Welcome to Issue 32! Welcome to the “Design for Games” issue of your free Digital Art Live magazine. First up is an interview with the lead guy at Wildfire Games, makers of the popular indie desktop game 0. A.D.. The game is vividly set in…
Read Issue 25 of Digital Art Live : Dynamic Poses Dynamic character posing - includes comic book artwork
Welcome to Issue 25! Welcome to this ‘Dynamic Posing’ issue. No, don’t worry — we don’t expect you to read this issue while striking an Incredible Hulk pose! I refer here to a popular trend that you may have heard of, called ‘Power Posing’. From…
Read Issue 24 : Abstract Art ANDY LOMAS interviewed : one of Hollywood’s leading CG experts (Matrix, Avatar)
Welcome to Issue 24! Oh, that’s a bit too abstract…” is an idle put-down artists sometimes hear. But abstract is what all artists do, in one way or another. Great art selectively simplifies and stylises the parts of reality most important to our culture. Even…
3DAD 044 : Interview on Terragen 4.1 with Oshyan Greene Latest news on Terragen and the Siggraph experience
In this session of the 3D Art Direct podcast, we’re talking to Oshyan Greene, the business manager of Planetside Software, which produces the well-regarded Terragen 4, a great solution for rendering and animating realistic, natural environments. Terragen 4 is used in film, TV, commercials, as…
Read Issue 22 of Digital Art Live – Character Lighting The importance of lighting to establish and convey characters in your 3D portraiture
Welcome to Issue 22! In this issue we consider the importance of lighting to establish and convey character in your 3D portraiture. We talk with a variety of artists and content developers, all of whom also make science-fiction, fantasy and/or steampunk art. Joe Pingleton delights…
3DAD 043: Interview with Kim Schneider DAZ Studio Content Creator DAZ Studio Model Creation from Concept to Selling
Kim Schneider, better known as Arki is a 3D modeller and texture creator that has just completed a definitive series of tutorials in association with Digital Art Live called Creating Complex Clothing and available on DAZ3D’s website that takes the student from concept to finished,…
Dave De Kerf Vue Artist How the Light Falls In
DAL: What’s your background or interest in digital arts? Has your creativity in this area stemmed from photography or from arts in other traditional media? Dave: My father used to be a freelance photographer before I was born, and where I was brought up as…