵蓋了價值、邊緣、色彩、紋理和光線等基本技能，然後深入介紹了眼睛、臉部、服裝、頭髮和毛髮等特定特徵的高級技巧。無論您的技能水平如何，您都將發現實用的想法和技巧，可以應用於您的創作，幫助您提升並創作出精湛的數位藝術作品！特點：- 提供一本完全更新、精美、全彩的角色設計和電腦藝術指南，使用 Photoshop。- 提供實用的見解，如何將 Photoshop CS3 當作強大的繪畫工具，包括如何自定義筆刷以獲得最佳效果。- 重點學習可以應用於各種 2D 和 3D 程式的藝術技能，並強調 Photoshop CS3。- 教授如何將傳統藝術價值觀與當今的圖形軟體相結合。- 包含一張 CD-ROM，其中包含書中教程的圖片和檔案，以及一個 QuickTime 影片展示如何創作一幅畫作。