#1 was the only one you got right. I know how to spot talent and how to spot fakes by questioning them with simplistic rationality.Congrats to you though for having a trolling talent. Not much of one, hence the easy spotting.
It's not bogus. The guy's just not that skilled an artist. It's not really much different with today's PC's and tablets to paint with nearly the exact same process in Photoshop that you would with oil.I've had an art background my whole life as well, tho I've never been to any schools for it. My dad's an artist so it was only natural that i end up learning a bit. As i said, you can approach a work with a PC in pretty much the same way as traditional mediums. But digital art IS very different from traditional mediums. There are all sorts of interesting ways to approach the painting in photoshop. You can go with the classic "Sketch to painting" method or you can just take a brush and start putting in shapes, removing shapes, refining shapes until you get the overall shape you like, then further detail and refine it. I've seen some really interesting techniques where people will doodle with gray markers some random abstract geometric groups with a few different shades of gray, then scan in several of those, layer them, add a layer of color and then start playing around until they end up finding an interesting composition in the abstract tie-die of a landscape. He most likely used a tablet, and I'm sure it was done at a higher resolution, just scaled down so that his animated gif wasn't at some absurdly un-web-friendly resolution. Dot pitch has little effect on the painting process. It was either Photoshop or the Gimp (probably the former) tho if the signature says 2002 as it would seem, then I'd say it would probably also be possible in Painter. Back then painter had a more 'digital' looking set of tools, and this could be the pastel tool. Smart money's on Photoshop. There's really a LOT of examples of this sort of .gif animation on the web. You should check out some sites like conceptart.org or sijun.com (the forums there). Mostly digital stuff, almost all excellent and both geared towards learning.
Can't imagine why you are being dugg down. I personally find this sort of thing more expressive than just looking at the end result. Especially since these days anything just might be photoshopped (in the 'cheater' sense of the the word). Plus while I don't have any talent, I like to draw and watching a pro do it gives me some tips on where I'm going wrong. Jarasmen's op is studiously blase, like everyone on the net is these days, but I challenge him/her to duplicate it. And even if you can, it doesn't diminish the fact that this is interesting for non-artists to see.
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pixelbeatNov 15, 2007
Does anyone notice that this directory is full of animated gifs? Dmn it! Change the title, yo!"Huge list of animated gif to crash down your productivity!"Love this one... but there are another 151 to check.<a class="user" href="http://www.akenini.com/imagesfun/mini_animations/3">http://www.akenini.com/imagesfun/mini_animations/3</a> ...I didnt check all of them, see, but I thing that there are plenty.Step 1. Write down a new number. <a class="user" href="http://www.akenini.com/imagesfun/mini_animations/1.gif">http://www.akenini.com/imagesfun/mini_animations/1 ...</a>...Step 152. You are about to finish! <a class="user" href="http://www.akenini.com/imagesfun/mini_animations/152.gif">http://www.akenini.com/imagesfun/mini_animations/1 ...</a>
goldspinkNov 15, 2007
An animation is nothing but a series of pictures.
looselipsNov 17, 2007
#1 was the only one you got right. I know how to spot talent and how to spot fakes by questioning them with simplistic rationality.Congrats to you though for having a trolling talent. Not much of one, hence the easy spotting.
squigglypNov 19, 2007
It's not bogus. The guy's just not that skilled an artist. It's not really much different with today's PC's and tablets to paint with nearly the exact same process in Photoshop that you would with oil.I've had an art background my whole life as well, tho I've never been to any schools for it. My dad's an artist so it was only natural that i end up learning a bit. As i said, you can approach a work with a PC in pretty much the same way as traditional mediums. But digital art IS very different from traditional mediums. There are all sorts of interesting ways to approach the painting in photoshop. You can go with the classic "Sketch to painting" method or you can just take a brush and start putting in shapes, removing shapes, refining shapes until you get the overall shape you like, then further detail and refine it. I've seen some really interesting techniques where people will doodle with gray markers some random abstract geometric groups with a few different shades of gray, then scan in several of those, layer them, add a layer of color and then start playing around until they end up finding an interesting composition in the abstract tie-die of a landscape. He most likely used a tablet, and I'm sure it was done at a higher resolution, just scaled down so that his animated gif wasn't at some absurdly un-web-friendly resolution. Dot pitch has little effect on the painting process. It was either Photoshop or the Gimp (probably the former) tho if the signature says 2002 as it would seem, then I'd say it would probably also be possible in Painter. Back then painter had a more 'digital' looking set of tools, and this could be the pastel tool. Smart money's on Photoshop. There's really a LOT of examples of this sort of .gif animation on the web. You should check out some sites like conceptart.org or sijun.com (the forums there). Mostly digital stuff, almost all excellent and both geared towards learning.
forgetfulcaNov 19, 2007
About 6 to 9 million years, according to where you'd like to mark the branching. Doesn't seem to be any signs of growing up any time soon, nuther.
forgetfulcaNov 19, 2007
Can't imagine why you are being dugg down. I personally find this sort of thing more expressive than just looking at the end result. Especially since these days anything just might be photoshopped (in the 'cheater' sense of the the word). Plus while I don't have any talent, I like to draw and watching a pro do it gives me some tips on where I'm going wrong. Jarasmen's op is studiously blase, like everyone on the net is these days, but I challenge him/her to duplicate it. And even if you can, it doesn't diminish the fact that this is interesting for non-artists to see.
ez123funNov 20, 2008
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aaendra2Jan 29, 2009
Cool!
ProjectChapman3DMar 17, 2011
Project Chapman 3D is all about the stereoscopic film we're making on the life of Graham Chapman - Great 3D, minimum fuss. Check it out here - http://www.projectchapman3d.com/blog/