here a pic of 4 monks.
a ppu (blue/purple one)
an apu (red one)
a ppu on herione (yellow one)
an apu on herione (green one)
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/962/ohnoez0et.jpg
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here a pic of 4 monks.
a ppu (blue/purple one)
an apu (red one)
a ppu on herione (yellow one)
an apu on herione (green one)
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/962/ohnoez0et.jpg
Another one of DJ, head is crap.
You seem very keen on being a woman.
DJ is a girl.....
I really like the CM guard, DJ! It looks just like the one ingame, down to the tiniest detail!
The the doodle with the newer plasma pistol model is really cool too :) You paid a lot of attention to the gun's newer features!
I started out by trying to doodle something for that crimbo cheer thread but ultimately got carried away :P I thought it would be fun to experiment :) (and it was!)
Her happy expression isn't really expected in a post apocalyptic wastelands, I know, especially when it's snowing/sleeting in the steppes, but I think it's really cute, if a bit too disney-ish :) I'm not really too fond of the photo's edges though, but with the amount of time I've spent on it I just wanted to get the thing over with :P I'll upload the cleaner version later today!
I think it turned out pretty well (although other than the background, it doesn't really have anything to do with NC... but who knows! Maybe with NC2.2 there will be some snow capped mountains to explore!), I had a lot of fun doing it :)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...3/holidays.jpg
The CM guard isn't really supposed to look like the ingame ones, it's supposed to be beafier, with a nicer helmet.
Yes, but you're not, which is highly disturbing :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Dribble Joy
Fan-tastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunny Rosalind
Dribble Joy is the name given to my chars in games for ages. It's porn name (first pet's anme and mother maiden name) of a girl I went on a diving trip with. She's a girl, so DJ's a girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackDove
I"M BACK!!! I"M FRIGGING BACK!
Re-upping Neocron game install to see if I can run it this time around.
Anyways... Even in the worst, harshest situations, a human can still smile.
Anyways, Sunny... Old photo style. Tutorial. Now. Please?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Heavyporker
Heavy!!! Guess what lol =) IM BACK TOOO ! Ill cya ingame :)
That Draw from Sunny Rosalind is awesome !
Here's the image of the wintery scene before I aged it. I think it looks much better after it's been aged!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...eroriginal.jpg
As per Heavy's request, I made a little tutorial underlining how I aged the picture. It's not particularly thought-intensive but it doesn't look great with every picture (as I'll demonstrate today :P)
First, here's the picture that I'm going to age. I got the idea after wondering why there weren't any male dancers! Then I realised that instead of bringing men down to the women's level, the devs should focus on bringing the women up a few notches by creating some female-based enemies. So, here's a Regant's-style mutant thing! I know it doesn't really fit in with the Regants 'mutant worm thing feng shui'ing all of your organs out' shtick, but you know... whatever :)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...antsfemale.jpg
I don't think it came out too well (it was all very very rough on paper) but I like the idea I have behind it... I'll probably end up re-doodling it again some other time.
OK, now here's how you can make any picture look aged!
1) Merge everything that you want aged onto a single layer
This is important since the filters and other tricks will only effect the active layer!
2) Give the picture some film grain
Go into Filter > Artistic > Film Grain
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...dtutorial1.jpg
And use the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...dtutorial2.jpg
3) Fade the film grain a little bit
Go into Edit > Fade Film Grain (this option will only be selectable if you do this step DIRECTLY after you do the film grain. If it's not selectable, use the history bar to go back to the step directly before you applied the film grain and try again)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...dtutorial3.jpg
And fade it:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...dtutorial4.jpg
4) Add some noise
Go into Filter > Noise > Add Noise
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...dtutorial5.jpg
And use the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...dtutorial6.jpg
5) Change your foreground/background color
Their colors are F8E8D2 and 7D5B2C I believe!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...dtutorial7.jpg
You're doing this to prepare for the next step, rendering clouds to give it a more dynamic look!
6) Render Clouds
Go into Filter > Render > Render Clouds
Your picture will be replaced by a bunch of colors! Don't panic, it's supposed to happen!
