Because nothing says supper like the smell of an exploding planet

Or something like that.

Anyways, jumped ahead a few weeks in classes since the stuff's laid out ahead, toyed around with some effects and came up with some neatish stuff.

Have a rock texture, added a lightsaber to an older picture, and blew up a planet. Starting to see why photoshop costs $700ish, and why it's actually worth it. It's definitely capable of far more than just cleaning up redeye which's what most people would use it for.

Tonight's project shall be an assortment of plasma beams to blow planets up with!

This dumb thing almost made me late for school, hadn't expected it to be 2.5 hours of effort...

On the plus side, it does look very nice when finished.

Just an exercise in using the tablet, and learning to shade.

Fun with fire!

So we were shown how to make a nice fire effect on an already made photo or drawing... there was a perfectly good example and tools to show how to use it but I decided I wanted to use something of my own collection instead.

Must say I like the results... took ages to do compared to most of the effects I've seen so far in photoshop, but I'm more than happy with the output ^^

The evidence suggests I am stupid

Why did I stay up for about 4 hours longer than I meant to instead of sleeping? I'm not sure really. An epiphany struck me when I was about to go to sleep and I just had to make use of it.

So... 4 hours later I have a model finished.

Sure, why not. Sleep's overrated anyway.

From left to right; the base image we were given to colour as practice with the tablet, then the first colouring, just a base flat coat which's normally then handed off to a detail artist for further work. I got a little carried away and added more shading and detail than needed but the point of the exercise was mostly getting used to the tablet so it's all good. Only barely touched it before but it does seem pretty fun to use, and fairly accurate.

Would be nice if my monitor was widescreen though since the tablet assumes it is, so it doesn't quite seem to track horizontally and vertically at the same speed...

Demo Reel 2nd Quarter

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Head construction diagram of a character of mine, Kiana Schödinger.

Quick test post

First time ever using a blog, so just doing some minor checking, as well as testing image uploading.

In the example picture, for the curious, is a render of a kitchen that was made for class. The only things with any shaders/textures at all are the cupboard doors. Everything else is controlled by lighting, even the glowy blue shelves.

Mostly a lighting experiment than anything, with some tests for fog effects and so on as well.