Coverage includes—

• Les Pardew was born and grew up in Idaho. His hometown was a small farming community where he learned the benefits of hard work. His graduating high school class only numbered 33 individuals. From this small beginning, Les has grown to become a recognized leader in interactive entertainment.

• Don Seegmiller was born in Provo, Utah, and grew up in both California and Colorado.

  He has been an artist as long as he can remember. "Creating images for either myself or others has become such a part of my life that I cannot imagine not being able to pursue this activity."

• Comprehensively covers both 2D and 3D digital still art.

• Gives readers the information they need on digital art creation, a rapidly expanding market and career opportunity.

• Part of the successful Mastering series.

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Should be titled: Beginning Painter and Maya - 2007-05-06
Reviewer Rating:
To help out folks looking to buy this book, I just want to point out a few things I wish I'd known before buying it. First, if you are buying it for the Don Seemiller portion, you'd be much better off buying his "Digital Character Design and Painting" book, recently updated. I can't recommend that book highly enough. The current volume presents something resembling an excerpt from the Seegmiller book, taking up the first 90 pages, with the remainder of the book being a basic introduction to Maya. It's TONS of screen shots (in color, unusual for this publisher), with very little verbiage.

In short, I'd only recommend this book if you are looking for a nice short intro to character design with Painter and a beginner's guide to Maya. The title is very misleading.

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