After that, fade the clouds by going to Edit > Fade Clouds
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...dtutorial9.jpg
Using the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial10.jpg
7) Grain it some more
Go into Filters > Texture > Grain
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial11.jpg
Using the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial12.jpg
And this is about as aged as the picture will look. In this case, the picture I'm trying to age looks really really awful :P
The pictures that normally look best are pictures that contain a lot of browns, beiges, and tans. This picture is mainly shades of grey and it doesn't look too hot!
8) Increase the Canvas size
Go into Image > Canvas Size
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial13.jpg
Using the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial14.jpg
We're doing this to prepare for our next steps, creating the edges of the picture so it looks like it's seperate from wherever you're posting it!
9) Select the new canvas area with the Marquee tool
The new area should be blank, like it is in this picture :)
We're doing this to prepare ourselves to select the exact size of the picture.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial15.jpg
Now that we have selected everything that's NOT the picture, we can go into Select > Inverse
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial16.jpg
And that leaves us with a rectangle that has the exact size of the picture, which is nice, because we're going to put the edges on next!
10) Add the edges
Before we can actually add the edges, we should increase the size of our box so it extends just a little bit past the picture. We can do this by expanding our selection!
Go into Select > Modify> Expand
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial16.jpg
And use these settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial18.jpg
Now, create a new layer underneath the picture, like this, using a fairly dark brown, beige, or tan color (I picked a really awful color, don't use this one! :P), and use the paint bucket tool to fill in the selection.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial19.jpg
Having just one solid block of color is pretty boring! So we're going to add a little gradient to the edges, it'll look a little bit more dynamic that way.
Change your foreground color to black (the color box that's higher up and in the front... this will be our shadow color)
And when the edge layer is selected, click on the effects button (the circle with an f in it), then click on Gradient Overlay
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial20.jpg
And use these settings (you'll need to change the actual gradient, use one that goes from being transparent into being the foreground color):
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial21.jpg
11) Chop up the edges
We'll want to use the regular lasso tool for this :)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial22.jpg
Zigzag while moving your cursor down, like in this picture. I went a little bit overboard (and it came out even worse because of it) since I was trying to chop out the right side of the picture because I thought it was really ugly :)
A good tip is to alternate between hardcore zigzags, and gentle swooping curves... It'll look more natural that way :) I did nearly all hardcore zigzags for this picture and as a result it looks like someone had a field day with scissors :P
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial23.jpg
Make sure that the lasso is in a fairly large circle shape with a bunch of zigzags on one side, like mine. We want to delete all of the tan edges later, so we should have them inside the circle.
Hold shift, and do the same thing for another side!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial24.jpg
Repeat for the other two sides! :)
When you're done with that, clear everything that's in the selection. It should look something like this:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...tutorial25.jpg
Make sure you clear both of the layers, the picture layer, and the edges layer.
12) Put on some final touches
I put my other aged picture in the background but it didn't help at all :P
Shading also helps make the picture look as if it's seperate from the background, which is nice! Make sure that there's enough room for all of your shading, it looks really weird when parts of the shading are cut off.
If you haven't done so already, make sure the background is the same color of the background of the place where you're going to post it!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17...gantsfinal.jpg
And there you have it! The really cool thing about Photoshop is that by using 'actions' (if you don't have that window open, go into the windows menu and find it) you can have Photoshop do the first 10 steps for you in about 2-3 seconds! So you can age any photograph almost instantly :)
Hope this tutorial helped!
I'm really looking forward to seeing some more doodles :)
Wow... interesting... Thanks for the tutorial. I'll see if I can't try that out.
I wonder if I can hire Rosalind to make a thing of me :)
well, asurmen, describe yourself/your character.
My charecter....Quote:
Originally Posted by Heavyporker
Well he always carries that sexy Jones mission sword.
Is nitty gritty, but ofcorse in the world of NC
has a worn camo jacket.
and tanish pants.
Black hair.
otherwise, go crazy with artistical leetness