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Author: Antony Ward
ISBN : 0240814819
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Create high-quality models in no time at all with these comprehensive, full-color, techniques and tutorials from Antony Ward and David Randall. These step-by-step tutorials walk readers through the creation of a high-quality female model while teaching you the basics and principles behind 3D modeling in Silo - including modeling the face and clothes, creating textures, and posing the character. The companion website includes all of the tutorial and project files. This book is officially endorsed and co-written by the creators of Silo, Nevercenter.
Features include:
* See how to create three main models - A base mesh, a detailed female base mesh and the final cover character, Jade Raven.
* Covers both organic and hard surface modeling techniques.
* Introduces the reader to more advanced Silo tools like Paint Displacement and UV Mapping.
* Full of bonus material and information to make you a more efficient 3D artist.
* The techniques featured can also be applied to other 3D applications, making the skills you will learn easily transferable.
* Get money off Silo with the discount code included.
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- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (October 15, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240814819
- ISBN-13: 978-0240814810
- Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.4 x 9.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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If you really want to learn the program Silo, this book will have you covered. It is rated for the Novice to Intermediate and that is what the book is for, though a beginner or expert may be able to use the book as the basis for learning Silo's features, the project would be a bit much for the beginner and probably bore an expert level user.
The book's layout is excellent and there are plenty of pictures. Most the of the images, and they're referenced often, lack enough contrast to allow you to actually see what the authors are talking about. However, you can download the models on a chapter by chapter basis if you really need to visually confirm how something was done. There is also a Bonus chapter on UV Mapping that is a must download.
I'm not someone who feels they need to model everything from scratch and only model when I simply cannot find what I'm looking for or need something special and got the book to get a better grasp of some of the more advanced features of Silo (Displacement Painting, etc.) So for me, I found the book to be an excellent purchase from Amazon.
If you own Silo, and your name is not Glen Southern, Amazon has the book for you!
By the3dgm
The book is very good and thorough (although I have trouble seeing the model wires on some of the smaller images).
The modeling techniques can be used with other 3D modeling applications, but I recommend using Silo with the book. I did the first tutorial, the torso, with Silo. Then I did the same tutorial with another popular modeling application. Silo's tweak tool made it a lot easier to get results similar to the authors.
Silo is arguably the easiest, best, and definitely the cheapest subdivision modeling program available, and this book will teach you how to use it.
By W. Isenberger