Art - Digital

Discover the techniques behind beautiful design by deconstructing designs to understand them The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work--and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed...

Tracing the connections--both visual and philosophical--between new media art and classical Islamic art.In both classical Islamic art and contemporary new media art, one point can unfold to reveal an entire universe. A fourteenth-century dome decorated with geometric complexity and a new media work that...

As the seasons go by, so to do the memories of the joyous holidays we share with both friends and loved ones. The Holiday Greetings Collection by Kai is the beginning of a series of pictorial novels that capture the fun and meaning behind...

With 73 million units sold worldwide, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise is established as one of the best-selling game series ever. Recognized for having some of the richest, most-engrossing art and storytelling in the industry, Assassin's Creed transcends video games, branching into other entertainment experiences...

Following the success of four titles in the Nuthin' But Mech series, Lorin Wood pivoted skyward to his passion for space travel. Inviting the work of 51 artists, Wood has curated a collection of imaginative inventions sharing one common theme: Traverse. This compilation draws...

Experience Lara Croft's defining moment as she becomes the Tomb Raider. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara must master a deadly jungle, overcome terrifying tombs, and persevere through her darkest hour. As she races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, Lara...

This third book in the background illustration series takes us on a sentimental journey through the scenes of our most cherished memories Do you remember a moment in your life when you wished the time would stop? Artwork in this book captures precious moments...

Titanfall has already accumulated a plethora of prestigious gaming awards and gained worldwide media attention ahead of its release. The Art of Titanfall offers fans of this ground-breaking game an exclusive insight into its visual development through all stages of production. The Art of...

Take a journey with Jana Rushforth, illustrator behind the Instagram phenomenon @wordfindersclub. Hike through the lakes and mountains of the mind to discover your inner strength and your capacity for growth. This chunky mini book is the perfect gift for anyone on a quest...

A Gentle Introduction to Creative Coding with P5js.A fun step-by-step gentle introduction to creating digital art with computers, designed especially for: artists new to coding art, design and digital media students, technologists wanted to explore their creativity teachers and parents seeking more visual and...

The highly anticipated follow up to best seller, Nuthin' But Mech, Nuthin' But Mech 2 delivers outstanding artwork from 40 artist contributors to the Nuthin' but Mech blogspot. Founder of the blogspot, Lorin Wood is so passionate about Mecha design that he created a...

Lettering enthusiasts of all levels will love learning easy ways to develop and adapt hand lettering skills and techniques to a variety of digital platforms in Digital Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy. Popular Instagram lettering artist and workshop instructor Shelly Kim (@lettersbyshells) offers lettering...

Unlike being in class or in an enthusiast's group, creating alone means critiquing alone. There is so much information available demonstrating where you might be going wrong, yet assessing your own work still feels overwhelming. This follow-up title to the bestselling Art Fundamentals (2nd...

Blender is the world's premier open source 3D software, created by some of the best digital artists working in creative industries around the globe. This book will give those interested in this versatile and expansive tool all the information they will need as they...

Winner of the AIGA'S International Competition for Notable Graphic Design. "It's both an architecture and movie fan's dream." - Los Angeles Times "Strikingly designed." - Publishers Weekly "Explores the cinematic tradition of antiheroes with architecturally significant private spaces." - Architectural Digest "A fascinating gift...

Get to know your digital drawing board Adobe Illustrator CC offers a vibrant tool for creating drawings and illustrations in a digital environment. It takes some practice to get a feel for the digital pens, pencils, paintbrushes, and erasers, though. Adobe Illustrator CC For...

The creative practice of remix is essential to contemporary culture, as the proliferation of song mashups, political remix videos, memes, and even streaming television shows like Stranger Things demonstrates. Yet remix is not an exclusively digital practice, nor is it even a new one,...

An essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, interviews, and more than 170 illustrations of creative work. This book is an essential resource for art educators and practitioners who want to explore code as a creative medium, and serves...

Writers and theorists on the dynamism of the image in the digital eraThis collection of writings examines the function of the image in relation to the digital imperative of the creation of content.Author: Maria Joao BaltazarISBN-10: 9493148602ISBN-13: 9789493148604Publisher: OnomatopeeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2021Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize:...

The book explores the technical as well as cultural imaginaries of programming from its insides. It follows the principle that the growing importance of software requires a new kind of cultural thinking - and curriculum - that can account for, and with which to...

Learn how to paint digitally in Adobe Photoshop; the key professional software for illustrators, video game artists, and the CG industry. Inside Digital Painting in Photoshop: Industry Techniques for Beginners is everything the budding digital painter needs to know about the customizable Photoshop interface,...

In computing, overclocking refers to the common practice of increasing the clock rate of a computer to exceed that certified by the manufacturer. The concept is seductive but overclocking may destroy your motherboard or system memory, even irreparably corrupt the hard drive. Volume 4...

Filled with captivating artwork of exotic fairies, elegant queens, mysterious mermaids, and breath-taking female warriors, this book has it all! "Divas Of Wonder The Fantasy Art Of Peter Washington" is a must have for the true lover of fantasy. Featuring women of color in...

How do artistic experiments with artificial intelligence problematize human-centered notions of creative agency, authorship, and ownership? Offering a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary digital art practices, philosophical and technical considerations of AI, posthumanist thought, and emerging issues of intellectual property and the commons, this book...

