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Schweet...! Is that camera settings or positioning that gives the perspective on the stars and text?
Somewhere, festering in the back of my widdow bwain is this perverse desire to try to reproduce the production logo clip from Lionsgate, with all the gears turning inside the lock. Seems to me I saw a tut once on making gears easier, but that might have been a dream.
Thread: OT: Posted something in Gallery. | Forum: Bryce
Quote - ThunderStone: What do you think?
Wow... I think the levels of detail with all the people and traffic came out really well in this one. The miniaturization effect is quite pronounced in several areas...
It's a very complex, interesting source image, with all the market rows and everything... I took the liberty of grabbing it to play with a little, but none of my efforts came out nearly as well as yours did. Very nice :-)
Thread: OT: Posted something in Gallery. | Forum: Bryce
::smiles:: Actually, right after I posted the first try, I went looking for better stock, did a few i really liked, then thought I wanted to try something with people, to try to get a better sense of "miniatureness" like you got with the people and tuk tuks... But then I got distracted looking at Burning Man pages, reading up on theme camps. >.>;;
I did get one image with people from BM07, but it has so -many- people, it's kind of busy and distracting. -Then- I started getting distracted with the idea of HDR processes in Photoshop and trying to figure out if there was a way to use HDRI light maps in B6.
Now, Having glanced at email, come back here, gotten lost in the detail in one of Cath's WIP textures, and come back to Mini-Faking, I wanna try a few more tricks...
Custom blur masks to reflect accurate distance from the camera rather than just a bar across the image, more messing with some color overlay embossing to enhance the sense of exaggerated three-dimensionality, and maybe some pinch/punch or mesh distortion to reduce the natural sense of perspective...
Some days off, I just get nothing meaningful accomplished... But I have fun not accomplishing it. ;-)
Thread: Challenge WIP advice needed | Forum: Bryce
Ok, sorry... I know the OP is done and the conversation's kinda, therefore, done too... But, to quote my favorite LOLCat... ;-)
Thread: Challenge WIP advice needed | Forum: Bryce
Kinda what Rayraz said, kinda what Quest, Bobby, & Grafikeer said... I like image 1, over-all, but really have very little issue with either.
I think in the lighter one, the backside of the small moon is too light... Even if the planet we're standing on has a wicked high albedo, my brain doesn't want to see the "dark" side of this moon being so bright. (Or, is that the planet, and we're on the moon? Either way, I think washing out the 'moon' detracts too much from the beautiful surface detail you've put into it.
Were it me, I'd break up the image as far as applying different post work to different elements: I like the dark side of the figure and the moon dark, so I'd mask and leave them as is in #1... I'd probably black up the space elements even more and pop some elements of the nebula and stars, with contrast or dodge & burn or both (with the caveat that, admittedly, I usually contrast the heck out of my nebula images anyway... More like NASA false-color photos than actual photography. I just like the really bright nebular elements.)
I'd preserve the detail in the surface area behind the figure as in #2, also, and (after playing with it a bit) maybe even amp up some of the highlights on the suit.
I guess the short version of all that is I'd keep most of the darker one, make some selected areas even a little darker, amp up contrast more. Some of that might reflect that I'm on a laptop in a dimly lit room (rather than utter darkness, which I prefer) but, in general, I prefer space images to be more dark and contrasty... No atmosphere to dim and gray stuff out, perhaps.
Thread: ot..wall-e in real?? | Forum: Bryce
Madness... Madness...!
Very nice, but I tell ya... That carpet's never going to be the same. :-)
Thread: OT: Posted something in Gallery. | Forum: Bryce
Thread: OT: Posted something in Gallery. | Forum: Bryce
I grabbed the first half-way decent gnu image I saw, to play with it a bit... Added some tweaks to light color and scrunched the image just a bit vertically, as a further experiment. It didn't turn out as nice as yours, and only partly because it's not as good a source image, I think, but I suppose it's a decent proof of concept. Lots of fun possibilities... Thank you!
@ThunderStone: I would think Bryce renders would be good subjects, partly because you've got good control over "zoom" and camera height. I think I'll look for an old render that might lend itself to trying...
Thread: OT: Posted something in Gallery. | Forum: Bryce
Dood! That is wild! (Sorry... This is my first exposure to the process... I'm fascinated! :-)
Is the URL of the source image supposed to be truncated...? 'Cause I can't get to it, and I'm vurry curious.
Thread: A thought on Bryce 7 release | Forum: Bryce
Quote - I still have the original Bryce 3, 4 and 5 CDs and extra content as well.
I have this habit for never throwing away software... I picked up my first copy of Bryce at MacWorld in San Francisco, while I was working for Motorola on the Starmax, (I was the ad / web chick... Nothing cool like an actual engineer or anything) and have disks for every version after that until I started downloading them... And, I agree. It was just about the most amazing thing in the world back then.
