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Digital Illustration Fundamentals

Vector, Raster, WaveForm, NewMedia with DICF, DAEF and ASNMF

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Wallace Jackson

    1. Lompoc, USA

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  • Free open source software packages are utilized
  • Improves your digital illustration for iOS, Android, HTML5, JavaFX, Kindle
  • Understand what goes into digital illustration production and its data optimization

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Foundation of Digital Illustration: Points and Lines

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Curvature of Digital Illustration: Spline Curves

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 11-24

  4. The Styling of Digital Illustration: Stroke and Fill

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 25-33

  5. The Depth of Digital Illustration: Using Gradients

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 35-46

  6. The Imagery of Digital Illustration: Using Patterns

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 47-59

  7. The Rendering of Digital Illustration: Data Formats

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 61-69

  8. The Syntax of Digital Illustration: SVG Commands

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 71-84

  9. The Vectorization of Digital Imagery: Image Tracing

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 85-95

  10. The Algorithms of Digital Illustration: SVG Filters

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 97-108

  11. The Progression of Digital Illustration: Painter 2016

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 109-117

  12. The Airbrush of Digital Illustration: Using Brushes

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 119-132

  13. The Compositing of Digital Illustration: Using Layers

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 133-148

  14. The Automation of Digital Illustration: Programming

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 149-158

  15. Publish Digital Illustration: Content Delivery Platforms

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 159-166

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 167-169
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About this book

This fun, concise, full color book introduces the fundamentals of digital illustration, and covers how to develop and optimize these types of scalable vector graphics (SVG) using Inkscape 0.91 or later. It also covers concepts central to digital painting using the Corel Painter 2016 professional digital painting and illustration paid software package, which also has a free trial version, and a discount for purchasers of this book.

The book builds upon the foundational concepts of vector graphics and the SVG format, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what vector new media formats, and SVG commands and SVG filters, are best for use with Android Studio, Java 8, JavaFX, iOS, Kindle Fire and HTML5. The book covers key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important, and covers programming languages used for digital illustration, and publishing platforms which support digital illustration, and how to assimilate these into your digital illustration and digital painting content production pipelines and workflow.

You will learn:

  • The terminology of vector imaging and digital illustration
  • What comprises a digital illustration 2D modeling and rendering pipeline
  • Concepts and principles behind digital illustration content production
  • How to install and utilize 64-bit Inkscape 0.91 for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
  • Concepts behind spline curves, strokes, fills, patterns and rendering
  • Digital illustration data formats and data footprint optimization



Audience



Primary: Artists, Illustrators, Website Developers, Flash Developers, User Interface Designers, Digital Signage Content Developers, e-Learning Content Creators, eBook Authors.  Secondary: Android Developers, iOS Developers, Multimedia Producers, Rich Internet Application (RIA) Programmers, Game Designers, Teachers, Educators.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Lompoc, USA

    Wallace Jackson

About the author

Wallace Jackson has been writing for leading multimedia publications about his work in new media content development since the advent of Multimedia Producer Magazine nearly two decades ago, when he wrote about computer processor architectures for centerfolds (removable "mini-issue" insert) distributed at SIGGRAPH. Since then, Wallace has written for several other publications about his work in interactive 3D and new media advertising campaign design, including 3D Artist,Desktop Publishers Journal, CrossMedia, AVvideo and Kiosk Magazine.


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