3D Tools for Photographers, Illustrators & Graphic Designers

摘要

We didn't check the price on this book until after we decided to review it. Yes, it's pretty startling and you'll need Maya Complete 8, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to make good use of the tutorials inside. You do, however, get a DVD with the Autodesk Paint FX Plug-in for Photoshop, an author interview, textures, scene files and Maya Personal Learning Edition software. So if this fits your profile and your budget or you're really into 3D, then read on. This is a project-oriented book in the sense that there are step-by-step tutorials, but you can easily transfer those skills to your personal work. The book is broken up into four "projects" starting with Photo-realism. This section covers a number of topics including matching perspective and textures (including a separate chapter on using photographic textures). As an example, the first tutorial walks you through the process of importing a photograph of a kitchen complete with table and chairs and adding various objects to the table like a teapot and apples. Other exercises in this section include building 3D children's building blocks (cubes), complete with a letter of the alphabet and shadows.