Back to the spaceships again! Pretty pleased with how this turned out.
Here’s a quick “how I made it” show-n-tell.
1. Grab Bazze’s excellent free Ramjet model. While you’re there gasp in awe at his renders. He’s, like, 10000 times better than I could ever be.
2. Import into DAZ Studio
3. Add lights (I just used my regular Lightdome Pro Draft Cloudy lights). Use a black background and save as a .png file. This makes the background transparent – handy for later.
4. Next, find a suitable space background, move the ship a few times and re-render, saving as a .jpg each time. Like this:
5. Almost done! Load the three “with background” images into Photoshop and paste ‘em all into the same document as layers. Use the crude but effective select, inverse selection, edit->clear to put them all on the screen at the same time, then add Motion Blur.
6. Load the .png into Photoshop, and drop that in on it’s ownlayer. Add a touch of Motion Blur to this layer too in the same direction. 2-4 pixels should do it. Flatten, save as .jpg.
7. Done!
For extra bonus points, use Erick Nguyen’s amazing Watercolour Action for Photoshop (available here, number 19 under Sketch Actions) for added awesomeness.
Total time: 20 minutes.
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awesome! but it needs to be just a big bigger, say 1920 x 1200 ;)
Posted 04 Jul 2009 at 5:57 pm ¶Lol! This full resolution image is 1235×696, here’s the direct link. I’ll remember to make a bigger one next time :D
Posted 04 Jul 2009 at 7:48 pm ¶I gotta say, that certainly is nice eye candy, and in 20 minutes too. Kudos!
Posted 04 Jul 2009 at 8:08 pm ¶Zzarchov´s last blog ..Alignment and Morality, A topic sure to go down smooth at every gaming group
“big bigger” ? oy, nice. but you know what i meant.
Posted 05 Jul 2009 at 5:31 am ¶you really do turn out some fantastic work.
I like this, but I would still rather fly a Greywulf-class free trader.
Posted 06 Jul 2009 at 10:52 pm ¶Wow. These feel like they should be Zentraedi attack fighters for Robotech.
Posted 17 Jul 2009 at 3:44 am ¶Dyson Logos´s last blog ..Make no mistake! Crabmen enjoy carnage!
(PS: could I steal the non-watercoloured image, with credit of course, and stat them out as Zentraedi fighters for the Robotech RPG and maybe another game or two on my blog? I’ll give full credit to you.)
Posted 17 Jul 2009 at 3:46 am ¶Dyson Logos´s last blog ..Make no mistake! Crabmen enjoy carnage!
@Dyson Thanks! Go right ahead and grab the image – I’ve posted the direct link in an earlier comment.
Posted 17 Jul 2009 at 8:55 am ¶Post a Comment