Only two 3D magazines now?
ScarletX1969
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Hello everyone,
I just did a survey of looking to see if there were more than 3DArtist and 3D World as 3D professional/enthusiast/hoppyist magazines available. Apparently, they are the only two now. There use to be a couple more.
Is that the case or am I missing some other ones?
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ImagineFX sometimes features 3d software as part of somebody's process.
Besides ImagineFX, there's Computer Graphics World. I think Digital Artist is online only now and 3D Creative is gone... I think the regular illustrator magazines have pretty much taken over that bit of the market. I stopped reading most of them a while back and the only thing I subscribe to anymore is Cinefex.
I forgot about Digital Artist. ImagineFX I only look at for 2D styles (with the occasional 3D thrown in) but nothing for those of us that use 3D software below the likes of 3DSMax, Maya, Houdini, Blender, and ZBrush...although I still like these mags for inspiration and techniques.
"Digital Art live " is free and comes monthly... with great interviews and great art.
What's a magazine?
Seriously though, that's about all there is now, the two you mentioned for 3D and ImagineFX for general CGI.
Most of the "how to" stuff they covered can be found online in videos... print is 100 times better, but YouTube is free.
Not all of "Digital Art Live" is free, though...or is it?
I used to love buying glossy magazines I could look at the digital art on paper
the few left 3D or 2D are now ridiculously priced I might as well buy nice hard bound coffee table books instead
Digital Art live is free but you need to sign up for it. Their second mag VisNews comes with the subscription to their academy (I had an interview in the last issue of that one
)
(*Sigh*) you beat me to it.
I was going to say something like "magazines are so last century". But I didn't, so I won't. Move along, nothing to see here.
Me too. I would buy them at the bookstore... there was a thrill to leafing through them before I could get them home when I could actually read them... then the bigger thrill of popping in the CD to see what goodies it was loaded with... Sometimes it was DAZ or Poser assets (I got V5 and M5 that way)...
Then they stopped giving out content on CDs and the freebies went online but most of the stuff was tutorials for high end professional stuff I'd never need or afford... and with that the magic faded and the high price without the useful content made them unappealing.
it's how I found DAZ actually
I was an iClone user
Carrara 5 was on a magazine and introduced me to DAZ
I first got Hexagon off a magazine
and Carrara 7 I got off 3D world
I used to love magazines. I think I still have one somewhere talking about the new 386 computers that were coming out at the time. Back in the dial-up days, they were a great source of shareware, too, especially the UK-based magazines like PC Plus.
I can't remember what magazine it was, but I found a trueSpace 5 demo and was hooked on 3d ever since. Yeah, truespace RIP. :(
most of the magazines I see now are mainly for photoshop and maybe painter on occasion some stuff on zbrush, hexagon, maya, and a few others none on daz in a very long time. That was the first tme i heard about daz few mags had copies of studio and few addons like vicky/michael 4, aiko bundle and other stuff
have quite a few issues of imaginefx and various specials and few others
It's a sad thing that happened to a lot of borderline professional hobbies: the accompanying glossy magazines all went the way of the Dodo. There's usually something for whatever happens to be the "current hype", like, those adult coloring books a few years ago, and some standard mainstream hobbies like knitting, cars and fashion. And to be honest, I do miss them. There's something way more convenient about having a magizine with some "how to" on my lap with the appropriate programs open on my desktop, instead of tabbing back and forth between a program and some youtube video, forgetting to pause the video at the appropriate time and having to find back the spot where you left it on, etcetera. (really not getting started on unintelligeble speach or computer generated voices)
There was something conveniently trustworthy about tools on accompanying CDs as well. Yes, I know, even those cd-roms occasionally came with virusses, but still, it was more trustworthy than following a just too convenient random link below some youtube video. I mean, ANYONE can make a youtube vid and link to some malware in the description. But very few could (and would) ever organize an elaborate glossy magazine running for years, just to distribute some malware.
I assume you already know this, but Artstation is a good platform for finding inspiration and techniques.
A lot of artists post with accompanying details of how they achieved their results.
I do know about Artstation. One of the vendors here, IgnisSerpentus, has a gallery there where she shows some of her techniques for her promos. I love Artstation. There are like a ton of online options though, so maybe thats why some of these mags have become extinct to a degree.
One thing I have noticed. When I go back to older magazines, it's amazing that so many produced eye propping artwork with whatever technology existed then. Iray wasn't even on the radar back in 2009 or 2010 for many of us (or LuxRender to a varing degree) and there was some great art using 3Delight and Firefly renderers. It definitely emphasize how it's not the tool but the skill for me. Back then, in 2004 when I first started into 3D, I thought that I needed the more advance stuff to produce great art. Didn't realize that the ability to produce it was already there (considering I'm a self-taught line artist from the late 70s and 80s) and also a filmmaker and all those techniques and knowledge would apply to 3D art.
At 50, I'm still learning and loving it. Just wish there were more mags I can hold instead of looking at a digital screen, though.
Someday digital screens will be super thin and floppy. And they're be so cheap you can have lots and lots of them. So many in fact that you can use one to display a page of information and freeze it there without needing any power. And it will be visible in bright sunlight or in normal room lighting. And you'll be able to stack them to make collections of related information. And you could bind them together and call them ... oh... wait... I think they already invented something like that. Sorry, never mind. Move along, nothing to see here.
Are you talking about those ultra thin iPads or bendable smart tables and such?
If you're addressing me then um, no. I was, with tongue-in-cheek, thinking of "magazines".
i.e. taking 'digital paper' to extremes.
Similar to the "app" for your smart phone that would, in real-time, convert your spoken words into the text, transmit them and at the receiving end convert the text back to sound, being a replacement for acual vocal phone calls.
Ah, I see. Although they do make those bendable screens now.
I was with you right through that explanation.
I am one who would rather buy an extra book shelf than a kindle main problem is finding space to place the new book shelf
Print rules. It may be heavy and cumbersome and require you to wait for it to arrive or you to go purchase it, but it doesn't require power to read... (okay, it requires trees and actual light to read), but you can't use digital books to level out a wobbly sofa or table... and throwing an ebook at someone can be costly.
One of the things that I love the most about real books is that you can easily leaf through them to find what you need... and flip back and forth to compare information in different sections... side by side windows on a tablet is not the same and actually the function to allow that makes reading on a tablet annoying depending on how you hold it or your hand and finger size...
One of my daughters is fourteen, she loves paper books... According to her there is "something special about a book, it has a physical presence that makes reading a story more personal and real"... (more or less what she's said) She has lots of ebooks, she writes on her tablet constantly, but her preference is actual books... I love seeing her in a bookstore or library, it's like each book is a treasure to her and she doesn't know where to start.
my Ebook Library is the backup to my real library I had to lose.... oneday I'll replace the lot..
(various moves and lack of space...)
They will take away my books when they prise them from my cold dead hands...
(In the last frame) Bibliophibians!! :D ::D :D Love it! :D :D
And yeah, I still gravitate towards the Dead Tree Edition of books, even though I have two tablets, a classic old Kindle I bought on a deal-of-day site for cheap, and a cellphone all with the Kindle app. And also the Kindle app on my Windoze desktop machine.
Yoy could Make a new zine
As much as I prefer videos, there's always the issue of if a content creator's channel goes bye bye. :T
this was a cool idea that sadly ended
http://issuu.com/philatdsc/docs/ds_creative_01