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Digital Painting Tricks & Techniques: 100 Ways to Improve Your CG Art [Paperback]

Gary Tonge (Author)
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Publication Date: Dec 9 2011

This book provides all the advice artists need to transform their digital painting--from brush, lighting and color basics to special effects, working with layers, and speed and matte painting. The 100+ expert tricks provide quick and easy solutions to all aspects of digital painting through clear instructions, step-by-step demonstrations and breathtaking annotated art.

The book is divided into core elements of digital painting providing beginner, improver and advanced techniques to ensure progression and relevance to all skill levels, making it ideal for beginners and essential for more experienced digital painters. This is the ultimate tool to help emerging CG artists get started with digital painting, and help advanced CG artists improve their digital painting techniques.

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Gary Tonge is one of the UK?s foremost concept designers with more than 20 years experience as a digital artist. He currently works as Art Director for electronic games, Swordfish Studios. Recent products he has project managed include 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand and Operation Flashpoint: volumes 2 and 3. He also has a successful freelance business, VisionAfar, whose client base is as diverse as his art and includes the BBC, Vivendi, Capcom, Eidos, Sims Snowboards and National Geographic. He is a regular contributor to Imagine FX magazine and recently launched a new website, www.VisionAfar.com. Tonge lives in Coventry, England.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Digital Painting: Tricks & Techniques by Gary Tonge April 1 2012
By Roger Mitchell
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This book is a great addition to my library. I Really like the clear labeling of beginner, intermediate and advanced sections. It Helped me polish my current skills as well as expand upon them. I found the examples easy to follow. Overlay graphics provide clarity for art concepts explanations. Mr.Tonge's artwork is both beautiful and inspiration.
I recommend this book if you are a beginner just getting into creating digital art or like me, a teacher and game industry professional who uses Photoshop daily to create 2D textures maps and 3D art assets. Well worth the price.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Too vague to be useful Mar 16 2012
By Parka - Published on Amazon.com
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I don't find this book very useful.

While there are tutorials, the instructions are often vague. The subject matter are often too brief and not comprehensive enough.

They do tell you the tips and techniques involved in achieving certain effects, but they either don't show you the process of getting there or several steps are missing and you have to guess how it was achieved.

There's a beginner example on using photos as reference. It's about putting a car onto a background with mountains behind basked in beautiful sunset. Step 1 involves finding a beautiful photo of the background. Step 2 involves finding a photo of the car. Step 3 is the final result of the car basked in the same beautiful sunset as the mountains. The example do mention that lighting and reflections were wrong in the car to begin with, but it never actually showed how they were corrected. And just like magic, the final result painted itself. That happens often in the book.

If you're absolutely new to digital painting with no knowledge at all, yes, you can learn from some of the tips. But even then, I won't really recommend this book because for the same amount of money, you can get better books.

(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Digital Painting Experience Required May 18 2012
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Despite the low rating of this book I bought it anyways because I enjoy Gary Tonge's artistry and techniques. Being a digital artist myself I found Tonge's techniques/tricks to be useful. However, I do not recommend this book for a beginner. As stated in the title this book is meant to improve your all ready existing cg art/skill. If you are looking for a digital painting book to learn the basics of drawing, shading, color, or even perspective this book will not be much help. Instead, I would recommend on buying a book dedicated to the area you are desiring to improve on. However, this book is a good resource to have in your collection for when you are at a more advanced level.
2.0 out of 5 stars too basic Feb 17 2013
By gbariel - Published on Amazon.com
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has very little content and topics are explained in a very poor way. Image quality is very good and some tips can be useful
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