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…
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…