Monday, 10 October 2016

Online Tut. Introduction to Autodesk Maya: Batch Rendering

Although it wasn't required, I found how to import the rendered frames to After Effects and export them as an actual video in order to evidence this - I didn't want to resort to screenshots since it's an animation.

Online Tut. Introduction to Autodesk Maya: One, Two, and Three Point Lighting

Single spot light
Higher intensity
Two spot lights (fill light)
Same with soft shadows
Three spot lights (rim light)
Four spot lights (under light)


Ersilia Colour Keys Practice

This morning's digital painting session looked at creating colour keys from existing greyscale thumbnails, using layer blending and gradient maps, with consideration to colour grouping and complementary tones.

Below are my practice colour keys from one of the thumbnails of my chosen city - Ersilia.


Photoshop Tutorial. Goomba GIF

This is a demonstration GIF made in Photoshop from an existing .psd document. The desired details were preserved in new frames using Image > Apply Image, which took a snapshot of currently enabled layers.

These new, ordered layers were then imported into Photoshop's timeline as a frame animation, each set to display for a duration of 1 second, and exported via File > Export > Save for Web as an animated GIF at a lower resolution.


Sunday, 9 October 2016