488 Introducing PixelSquid: 3D for 2D designers

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now today I'm thrilled to be sharing with you…what amounts to new design technology…that works inside Photoshop,…but it does not come to us from Adobe.…Rather it comes from a group called PixelSquid…from the same folks that brought us TurboSquid,…in case you're familiar with them.…And the idea is that it's a stock agency…that sells 3D objects to 2D designers.…So for example, let's say you want this dinosaur right here,…except you don't want to be looking down at him,…you want to be looking up at him instead,…and so you want to be able to rotate this dinosaur…in 3D space without, of course,…knowing anything about 3D.…

And then because he looks like a kind of toy…at this angle you want to be able to render him out…to a bunch of 2D layers inside Photoshop…and then modify those layers,…so that he looks like a real dinosaur…in the jungle against this photographic image, by the way,…from the Fotolia image library.…And so this is really, super exciting stuff.…