All of the unique character images above were created through new software called Artbreeder, mingling images together to produce new ‘child’ images, using artificial intelligence. Not only can face images can be “bred” together, but also landscapes, anime characters or even album covers! The genes of…
3D Printing
What is 3D printing? How does it work? What are its key benefits if you craft your own 3D digital models? The concept of 3D printing can be traced back to when the sci-fi author, Arthur C. Clarke, was the first to describe the basic…
How to Effortlessly Make Amazing PBR Materials
Substance Alchemist is definitely the coolest of the three Substance programs, as such – it’s a perfect entry point to into the Substance Universe! Alchemist’s niche in the Algorthmic ecosystem is primarily for building tileable full PBR materials from photo input. Secondly it’s for leveraging…
Celtic Treasures : How to Create Ancient Art with Substance Designer and Painter
Early Northern European ornament was strongly influenced by the Celts who were a powerful and diverse group stretching from what is now Yugoslavia in the east all the way to Ireland in the west. In their heyday from 750 BC until the Roman conquest they…
Read Issue 27 of Digital Art Live : Discover Giant Monsters Creating giant creatures with Photoshop, Poser Pro, Painter, ZBrush, 3DS Max
Welcome to Issue 27! Welcome to this ‘Giant Monsters’ issue! Giant monsters have been around for a long time, even if you don’t count the dinosaurs. The most ancient epic of Gilgamesh, the earliest known work of literature, has the hero fight a giant spirit-boar…
DAZ Studio : Easy Character Creation with FaceGen
Interested in learning how to easily create new characters for DAZ Studio, having complete control over age, gender and race? Learn the complete workflow of how to create a new character head mesh for DAZ Studio. With the use of FaceGen software, you can create…
Developing Derivatives of the DAZ Dragon 3 in ZBrush
Dragon Quest Join us on this quest to discover some fantastic variants of the DAZ Dragon 3. By the end of this mini-course, you’ll know how to generate some clever derivations of the standard DAZ Dragon 3 by the use of morphs. Along this journey you’ll gain…
ZBrush Masterclass : Creating Designer Imperial Helmets
If you’ve watched a certain well publicised movie during the Christmas period, chances are that you’ve noticed some of the characters wear some well designed armour, all carefully created to help protect the wearer from laser blasts. It’s inspiring that armour designed during the middle ages was…