[BOOK REVIEW] Fragment - Fei Fei Photographs
- 13th April , 2008 by KNDY in Book Reviews
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BOOK TITLE: Fragment - Fei Fei Photographs
Published in 2001, Blue Moon Studio Inc.
PAGE COUNT: 100 Pages
As Kutsugi Ken-ichi’s Terai Yuki was becoming popular among the 3D virtual beauties, e-frontier (who now owns SHADE and POSER) had another visual 3D girl being promoted, as being created by the 3D SHADE software.
Her name was Fei Fei and she was created by Blue Moon Studio, Inc.
The model caught some attention because she was the virtual model promoting SAMSUNG products back in 2002.
But back in 2001, Fei Fei received her first photo book. Similar to Terai Yuki’s “TOKYO LABYRINTH” which put her in realistic settings, Fei Fei did the same.
Although the character model was great for that time, when looking at it now, some parts look good but the body part texturing looked more 3D than realistic skin textures that you see on many models now.
So, as technology has come along way for 3D programs in the past seven years, I do have to give this book some kudos for trying something different.
In the opening pages, you see a photo of a group of school children taking a group photo and Fei Fei embracing one of the children. The photo at the time when I first bought the book was very cool and at the time, looked very realistic.
Now, you see Fei Fei’s hand and it has that 3D…plastic type of look. But at the time, you felt how awesome the book was.
Of course, this book makes a great resource for coming up with ideas for one’s 3D rendering working.
The book is still very costly because its an import but through e-frontier’s content paradise store, the book was offered at one time for $9.99, which was a steal since the book is still selling at other stores for $35.99.
An image of Fei Fei from e-frontier
Unlike Terai Yuki which had models that people can mess around with on Poser, Fei Fei was only available via SHADE 8 and 8.5 when you bought it.
I wished Fei Fei would have been a poser model that people could mess around and would have been an interesting character model that could have been tweaked by content producers because Terai Yuki was the short hair model, Fei Fei was the long hair model.
And I think that she could have gotten a lot of mileage via 3D content creators like Miki model.
But nevertheless, this book was one of the best 3D visual model from Japan photo books back then and if you can get it cheap, definitely would make a good resource book.
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