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Post by Aestelon on Mar 3, 2009 2:00:49 GMT -9
Okay, here's your modded versions! Bearded... And Braveheart... ;D
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Post by abaddonwormwood on Mar 3, 2009 2:37:34 GMT -9
Neat, very neat!
Lord Abaddon of Wormwood
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Post by Aestelon on Mar 3, 2009 3:26:51 GMT -9
Thanks. I've now edited the figs so they've got the right fraggin' year on 'em. Eeejit.
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Post by Floyd on Mar 11, 2009 16:59:45 GMT -9
Awesome job on the plaid Kilt man!
Well done all around on a fine looking model... I think I like the modded version the best.
~Floyd
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Post by docryder on Mar 12, 2009 19:23:46 GMT -9
Excellent shading on the tartan!
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Post by Aestelon on Mar 16, 2009 4:31:29 GMT -9
Thanks! As I said, it was actually a lot easier than I was expecting; the tartan was done simply by starting with a flat mid-blue basecoat, laying down thick bands of a darker blue, then using a thin yellowish brush to run down the edges of the dark bands and a thinner orange one to run lines down the centre of the bands. The actual shading and highlighting was just laid down with soft black and white brushes on a separate "overlay" layer.
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Post by docryder on Mar 19, 2009 17:50:35 GMT -9
What impressed me was that you follow the flow of the fabric well. Most folks overlay the tartan on the kilt flat, ignoring the folds.
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Post by Aestelon on Mar 19, 2009 19:33:14 GMT -9
If the pattern had been especially complicated, then I might have been tempted to do something like that (although I probably would have hated myself for it afterwards! ). But this tartan was so simple to replicate by hand, there didn't seem to be any excuse to rely on stock patterns (in fact, it was probably easier to draw from scratch than it would have been to find a decent swatch of it online..!).
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Post by onemonkeybeau on Mar 19, 2009 21:10:53 GMT -9
You know... I was thinking that this Highlander, with a few mods, would make a very cool Conan the Barbarian!
onemonkeybeau
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Post by Floyd on Mar 20, 2009 7:36:14 GMT -9
That hand-drawn kilt pattern is excellent. This discussion got me curious about plaid patterns so I went looking for some and found this: Clan Patterns * Photoshop has a technique using Displacement maps to recognize folds and valleys and "can" do a good job of warping a straight pattern convincingly. It can also work well if you are wanting to wrap ... say a skin texture. I used the McLeod pattern on the back of the Kobold kilt as an quick example. It would have been more convincing to align the grain of the pattern with each piece of fabric...but it fairly illustrates the point. ~F
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Post by Slick on Mar 20, 2009 8:05:00 GMT -9
you have a new nickname sir from hence forth you shall be called "the photoshop Yoda" ;D seriously dude you have a mass of knowledge about photoshop and thanks bunches for passing it on!
Nate
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Post by kane on Mar 20, 2009 9:53:39 GMT -9
Woah! Thats so cool! Amazing what Photoshop is capable of in the right hands.
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Post by abaddonwormwood on Mar 20, 2009 17:27:08 GMT -9
While that is very cool and works I would rather you keep this for the goblins - I would love to see Gobs in Tartan.
Lord Abaddon of Wormwood
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Post by Aestelon on Mar 20, 2009 19:23:36 GMT -9
That is very cool. I don't use Photoshop myself, so that particular route's probably not open to me. But it does occur to me that Artweaver has a set of Warping brushes, and the main one (appropriately called Warp) seems to do (I believe) roughly the same sort of thing as Photoshop's Liquify tool; you can literally 'push' the pattern around with the brush. That might be worth experimenting with for future attempts.
Beau - To be honest, I think even without changing the build of the figure, Conan's still too different from this to be a simple mod. I think it'd be easier to do a new one of him from scratch.
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Post by onemonkeybeau on Mar 21, 2009 10:47:34 GMT -9
Yeah, after I posted that I looked at some of my pics of Conan... I think you're right!
onemonkeybeau
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Post by Floyd on Mar 24, 2009 7:47:33 GMT -9
Hmm... Aestelon...I'd like to see you do a Slaine figure. You are not too far off with that base figure. Shorten the hair and make it black n spikey. Add some face paint, a metal skull waste belt and a ridiculously large Axe and wahhlahh The Son God. ~F
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Post by Aestelon on Mar 24, 2009 10:25:16 GMT -9
Hmm. Also one to consider. I'm not sure it'd be particularly any easier to mod this fig than draw a new one, but I'll see what happens. I'm not that familiar with Slaine, but I've grabbed a few reference pics to spark me ideas.
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