Welcome to Issue 21! In Science Fiction, there’s a tendency to gravitate towards Dystopias rather than Utopias. A dystopian environment provides more grit, more angst and more interesting stories to write. There’s going to be an urban sprawl and the inhabitants are isolated from all…
Read Issue 20 of Digital Art Live Magazine : Digital Clothing Clothing content creation special and review on Marvelous Designer 6.5
Welcome to Issue 20 This issue we explore the design and creation of clothing content for 3D characters with three different artists. We’re also featuring a review on Marvelous Designer 6.5, software that is highly regarded as part of the workflow for creating clothing content.…
Read Issue 17 of Digital Art Live : Visual Effects – Interviews with Industry Leaders Greg Teegarden (Digital Domain), Tobias Richter (The Light Works) and Phil Dragash (fan fiction work)
Welcome to Issue 17 Visual effects can be hailed as the first inspiration for quite a few science fiction/fantasy digital artists. It inspires them to take the first steps in setting up their own “studio” to create similarly stirring images. Years ago the bar for…
Read Issue 16 of Digital Art Live : Future Vehicles – Exclusive Syd Mead Interview Visions of the future with master sci-fi artist Syd Mead
Welcome to Issue 16 We are very pleased to talk to Syd Mead, THE visual futurist who has had a long-time love for automotive design. Besides his illustrations of cars, Mead has been recognised by the motion picture industry for his conceptual contributions to such…
Read Issue 15 of Digital Art Live : Immersive and Dream-Like Spectacular Art in this Issue Interview with Chuck Carter on his new graphically immersive game ZED
Welcome to Issue 15 This issue has a series of artists that were influenced by the classic adventure Myst game released back in 1993. It was originally designed by Rand and Robyn Miller and included key work by 3D artist and animator Chuck Carter who…
Read Issue 14 of Digital Art Live : Cybertronics wonders with Photoshop, DAZ Studio, Vue and 3DS Max Neon artwork, light bikes and circuitry suits
Welcome to Issue 14 Remember the 1982 Disney movie Tron? It was a watershed in movie history since it introduced the notion of computer graphics being used throughout a movie. It was directed by Steven Lisberger, starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn and Bruce Boxleitner…
Read Issue 13 of Digital Art Live : Inspiring Renders with ZBrush, Poser, Blender, Clipstudio, Sketchup, Vue and DAZ Studio Spaceship art and spacewrecks
Welcome to Issue 13 An early inspiration for spaceship art for me came from a collection of large illustrated science fiction books called the “Terran Trade Authority” (TTA) series. These were published in the late 1970s and written by Stewart Cowley. They described a future…
Read Issue 12 of Digital Art Live : Superb Skin Art! Pixeluna, Paolo Ciccone and Deane Whitmore featuring the use of Poser, DAZ Studio, Reality and Photoshop
Welcome to Issue 12 The digital art medium allows for precise and delicate imagery on the skin, much more than what can be achieved in the real world with a tattoo. So as we thought about the theme for this issue, we realised that there…
3DAD 041 : Rendering skin materials – Paolo Ciccone interviewed on his Reality Plugin Skin materials, Subsurface scattering and the Reality Plugin
Paolo Ciccone is the creator of the Reality plugin. It’s both for Poser and DAZ Studio and it introduced Physically Based Rendering (PBR) around 2010, when PBR was not that familiar for Poser and DAZ Studio artists. PBR provides more natural looking renders than previous techniques. Reality uses the LuxRender…
Read Issue 11 of Digital Art Live : Future Landscapes Creating digital landscape scenes with Vue, Terragen, Mojoworld, Mandelbulb, Poser, DAZ Studio, World Machine and Photoshop
Welcome to Issue 11 The artists we’ve interviewed for the last several editions of Digital Art Live had one thing in common; they were blown away by the capabilities of 3D digital art, even with the early software tools they’d encountered. They could create an…