Looks very good. I know it has taken a lot of time and effort to develop this look, but you have come a long way with excellent results.

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I love the syle you have made Pau.....



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concept art - chasing the moth



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After a few years, I have finally come back to work on the principal set. A lot has changed radically. iClone 4 is infinitely better than iC3, and today's cpus and gpus are so much more powerful. And I have learned a thing or two.

Also, this: if you are building any of your own props, even including imports from Sketchup, you absolutely, positively, need one of the great materials libraries from Reallusion. --This ought to be in the manual. :)



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I am very pleased to report that I discovered a very simple but impressive alternative to photoblogs for running a portfolio/gallery: Supersized.

Want to see what it can do for *you*? You can check out a slide show of my backgrounds at full browser size!

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Thanks folks. I have always been very honest with you about the fact that I am far more determined/obsessed than talented, *and* I have always given credit where it is due to my Box Full Angels, which does the heavy lifting.

Chief Archangel is iClone, of course. But second in command is Photoshop, which plays host to some incredible filters. I am happy to share my secrets with you, in case you want to benefit from them.

Photoshop CS5 accepts a plugin from Adobe called Pixelbender, a kind of programming environment (I guess) for writing filters. Pixelbender, in turn, ships with a filter called Oil Paint that accounts for part of this special look.

After developing the paint look shown here, I more recently discovered a smoothing setting that allows me to wipe most of the machinima stink out of my characters--but I'm not yet sure if this is feasible for animations as well as stills.

The other filter set you must know about is Topaz Simplify. It's just as incredible as Oil Paint but has a wider range of art effects.

You can even use Simplify and Pixelbender together, to double the stylization.

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That's a very beautiful collection. I like the painterly quality of some of the images.

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yeah Mitch , nice backgrounds, are you using some kind of photo filter or are those actually your paintings. Either way, they look great.

Cheers,

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I really like those background images.

A while back, I promised to show some of the concept art I developed for backgrounds. You can see many pictures at my new Behance portfoilo. The problem is, these scenes are great for a memory montage following the assassination, but I don't have some difficult key backgrounds yet.

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