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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #600 on: July 05, 2008, 04:52:23 am
just made it :)

the pixel low poly Game Boy ! (128*64, 12 tris)


           

I'm curious as to how you guys re doing these 3d pixels. I'm quite intreagued by them and am attemping one of my own at the moment, i've come across a problem though, my pixels come out blurry. do you somehow plan out how man pixles long it will be exactly while modelling it?

Thank you.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #601 on: July 05, 2008, 11:56:39 am
just made it :)

the pixel low poly Game Boy ! (128*64, 12 tris)


           

I'm curious as to how you guys re doing these 3d pixels. I'm quite intreagued by them and am attemping one of my own at the moment, i've come across a problem though, my pixels come out blurry. do you somehow plan out how man pixles long it will be exactly while modelling it?


Thank you.

I'm using 3Ds max and when I'm making my material I customise the texture like this :
self-illumination : 100
filtering : none

and for the render I'm unchecking antialiasing.

the driver I chose for the render is opengl.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #602 on: July 08, 2008, 01:45:11 pm
Moved some stuff to the Anatomy Thread on Helm's request, as he is incapable of posting stuff in the right section. THE JERK!
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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #603 on: July 09, 2008, 04:33:03 pm


I'm trying to still get used to Photoshop and what not, but every time I say this, I lose interest quickly. This was a result of a doodle I did yesterday, and the first time in many months where I actually tried to attempt to finish it with PS.(Yeah, it's Jpeg'd.For some reason, photoshop can't handle it if I try to save as PNG, or it freezes :-[ )

I still don't understand how some artists get thier pieces so sharply rendered(without the sharpen tool..smart asses). Oh well, still learning...
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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #604 on: July 09, 2008, 06:52:26 pm
@ B.O.B if you're talking actual techniques for sharpness, then iono, but my personal opinion would be contrast! Any time I've seen something 2d that looks 3d, it's usually because the highlights are practically pure white and the shadows are deep. Of course, those images always look garish, but I'm sure the same theory applied sparingly would provide similar results.

Maybe.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #605 on: July 09, 2008, 06:59:39 pm
of course, most CG artists work ridiculously huge then scale down when they post their work.  That causes a lot of sharpness.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #606 on: July 09, 2008, 08:19:53 pm
Heh. Your alien really makes me smile BOB.

The stock tools on photoshop are blurrier at low resolutions compared to other software i think. Opencanvas feels sharper to me at least. Upping the rez works.
Having confidence to use full opacity and high enough contrast might have something to do with it too. My photoshop renderings tend to end up blurry and muddy with evil color casts. Maybe if i tried to apply pixel art logic to painting..... we'll see.

Might as well put a picture here so i don't post for naught.

I don't recall ever inking much pictures, so i didn't feel confident filling areas with black. Made my wrist sore to boot. Kinda like when you play some sport you haven't played in a while.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #607 on: July 10, 2008, 05:37:37 pm
hmm, and how it is with Corel Painter?  is it really any better than Adobe?  anyone?

is there a lensflare in your picture, B.O.B.? :o  BAD! :)

pretty good, huZba.  do you have a hi-res version of it?  I'd like to examine it carefully.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #608 on: July 10, 2008, 07:02:06 pm
I know this may not exactly be everyone's style or whatnot, but I've been writing music in my free time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvCC7ZdBUFw

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread 2

Reply #609 on: July 10, 2008, 07:43:16 pm
Maybe this should go in the anatomy thread, but...
http://lorne.lastchancemedia.com/Images/two/Blackandwhitedump/Warriors.png
(900KB! Nudity!) Spent all of yesterday drawing things (very, very loosely) based around a central concept (Warriors).
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