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Wild Adventures of Fern The Farmer (4/2008)  »Wild adventures adventures of fern the farmer Hi everyone and welcome to the Making Of ‘Fern’, a 3d artwork created by the Chevisodes team. CHEVisodes is an episode based cg animated movie featuring Fern. Fern is the main character of CHEVisodes. Other characters may join Fern in his adventures but this will be yours to discover...  »Making of Uchronia I have always been interested in history, particularly the period from 1939 to1945, and I decided to make a couple of illustrations to depict my personal feelings and emotions about this subject. Thus this picture, Uchronia is one of these in which I tried to suggest to the viewer a scene of uchronie: what would have become of the world, in particular in the city of Paris, if Nazism had triumphed. »Jelous bodyguard Jealous Bodyguard was made for a personal project called Companions. A children’s book, of sorts, each image focused on the relationships between the human inhabitants and the local wildlife of a fictional island. Jealous bodyguard was created with the idea of a trained guard for a young, regal, women. The thought pattern centred on a creature that was graceful yet fierce which led to the idea of a large domesticated cat not unlike a Bengal tiger. Fierce but capable of affection. »Darkness monster In creating this character, our main goal was to test ours skills by creating a realistic, but fantastic creature. In order to do so, we drew some inspiration for certain aspects from movies such as The Lord of the Rings (inspired the character’s height and the all-over fantasy look & feel of the movie), King Kong inspired us for the creature battle scenes and War Harmer and the War Craft inspired us when designing accessories and armors used for the film. Our concept is mostly based on the use of lighting: we wanted to create a bright and well-lit atmosphere, which is contrary to more popular dark and evil creatures we usually see in these types of animations. We also wanted to focus on the character’s traits and expressions. »Battle of Klendathu Welcome to my digital illustration demonstration. There are many ways of creating a digital painting. This is just my way. I’ve been trying my best to mimic my traditional oil painting with digital media and have found Photoshop CS2 ideal for this purpose. I tend to stay away from various filters and plug-ins while I work. I have a big library of custom brushes that I hardly ever use. Most of this painting is done with the same 4 brushes used at varying sizes and texture levels. These 4 brushes mimic the flats and filbert brushes I normally use in oils. Throughout this illustration I used very few layers. One for the background, foreground and separate layers for the figure and foreground aliens. A few adjustment layers and that’s about it. I don’t have a super fast computer so having few layers keeps my file size down and allows me to slush pixels around without any slow downs. »Exhaust burn tutorial Exhaust burns are the effect of hot gases and particles of carbon, oil and other substances that discolor the sheet metal around exhaust pipes. These discolorations increase with age and use of the vehicle and can be found on cars, aircraft and other vehicles with sheet metal in the proximity of the exhaust outlets. »Think of the wall Stewart Michael Bruce merges painting and photography to create phantasmagoric images that capture the imagination. In this tutorial we will work extensively with the layer palette to create our image. Don’t be intimidated by the layer palette – basically, just drag-and-drop your photographs onto your canvas. We’ll also work extensively with the lasso and mask tools. »Game over Game over! Computer graphics are everywhere, from the games themselves, the internet and lately a whole host of computer generated ad campaigns. They have become common place and we are so used to seeing them that they are a part of our everyday lives, and in some cases all people think about (you know who you are out there sat infront of your PS3 all day) In this simple tutorial we will step you through making a computer based editorial style piece. This style is very adaptive and can be used for almost any subject matter with simple changes to the content – so lets begin. »Shape in sand In this tutorial I will show you how to draw a shape in sand, rock, snow or whatever you want to. »Making of the divebombing pterodactyl Swooping down from the clouds, a manic pterodactyl hones in on his next meal. This demonstration will show you the steps I used in creating this silly guy with only a very basic knowledge of Photoshop, proving that given enough time(not to mention trial and error), something interesting can result from it Using the .psd Photoshop Magazine CD The disc contains a valuable collection of valuable textures, trials, full versions of photo software, pdfs of the latest .psd covers' tutorials and source files for this issue materials. This issue we give you the second part of the video-tutorial about Blog Creation from killersites (First part you can get from the 3/2008 issue's CD). The disc interface requires Windows NT/2000/XP or Mac OS 9/X. You will also need an active Internet connection to make full use of the CD. In Windows the CD should autorun when inserted into the drive. OS X Users to launch the interface select the autorun.exe file. If you have trouble launching the interface, you can find all content relating to the magazine inside the CD. |
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