Abstract Swirly Spacey Thing

[Swalski]

Ok. I know some madass PDNers might think this is simple, but someone felt that they would like a tut, and I was happy to oblige

Plugins:

Align Object

Bevel

Anyway, you will be making something like this

(I apologise this is not the exact thing you will be making. I made this image, and about two weeks later I made the tut, but I think this is quite close. Play around with some of the options and see what result you get)

Ok, here we go.

1. Start with a plain 800x600 Background. Select your two colours as black and red. Go to render and select clouds (Scale 110. Roughness 0.75) Gaussian blur this at about 25.

2. Now make a new layer, draw a white circle (any size really),fill it white and align it to the centre.

3. Make a new layer, and draw a white ellipse, fill it white, and align that to centre.

4. Merge the cirlce and ellipse layers down.

5. Wand inside the shape and bevel the edges. Make the top a light red, and the bottom a darker red (Depth 20).

6. Wand in the centre and fill this section red.

7. Wand outside the shape and press Ctrl + I to invert. Gaussian blur this at 20

8. Wand in the centre of the shape and hit glow (17, 72, -87).

9. Again, wand outside the shape, Ctrl + I to invert and Gaussian blur at 20

10. Ok. Duplicate the layer twice. On the top layer apply a twist at the standard settings.

11. Go down a layer and twist again, but this time, on the first setting, put a minus in front of it.

12. Finally, glow the top two layers (17, 38, -87)

And you’re done! Again, as I said before, feel free to play around with the settings and colours. This is a rough guidline. Change the twist options, glow options, colour options, anything!

Thanks,

Swalski

[Swalski]

Ok. I know some madass PDNers might think this is simple, but someone felt that they would like a tut, and I was happy to oblige

Plugins:

Align Object

Bevel

Anyway, you will be making something like this

(I apologise this is not the exact thing you will be making. I made this image, and about two weeks later I made the tut, but I think this is quite close. Play around with some of the options and see what result you get)

Ok, here we go.

1. Start with a plain 800x600 Background. Select your two colours as black and red. Go to render and select clouds (Scale 110. Roughness 0.75) Gaussian blur this at about 25.

2. Now make a new layer, draw a white circle (any size really),fill it white and align it to the centre.

3. Make a new layer, and draw a white ellipse, fill it white, and align that to centre.

4. Merge the cirlce and ellipse layers down.

5. Wand inside the shape and bevel the edges. Make the top a light red, and the bottom a darker red (Depth 20).

6. Wand in the centre and fill this section red.

7. Wand outside the shape and press Ctrl + I to invert. Gaussian blur this at 20

8. Wand in the centre of the shape and hit glow (17, 72, -87).

9. Again, wand outside the shape, Ctrl + I to invert and Gaussian blur at 20

10. Ok. Duplicate the layer twice. On the top layer apply a twist at the standard settings.

11. Go down a layer and twist again, but this time, on the first setting, put a minus in front of it.

12. Finally, glow the top two layers (17, 38, -87)

And you’re done! Again, as I said before, feel free to play around with the settings and colours. This is a rough guidline. Change the twist options, glow options, colour options, anything!

Thanks,

Swalski

[KillerK]

lovely

just two things :

it would help a lot of people trying this out if you give links to the plugins

also i think those pictures might be too big for forum rules and youll wake up one of the mods

apart from that well written but i think, like in your sig the end result is better without the background, also maybe a bit of feather is in order.

well ill be back later with my attempt

[KillerK]

lovely

just two things :

it would help a lot of people trying this out if you give links to the plugins

also i think those pictures might be too big for forum rules and youll wake up one of the mods

apart from that well written but i think, like in your sig the end result is better without the background, also maybe a bit of feather is in order.

well ill be back later with my attempt

[Swalski]

Thanks KillerK. I've put down the hyperlinks for the plugins, and am working on the pictures.

Hope the mods don't catch me!

Cheers,

Swalski

[Swalski]

Thanks KillerK. I've put down the hyperlinks for the plugins, and am working on the pictures.

Hope the mods don't catch me!

Cheers,

Swalski

[Sharp]

the background hurts my eyes :shock:

[Sharp]

the background hurts my eyes :shock:

[Swalski]

Sorry Sharp. I didn't mean it. This was just a back I used. You can use anything.

I've updated it. All pictures now are smaller and (I think) under the allowed size.

Cheers,

Swalski

[Swalski]

Sorry Sharp. I didn't mean it. This was just a back I used. You can use anything.

I've updated it. All pictures now are smaller and (I think) under the allowed size.

Cheers,

Swalski

[Remii9512]

Eh, the pictures are broken...

[HELEN]

I like this quick tut; really clever. Nice job!

[Swalski]

@Remii9512 I'm not sure what to say about that. I think they work for the other people

@HELEN Thanks!

[Bryan1998]

Eh, the pictures are broken...

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[Alphawolf626]

This was a really great tut and extremely easy to understand! I made it to the final product and decided to tinker a bit more, and here is what I came up with. Thank you for posting this.

[Swalski]

@Alphawolf626 Wow that looks really smart! The subtle pink/red goes really well with the black and gives a nice result! The doubling up also looks good!

[Portos]

I did something very similar to alphawolfs drawing. The tutorial was really very understandable and easy to follow, wich is good for beginners such as me. I did the whole thing without a circle in the middle, which make sit more vortexlike and did the gaussian blur to the outside instead of the inside.. I like the one with the whithe bg better, but i'll post both anyway.

[Swalski]

Awesome job Portos! I can see what you mean by not using the circle. It looks very knotted together. Good job!

[Helena]

Nice tut, easy to follow and good for learning about how to obtain shapes using the effects, thank you. I've played a little mixing it with the 3d metal Ash tutorial:

[millie150]

Brill tut might try somday

(hope my new sig works )

[Swalski]

All of the pieces are brilliant, and thanks for all the compliments on the tut!