Название: Adobe Creative 3D Workflows: A Designer’s Guide to Adobe Substance 3D and Adobe Creative Cloud Integration
Автор: Joseph Labrecque
Издательство: Adobe Press/Pearson Education
Год: 2024
Страниц: 454
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 42.7 MB

Adobe Creative 3D Workflows brings a practical approach to understanding not only how to begin working with 3D assets but how each of the relevant Adobe apps interact through the creation and application of 3D materials, models, and effects across different workflows. Each topic begins with an overview grounding the approach alongside useful tools and then transitions to a tutorial-like approach with hands-on examples created through a specific set of workflows. From generating custom materials in Substance 3D Sampler, to producing 3D models from vector shapes using Illustrator while adding motion to these models in After Effects, to designing a variety of 3D environments across various platforms, this book provides a foundation of how to successfully work in the Creative Cloud and Substance 3D apps to produce stunning results.

In early 2023, Adobe released the first beta of its integrated set of generative AI technologies, named Firefly. This new artificial intelligence service was exciting, as it clearly stood out from existing text-to-image AI services. How so? Adobe expressed interest in integrating Firefly into a wide array of existing software applications. Moving beyond familiar text-to-image workflows could greatly augment the design capabilities of creative individuals through the use of AI across a variety of media.

Initially, a few additional integrations and expansions existed in preview—labeled as In Exploration—that were unlike anything I’d seen before when exploring generative AI software. In particular was a Firefly module given the name 3D to Image. The idea being that you could arrange a set of 3D models within the software, provide a descriptive prompt, and have Firefly generate a visual design based on the prompt and strongly influenced by the 3D models assembled across the canvas to form the resultant image.

Understand 3D-specific terminology and concepts that carry across different software.
Create rich, realistic materials that can be applied to 3D models in various environments.
Work with Substance 3D technologies within more traditional 2D apps like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Design engaging motion content in 3D space while combining 2D planes with true 3D models.
Explore additional 3D focused capabilities and workflows in immersive AR, intelligent product mockups, interactive VR, and more.

Who This Book Is For:
The focus of this work is the integration that now exists across these different software applications and collections. Adobe Creative Cloud users who want to expand their design skills in the area of 3D will find this book useful. In a similar fashion, Substance 3D users who want an approach to using Creative Cloud software can find similar inroads, albeit from the opposite direction. In a general way, anyone interested in the intersections of 2D design software and 3D design software will benefit from exploring this work.

Considering the genesis of this work, I have been sure to integrate Firefly generative AI into the mix, as this service holds great promise in the creative space between 2D and 3D design. Adobe is taking wildly variant approaches to generative AI through its Sensei and Firefly models, and I am very excited to see how these explorations will impact 2D and 3D workflows in the coming years. Combine that with the expansion of the design techniques covered in this book and we have amazing opportunities to expand creativity ahead of us.

Whether your interest is in expanding traditional 2D-design workflows to include 3D components or you are coming from a 3D-tooling background to explore how these capabilities are being infused into 2D design software, I hope you find this book useful in combining these varied application workflows to create some truly fantastic results!