Photoshop for 3D Artists, Vol. 1 Review

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Photoshop for 3D Artists, Vol. 1 ReviewI enjoyed this recent overview of Photoshop's many excellent tools in different stages of a VFX or games pipeline.
I found the tutorials legible and interesting; You could tell that they were written by seasoned professionals and grounded in production experience.
I had 2 minor gripes with this book:
As a texture artist, I would like to have seen more chapters/projects focusing on proper texturing - not 3D paintovers. 3 3D paintover projects were more than enough, particularly since there are only 2 texturing proper projects/chapters (I am not counting the 2 complete projects, of which one only mentions texturing in passing). The 2 chapters/projects with a focus on 3D texturing focuses each on hard surface texturing or organic texturing. The hard surface texturing project was quite basic - as I am sure it was meant as an introduction to texturing as such. The organic/character texturing chapter used a model (as seen on the cover), which apart from the UV layout of the mesh, I would argue has more in common with the techniques you use in hard surface texturing. They are both good chapters, but there is still so much more to cover on texturing both hard surfaces and organic surfaces, that I would argue you could have cut down on the 3D paintovers and spent a bit more time on texturing. But, hey I am a texture artist, so of course I am biased.
The second gripe I have is that the meshes/models for the texturing chapters are not included. That is just poor. If I don't have the models as well, then including the textures in 2D form will not show me as much as I'd like. This cannot be a case of space constraints as all files are downloaded from the web anyway.
In addition to the above, the book of course contains a plethora of techniques for concept artists and post production (the majority of the book really).Photoshop for 3D Artists, Vol. 1 Overview

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