Foreword

There are rare moments in history when a renaissance is conceived and the whole paradigm of a particular medium is changed forever. Through the celebration of subtractive carving or additive sculpting, these various art mediums have established a whole new cultural iconography and have created treasures through the art of sculpture.

A new artistic renaissance is quietly unfolding around us, establishing a medium of art no less powerful than those that have developed before it. As the unique artistic tools that are Photoshop, Painter, the tablet, and the stylus have forever changed the conceptual designer’s palette of techniques and injected a freedom and spontaneity into artists’ work, so has the development of 3D modeling packages ...

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