The Artlantis Attitude: Getting the Attitude and Using It. The screen companion for Artlantis productivity and artistry

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Nine months in the making, The Artlantis Attitude is Dwight Atkinson's third technology illustration book.  Commissioned by Abvent, it builds on the basic Artlantis tutorials and Help files by promoting an attitude of efficiency.

The Artlantis Attitude screen companion projects the user into the Artlantis performance stratosphere by dissecting projects ranging from modest interiors to office towers. This is not a 'missing manual'. This is a guide to artistic and productive success.

Some things you'll find in the companion:

Standard Controls:

Navigating and Viewpoints. Cutaways. Orthographics.

Understanding Lighting Issues.

Heliodon Control: Night, Moonlight and dawn renderings. Atmospheric effects.

Manipulating Shaders.

Fresnel Glazing and Fresnel Water used in context

Object making, 

Animation strategies.

Specialized solutions:

Chrome fixtures.

A sweating glass of beer.

A glowing candle arrangement.

Google Earth mapping.

Ripples in pools.

The companion focuses on numerous real scenes that are dissected for materials and lighting solutions:

"Quick Fix" solutions for conventional situations. 

Night rendering

Context Insertion - Alignment and matching scene photography.

Other camera alignment techniques.

Theatric and poster rendering.

Serious dedication to Image editing outside of Artlantis is essential for superior imagery:

creating 'the whiteness.' [beguiling magic glow - interior and exterior]

controlling material appearance

adaptable Post-Processing.

Bonus materials:

Postcards.

an animation video tutorial.

some useful atl files.  

Click here for some sample pages!

Please note: This is provided as a PDF eBook. Due to security implemented by the author this PDF does not have the ability to be printed.

About the author: 
"Dwight Atkinson is curious.  Using Artlantis since 1997, He has learned more things about computer illustration  An architect and public artist, he excels in computer illustration because his work is on the edge of design.  He keeps trying to make Artlantis do better things."