Figures, Characters and Avatars: The Official Guide to Using DAZ Studio to Create Beautiful Art

by Pardew, Les

• ISBN13: 9781598638165
• ISBN10: 1598638165
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-16
• Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR

Summary

Unlock your inner 3D artist as you create amazing 3D art using the powerful program DAZ Studio. Figures, Characters, and Avatars: The Official Guide to Using DAZ Studio to Create Beautiful Art will help you bring your artistic vision to life and enable even those who haven’t mastered technical art skills to create beautiful, realistic art. Unlike other art software, DAZ Studio gives you the ability to compose striking scenes using a vast library of existing characters, props, and sets. DAZ Studio’s easy-to-use toolset allows even beginning artists to set up an environment and populate it with characters that can move and interact. You’ll discover how to construct, move, and pose figures, how to use lighting to make your art look lifelike, and even how to make the characters you create talk. Offering comprehensive coverage of the DAZ Studio software, Figures, Characters, and Avatars will help you become a better artist and show you how to stretch your creative imagination as you make unique digital art and animation.

Table of Contents

Advantages of virtual models

Intro to Using DAZ Studio

Finding the Right Media

Learning the Proportions of the Fgure

Drawing the Hands and Feet

Drawing the Head and Features

Learning to Construct the Figure

Drawing the Complete Figure

Learning About the Human Anatomy

Posing Figures to Look Natural

Learning About Animation

Setting Keyframes

Adding Emotion to Animation

Lighting the Model

Putting the Model into a Scene

Creating Your Own Models

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