Femme Digital: Perfecting the Female Form on Your Computer Book

Photographers, designers, animators, and digital artists of all levels of experience can make the female form come to life with help from Femme Digitale: Perfecting the Female Form on Your Computer.

This indispensable reference details all the skills needed to bring every nuance of the female figure into digital existence. Readers will learn how to retouch and restore digital photographs; how to create lifelike skin tones, textures, facial expressions, and body types; and even how to render figures in 3-D, with step-by-step tutorials accompanying most every technique.

Included with these easy-to-follow lessons are critical details on required hardware and software, and a compendium of some of the best examples of this electrifying art form—a collection that can’t be found anywhere else. Practical, comprehensive, and well-written, Femme Digitale demystifies the female form as represented on a computer screen while keeping it enchanting in the eyes of the beholder.

• Showcases the finest examples of the art form available

• Uses Adobe Poser software

• For the ever-growing market of digital artists, from professional to amateur

Library Journal

Human modeling is one of the useful but more difficult digital graphic arts to master. For artists with some previous experience, Femme begins with an introduction to female digital character development and a description of the advantages of the major 2-D and 3-D software packages. Then, it presents examples and comments from various artists using various packages to demonstrate tools and techniques. Special project and gallery sections illustrate examples, while a reference section discusses hardware needs, output formats, and additional resources. Lavish full-color illustrations add value, but be aware that Femme includes several semi-explicit depictions of (generally improbably proportioned) women; for large libraries. Building also takes a nonsoftware-specific approach: it walks beginning to intermediate users through making a male digital model, then transforming it into both a fantasy character and female model, explaining how a basic model can be employed in various ways. More thorough but less visually appealing than Femme, it addresses details down to constructing eyelashes and simulating facial expressions. Building's CD includes reference images of the live model used, 3-D models, full-color illustrations from the book, and modeling and paint software programs. For larger libraries. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.