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Character Modeling: Digital Artists Master Class

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D'artiste is a very well put together book. However, if you are looking a comprehensive tutorial on character modeling, then you should look elswhere. The book is broken up into 3 sections. Each section uncludes an interview with a featured author, a few tutorials by that author, and and a gallery of artwork from many other artists that were invited to be in the book. All of the Art is great, and you can definitely find inspiration from the work of the main artists here as well as the invited artists work. As far as tutorials go, these tutorials are for the more advanced artist (hence the Digital Artiss Master Class), as they do not guide you through every function and button, but more so give an overview of the artists techniques and such. If you are already advanced and just want some some new tricks, definitely pick this up. For anyone else, this book would be better suited as eye candy for inspiration.

Review: D'artiste: Character Modeling
Full color and great quality book. It was nicely package. This is a collectors book containing some very talented artists. As someone who has watched the artist's work expand over the years, it was great to actually learn their thought process and how they 'cheated' to get the images just right. You will be inspired and challenged to keep at it to produce your own work. This is not a how to book for beginners/see Wilson's review. The artist does a great breakdown of creating the highlighted works. My only complaint is in the selection of other artists work where the main artist gives their short opinion. I felt there should have been some input from the actual artist. Other than that I would like to see more...Im looking forward to further character modeling books of this quality. Forest

D'artiste Character Modelling is a beautiful book, well suited to the coffee table as well as the office bookshelf. However, this book is not suitable as a beginners tutorial guide. The book has features by three artists, Francisco A. Cortina, Pascal Blanche, and the illustrious Steven Stahlberg. Each section includes an interview with each author, a tutorial by that author, a gallery of their work, and a gallery of favorite works from other artists with critiques. This book is invaluable for the little tips and tricks it offers to the intermediate or advanced character modeller and gives a valuable insight to each artist's workflow.

This book has some nice pictures but that's about it. I went through it completely and there is little to no information on how to create the good looking model on the cover or anything like it. The book is more like a glorification of the the artists and really you get no techniques or instruction that are usable toward making your own 3D model. Don't be fooled by the cover and waste your money. It's got nothing useful.