I did some images with that and Vista Pro that I thought were just the living end... I'd be afraid to even look at 'em now, of course. >.>
Thread: WIP - The Big Bryce Ship | Forum: Bryce
In my experience, collapsed objects are just (or, should I say, 'at least' as sluggish in 6.1... And, the bounding boxes reflect the missing bits, so maybe it's keeping them in some ghosted form?
Stunning, stunning, stunning, by the way. I'm very much afraid I won't even be able to look at the clunky little escort cruiser I was working on now that I've seen this. :-)
Thread: TabletPC Advice? | Forum: Photoshop
Well, first, the fix. SBP is so cool it recognizes the pressure sensitivity right off... But everything else needs help. You need to go to the Wacom site and download the "enhanced" wacom "penabled" drivers... ( http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/driver.cfm ) There used to be an additional file for our particular Toshiba, but I think this newest driver corrects it. If you install this patch, reboot, and it still doesn't work, PM me and I'll shoot you the other patch from before. Two other things... First, Aint it tha BOMB!?! Gawd, I'm -loving- it! Whether "it" is the tabletPC itself, Sketchbook Pro, or the handwriting recognition. I had one professor in school ask disdainfully "Oh, I suppose it does handwriting recognition...? Or fails to." I was sketching at the time in SBP, so I just clicked into "save as" and scribbled a name, which it converted beautifully... (not only does it start off good, it seems to 'learn' your handwriting as it goes, doesn't it?) I just grinned and said "I think it does ok." Second... I'm thinking of forming a web community specifically for promotion, discussion, info-sharing, etc for TabletPC art/artists. It wouldn't look to replace 'rosity or anything, just give people who have or are interested in that specific type of hardware (& to some degree, software) a place to get reviews, share ideas, ask for help, etc. Maybe some rating & review pages, tutorials, forums, and (if we could get manufacturers behind it) maybe some member discounts. Just as a channel marker, would that be anything you might be interested in? ~Honor
Thread: TabletPC Advice? | Forum: Photoshop
smiles Unfortunately, this is also the first week of fall semester at school, including my ST (student technologist... basically, paid IT internship) interviews. But you can bet I'll be spending every spare moment with it as soon as I have spare moments to spend, and posting shortly thereafter. :-)
Thread: TabletPC Advice? | Forum: Photoshop
Just in case anyone is interested, after some more research and shopping around, I ended up buying a Toshiba Satellite R15-S822. It has 256 level pressure sensitivity, and a 14.1 inch display that was a little larger than the 10.1 and 12.1's that most manufacturers were offering. Personally, I'd far rather have the extra screen real-estate than save a pound or two... I'm a big girl, I can handle it. It runs the Wacom "Penabled" standard, so it works a lot like a Cintiq. (there is a listing of Penabled compliant manufacturers on the Wacom website at http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/oem.cfm) As it turns out, most all 'modern' tablet PC's are pressure sensitive, but only to 256 levels (as opposed to 512 or 1024 for a Cintiq) and the resolution is XGA (1024) as opposed to higher resolutions w/ Cintiq (full comparison: http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/comparison.cfm) The selling point for me was that Toshiba has a trial version of Alais' Sketchbook Pro installed & running. (It came w/ a trial of version 1, but here's a link to version two: http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/products-services/product_details.jsp?productId=1900006) It's always mystified me that no art software was installed on these the display models in the store, and I (incorrectly) thought that was an indication they were unsuitable for art, so I didn't buy one. Let me tell you... I've never actually used a Cintiq, so this is -nirvana- for me. After about two minutes sketching on it in the store, it was in my -shoes- (ask your girlfriend what that means... she'll need context) and I was well beyond "maybe this is a good idea" and all the way to "I must have it! Bring me one NOW!!" (Yes, literally two minutes... As long as you're minimally conversant with Alias' menu style, where you click and hold on the icon to expand to other possibilities then drag to the one you want, same as in Maya, sketchbook pro is just that easy to get started on) This thing is on sale right now, several places, for about $1450-1499 US. When compared to every other decent one I found running $1899 minimum, and many as much as $4000, this will fit the student budget just fine. Anyway... Thanks for your comments. Sorry to gush about this thing, but I am just -amazed-. I'd have to say it's an excellent set ot training wheels on my way to a Cintiq, and with the added fact that it's a fully functional computer as well... I really can't see myself being without this, or something like it at any point in the future. ~H
Thread: TabletPC Advice? | Forum: Photoshop
Thanks, both of you... I completely agree that Wacom is the way to go in an on-screen pen tablet. The problem here is portability. I need a lap-top. So I'm looking for a TabletPC (not just the screen, the whole computer) that has features that work well for artists... Any ideas? ~H
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Thread: Just like Vue, Bryce is in the movies.... | Forum: Bryce