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| Binding: | Paperback |
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| EAN: | 9780240813493 |
| Label: | Focal Press |
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| Publisher: | Focal Press |
| Studio: | Focal Press |
Editorial Reviews
Photoshop is not just for photographers anymore. Photoshop 3D for Animators is one of the only titles available that discusses 3D Photoshop techniques specifically for animators. Now with Adobe CS5, 3D Digital artists can integrate 3D models into Photoshop or create 3D models in Photoshop with the high capability to customize, edit and animate.
With Photoshop 3D for Animators, explore the new 3D tools and techniques that will enhance your animation pipeline and workflows with the Adobe Suite softwares, including After Effects and Flash. Explore the ins and outs of Adobe Photoshop and expand your 3D expertise with the comprehensive guide to Adobe 3D toolset for animators. Customize Adobe CS5 tools for your specific, animation workflow and integrate your 3D models with Adobe Flash and the entire Adobe Suite platform with ease. Learn to manipulate 3D images as well as import 3D content from the Adobe creative suite. With in-depth, step-by-step tutorials, explore lighting, digital painting, texturing and rendering for 2D and 3D the power of Adobe Photoshop software. Enhance your digital workflow and expand your expertise with this hands-on guide to Photoshop CS5. Includes a DVD with source files, working samples and models.
- Customize Adobe CS5 tools for your specific, animation workflow and integrate your 3D models with Adobe Flash and the entire Adobe Suite platform with ease.
- Enhance your digital workflow and expand your expertise with this hands-on guide to Photoshop CS5 and learn to manipulate 3D images as well as import 3D content from the Adobe creative suite.
- With in-depth, step-by-step tutorials, explore lighting, digital painting, texturing and rendering for 2D and 3D the power of Adobe Photoshop software.
- Includes a DVD with source files, working samples and models.
Customer Reviews
Gerbrand Uiterdijk @ 2011-07-18 Excellent Book
in an understandable and concise way covering and describing the 3D tools of
Photoshop CS5 Extended.
If you are a novice on 3D this book will give you a better understanding
of working in 3D with Photoshop. It tells you the basic principles of the subject.
Nearly all the books covering 3D programs such as Maya 3D are too complicated for novices. Those are written for professionals.
This book definately not that's why it makes it so unique.
Michele "Michele" @ 2011-06-25 If you want to learn 3d
This book offers a concept then goes through a lesson which explains each concept thoroughly. It also offers great tips on setting up preferences and how you can integrate with other programs. And let's face it, who wants someone that can just do one program these days, so being able to set up so that you can professionally integrate with an After Effects or Flash work flow is ideal. The accompanying cd is great. The only criticism I have is that the book really needs to be worked through from start to finish, which for me was perfect. It isn't really a reference book, but more of a working book, so if that is what you are looking for, this is definitely the book to get.
Tom Desimone @ 2011-01-12 Two Digitally Animated Thumbs Up
It's the maintaining of that proficiency that can be the most difficult, but also the most rewarding, keeping your skills on the cutting edge, learning innovative ways to use programs. So that's where this book comes in. Many animators don't even know that Photoshop has 3D animation capabilities, and it is an admittedly new function. You will also find that it is an indispensable one, but only after you learn how to harness its power, both with new knowledge, and also the knowledge you probably already have about using Photoshop.
And there in lies the true beauty of this text, Photoshop 3D for Animators. The more you can get done within one program, the better. It saves SO much time! Both in terms of not having to switch between programs or reformat, but also saves time in terms of training. We all know how daunting a task it is to learn a new program, even to just reach a fairly good useable knowledge of it, let alone reaching a high level of expertise. This text helps to amplify a basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop for 2D design quickly into a working knowledge and expertise in the lesser-known 3D capabilities, all within THE SAME PROGRAM. It's really exciting stuff. Or it was for me, anyway.
For me to go into too much technical detail here is not really of much use. But I will say that the book takes you through even the most minute considerations, such as the best computer and program configurations, the small differences between Mac and Windows Photoshop shortcuts, and a variety of other things you probably wouldn't have thought of but can make a big difference. And at the same time, this book demonstrates in an easy to understand, step by step explanation, what you need to know to get you up to speed for using Photoshop as a 3D animator, doing everything your old software did and more, and more easily.
Also, lets not forget another beauty of using Photoshop for your 3D animation work: the ease of integration between other Creative Suite applications, such as Flash and After Effects. This book makes this integration even easier, as well as most efficient. I mean, if you're going to shell of the big bucks it costs for Adobe Creative Suite, why no use it to its fullest? It's just silly not to.
This is all not to mention the book's highly intuitive layout. Just as you think you have a question, it is answered immediately. Very well laid out and aesthetically pleasing format. This book is an absolute must-have for 3D animators, newbies and experts alike, who are using or thinking of using Photoshop for their 3D work. It really just makes sense. I've never looked back.
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