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Digital Art Software Part 4: 3D Art & Animation
My Top Picks for 3D Art and Animation Software with Product Descriptions
Manga Studio Debut 4
- Sketch original art with a mouse or tablet, scan in existing art, or import artwork or graphics to get started
- Invigorate your artwork using color, express motion using speed lines, apply dimension with screen tones and add dialog through built-in word balloons
- Export professional quality manga from Manga Studio Debut 4 to various Mac and Windows file formats such as JPG, BMP, PSD, TGA, PNG, TIFF and PICT
- Dynamic help offers instant access to information about tool palettes and menu options
Poser 8
- Affordable, powerful, yet easy to use 3D character animation solution
- Includes 3D character tools and over 2.5GB of ready to use scene content and figures; no need to model 3D characters from scratch
- Includes 8 brand new, ready-to-pose, fully textured human figures with over 400 morphs and body controls to fully customize each character
- Renders photorealistic or stylized images and videos for print, web or animation projects
- With included Wardrobe Wizard, fit your Poser clothing assets to the new Poser 8 figures
Adobe Photoshop Extended CS5
- Tools that let you create and edit 3D and motion-based content.
- Go beyond traditional image editing by bringing 3D elements to your 2D artwork directly within your favorite digital imaging application
- Digital imaging applications, which now offers an easy on-ramp to 3D image creation.
- Fast performance on 64-bit hardware systems,
- Smoother interactions thanks to GPU acceleration, and dozens of time-savers throughout the application.
- Solution for advanced digital imaging, delivering all the capabilities of Photoshop CS5 plus breakthrough tools that let you create and edit 3D and motion-based content.
- Access your assets in the context of what you’re working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop.
- Easily manage media with more flexible batch renaming, and access your assets in the context of what you’re working on by using Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop.
- Select, adjust, paint, and recompose images with tremendous precision and freedom.
Autodesk Mudbox
- Digital sculpting and texture painting solution ideal for 3D/2D artists, fine artists, web and multimedia professionals, traditional sculptors, students
- Work interactively in an environment in which high-res 3D models retain their subtlety, realism, and detail
- Provides an organic brush-based 3D modeling experience that includes 2D and 3D layers to easily manage sculpting and painting iterations on multiple meshes and maps
- Designed by professional artists in the film, games, and design industries
- Interoperates well with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max, as well as with other 3D software applications, making it a natural choice for experienced artists
LightWave 3D
- Feature-rich 3D animation, modeling, and rendering application
- Soft-body dynamics, particles, unlimited render nodes, and more
- New animation tools; new file formats; workflow enhancements
- Optimized speed; improved visual feedback and rendering flexibility
- More powerful modeling; includes Motion Mixer 2.0
Digital Art Software Part 3: Drawing & Painting
Software Specifically for Drawing and Painting with Product Descriptions
Corel Painter 12
- Painter’s RealBristle brushes represent a major milestone for digital painting, reproducing the movement and feeling of traditional art on canvas when paired with a graphics tablet.
- Exciting new Kaleidoscope and Mirror painting features let you create electrifying patterns and colors on canvas, leveraging the symmetry, speed and precision of mirrored planes. This Kaleidoscope painting capability is exclusive to Painter!
- A new interface streamlines your brush selection, libraries, color controls and image set up. High-quality rendering gives you a clear view when zooming into the finer details.
