When I posted those renderings, I knew they were incomplete. While I was working on the project, I googled Mathew Brady and knew there was more detail I had to do.
It was about 4 AM Pacific time and I was tired. Here is a rendering of the man character. One in sepia and and added noise, and the other in BW with added noise.
I applied 40 noise to the photo, but it looked unrealistic. So, I used 17 and 26 amount of noise. I also am adding some old photos from Smithsonian, Time and Creative
Commons Wikipedia. The Time photo is a colorized photo of Lincoln, originally taken by Matthew Brady. I made my own gray background, using the fog particle
and rendering a photo of it to use in 2D Background folder.
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2 Years Ago by
michaelrbarton