Once upon a time Chuck Carter helped create Myst and 26 other video games including the Command and Conquer and Red Alert franchises, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Nox, Pacman World Rally, Kyrandia and many others – Carter worked on TV shows like Babylon5 (as a…
Read Issue 9 of Digital Art Live Blender 3D Special
Welcome to Issue 9 Blender is a comprehensive and free 3D modelling and animation suite. It has a wide set of functions that allow creation of video games, 3D printed models, excellent still artwork and animated movies. It’s installable on many platforms. Python scripting allows…
3DAD 039 : Behind the scenes of the Renderosity art community with Tommy Lemon and Tim Haaksma Renderosity Is the online art community for 2D and 3D digital artists, animators, and photographers
This is a special session of the podcast where we go in depth in learning about behind the scenes of Renderosity, one of the most well known digital artist communities and digital products stores on the web. I speak with Tommy Lemon, vice president of…
Read Issue 8 of Digital Art Live Themed on "Our Future Frontiers". Includes Mars Society interview with Nicole Willett
Welcome to Issue 8 What is one of the most boldest human endeavours of our time? It is the exploration and settlement of Mars. What an audacious thought, but as the Mars Society mentions as part of their tagline “We’re ready”. And we are. There…
3DAD 038 : Colonizing Mars – interview with Nicole Willett education director of the Mars Society The human exploration and colonisation of Mars
http://traffic.libsyn.com/3dartdirect/Session38.mp3 In this podcast episode, we’re focussing on the subject of the exploration and colonisation of Mars, which is part of our overall theme for our forthcoming Digital Art Live magazine issue 8. We’ll feature artwork on the colonisation of space . I was very privileged…
Read Issue 7 of Digital Art Live Female Future Heroes : Striking Digital Art using DAZ Studio, Poser and Photoshop
Welcome to Issue 7 Lindsay Wagner who played the original “Bionic Woman” in the 1970s television series was a ground breaking female superhero. She created a much needed capable feminist hero working as an undercover agent with super human abilities and the series was admired…
Read Issue 6 of Digital Art Live Cyber Humans : Second Life, Poser and DAZ Studio
Welcome to Issue 6 “Sitting on our shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe” said Michio Kaku, who is a well known futurist and theoretical physicist. Our brain consumes only 30 or 40 watts of power, yet has a capability of more…
3DAD 037 : Terragen 4 – Interview with Oshyan Greene on the latest version of this landscape generator Terragen 4 : Faster, more interactive and easier to use
In this session of the 3D Art Direct podcast we interview Oshyan Greene, the business manager of Planetside Software, which produces the well regarded Terragen 3, a great solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. In this session we’re going to talk about the anticipated Terragen…
Read Issue 5 of Digital Art Live Special Cosmos themed issue : spectacular space art plus news on Terragen 4
Welcome to Issue 5 Carl Sagan who presented the original Cosmos TV series reminded us of the grandeur and scale of the universe in which we live: “Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home, the Earth,” he said and also “this…
Read Issue 4 of Digital Art Live Poser and DAZ Studio - Render Engines Special - plus Poser Pro 11 review
Welcome to Issue 4 This issue is centred on rendering and examines rendering options in Poser and DAZ Studio, including the Reality plugin which can be used for both. Under the bonnet, the algorithms and techniques for rendering are complex. They deal with at least…