Test for Omens Studio.

Sketch and line work in MyPaint. Coloring in Photoshop.

Line drawing in MyPaint. Coloring in Photoshop.

MyPaint, an open source painting program, has some very nice preset brushes. I especially like the 2B pencil brush.

Photoshop only.

Experimenting with rough pencil and pastel like textures. Real size image shows better results.

Experimenting with Photoshop brushes.

Next to learn is properly save the custom made brushes before accidentally deleting them…

Blender Fluid Simulation

Photoshop only

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After:

Amazing royalty free model + texture from Lee Perry-Smith.

Quick lighting, composite & render tests in Blender.

Blender Compositing:

the term “wizard”…. from Middle English wysard (from wys “wise” and the -ard suffix also in drunkard etc.) – different sources

According to this source: “… but wizard began as an insult equivalent to ‘smart ass’ or ‘big brain’,…”

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Inspired by the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, which I started rereading… in English this time.

Trying out some digital painting. For someone who only really does flat coloring and shading will need a lot of practice.

THEORY OF UNEXPLAINED EXTRAORDINARY ALL PROBLEM-SOLVING EVENTS

If, during the climax of the story, when things look really bad for the protagonist, and the audience thinks “boy, I wonder how he’s going to get out of this mess”, something extraordinary happens, just like that and without any explanation, which solves all the problems of the protagonist, the audience might feel screwed*.

* figuratively speaking

Again inspired by the students’ production (revolving a scene inside a shark’s mouth), I did another quick test in Blender. My goal wasn’t to recreate the shark’s mouth, but more to focus on materials, lighting and other settings to achieve a satisfying and convincing result.

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In a scene like this different factors need to be considered; from the light sources (mainly coming from 1 side) to characteristics of materials (teeth and gums) to other real life effects (like Depth of Field).

In the animated image below I broke it down to the more important factors and passes I used for this simple test scene.

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No ray tracing was used for this image.