Progress on desert scene
Hi all, just about to run off to work, but thought that I would share my progress from
Digital art articles and tutorials
New artwork begins plus my first rejection
Today’s topics are the man in desert scene that I said that I would commence, and feedback from the Monsters anthology publishers (perhaps my post title is a spoiler). Desert My plan went like this: Make a desert landscape in Bryce (because I already own it) and export that to the Unreal Engine. In the Unreal Engine create some totally awesome materials and paint them on the desert. Create a
Progress of writing and plan for next art work
Hi all, today I will submit a progress report on my writing and also my plans for my next work of art. Let’s do the writing bit first. Lost Voices My story for this failed at about 1,000 words. No, not because I had lost interest. Simply put, I could not find a satisfactory ending. Here’s the synopsis: Refugee girl (deceased parents) works in a children’s gang that mugs children
Importing textures into the Unreal Engine
Hi 🙂 As you know, I said that I would investigate the Unreal Engine
My first “wee” impressions of the Unreal Engine as an artist
I am sure that my Scot relatives are going to frown at my use of “wee” meaning “tiny”. Oh well. So I downloaded the Unreal Engine and fired it up. I tried importing a few things and got errors. Damn! As with most complex things it was not immediately user friendly. But somehow I managed to import my floor tile texture – you know, the one made from a photo
Downloading the Unreal Engine
Hi all, Three days ago (2 March 2015) Epic decided to make the Unreal Engine free. So I am downloading it as I write (it’s about 3 Gigs, I lie not)… Hang on, I hear you say (which demonstrates either amazingly acute hearing
Content used in “Unexpected”
Time to give credit where credit is due. This may be a bit of a boring read for many, but to some it will be interesting.
Finished! My new piece of art.
Hi all, Well, just as I said, I performed the post-production using Photoshop. To do this I first rendered the scene at
Step Six of new image: Lighting
Slap me in the face with a herring and call me Stinky! My last post I said that it was time for post-production. Totally wrong. That’s what happens when you spend six straight hours positioning and posing models – the brain goes gaga. I also forgot to tell you what models and gear I used. Well, I will leave that up to my concluding post on the topic. So lighting
Step Five of new image: Adding and posing figures
Hi all 🙂 Today I played a tiny bit more with colours (the carpet is now purple) and added and posed some figures. So I thought that I would tell you my philosophy about posing figures. It is based upon my little bit of experience in amateur theatre. You see, back in the 1980s I had this cunning plan to meet girls. The plan involved being one of a small