Computer Paint :: MMA 202
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Week 10 : Work on your Final Projects
Begin your final projects this week. Your choices include:
1) A self portrait in the style of a Master Artist
2) A matte painting
3) A 3 second animation
4) A 15 panel (full value) storyboard
5) An example of using Painter to enhance a digital effect
6) An example of using Painter to enhance the texture of a 3D scene.
Week 9 : Animation
This week we will be animating in Painter. More information regarding steps, and procedures will be posted later on this week.
Week 8 : Thanksgiving Break
Week 7 : Clone Tool
Steps to execute the clone brush tool is towards the bottom of the page.
Topics Covered:
• Clone Tool / Tracing Paper Technique - Covered last week.
• Clone Tool / Turning a photo into a painting.
• Textures: Using the impasto brush.
Images created using the impressionist brush.
Using the clone tool:
1) Set up
1. Find a photograph that you like and bump up th saturation so that the colors are bright.
2. Make a clone of the image.
File>Clone>Save Image as "call it whatever you wantt" and save it on to the desktop.
3. Click on the first image.
4. Open up the layers pallete and make a new layer.
2) Start cloning
1. Choose the clone image.
File>Clone Source>choose your first file
2. Choose a brush.
3. Set the clone brush. To do this, go the color wheel and click the clone stamp icon. Look at image below.
3) Start Painting
1. Begin painting on the layer above the canvas (the new layer you just made).
2. Apply the paint texture everywhere. Muck it up.
3. Bring focus back into the image by using the eraser to remove textures in unwanted areas.
Week 6 : Tracing Paper & Distortion Brushes
This week we explored the tracing paper feature, quick clone feature and the distortion brushes. The tracing paper is a quick way to use your drawing as reference and you can also see how fast many of our techniques can be used to create cool imagery.
In Class Assignment:
• Explore the Pen brush and all the variants within. By changing the linework of a piece, you can achieve many looks.
• Using the tracing paper feature and the distortion brushes, create a caricature of someone famous.
• Use the distortion brushes to create an abstract work of art from a famous art piece. Which famous painting has been manipulated below?
NEXT WEEK:
The Cloner Brush
Week 5 : Matte Painting
matte painting: A large painting used to depict backgrounds too costly to create or find. Matte paintings give a scene the illusion of certain settings or size.
www.movieprop.com/prop.htm
>>Mattepainting.org
Assignment : Mask out a portion of an exhisting photograph (sky or forground) and replace it with something imaginary. If all else fails , add a volcano.
Topics:
• Process Overview
• Atmostpheric Perspective Review
• How to paint: Glows, rocket boosters, mist, mountains and buildings.
• Using your eraser as a valuable (organic) drawing tool
Other sites for inspiration:
http://www.ecsdesignvfx.com/
http://www.raynault.com/
http://www.hatchfx.com/
Dragon City by: Randolf Dimalanta 2005
Week 4:
Still Life Painting - Midterm
Bring an object to class that you are going to paint. The above still life was created using the Artist's Oils
POINTS TO REMEMBER: Remember to use your viewfinder in nailing the composition. Think in abstract shapes coming together to make your image. Narrow down what you are looking at into 3 -4 basic values first. Lightest then Darkest and the Mid Tones.
Today you are utilizing your new color matching skills to transfer what you see on to your canvas.
HINT:
Be sure your piece has a strong light source. Solve for color and composition first. Save details last. Use your blender tool to blur areas that draw your eye away from the center of focus. This little trick helps make things look real.
Week 3 :: Color comps
This week we went over how to gauge color on the computer. Continue to build your visual memory of color combinations by being aware of them and studying them. Color sets tone and emotion for any production and large companies use it as a powerful marketing tool. When you do this exercise, type in the image the name of the brush and variant that you used to help you remember.
Color Roughs ::
Find a painting you like, and create a color rough of it, without using the eyedropper tool.
In translating color on to the computer:
1. Decide the hue (is it red green or blue)
2. Decide the value
3. Decide the saturationi (how bright or grey is the image).
TIPS ::
• Work from general to particular
• Apply the rules of atmospheric perspective when creating environments for believability.
HOMEWORK :: - Preparing for your MIDTERM (25% of your grade):
• Bring an interesting object to paint.
• Bring a table lamp as a light source.
Week 2: Selection Tools
This week, we covered the selection process. You use this to cover large areas and to work quickly. We are painting images from "The Batman" in order to focus on these processes and so that we are not worried about drawing. Next week, we will be drawing and painting our own imagery.
Joker property of Warner Bros.
TOPICS COVERED IN CLASS:
• Color Sets
• Adding and subtracting colors in a color set
• The Selection Tools (L for lasso, R for rectangle)
• Using the plus/minus feature to add or modify a selection.
• More texturing (texture of the paper)
Week 1: Welcome
Welcome
I'm looking forward to being your instructor in this class. Please check this page frequently for a recap of the day's lesson, tips and tricks, reminders, and cool links to digital paintings in your related inustry. Always do your best and let me know if I can help.
Artwork by Conceptual Artist Feng Zhu
Just trying to inspire all of you. :-) Take a few moments as part of your study to view his site. Click here to view Feng Zhu's site.
TOPICS COVERED IN CLASS:
Why use painter?
The importance of textures in Painter.
HOTKEYS and important tools found in your properties palette:
• drawing in Painter
• coloring in painter
• gradient fill tool
• brush size: [ and ]
• opacity (number keys)
• grain (the lower the number, the greater the texture)
• layers, use layers to separate your drawing from your values as a means of organization.
• switching colors (shift + x)
• the color palette
• brushes and variants
• Painter and the Wacom Tablet
NEXT WEEK:
Color Sets and the Selection Tool
