Yearly Archives: 2003

Artwork, Digital Concept Gallery, Photomanipulation

Ultimate C2F: Ms. Jellybrain Telepath X-Treme

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Ms. Jellybrain, Omega level Telepath and Telekinetic. Upon reaching puberty, Jellybrain lost her hair revealing a translucent scalp. The other side effect of her mutation was increased mental powers, which she initially used to place ‘artistic’ images into peoples minds. As her powers have increased, a further effect of her mutation has become apparant.. her brain glows lime green.. giving her head a jelly like appearance.. hence the chosen x-name.

Art: I think I managed to keep MsJellybrain’s lovely face pretty much untouched. Hope you don’t mind this little bit of fun 🙂 The pic is from the Yahoo album. So is the head.. you might recognise Robbo’s crowning glory. Blended the two images together and cut out the combined head on a new layer. Found the brain on the net and masked it into the head. The body is Jolene Blalock (T’Pol from Enterprise) which was recolored. The head was resized to match. Using masks I faded out a larger head in the background. The power effect was created using one of the tutorials in the Hints’n’tips thread. The background is a random pic from the net.

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Ultimate C2F: WelshCat – Brenin Cymru

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or ‘King of Wales’. I see the Ultimate Welshcat as being like T’Challa aka Black Panther, a champion and ambassador for his people and country. I liked the Universe X take on Black Panther and thought it would work here.

The base model is Antonio Sabata whom i beheaded. I have used this base for previous submission(s). The head is a panther cut from the original and grafted on to the body. It was simpler to cut the whiskers and redo them from scratch. The body has two fur texture layers one purple, and one mottled on overlay. The head was colored and additional mottled fur texture added to match. I promoted the eyes mouth and nose over the color layers to retain the correct colors for them. The chest logo is cut from a welsh flag, and distorted onto the chest. The sword and scabard were done originally for my Valkyrie manip but I decided to re-use them here to get a sort of Captain Britain/Arthurian vibe going too. The belt created from scratch and the lion head was from a medallion. The background is of Port Merrion (setting of The Prisoner tv show) Meeowww;)

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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Laracroft C2F Offer

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There was a thread in the forums at C2F about stuff that should be for sale in the C2F shop… so I Was messing about with this as a gift for our very own Laracroft… just for being gorgeous :p but it fits in well with this theme day so.. anyone want to trade?;)

How: Grabbed some pics from Ashley’s site (it was a real chore :p ) cropped them all to the same size. Created an overlay using gradient fills. The font is Beast Wars. Applied the overlay to all the pics as a screen layer. cut off the extra to round the edges. rotated the pics to 15,30 and 45 degrees and applied drop shadows. Pulled them all together in one pic. applied a background, some text and the C2F logo.

Animation, Artwork, Coloring, Digital Concept Gallery, Inking

Fantastic 4th: Sentinel of Liberty

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Well I almost forgot all about the 4th July myself, but I managed to pull this out of the bag. A digitally colored and altered Joey Mason pic.

Step 1: Darkened the inking by use of multiply layers. Removed the excess white space around the outside. The shield originally had 4 circles(i dunno why) so i corrected this by erasing the two innermost circles, and replacing them with a larger central disc and a thinner circle.

Step 2: Using the lassoo tool so block of areas I filled them with blocks of colors. The disk colors were created initially with vector shapes and adjusted to fit. This layer was then merged into the main color layer.

Step 3: Used the lassoo tool again to select areas of the main color block. these were darken using the HSL dialog.

Step 4. In order to give a bit more depth to the colors and to the scales, added gaussian noise to the color layer. Cut out the scales from the main inking layer (this was on top set to multiply) and Negative’d the colors. Offset this selection slightly from the black ink and applied a small gaussian blur and set the layer mode to dodge. duplicated this layer again, applied a higher level of noise, colored blue, and set to hue at 25 % opacity.

Step 5: Selected a suitably patriotic background (in this case a sunset shot of Statue of Liberty). (A) Flipped the pic left to right. Applied an edge preserving smooth of about 15. (B)Duplicated the layer and colorized it blue. (C)grouped these layers together and added a gradient filled mask to the blue layer to give an effect of sun rising. (D)selected the layer group an using the inking outline as a guide, created a mask to allow the colored Cap to show through.

Step 6: The flag was created on a seperate canvas from an image I create for a previous Cap pic. Added a black border to make it fit into the inking style more. Applied a wave distortion with horizontal amplitude of 1 and wavelength of 100, vertical amp of 4 and wavelength of 40. created 2 gaussian blurred black filled rectangles on a new layer, set to darken at about 30% opacity. The same done with white rectangles on a lighten layer. Used the distorted flag to create a mask to hide the lighten and darken overspills. all merged into one layer. used free deform tool to distort the flag further into a more realistic form. The pole is a gradient filled rectangle and the ropes were done freehand. transferred to the main canvas and positioned. Used the main ink layer to again mask off the flag behind Cap.

