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Published: 2007-01-29 09:37:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 11886; Favourites: 207; Downloads: 0
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I meant to post this yesterday but meh.This is just to show how Dance of the Wind was put together. It's not very in depth but it should answer some questions anyone's had
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i have to do a 40 sec metamorpase animation using photoshop cs5 animation pallete and i'm freaking out i just don't get the program. Any tips advice suggestions? Cause your tutorial is the closest thing i found that was any help in understanding the program...
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Wow! 
Great job! 
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Scratch that. It seems you used a tablet or something. A thing of which I don't own for programs like Photoshop.
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I used a tablet for this, but it can also be done using a mouse. It just takes a little longer is all.
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Can you tell me how it do it with a mouse. I am using it for a nighttime scene with a video game character. Where the moon is high above him and a field starts beyond that. I wanted to make the wind visible to give it some sort of feeling...I just don't know what kind.
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I'd guess that you have to set the brush to a low opacity and stroke many times to build up the colour. The downside is that you have to be fairly quick but precise with it since it's not as easy using a mouse for sweeping strokes, but once you've got much of it down you can use the smudge tool to smooth it out and make adjustments.
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It isn't showing up for me. I'm using FireFox.
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just to make sure i got this right do you use pencil or pen
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With this one I used pencil for the original sketch, and the brushes in Photoshop to ink it.
Other times, I'll either colour over the pencils, or I'll ink them in pen.
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This is simply amazing! This makes me wana try and pick up photoshop again. (I have the program, but it kicks my ***...)
Wish I could do all of that in flash, I'm used to it now! XD
*Faves*
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Very nicely done, like the really indepth part of it and the amazing detail work. Adding to my favs so I can remember where it is at.
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Kl! Im able to understand PS a lot better now. Thanx!
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Oh!
Lovely tutorial. As I read along, I understood everything you said. ^^
It's a good method you used. Awesome turnout as well...good job! ^^
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GAH I LOVE YOU 
MUST SAVE AND STUDY *steals*
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lol! Good to know it's useful
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I just adore how you do your backgrounds. Amazing. Awsome job~!
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Well I looked at some bojutsu videos on Youtube, but other I just got into the pose myself and figured out where everything was. The only real reference I use was myself really
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I love your tutorials, they're inspiring
Amazing work 
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It is always most interesting to me to see the process a good artist goes through to create a really good piece of art. It is something I can learn from, maybe adopt for my own, and really makes the fact you spent TIME on it stand out. I am very happy you shared, man. Thanks a million!
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No problem at all, man! I like to share what I know if it can help people with their own art
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We are forever in your debt. *bows* Thank you. 
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So awesome ;-; *cries* Everyone has awesome programs except me! Envy envy! *faves*
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Extremely well put together, and a great help. Thanks for taking the time
Out of curiosity, what's the motivation behind not using black and white?
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I suppose it was practice in a way really. Black and white can be very strong and overpowering colours/shades and I wanted a more balanced feel to this. Also, there's very little in the world that is truely black or white, short of absolute darkness and totally blinding light. Neither are in this pic obviously, but it still could have been reflected from the metal parts on Kaeman's bo staff. I figured a whiteish yellow would be better and seem more like sunlight.
That's the artistic motivation anyway. Honestly, the moment I decided not to use black or white I made it a challenge to myself to not use even so much as a single pixel of either
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Cool tutorial. I went to your site yesterday and saw it there first before here. I did have one question though. What's the difference between the outcome of placing the flat colors down, then doing the shading and highlighting from using the base color method for all parts of the image you're coloring?
If the outcome may not be different, what is?
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For the most part the outcome is the same; it's just my prefered working method really. I've tried methods before where I did this style of shading on a separate layer, but often when I switched to the flat colours to select an area I'd forget to switch back to the shading layer, meaning I ruin the layer and have to erase it and start that part over.
By duplicating the base layer and shading directly onto that I still have a copy of the base colours to make selections from, and I can quickly adjust the overall tones and recolour parts that I've shaded back into the original colour. I keep both the original and the shade colour in the palettes when I work.
Also, doing it this way means if I set my brush to something like Overlay or Linear Dodge everything will be affected and it has a better overall effect than only changing what I would have shaded if I did it the other way.
I have no idea how much sense that made...
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Oh, I forgot to add; what are your methods of selecting, 'cause the way I do it takes forever. Doesn't seem like there is a faster way around, but I'm always learning new things.
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Depends on how you're doing it I think.
I duplicate the colour layer and colour on the copy as I said. I use the magic wand tool with anti aliasing turned off to select areas from the original base colours, then change to the copied layer and colour there. Nothing much else to it than that. I make such all the base colours were marked out with the polygonal lasso tool though, again, anti alias turned off.
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Sounds like a useful technique. I'll think about that the next time I am CGing. Thanks.
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I know that I learned if I don't understand something in the reading the first time, to read it over again. This might take a few....hundred readings before I understand. Just kidding. Thanks though, I'm sure I'll get something out of that.
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Heh, sorry I can't really make it any clearer. I only understand it cos I've been doing it and know how what affects what. Pretty hard to explain otherwise
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cool i still dont have a program like that on my computer. (U_U)
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oooh very swish!
i wonder what tony would thinnk
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wow, very in depth and a fantastic finished product. I'll definately bare in mind some of your techniques.
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