Creating 3D Comix

For professional illustrators and designers making the leap from pen and ink to digital, and for students and novices trying their hand at comix creation, every step of the process is covered from creating 3D art & effects, compositing, and text, to storyboarding, script writing, and marketing your comix!

Key Features

• Details how to integrate digital elements, new media looks, and special effects while preserving your personal style.
  
• Uses various comix themes throughout from fantasy and adventure to instructional.
  
• Covers popular 30 programs fur all aspects of comic creation including Poser, Amorphium, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand. After Effects, page layout application hints, and a variety of other 30 programs.
  
• In-depth look at traditional and non-traditional archetypal characters
  

CD-ROM (Mac/Windows) includes a library of ready-to-use comix elements, a variety of characters, backgrounds, and the files for the sample comix pages covered in the book. Also includes a demo of Poser 4.

Contents

1. What are Comix ?
   
2. 3D Variations
   
3. What you'll need
   
4. First comes the story
   
5. Comix storyboard and work play
   
6. Character design and creation
   
7. Poser personas
   
8. Playing dress-up
   
9. Props
   
10. Environments
    
11. Text matters
    
12. Lighting and the camera
    
13. Composing the mix
    
14. Great 3D comix F/X!
    
15. Word balloons and frames
    
16. Color plate details
    
17. Media looks
    
18. More character resources
    
19. Marketing and presentation method