Step 7: Logo added in Bremen Bold on two layers, one with a preset chrome fill, and another with a custom Red White Blue fill. messed about with the layer blend modes to get a nice effect (chrome layer is on multiply at about 75% opacity). These were then merged and a pincushion lens distortion applied. Added a drop shadow. Finally brought up the signatures to a new layer and reversed the color.

 

I made this animated version to illustrate the coloring process:

Anyways Happy 4th of July Weekend to All.

Artwork, Digital Concept Gallery, Photomanipulation

Cyber2Reality Redo: American McGee’s Alice

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Well.. Evanesence current number one has a lot to answer for.. for some reason made me think of Alice here.. so i went back and tidied up some of the bits from my previous submission of this piece. The new monitor helps a lot.. amazing what I missed on the original pic cos the old monitor was so dark. Anyways, basically ramped up the colours a bit, tidied up the fades and masks and added some glows..

Artwork, Coloring, Digital Concept Gallery

Gift4Fun: Death for a Lady (Colored)

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I loved this pic immediately I saw it in the DCG gallery and couldn’t stop myself having a go at giving it a simple coloring. This is a gift for Strangefish (who was kind enough to let me do a colored version) and also for Lady D (whom the original was gifted too) 😛 First thing I did after downloading the pic was promote it to a new layer set to multiply. I then added a new layer below this for the coloring. Using the lassoo tool to select the outline various areas to be colored, I built up the color starting with darkest shade first, moving inward with lighter and lighter shades. Before deselecting each area, I applied a small gaussian blur to soften the color changes.

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F4 Concept: Ben J Grimm AKA ‘the Thing’

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Just an experiment in PSP8 using masks (which I hadn’t used that much in the past). Ben is weight training while Johnny annoys him as usual. The base model is body builder Greg Kavaks, who already had pretty big arms, but I cut these out, enlarged them (and the bar bells) and blended them back into the base pic. The background is made of a few different textures including galvanized zinc and black ceramic tiles. The flame was done using a custom gradient fill smudged into a flamelike trail. an additional softened gradient fill used to give an orange glow to the rest of the background. Thing’s head was based on a mask I saw. USed this to get the basic shapes which were made using the pen and various flesh tones from the base pic. The rock texture is one of my stock and was put on a multiply layer. Edited various mask layers to reveal the sections of the base pic and arms/barbells I wanted to show. The logo was made from one cut from a comic cover, with additional texturing and the rest of the text is done in Fantastifont. The ‘4’ logo is from the teaser pic I submitted previously.

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What was the Question?

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I had downloaded this pic of Orson Welles from the Third Man with the intention of using it for the Back to the 40s theme day, but i decided to go with Cap America instead. This was just a quickie experimenting with some filters. Smudged the face to remove the features. created the logo from scratch using vectors. added a drop shadow, them deformed the layer to look like it was receding. set this to soft light. applied a watercolor filter over the whole pic and then worked on the edges to look like the paint was layered on.

Artwork, Coloring, Digital Concept Gallery

Spider-Man 2 Animated (Almost)

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This started life as a Tracie Mauk inking of Spidey and Ock, digitally colored in my own inimitable style… colors, textures, gradients, chrome filters and this time a bit of masking on the background together with brush filter. The web in the corner is a texture on a couple of layers set to screen and the logo is cut from a Spidey promo pic. I know I should have metalized all the webs on spidey.. but..i’m afraid laziness got the better of me…

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X3: Logan – Mutant Vs Metal REDUX

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Based on the comments in the UIRs on my previous ‘BoneClaw’ Wolverine, I went back to the drawing board and began again. This is my first manip using PSP8.

I started with a much better quality pic of Wolvie running towards the camera in front of what looked like a bluescreen. The tunnel background was downloaded from google and placed over the top of the wolverine image, I then cut out wolverine’s shape from the background. I used the original metal claws to line up rectangles of my bone texture and then used the lassoo tool to cut out the shape (i made them longer than the originals). I also used the lassoo tool in conjunction with HSL to darken the flat sides of the claws. The blood was drawn on a multiply layer and then smudged out. The body on the background was added from another google find. logo from scratch. Let me know if this is an improvement. Using the same selection I cut out the background with I created a filled shape which was blurred, and distorted to make the shadow on the floor. I also made a gradient filled selection to tint wolverine to match the background more.

