Heyo! I think the lighting could be improved: Generally there seems to be a disconnect between light sources and light/shadows. The pillars don't seem to cast proper shadows onto the connecting surfaces. Also looks like you have shadows of ceiling elements on the ground, which is weird as the light would have to come…
I do my paint in layers, its not so much finding an image and overlaying it. But instead finding a collection of ingredients that build the foundations of what you want to achieve. I also like to do all my layers solid, like painting. I try to avoid using overlays or layer effects. This has massive benefits when deriving…
A large bulk of my coloring process is to make a fill layer, give it a black mask, add a 3D distance generator, then a light generator set to multiply above it. Finally I often add a paint layer on top of those two to manually tweak the mask as a final step. Many other things often change once I have that setup, but my…
- @kite: Would you mind telling me what you did exactly (is it just new layers with colors or are there some effects)? You say it took but 10min,but I could have sat there for 2-3hours and wouldn't have gotten that far.. =( The background image is from the profile backgrounds used by Dota. I think this was from Ancient…
Thanks for the comment, will keep up to date for the post. Regarding the Chest piece, I first of made it to clo mirror it and further push the model into the shape of the silouhet, but after playing around with it, I decided that it's not going to work. So instead I used that clo piece as a reference and redo the whole…
Set the AO layer as Normal blending mode at 100% opacity in Photoshop, then go to the Channels palette and CTRL+click any of the channels to make that into a selection. Invert the selection. Add this selection as a layer mask to a pure black solid colour layer (or dark blue, whatever colour you want your shadows). You can…
There's a much easier way to do this in photoshop. What you do is create your individual images as black and white layers then double click on the layer to bring up the 'layer styles' dialog box that looks like this: Notice the three check-boxes that say 'channels' next to them under opacity. If you uncheck all but one of…
Agreed. Jason commented on this in one of the threads... [ QUOTE ] Many of the pros do not work in layers. They work alla prima....directly painting into one layer. There is no shame in that sir. Some artists feel using layers is cheating their process. Crazy alla prima people!!! I will see if I can dig up some process…
Got a photoshop question... I got a layer that is basically a few shapes filled with black/white gradients. I'm wanting to take this layer and use it as a mask for another layer, but I don't know how to do it. This is a screengrab with the way it is at the moment; with the a solid colour mixed with the gradient layer. What…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d54zakjjw94j38m/anty_ShaderPack.upk https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3sjyrmnu7qha5g/anty_ShaderReferenceMap.udk And some simple manual -* Grayscle sky lighting, * Set Spec and Roughness values = 1 if use SRO (Specular, Roughness, Other) (Sample in MI folder) * Fresnel controls for metals face=1. 90 = 1…