This Simple, Clear, and Concise NFT Book Will Teach You How You Can Create, Buy And Sell NFTs Even If You're Not A Computer Genius!NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are one of the hottest trends in the crypto industry in 2021. Since 2020, its overall sales...

Do you compare your images to stunning feeds on Instagram and cringe?Do you wish your food shots could look as good as they taste?This handbook will help to transform your food photography images from YUCK to YUM Smart phone photographers and SLR shooters alike...

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and digital practices. Suzanne Lacy's Foreword and section...

Following the success of previous titles in this popular series, Sketching from the Imagination: Worlds of Magic showcases the fantastical characters and worlds of 50 artists and illustrators. Chosen especially for this book these artists from around the globe take inspiration from folklore, myths,...

3D Art is in a transformative moment. It can now be created, promoted, bought and sold all within the boundaries of digital space. This dynamic art movement is enabled by new tools and is limited only by the imagination of its creators. Artists working...

Why we must forget photography and reject the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates. The central paradox this book explores is that at the moment of photography's replacement by the algorithm and data flow, photographic cultures proliferate as never before. The afterlife of...

The Art of the Paperblue is a must have art book for artists, entertainment designers, and anyone who wants to learn to paint creative environment paintings. Paperblue shares his knowledge of creating environment conceptual paintings for movies, games, and other entertainment industry fields. This...

"Prince Coloring Book: A Tribute to His Musical Genius" features 28 pages of illustrations that chronicle some of his most memorable moments, styles, and expressions. Fans of all ages will celebrate his talent as they fill in the pages with colored pencils, crayons, and...

The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive...

Building on the foundations set by our popular Art Fundamentals book, Beyond Fundamentals shows artists how to take their work a step beyond techniques and mechanics. A memorable, unique image requires more than just accurate anatomy and choosing the right tools, after all! This...

3dtotal Publishing is an established authority on art and design, with a growing stable of high-calibre artist-authors. With such incredible talent and know-how under one publishing-house roof, we are uniquely placed to launch the BRAND NEW SERIES, Artists' Masters Series. We have already released...

Teen Boys Coloring Book: Animal DesignsTeen Boys Coloring Book: Animal Designs contains over 35 animal coloring pages to color and enjoy. This teen coloring book incorporates a variety of detailed designs and creates hours of coloring fun for the older color enthusiast! Featuring a...

Art of Taro Panda is a celebration of kawaii and lolita subculture. The two dimensional design, with its playful colors, welcomes you to dip your feet in the style for all ages. Stephan Jackson, an Angelino with a taste for gaming, desserts, and anime,...

This important new work focuses on the pioneers in machinima, considered to be the grassroots and beginnings of virtual production. Machinima's impacts are identified by the community, supplemented by Harwood and Grussi's research and experience over a period of 25 years - from game,...

Reimagining the scholarly book as living and collaborative--not as commodified and essentialized, but in all its dynamic materiality. In this book, Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project--not as linear, bound, and fixed, but as fluid,...

Artistic investigations of the interpersonal in the digital agePresenting works that conceive of the human being as a social animal, Something between Us looks at interpretations of love and empathy in the digital age by artists Kirstin Burckhardt, Miriam Cahn, Teboho Edkins, Vivian Greven,...

These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of various forms of scaling in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of...

Recognizable, recurring spatial settings in video games serve not only as points of reference and signposts for orientation, but also as implicit sources of content. These spatial archetypes denote more than real-world objects or settings: they suggest and bring forward emotional states, historical context,...

From public-access television to social media: EAI's groundbreaking history with video artThis volume marks the 50th anniversary of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), one of the first nonprofit organizations dedicated to the advocacy and development of video art. Author: Daniel W. DietrichISBN-10: 0884541487ISBN-13: 9780884541486Publisher: Institute...

Editor's note: there has been an issue with the book's companion site. Focal Press is fixing the issue. In the meanwhile, please visit http: //www.routledge.com/cw/sullivan-978024081872/ for all the material promised in the book. From demo reel creation to festival shorts, students and professionals alike...

Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's...

Documenting the 42nd iteration of the festival, in hybrid formatFor only the second time in its 40 years, the Ars Electronica Festival migrated to a hybrid format for its annual proceedings. The theme of this festival was: "how can artistic and scientific research make...

Getting Started in ZBrush is a gentle introduction to ZBrush, today's premier digital sculpting program. Beginning with the fundamentals of digital sculpting as well as a thorough introduction to the user interface, Getting Started in ZBrush will have you creating a variety of professional-level...

More than 250 amazing sketches and paintings that have never been published before!Italian artist Alessandro "Talexi" Taini is responsible for designing some of the most memorable and imaginative video-game characters and environments of the last 15 years. While at the acclaimed UK-based game developer...

Fifty-seven artists contribute to this amazing fourth installment of the popular Nuthin' But Mech book series, based on the eponymous blog started by designer Lorin Wood.It all began in 2009, when designer Lorin Wood started the Nuthin' But Mech blog to share artwork by...

With a bit of imagination and a heavy dose of artistic talent, Minecraft blocks can be used to build almost anything. But as you'll see, some artists are taking Minecraft building to a whole new level. Beautiful Minecraft is a compendium of stunning artwork...