Author › Ryan Kittleson
Ryan Kittleson has loved combining art with technology since he was a young child with a VIC-20 and enjoying visually rich images by artists like Dali and Escher. He taught himself Photoshop as a teen and then 3ds Max in his early 20s. He worked as a game artist in Raleigh, North Carolina for a while before returning to school and completing a bachelor's of fine arts degree in illustration from East Carolina University, all the while practicing the art of digital graphics with personal and freelance projects. He then moved to Orlando, Florida where he taught character modeling at Full Sail University for 6 years. Ryan currently lives in New York City where he works as a freelance CG artist.
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Model a fully detailed Shelby Cobra automobile using both polygon and NURBS techniques.
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Introduces the basic theories and 3D modeling toolset behind Sculptris—a free sculpting program—and walks through two hands-on sculpting projects.
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Teaches digital artists how to create realistic assets such as 3D characters, immersive game environments, and product designs in Mudbox.
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Introduces the skills needed to create photorealistic 3D creatures for film, video, and game production.
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Design and build a 3D human character that can be used for feature film, broadcast, and games.
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Covers the most popular tools and techniques for digital painting and sculpting in ZBrush, and explains how to export models and texture maps to other programs for use in games, film, fine art, or 3D printing.
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Demonstrates how to create professional, realistic 3D characters from scratch in Maya 2011.
