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Author, with multi award winning author/editor John Grant, of Digital Art for the 21st Century: Renderosity.

Digital Art for the 21st Century: Renderosity has been selected for inclusion in Locus Magazine's Editor's Choice, 2004 Recommended Reading List in addition to being short-listed for the 35th annual Locus Awards.

 

Digital Art for the 21st Century: Renderosity has been selected for inclusion in Locus Magazine's Editor's Choice, 2004 Recommended Reading List.  "This recommended reading list, published in Locus Magazine's February 2005 issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers." You can view the list yourself by clicking here.

Being on the 2004 Recommended Reading List automatically puts Digital Art for the 21st Century on the short list for the 35th annual Locus Awards ballot (which is open to public voting).

As a testament to the showcase and artist selction some of our artists have also been short listed for Best Artist voting. Congratulations to David Ho, John Picacio, and Ron Miller!

Digital Art is coming of age, and nowhere is this more evident that at Renderosity.com, by far the largest online community of it's kind — with over 200,000 members and well over 100,000 digital images on display in the site’s numerous galleries. Many of the most influential and promising artists of this community have been brought together by John Grant and Audre Vysniauskas in their new book DIGITAL ART FOR THE 21st CENTURY: Renderosity.

This book displays the cutting edge of digital art, and will certainly become a classic in the field.

Audre Vysniauskas (audre), digital artist extraordinaire and past Editor-in-Chief of Renderosity Magazine, joins Hugo-, World Fantasy- and Chesley Award-winning writer John Grant to present DIGITAL ART FOR THE 21st CENTURY.

Showcased in this lavish volume is a large selection of Renderosity contributors’ finest works. In the 21 generously illustrated portfolios here—200 images in full color—you will see a stunning variety of the very best of modern digital art, including:

  • human forms
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
  • abstracts
  • portraits
  • fractals
  • landscapes
  • and much more.

Each artist brings to this collection a unique style and approach, together creating the most comprehensive published collection of modern digital art to date. Brief technical notes accompany each image, and in addition the artists provide their own insightful comments.


Articles:

Sense in Renders (Curious Labs) - Knowledge is Power, Especially in Renders

Dragon*Con 2001 Report - An experience that I will always remember

CGI - January 2002 issue - "Fleshing out the Details" by Joe Grover, Audre, & Syyd Raven - an article on using Poser and Pro Pack to achieve realism in your 3D characters

Digital Minutiae: What You Don't Know Will Eat Your Pixels!
In our final excerpt from Issue 1 of the Renderosity Magazine, audre discusses the complexities of compression and data loss in regards to differing file formats.

Works in Progress:

Digital Art Tools & Techniques:
A Practical Course 

The personal desktop computer offers a powerful new tool for the visual creator, and in recent years more and more artists have been turning to this exciting new medium. Courses in computer graphics are now plentiful at universities and colleges. Established artists in other media are discovering in the computer a vital new means of expressing their visions, and are adding it to their toolkit. Some newer artists are making a direct progression from drawing to digital techniques. All are finding that the electronic media are permitting artistic creations that might be difficult if not impossible using traditional paints.

The rapid proliferation of digital techniques and image-manipulating softwares has meant that, to the newcomer and professional alike, the practice of digital art can seem like negotiating an especially complicated maze. What has been lacking is a guide to this maze, one that starts from first principles and works up in a logical manner to explaining the greater complexities, offering tips and advice that even the highly experienced professional may not have encountered before.

Thanks to Digital Art Tools & Techniques: A Practical Course, that lack is now a thing of the past. Written by acclaimed digital artist Audre Vysniauskas (audre) and multiple award-winning writer John Grant, it begins by examining the fundamentals -- often ignored at their peril by professional practitioners -- of digital image creation, such as what a byte is, the advantages and disadvantages of different file formats and the preparation of images for the various desired end-purposes, and graduates in easy stages to choices of softwares, three-dimensional modelling and a plethora of money- and time-saving tricks. In a final section, step-by-step presentations demonstrate how all the techniques of earlier chapters can be put together to create dazzling final results.

With its wealth of information and its profusion of illustrations and examples, Digital Art Tools & Techniques: A Practical Course will be invaluable -- and inspirational! -- to professional digital artist and beginner alike.

Life is a Bowl of Fractals

 

 

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