Customer Reviews

Pictoplasma

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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Art books are reaching new heights and Pictoplasma is one of the first I've seen. The book is a showcase of contemporary art created by international graphic designers, animators, artists, and production companies.

The art attempts to convey the artist's message emotionally while reaching out to its viewer in the hopes of bonding. The entire book is pure eye candy in every free hand drawing, pixel, vector graphic, 3-D objects, and an encyclopedia of resurfacing motifs. Even non-Internet surfers will recognize many of the colorful and creative designs because they are found other media including television, books, and video games.

The index lists all the titles of the art, contributors' names along with their email and Web addresses. As a confessed non-artist, I'm amazed as I flip through pages of expressive and colorfully rendered art. The book can be much more than just another art book, it can be an inspiration for those in the process of creating. This is the coffee table book for geeks and Web designers and it'll go just fine with the books containing the Monets, Picassos, and Renoirs.

The book has a companion Web site and you can view pages at the publisher's Web site.

What I find interesting about this book, besides the high quality of design technique for characters, is the technologies people implement to create characters. It covers hand rendered, vector, raster and 3D formats for character design. Pure computer generated graphics, as well as applying real textures scanned in from nature. This book is a bit like an encyclopedia to world wide character design, applying a vast range of techniques and methods in creating them. Very useful.

Not knowing what to expect from this book, i was flat out blown away not only by the vast amount of images, but the level of talent that was chosen.

as a vector illustrator, i would highly suggest this to be on your shelf because something will inspire you to push your own work higher.

joshua
http://www.hydro74.com

As an illustrator I highly recommend this book for all character designers... great book.

This book is good for the collection. Two stars solely because there are newer books in the series that are superior.

If you are at all interested in charter illustration or design you must include this book in your library. It is the only book that I have bought in the last few years which contains so many sources of inspiration. You will find your self thumbing through this title over and over again.

I am a student exploring character design-designer toys. This book is not worth your time or money. I wanted to be awed every page, when only about 3 designers were actually interesting. Yes, it is printed very nicely, and bound nicely, yet I would highly recommend you take a peak at their web page before you purchase it. Not for me.

a must have for any artist or illustrator for reference and ideas

A good example of today's lost souls screaming for guidance. It's unfortunate that today's artist' have no imagination and that so many trees had to loose their lives to print this garbage.