Auto Desk SketchBook Pro
- Autodesk SketchBook Pro software offers best-in-class sketching capabilities for professional designers and artists from all industries
- Fast and intuitive user interface; designed specifically for use with digitized pen tablets and Tablet PCs
- Free up the sketching process with ultra-responsive digital pencils, pens, markers, and airbrushes that look and feel just like the real thing
- Communicate more efficiently by emailing sketches and annotations instantly to colleagues and clients
- Open and save common file formats, including TIF, BMP, JPG, PNG, and PSD files
Corel Painter Essentials 4
- The simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to draw, paint or turn your photos into paintings
- Great way to get started with digital art
- Tutorial-based guidebook and accompanying video tutorials/sample files teach you the application while you complete fun, instructional projects
ArtRage Deluxe
- All the artists’ tools you need to draw and paint on your computer
- Paint with oil brushes, palette knives, airbrushes, paint rollers or paint tubes; Draw with pencils, erasers, chalk, felt pens or crayons
- Import and export PSD files with layers and blend modes; crop, scale, move and resize any layer
- Tracing paper function gets you drawing immediately with reference images
- Supports multi-monitor systems and tablets
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Digital Art Software Part 2: Advanced Software
My top picks for advanced photo editing software
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo
- PaintShop Photo Pro X3 lets you manage, adjust, edit and share your digital photos all in one place
- Organize, rate, tag and sort with photo management tools
- Manually adjust groups of RAW photos with RAW Lab
- Quickly fix common photo flaws with Express Lab
- Email photos, print online or at home, and send directly to Facebook, YouTube and Flickr
Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Breakthrough capabilities for superior image selections, image retouching, and realistic painting; and a wide range of enhancements.
- Create and refine images using state-of-the-art photography tools that deliver superior results
- New creative possibilities that enable you to select, adjust, paint.
- Accelerate work flow with fast performance on 64-bit hardware systems, smoother interactions thanks to GPU acceleration.
- Access assets in the context of what you’re working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop.
- Easily manage media with flexible batch renaming.
Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Used by design professionals worldwide,
- Adobe Illustrator CS5 software provides precision and power with sophisticated drawing tools, expressive natural brushes,
- A host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live.
- Take advantage of exceptional precision and power to create distinctive vector artwork.
- Combine highly controllable drawing tools with expressive natural brushes and dramatic effects to make unique, striking designs.
- .. And character styles, paragraph composition, underlining and strikethroughs, transparent effects, and more.
- Incorporate vector artwork into essentially any project and deliver resolution-independent graphics across media.
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo
- Lets you manage, adjust, edit and share your digital photos all in one place
- Organize, rate, tag and sort with new photo management tools
- Manually adjust groups of RAW photos during the loading process with the new RAW Lab
- Quickly fix common photo flaws in the Express Lab
- Email photos, print online or at home, and send directly to Facebook, YouTube and Flickr
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
- Offers everything you need for professional graphics illustration, layout, tracing, photo editing, Web graphics
- Animation in one complete suite of integrated applications that is easy to learn and use.
- Built-in learning tools and valuable video tutorials
- Design insights from experts and a visually rich guidebook
- Over 1,000 professional fonts
- Supported file formats, including PDF, JPG, PNG, EPS, AI, TIFF, PSD, DOCX and many more, let you import and export files quickly and easily.
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Digital Art Software Part 1: Beginner Software
Recommended software for beginners
Depending on how you plan to use your Wacom tablet, you might not need professional or expensive software. Some of the more basic Wacom models come with some software already, but the Bamboo Touch doesn’t include any software.
Here’s a list of my top design software choices for beginners with product features.
Adobe Photoshop Elements
- Easy-to-use editing options
- Make photo books, cards, calendars, and other creations that look just the way you want
- Interactive Online Albums and on mobile devices for sharing
- Automatically organize all your photos and video clips from one convenient place
- Enjoy automatic online backup with 2GB of free storage; access your photos and videos virtually anywhere
Corel Painter Essentials
- Simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy to draw, paint or turn your photos into paintings
- Great way to get started with digital art
- Tutorial-based guidebook and accompanying video tutorials/sample files teach you the application
PhotoFinish 4
- Image editing
- Photo editing
- Digital painting
Photo Impact Pro 13
- Breeze Through Everyday Photo Tasks
- Improved ExpressFix Wizard
- Improved High-End Image Editing
- Hundreds of Special Effects
- Photo Project Wizard