3DCreative Issue 42 February 2009
PDF / 144 pages / 162 MB
Editorial
Welcome to Issue 42, coming to you from a snow-covered England (woo-hoo!). This month sees the start of yet another great ‘super series’ in 3DCreative – this time we’re talking gothic church interiors, for which 5 wonderful artists will talk us through the principal techniques used in building a church interior. And to make things slightly more interesting, we also welcome a modo artist to the series, in the form of Robert Bergh. So to re-cap, that’s 3d Studio Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, LightWave and modo (we’re good to you guys!). Part 1 of the series starts on page 79 and next month we’ll briefly switch to ZBrush with Jesse Sandifer, who’s going to take us through the sculpting of a stunning gargoyle, which our Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, LightWave and modo artists will later incorporate into their scenes in Part 3. We wanted to make this tutorial series unique, so in the final chapter of the series our 5 artists will be handing over to Zoltan Korcsok who will be handling post-production on each of the software renders. So there’s lots to stay tuned for (I bet that 6-month subscription is looking more than tempting right now *winks*).
Back to basics: this month we interview professional freelancer, Francisco Cortina, who boasts an impressive client list including the likes of DreamWorks, Square and Digital Domain, as well as titles such as Final Fantasy, and that’s not to mention his recent role as modelling supervisor for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Check out page 9 to be wowed by Francisco’s portfolio, and then take a short trip to our second interview for February, with illustrator and character artist Roman Style (page 21), who’s currently working for Virtual Fairground in Amsterdam. We love Roman’s unique take on CG character illustrations, and took the opportunity this month to get to know a little about the artist behind the style!
Back to this month’s tutorials, let’s talk ZBrush! Not to disappoint all our ZBrush followers, we’re back again with the latest from Rafael Ghencev – this time with a truly impressive zombie character on page 53. We also welcome back Rafael Grassetti to this month’s Speed Sculpting article, who has taken on the topic of sculpting a “Vegetation Creature” alongside the lovely Magdalena Dadela (page 45). We’ll be seeing more from these two artists in future issues, as Magdalena will be back again with the creation of a Fantasy Orc character, and Rafael Grassetti is going to be sculpting the finale of the ZBrush Character Creation series in May.
Our making of articles this month have been kindly contributed by Joseph Harford, who discusses the creation of his Constanza Bonarelli Bust renders (page 59), and Carlos Ortega who talks cartoon bunnies with an article on the making of his recent Bunny female character (page 65). We’ll be seeing more from Joseph Harford next month, as he’ll be stepping into the ZBrush Character Creation series to talk us through how to sculpt and texture a Vampire in ZBrush.
Hope you enjoy this month’s offerings. See you next month for more! Ed.
Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)
Focal Press (3 Sep 2003) | PDF | 206 pages | 24.47 MB
'A wonderful introduction to a rather complicated and unique art form.' Ray Harryhausen director of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, and Jason and the Argonauts 'Don't attempt stop motion before you read this book! Susannah has covered everything in this no-nonsense approach to the industry.' Richard Goleszowski director of Creature Comforts and Rex the Runt 'Stop Motion contains a huge amount of valuable information for the budding stop-frame film maker. A great addition to the film craft library.' David Sproxton, co-founder and Managing Director of Aardman Animations 'Practical, informative and full of quotes from key characters in the story of the stop-frame industry. I wish I'd had this book when I was a student.' Joan Ashworth, Head of Animation, Royal College of Art 'When it comes to animating, this excellent book covers timing of movement, story development from idea to script, compositing you shots, editing and so on. Susannah's book will certainly make you want to get out there and get started on model animation.' Pat Raine Webb, Animatoon magazine, February 2004 "...a mine of information. This book gives an unrivalled detailed technical overview of the subject." The Times Higher Education Supplement "...an attractive, easy to handle paperback with clear and concise text...This is the perfect book for anyone contemplating getting into model animation." Dope Sheet "This is a truly fantastic book. If you want to learn how to do stop motion animation film-making or to do animation well, read this book closely, do the exercises and follow the instructions. This book is beautifully laid out and illustrated with copious useful diagrams and photographs." Focus Magazine
Articles/Tutorials on Baking normal maps from a high poly model
Big Bobby Car (Organic Surface Modeling)
Normal Mapping in Blender
Lighting and Film Making Tricks: Conveying
MAKING OF: 'A Cassette Tape'
MAKING OF: 'Dusting Off A Surprise
Bookreview - INTERVIEW: David Hickson - Blenducation
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