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Hulk Smash!: Target Aquired

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The guy Hulk is bearing down on better get his shot of quick, cos the speed the hulk is moving he only has about 5 seconds to shoot (or go “OH SH*T!). :p

This started out as a pic of bodybuilder Orville Burke, I liked the pose and figured it might make a good Hulk. I cut him out of his original background and colored him green. His proportions weren’t quite right for the hulk so I cut and enlarged his hands/forearms and his calfs using smoothing and cloning to get back the missing detail.

The head is taken from a teaser photo of the hulk that was released yonks ago. I upped the brightness by duplicating the pic onto a couple of new layers set to screen. The head was then cut out and positioned over orville’s. I had to tweak the colors a bit to get a match. Over the top of this lot I put a leathery skin texture for some additional depth.

The pants were created in my usual manner of multiple layered textures and shaders. The background was a random Nevada desert shot from the net. The helicopter is one of the ones I used previously in my Ultimate Hulk/Cap pic a few months ago. The target sights created using vector shapes and set to screen. Added some text to show range/speed etc and on the other side of the target is a list of random numbers. The hulk logo was pieced together from the logo in the hulk movie site.

I also made a wallpaper version:

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Parker’s Portfolio Preview #4

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A closer look at one of the manipped Photos used in the final scene (used in my big spidey image and the portfolio collection image).

I tried to put the backgrounds at an angle to give the pics a dynamic feel. the pics were created using photos the model of the movie spiderman from various angles combined with excerpts from a panoramic view of manhattan at various angles.

The panorama was actually a daytime shot which i made negative, then colorized a pale green, and set to multiply over the original pic – and made a night view. The combined model and background pics were tinged grey/green and a border added to make it look like a photo. For these Individual pics I added the camera viewfinder graphics on an overlay layer

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Parker’s Portfolio Preview #3

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Another closer look at one of the manipped Photos used in the final scene. I tried to put the backgrounds at an angle to give the pics a dynamic feel. the pics were created using photos the model of the movie spiderman from various angles combined with excerpts from a panoramic view of manhattan at various angles. The panorama was actually a daytime shot which i made negative, then colorized a pale green, and set to multiply over the original pic – and made a night view. The combined model and background pics were tinged grey/green and a border added to make it look like a photo. For these Individual pics I added the camera viewfinder graphics on an overlay layer.

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X3: Cry Havok and let slip the dogs of war!

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A concept for a movie Havok using the Mullet’s casting. Just a quickie really, using the base pic of Wolvie from X2 & the head of Shane West. Remove the x on wolvies chest using the smudge tool then added some random noise. The havok logo is done using vector circles on overlay layers offset to give a raised effect. The power effect was drawn then is smudged and softened and duplicated onto a couple of other layers and blurred to give the glow. The black halo was built up using some shaded vecotr spheres on softlight blurred. All in all took about 30-40 mins including the time to find a decent head shot of shane.


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Rise of the Machines: Ultron Recharged

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Just a quickie I threw together for this theme day, as Ultron has always been a pretty cool robot and villain.

Started with the photo of the Ultron bust downloaded from the net, added a couple of different background textures, deformed to give a nice perspective. Added some gradient fills to simulate shadows. Added Ultrons shadow to the floor by creating a filled selection and deforming it, then blurring it. The laser beams and reflections in Ultron were created using blurred vector lines.

Still looked a bit flat so I added another layer with the wall texture set to soft lift, and cut out ultrons shape to simulate the reflection. Finally added some glows to his eyes and mouth. The border and text was done with Eyecandy chrome filter. The font is Beast Machines (a transformer font).

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Parker’s Portfolio Preview #2

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A closer look at one of the manipped Photos used in the final scene. I tried to put the backgrounds at an angle to give the pics a dynamic feel. the pics were created using photos the model of the movie spiderman from various angles combined with excerpts from a panoramic view of manhattan at various angles. The panorama was actually a daytime shot which i made negative, then colorized a pale green, and set to multiply over the original pic – and made a night view. The combined model and background pics were tinged grey/green and a border added to make it look like a photo. For these Individual pics I added the camera viewfinder graphics on an overlay layer

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Parker’s Portfolio Preview #1

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The pictures which make up this (and the following) preview pic(s) were created for to be used in panels in the Spiderman manip posted at the end of May.

Three of the pics were created using photos the model of the movie spiderman from various angles combined with excerpts from a panoramic view of manhattan at various angles. The panorama was actually a daytime shot which i made negative, then colorized a pale green, and set to multiply over the original pic – and made a night view. The combined model and background pics were tinged grey/green and a border added to make it look like a photo. The pic at the bottom middle is cut from the larger scene and shows my manipped from scratch movie Spidey (See the final scene art notes on how) The Daily Bugle press pass was from the net, I just tidied up the cornest. The Police pass was also downloaded from the net. I added the photo from the press pass, changed the date and added the name and paper details. The background is my previously posted Daily Bugle manip