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Title: Advanced 3D Photorealism Techniques by Bill Fleming ISBN: 0-471-34403-6 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.08 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good things & Bad things about this book
Comment: GOOD THINGS: This is a useful set of tutorial projects. Mr. Fleming walks you through a number of projects, showcasing modeling techniques such as modeling tiling chunks of geometry for foliage that can be cloned through the scene, and also showing common image clean-up techniques to process photographs into useful texture maps. This book would be just great for a beginning to intermediate Truespace or Lightwave user who wanted to see ways to put together more complex scenes.
BAD THINGS: The advertised "photorealism" isn't here - Mr. Fleming's renderings have a typical "3D Graphics" look: the shader development is weak (skipping basics such as making leaves translucent), the lighting ranges from bland to inadaquate, and the occasional characters (admitedly not the topic of the book) that Mr. Fleming adds to some of the scenes are stiff, lifeless, and amatuerish. If you were looking for truly seamless, production-quality photorealistic renderings, you'll have to look elsewhere.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bill Fleming Strikes Again
Comment: Bill hits us once again with another fantastic 3D resource. Don't worry if you have the 3D Photorealistic Toolkit, this book follows on to show how to create natural environments and many other excellent tricks.
Written in Bill's unique and friendly style this is more like reading a novel than a user manual. Personally, I like this - it remains light, yet totally informative.
As a professional 3D guy, I am always amazed at how Bill manages to teach me something I didn't know.
Very highly recommended.
Rating: 1
Summary: Photorealism? Check the cover please and come again
Comment: I bought this book and was very dissapointed. The things Mr. Fleming calls photorealistic look like they all are made from the same type of plastic. I cannot call this photorealistic
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Title: 3D Photorealism Toolkit by Bill Fleming ISBN: 0471253464 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 21 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Digital Lighting & Rendering by Jeremy Birn ISBN: 1562059548 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Digital Texturing & Painting by Owen Demers ISBN: 0735709181 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Digital Cinematography & Directing by Dan Ablan ISBN: 0735712581 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: 3-D Human Modeling and Animation, Second Edition by Peter Ratner ISBN: 0471215481 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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