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Paumanok West
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Paumanok West
Posted 13 Years Ago
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OK, folks, my previous still image, above, is very appealing to me, but it was the result of intricate hand retouching and is therefore obviously not sustainable for animation. Besides, it's closer to the generic 3D look of a modern animated film, and not consistent with my goals of turning out a 2D style. Do you find the following clip reminds you of how the scene would be styled in Japanese anime? So now, let's apply our lighting to the characters inside of iClone, but we are going to need a dirty trick. I want to use dramatic uplighting from gaslamps below the level of the roof. The only way to get this in iClone 4 is to bake the lighting directly into the model textures. The scene is very important: it firmly situates the characters in Victorian Manhattan in a storm. So they need to be on the roof, and the skyline needs to be visible. I might add that the foreground fire is a kettle of coals for warmth. We've got a lot of stylized FX here to put you in the mood: rain, fog, smoke, and leaves. The hard thing now will be achieving continuity from one scene to the next.
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Paumanok West
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Paumanok West
Posted 13 Years Ago
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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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Teviniii
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Teviniii
Posted 13 Years Ago
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@PW
I really like those background images.
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stuckon3d
Posted 13 Years Ago
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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, Stuckon3d
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My iClone 7 gallery
My IMDB
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animagic
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animagic
Posted 13 Years Ago
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That's a very beautiful collection. I like the painterly quality of some of the images.
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Paumanok West
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Paumanok West
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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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Paumanok West
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Paumanok West
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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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Paumanok West
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Paumanok West
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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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Paumanok West
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Paumanok West
Posted 13 Years Ago
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concept art - chasing the moth
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bluemidget666
Posted 13 Years Ago
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I love the syle you have made Pau.....
I Make My Mates Do The CanCan For The Amusement Of Killer Robots
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