Reviews for Professional Manga: Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX

The average rating for Professional Manga: Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-12 00:00:00 Leandro Candray (More pictures at parkablogs.com) Here's volume three of Digital Art Masters, compiled by 3D Total. There are 60 artists included, each showing how their image was created. This is 10 additional artists more than Digital Art Masters volume 2. The book doesn't focus on any specific software, but the frequently used software are 3D Max, Maya and Photoshop. The art techniques used by the artists can be easily achieved using similar software. Each artist talks about his working process, on techniques, challenges and inspiration behind each piece. Topics range from mundane things like choosing canvas size to technical talk like setting up shaders and bump maps. This is a work flow process book. There are plenty of tips given the variety of 60 quality artists. The illustrations are mainly on scenes, characters, fantasy, sci-fi and a little bit on cartoon style. This time round, more 2D work are featured, compared to volume 2 which focuses more on 3D work. This book is highly recommended to 3D and digital painting artists.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-21 00:00:00 Richard Renko This book covers 47 artists and each section includes a bio and "creative process". Every once in awhile there is a "step-by-step" section that covers the artists idea, page design, penciling, inking, and coloring. Out of the 47 artists I knew only 8 of them. There really isn't much to learn in this book and I didn't like most of the art. Even the artists that I do like it seemed they picked the worst that they could find for that particular artist. This book is a hard pass.