Digital Illustration Fundamentals: Vector, Raster, WaveForm, NewMedia with DICF, DAEF and ASNMF - Softcover

Jackson, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484216962 ISBN 13: 9781484216965

Publisher: Apress, 2015

Synopsis

Not a Gold or A-level book.

About this title

About the Author

Wallace Jackson has been writing for leading multimedia publications about his work in new media content development since the advent of Multimedia Producer Magazine nearly two decades ago, when he wrote about computer processor architectures for centerfolds (removable "mini-issue" insert) distributed at SIGGRAPH. Since then, Wallace has written for several other publications about his work in interactive 3D and new media advertising campaign design, including 3D Artist,Desktop Publishers Journal, CrossMedia, AVvideo and Kiosk Magazine.

From the Back Cover

This concise book covers concepts central to digital illustration using the Inkscape 0.91 open source software package as well as the Adobe Illustrator professional Illustration package. The book builds on the foundational concepts of vector graphics and the SVG format, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what vector new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java and JavaFX, iOS, Kindle and HTML5, as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important.

What You Will Learn

• What Comprises a digital illustration 2D modeling and rendering pipeline

• What are the concepts and principles behind digital illustration content production

• How to install and utilize 64-bit Inkscape 0.91 for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux

• What are the concepts behind Spline Curves, Strokes, Fills, Patternsand Rendering and how to use and apply them

• How to understand and handle digital illustration data formats and data footprint optimization

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484216962
• ISBN 13: 9781484216965
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186