A Fairly quick ( 6 hours ) piece intended to be the basis of a matte painting sometime in the future..
The huge advantage of PS these days is being able to create and modify custom brushes so quickly and easily. Back in the day if you wanted high frequency detail you needed to select it out of a photo and sort of stamp that around. Now with the magical brush creator, it's become an essential tool for me. I am constantly making brushes and also trying out other people's brushes to get new interesting textures and marks.
here's an early stage shot where you can see alot of raw splooshy marks just being put down...many of these splooshes are nice enough ( in the cloud areas for example) that I can leave them as is in the final. Of course when I take it to a finished matte then alot of photo material will be mixed in, and even then the organic edges of the custom brushes help to transition into the photo material.
If you haven't explored the brush engine much, just do a google search..well worth your time.
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3 comments:
Super nice. Those textures are fantastic. I must admit I haven't used custom brushes much. I have a few, but this is making me want to dive further in.
Great job.
this looks amazing! especially whats going on in the foreground lava and the surf! those are some nice brushes.
Man,the only brush I know is the round one with a soft edge... gah! Nonetheless these are superb!! Bravo!!
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