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…
Read Issue 10 of Digital Art Live : Steampunk Special Steampunk Special and Interview with Renderosity
Welcome to Issue 10 The term of “Steampunk” was born from science fiction novels. It was first mentioned by author Kevin Jeter as a way of distinguishing him and other sci-fi writers from “cyberpunks” such as William Gibson. Steampunk is not just a visual style,…
3DAD 040 : Chuck Carter illustrator and game designer who helped create the classic Myst talks about his new game Zed Interview with Eagre Games Creative Director Chuck Carter on Zed
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…