Progress on desert scene
Hi all, just about to run off to work, but thought that I would share my progress from
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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
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
A few more minor additions to scene
Hi all 🙂 I am at one of those artistic judgement stages where I am just fiddling to see how things go. I’ve added a banner on a wall using one of my bought textures (one of Ron’s Background Images and Textures). I also added a plain orange carpet for the length of the corridor. I am still uncertain about that colour. Also, at the top of the stairs, in
Step Four of new image: Shields on walls and first light
Just a quick note about my most recent step. I said that I wanted some shields on the walls. So I designed one in Inkscape using the first part of the
Displacement maps finished
Hi all. Just a quickie.
Step Three of new image: Displacement and specular maps
Time to give my textures a little depth. Again I would like to thank those of you who have given me advice on my journey into this world. 🙂 If you have read my previous articles you will have seen that I created the following texture from a photo of my bathroom floor: Then I slapped it down onto the floor of my scene, much like gluing a colour photocopy