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Post by Life Essence on Jul 28, 2007 10:31:06 GMT
While rendering you can do it anywhere and everywhere it should get slightly darker, making things like cheek bones and hair "standout"/"more defined".
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Post by ElvenChibi on Jul 28, 2007 14:14:02 GMT
How the.... okay I'm jealous... Why can I not shade like that? How do you do that???
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Post by Tha Chibilover on Jul 28, 2007 14:44:22 GMT
lol i know that elven, u use the dartker/lightter brush and try to do it as fine as possible
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Post by ElvenChibi on Jul 28, 2007 15:13:50 GMT
Im just gonna redo it...
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Post by Tha Chibilover on Jul 28, 2007 17:33:32 GMT
well, im nor sure iof thats a good idea, the cell shading fine to!
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Post by ElvenChibi on Jul 28, 2007 21:07:44 GMT
I need to find out how you do this Fitz... I think I found some way to kinda restyle the cellshading I did... but oh well, you've been practising for two years and me for four days so... I'll practise.
Oh yeah, I'm making a background for Endraim now... I hope it'll be some good...
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Post by Fitzy on Jul 28, 2007 22:49:55 GMT
i can send you the origional layered version of endraim so that its easyer to put the background behind him
and my tip for rendering like that is to use a really soft brush, and keep the opacity down to soemthing like 15, and just build up the shaddow, so in places with light shading you only go over it like once or twice with the brush, and in really dark areas you would go over it like 30 times with the brush, and try to keep the gradient from dark to light smoothe... it just gives it a smoothe soft textured look... u know what i mean?? and depending on how you work the brush you can get differant textures.
@chibilover: endraim is one of elvens drawings that she asked me to colour.
and elven you dont have to redo your other one, but you could practice on it if you wanted to.. keep that one, and just reuse the outline, and practice...
i still start the same by getting the flat areas of colour first with the polygon lassoe and i also still lock the transparency so i cant go over the lines (makes it soo much easyer), but then instead of selecting areas with it again to shade, what i do is closer to painting...
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Post by Life Essence on Jul 29, 2007 1:13:14 GMT
*smacks forehead* duh, lassoo tool, why didn't I think of that, I've been using the magic wand tool and expanding the border by 1/2 pixels, so wherever there's a stray line (like the hair) I have to zoom in to %500 to make it neat, Thank you Fitzy for your finite knowledge of CG.
...and to continue on from that, you can go the other direction efterwards and use a lighter brush (same opacity and still soft) and use it on raised or shiny/reflective areas.
...at least I do that when when painting models, but it's called Inking and Drybrushing.
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Post by Tha Chibilover on Jul 29, 2007 6:19:22 GMT
hey i got this question, im gonna give cging a try, but how do you make the background pure white and the lines black? wasnt there a tool for that?
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Post by Fitzy on Jul 29, 2007 8:14:47 GMT
to make your lines black, you have to find a way of cutting them out... first i make sure the drawing isnt on a background layer.. so if its a flat drawing, just use ctrl+a to select the whole picture then ctrl+x to cut it, then make a new layer and ctrl+c to paste. then i cut out the areas i want to colour with the lassoe tool folowing round the edges making sure i dont get the linework (so that all thats left is the linework) then what you do is you lock the layers transparency (with a checkered button on the layers window) once the transparency is locked use the gradient tool (the tool thats in the same button as the paint bucket) to make the linework completely black... then to get a white back ground just add in a new layer behind the outline and fill it white this is how i do it.. i find it takes a long time and its fiddely, but it is the only to copy the image perfectly from paper to the screen. hope this helps (edit) oh and heres a tutorial for metalic objects on photoshop
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Post by Tha Chibilover on Jul 29, 2007 11:14:02 GMT
wow, thats a lot, ima give it a try !
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Post by Fitzy on Jul 29, 2007 12:06:29 GMT
yeah also just posted a tut up...
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Post by Tha Chibilover on Jul 29, 2007 15:28:33 GMT
whoo coolerooly!
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Post by ElvenChibi on Jul 30, 2007 20:15:35 GMT
to make your lines black, you have to find a way of cutting them out... first i make sure the drawing isnt on a background layer.. so if its a flat drawing, just use ctrl+a to select the whole picture then ctrl+x to cut it, then make a new layer and ctrl+c to paste. then i cut out the areas i want to colour with the lassoe tool folowing round the edges making sure i dont get the linework (so that all thats left is the linework) then what you do is you lock the layers transparency (with a checkered button on the layers window) once the transparency is locked use the gradient tool (the tool thats in the same button as the paint bucket) to make the linework completely black... then to get a white back ground just add in a new layer behind the outline and fill it white I know an easier way for this fitz... let's see if i remember well... you have yourself a pic with the inked lines on it right? you should copy the layer and delete you current background. Then create a new layer beneath the one left. go to the "layer menu" ,choose new and then "background out of layer" (i dont know exactly what it is in english). you should be having a plain white new background now. Now do select the layer with the lines. Go to the "channels" - tab (look at the top of the little screen the layers are in) and press this button with a circle in it made of spots... (the one leftmost in the bottom of the screen). this button selects all the white areas in your picture. now hit delete. all you'll have left now is the lines. the picture will lose a bit of its colour, but there's an easy way to fix this. now first go back to the tab with the layers, and lock the transparency like fitz said. Now you can grab a black brush and go over the lines, they should return to their former dark state... hope i helped a bit, too and i hope you understood.. ;D
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Post by Fitzy on Jul 30, 2007 21:23:02 GMT
i know that way but the lines dont look as neat... that methods for a quick job whereas when im trying to make the best quality ones i use my technique..
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