Re: Complex riddle...
Steve Rogers wrote: Rendering? not likely. He mentions he has dabbled in 3D apps but the core of what he does is done with photoshop. There is nothing there that indicates this at all. The transparent "gel" bubbles are a very easy effect to create in a paint program and the backgrounds and metallics can easily be done using masks and layers. We've got to have the reflections too. He mentions he uses the same 'stock photograph' to produce them. If anyone is really interested, I could whip up a quick tutorial how to do the same thing. I'm interested for two reasons... One: The effect is cool and I want to know how to do it. two: The dude refuses to put up a tutorial. We know other folks out there want to know how so a tutorial would be a big hit. (ok, part of me just wants to show that his 'gimmick' can be done by us using free software) Hope we can set a good example that sharing knowledge is better than hoarding it. :-) Thanks -- Jon Winters visit the Obscura Lounge in OpenVerse http://www.openverse.org/
Re: Complex riddle...
Apparently someone got quite offended by my posting to the list that the graphics on this web site could be easily done in a graphics package like GIMP, even though I offereed to post a tutorial on it as well. I thought it would be nice to contribute useful information after deleting dozens of useless posts at Amy for someones inability to unsubscribe. Was my comment about the graphics on this web site referenced below so offensive that I deserved this kind of response? the following was a portion of the exceedingly rude e-mail I got in private: "When you call someone a liar please get your facts straight." "cause you to to post distorted and incorrect information to the potential detriment of the rest of the list. Some people here might benefit from a knowledge of rendering and don't know much about it. You do a disservice to the list" Is this typical of the way you people behave here? or is this individual an exception? I am willing to do tutorials and help people, but if this is the kind of nonsense this list generates, I won't waste my time. I have better things to do than be flamed by idiots. Jon Winters wrote: Hi, I've been subscribed now for a few weeks and I'm excited about this list. Recently I ran across a web site that had some pretty impressive graphics. (or so I thought) http://www.blueskyheart.com/ Nice stuff. His "trademark style" of the translucent plastic or glass looking button/lens thingie is what really leaps off the screen and grabbs my attention. Unfortunately this guys parents didn't teach him to share and he wants to keep his techniques a secret.
Re: Complex riddle...
Okay, let me clear something up before people make too many assumptions that are innaccurate. I did not READ this guys site at all. I went and looked at the graphics, and determined from a visual inspection, that there was nothing there that could not be done in Photoshop (probably GIMP as well) without the need for a 3D rendering package. There were maybe one or two exceptions to this, but as I was on my way out the door when I saw this message, I was not inclined to make long winded explanations or descriptions at the time. regardless, the transparent "gel" and bubble effects are easy. the "plate" backgrounds are easy and the appearance of reflections are also reasoanbly easy without the need for a rendering package to do them. To make a 100% definitive statement, I would need to take the time to sit down and dissect each one individually to evaluate the steps needed to reproduce them or a similar effect. Jon Winters wrote: Steve Rogers wrote: > > Rendering? not likely. He mentions he has dabbled in 3D apps but the core of what he does is done with photoshop. Since this guy is unwilling to share his secrets, where he used any rendering at all is rather pointless. Good technique will do virtually everything thing that was on his site with maybe one or two exceptions. Years ago Amiga artists created stunning graphics with Deluxe paint that took close examination to see that they were not in fact rendered in a 3d program they were so good. A number of images I did back then were quite popular and distributed through the Amiga community that depicted the different models of Amiga computers that looked rendered, I did those in Deluxe Paint GIMP is a far better tool than the paint programs Amiga used over a decade ago.
