The Painter Wow! Book, Tenth Edition

10. Animation and Film with Painter

Introduction

WHETHER YOU’RE AN ANIMATOR, film artist, designer, or 3D artist, Painter’s capabilities offer you dozens of practical techniques. Concept artists appreciate the creative freedom offered by Painter’s brushes, textures and effects. If you’re producing an animation or making a movie, many of the techniques and effects shown in this book can be applied to frames in a Frame Stack, Painter’s native animation format, or to an imported movie clip. Although it isn’t a full-featured animation or film-compositing program, Painter is good for making comps so you can preview motion. And Painter gives 3D artists a wide variety of choices for creating natural, organic textures to be used for texture mapping. ...