3D Technology in Fine Art and Craft: Exploring 3D Printing, Scanning, Sculpting and Milling.

Back Cover: The possibilities for creation are endless with 3D printing, sculpting, scanning, and milling, and new opportunities are popping up faster than artists can keep up with them. 3D Technology in Fine Art and Craft takes the mystery out of these exciting new processes by demonstrating how to navigate their digital components and showing their real world applications. Fine artists will learn to incorporate these new technologies into their studio work, while computer graphic artists will see their creations come to life in a physical form never before possible. Featuring a primer on 3D basics for beginners, interviews, tutorials, and artwork from over 80 artists, in-depth market and intellectual property rights information, and a comprehensive companion website, this book is your field guide to exploring the exhilarating new world of 3D.

• Follow step-by-step photos and tutorials outlining the techniques, methodologies, and finished products of master artists who have employed 3D technology in new and inventive ways
• Learn how to enlarge, reduce, and repurpose existing artwork and create virtual pieces in physical forms through a variety of mediums
• Research your options with an accessible list of pros and cons of the various software, 3D printers, scanners, milling machines, and vendors that provide services in 3D technology
• Listen to podcasts with the artists and learn more tips and tricks through the books website at www.digitalsculpting.net

Bridgette Mongeon is a master sculptor with over 20 years of experience in figurative sculpture. She writes and often lectures about the arts, technology and marketing in the arts and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in combining 3D Technology and Fine Arts from Goddard College. She is a contributing author ofDigital Sculpting with Mudbox: Essential Tools and Techniques for Artists and is the host of the Art and Technology podcasts.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Primer
A World Turned Upside Down
Collecting Data- 3D Scanning, photogrammetry and more
3D Modeling and Sculpting
3D Printing
CNC Milling
Foundry of the Future
Copyrights and 3D Technology
Education and 3D
Resources

 Endorsements 

This is a much needed comprehensive introduction to “state of the art” digital sculpture… The text and illustrations are clear and instructive, taking the reader on a step- by-step journey through otherwise difficult to navigate technologies… Written with the first-time user in mind, it is also an invaluable resource for the professional sculptor and educator….a must for anyone with an interest in 3D digital creation and fabrication.    

Keith Brown, Director of Art & Computing Technologies, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Institute for Research & Innovation in Art & Design

“Bridgette Mongeon has taken the complex subject of 3D printing and made its secrets available in clear readable form for the artist and the public. She has given the reader the most up to date and useful information along with the necessary little secrets to make the appropriate decisions in applying this new medium to the art of making sculptural forms. It is an informative and enjoyable book from start to finish. Her choice in examples gives the viewer some of the most contemporary sculptural works available. An excellent textbook for every level.”

Mary Visser, Professor of Art, Holder of the Herman Brown Chair The Sarofim School of Fine Arts Southwestern University –