Product Description: Take an in-depth look into the creative minds of top Poser artists! Secrets of Poser Experts presents a unique opportunity to examine the creative process utilized by industry experts as they create their digital art using Poser. With individual chapters written by each artist, this book offers an amazing look at the artists' professional background, techniques, insights, and resources as they showcase their stunning Poser masterpieces. Each section within the book focuses on a specific area of Poser expertise, including illustration, content creation, comic, Web,motion graphics, photo-realism, and sci-fi/fantasy. It includes an amazingly robust DVD, full of incredible Poser content, including art galleries for each artist featured in the book as well as Poser movies, animations, desktop wallpaper, and tutorials. It also includes free Poser content and a 30-day, limited functionality demo version of the Poser 6 software.
Wonderful Book The book provides beautiful pictures of artwork and artists who use poser 7 and can render works of art but also it explains what other applications that work with Poser 7 like...Photoshop. It gave me a craving to want to buy Photoshop.( I dabble in art...so Photoshop fascinates me). It also came with the book a CD-ROM for the computer to look at the art work in the book. It also gave tips on how the artist achieved these works of art...very inciteful.
Not for beginners. This book seems to me to be more of a showcase for the artists featured than instruction for Poser 7. There are tips etc. as the title says but they are more aimed at a user already quite familiar with the program. I was looking for more of a beginners instruction manual so was disappointed. Having already bought Poser 7 I wasn't interested in the free trial of Poser 6 which is included. There are a lot of beautiful pictures showing various styles and ways that Poser can be used, but for me the book has limited usefulness.
Completely lacking in taste When looking through this book I was reminded of Dorothy Parker's bon mot about a similar book..."This is not a book to be lightly tossed aside. It should be thrown with great force."
A bit of background; I'm an illustrator (the real kind...with paintbrushes) with decades of experience and a number of books under my belt. I remember when Frazetta was a hot item on the paperback scene. That was in 1969 about forty years ago. I remember seeing Star Wars when it first came out in 1973...about thirty-five years ago. I remember being dazzled by Blade Runner back in 1982, more than 25 years ago. So why is it that the imagery in this book has not grown past those old, hoary images? Has the world of art stopped? Evidently it has for these "experts," because this is all aimed at the very low-paying and over-crowded field of fantasy art.
To say that these artists are derivative is like saying those art factories in China are slightly influenced by cheesy poster art.
In years of buying books for the artists in the studio, this is the only book I've bought from Amazon that I really wanted to send back. The other artists looked at it and opinions ranged from "Gaacck" to "Arrggghhh." But then, what do we know? After all, we're just well-paid working pros, so we must have missed the real essence of this book.
It's soon to become kindling.
Great Way to Learn! I have been trying to create some images for a while with very little success. With this book, if you TRY some of the examples, it really opens your mind to the possibilities.
I Highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to improve their creative skills!
Art book and how-to Beautiful book. A great set of masterclasses on various poser/photoshop techniques for generating digital art. With all of the gallery sections in the book it works as a coffeetable book too.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
Tailipoe
Trevor
