The Works

This evening I imported my Pro Desktop object into a blender file and posed my character as if holding the torch. Ithen added my own QVC overlay made with Serif PagePlus X3. A sort of sample of my final environment! ;D

Mike

I have decided to change my environment ideas and instead of using a superhero model ontop of a skyscraper I have decided to re-create a shopping channel type scene with a couple of characters playing Wii and one selling my torch. I will then take it into gimp and add an overlay to the final render.

Here’s what I have so far

Mike

I went out today to get some photographs for my mini portfolio and enhanced them using GIMP. Heres the results

Clouds and Sun - Perhaps a bit dark at this size… larger is in greater detail.

Forth Rail Bridge

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Some more editing using Curves.    

Hello, for those of you who have viewed this recently, I have made a change to my background image and header background. Do you prefer the new or the old layout? Let me know!

Mike.

I was looking through some photos on the internet and found that an app on the iphone called ‘photosplash’ allow the user to take a black and white photograph and select a small area that they wanted coloured. I decided to google a GIMP alternative and found a small tutorial that I found very useful… Here’s the results

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Selective_Color/

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I tried my hand at a wee bit of image manipulation last night. Above is the result that I achieved in GIMP using desaturation, levels and curves in the ‘colour’ tab.

I then decided to link it to the song that I was listening to at the time Arctic Monkeys - ‘Perhaps vampire is a bit strong but…’ I used photoshop for the next part using cloud renderings and FX to achieve the image shown below.

Mike

I finally got round to making a walkcycle animation with my armature model. Unfortunately the model that I made in blender didn’t work properly as his feet were warping wrongly so I downloaded the tutorial’s model and built my own armature from there. Here’s the result

So I made another stop animation… this one slightly better showing a small fight scene with some lego men.
Youtube link is embedded below… Enjoy!

Mike