Cover For Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology 101 Textbook

The cover for the textbook for Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology 101 is being designed to represent a marriage of the classical to the cutting-edge. Students want to know the greatest that has ever been spoken and written, and too, they want to rock out with cool, cutting-edge technologies and trends.

http://artsentrepreneurship.com/aecover8.jpg

Feedback before the book goes to press in a couple weeks would rock! Thanks!

The quote from Dante is about inspiration, and it refers to Beatrice. The quote comes from a short book Dante wrote before the Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuovo--"The New Life". He writes it about Beatrice--a real girl in his life who tragically passed away while still young. She inspired the angelic character Beatrice in The Divine Comedy, and lives on in one of the most enduring poems ever penned. Talk about lasting brands--you will find none greater than the classics--something every entrepreneur should study.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova

The computer-generated girl is "Masha," designed by a Russian artist who I interview in the book. An interesting thing he said is that we need to give video games soul--we have beautiful graphics, but they need more soul--more Story.

She is sold with a skeleton and full range of facial expressions for the purpose of animating her in art, animations, and gaming--entities that will be huge in the coming years..

Description : Masha Realistic 3d model of young woman named Masha. The model has perfect edge-loops based topology with rational polygons count.Detailed anatomy and skin shading makes this model good for close-up render. model rigged by CharacterStudio4 biped+Physique and ready for animation. Facial animation provided by 'morpher' modifier, model has 10 morph targets + variable eye pupil (see preview), all of that can be easily animated through an on-screen sliders. 3 type of hairs are included, the hairs are created as a mesh model with alpha-texturing and does not require any additional plugs. File also includes all shown garments, rigged in the same way as a body. for non-tight-fitting clothes (skirt and laps of dress) for best simulation you may use one of free-downloadable cloth simulation plug-ins. The model is render-ready. Materials & high-res textures are included.

Dr. E :)