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[csm725]

Both are very nice...

[Frontcannon]

I am currently working on a new spacescape!

Here is the first WIP shot of a planet, scaled down (originally 2000*2000px):

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6898/planet2.png

[sokagirl]

Looks interesting to me , will be looking forward in seeing it completed .

[Frontcannon]

But the glow effect to the edge is too constant...

I know what you mean, but I can't understand why it is 'too' constant? If I try to make it look irregular, it starts to look nonsensical to me.

Looks interesting to me , will be looking forward in seeing it completed .

Thanks! I think that will take some time, though.

Well, here is a WIP of the 2nd planet. It's more or less a lava ball, and I've never done anything like that before. If anyone has any tips on these.. (what to do with the glow?)

http://a.imageshack.us/img337/5832/planet21.png

Edited August 6, 2010 by Frontcannon

[j.d.melek]

Frontcannon,sorry I cannot offer any advice or constructive critism as I dont (cant) do spacescapes

but they are looking good so far..in particular the red one..great looking texture..will follow their progress with interest

regards j,d,

[csm725]

Nice, I like the red planet.

[Falken]

Nice planets

The glow actually looked pretty good on the first one, I think what Leron was trying to say was that there is no lighting on it yet.

Here's a very quick demonstration on how I do lava planets

I usually find the best way to create lava planets is to have 2 textures, one for the rock:

And one for the little lava cracks:

Use shape3D on them separately and make the cracks visibly show up in the dark areas of the planet.

Play around with the settings a bit and maybe add some glow to the lava

Hope this helps

[Frontcannon]

Very nice look and explanation, Falken! Thanks! But it's not at all what I am going for, your planet is way older than mine

I will work on the glow, the texture seems fine, at least I don't know how to really improve it.

[N00Bz]

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you PS too??

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Tut please...

[Frontcannon]

you PS too??

No, that one was for a friend. I can do the ThumbAround and that was it

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Tut please...

I'll see if I find the .pdn and post the mini-tut here.

[N00Bz]

No, that one was for a friend. I can do the ThumbAround and that was it

I'll see if I find the .pdn and post the mini-tut here.

Tnx

BTW I can do TA/Reverse FP/Reverse Sonic Charge

[Frontcannon]

It was a bit more complicated than I thought, but your .pdn is uploaded here.

MINI-TUT

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#1: Fill canvas with Black.

#2: New layer. Apply Hexagonal Grid, size 4 and anti-aliased, apply Emboss, turn layer opacity down to about ~30.

#3: Duplicate Hex Layer. Apply Half-Tone with dark and brown colours, use lines and low brightness settings. Turn opacity up to ~130.

#4: Duplicate Hex Layer again. Apply Crystalize with small crystals, use Colour Tinti to make it blue. Turn opacity up like above, then use a linear transparent gradient from right to left.

#5: New layer. Use Hexagonal Grid again with a light green colour, turn opacity down to ~130 (like always ) and apply a radial transparent gradient from the middle.

#6: New layer. Make a green dot in the middle (brush size above 150), a bigger red one on the left and a bigger blue one on the right. Gaussian Blur with radius at 150. Set Blending Mode to Multiply.

#7: New layer. White dot with similar brush size. Blur again like above, then set Bl. Mode to Glow.

#8: The flower is a result of fiddling first with Polar Inversion and then using Kaleidoscope. No exact settings, you have to try it out.

I hope you can work with that, questions are welcome.

Edited August 16, 2010 by Frontcannon

[Frontcannon]

A little update on the spacescape:

When I started to do the background (very bright and colourful if I might add, also 4000*3000px, even with a quad painfully slow sometimes), I realised the lava planet fits not in at all. So that one will go in a later piece

[Frontcannon]

Just a little glimpse of what I'm going for:

The planet's just pasted in, I think it's going to be much smaller in the final image..

Edited August 17, 2010 by Frontcannon

[Frontcannon]

L3ron, you will be disappointed, completely scrapped that background, I just couldn't do the nebula without brushes and a tablet, I think.

After much experimenting, I found a way to make awesome nebulae without brushes, but they need a black background to work, so no colours in the finished piece..

Finally, after finding a way to colour the nebulae and much tweaking, I had an awesome spacescape.. but the planets didn't really fit

But at that point I just wanted the planets to fit in and somehow worked them in, too bad they mask the nebulae now -.-

Anyway, here it is:

Spacescape 003

Bigger version:

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2035/spacescapenew1500px.png

There is also a HUGE 4000px*3000px version, will be uploaded on request.

Maybe Sozo has some ideas on how to make colourful spacescapes that look good

[LFC4EVER]

Nebulae has too much contrast. =(

Make the planets look better by giving the texture more clarity. Give it a tad more contrast, perhaps?

Keep it up.

[Frontcannon]

Nebulae = less contrast

Planets = more contrast, clearer texture

Will do, thx

[Frontcannon]

Whew, long time no see, gallery.

Abtei im Eichwald - Frontcannon's Refix

http://imgur.com/xBlSs.jpg

[Heat Stroke]

Very cool how you changed it from day to night! Great manip!

[chrisco97]

That is very good. Very nice!

[Frontcannon]

Thank you both, it's still being worked on.

[Frontcannon]

Some logos I made for Reddit's FutureBeats and FutureGarage pages.

They are basically a place to share forward-thinking electronica music, hence the minimalistic design:

FutureBeats Logo

FG #1

FG #2

[HELEN]

Nice planets as well as the logos. I love how the planets have the nice, soft glow in behind them.

[Frontcannon]

Thank you, I like the soft glow too, it gives them that nice atmospheric look.

[Axle]

i like the blue and black cemetary one. and i find 'f.garage' the best of those logo's. just looks neat