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#1 User is offline   Mercenary 

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Posted 13 January 2007 - 03:40 PM

Here it is...


Step 1: Getting started
Take out a render, choose one with great colors, and movement. Paste it on a black bg like so:

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Step 2: Placing the C4D's
This is where you can go kind of loose, get out some c4ds, and desaturate them, place them to give your image texture and flow, and also some lighting. Make sure they're all behind your render, erase where they dont look good. I used about 4 c4ds, feel free to use more. You should get this:

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Step 3: Your render
Now for the desaturation of your render. First of all, duplicate your render. Desaturate the duplicated layer by going to Layerssame or close to the same, color.

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Step 4: Vector Lines
Probrobly all of you are familiar with vector lines, and how to do them. But just in case, I'll explain. Get our your rectangle selection tool and get on your original render layer, choose a spot with the same colors that you used in Step 3, and select a long thin area of that color, with your rectangular selection tool, go to Edit
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Step 5: Lighting and Blurring
Do an Edit>Copy visible, and paste it. Take out your dodge/burn tool and set the opacity to 11, start defining the light source and dark areas. Once your content do another Edit>Copy visible, and paste it in. Take out the blur tool and set its opacity to 15. Find where the most motion in your render is and blur that portion once with a large fuzzy brush. Now lower the opacity to 4-7 and blur some of the edges outside of the render lightly. Then you can feel free to sharpen the render if needed at an opacity of 6.

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Step 6: Finishing touches
And as we wrap up this tut, we do it well, I made some gradient spheres and placed them in an empty space, (black and white gradient squares will do) then you can do another Edit>Copy visible, and paste, and do some last minute blurring, and finally you can add text, I did a size 11 arial and added an Alpha to Selection, then ran a Blue and Green gradient over it for contrast. And then finnally, I added some white japanese text. And got an end result of:

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#2 User is offline   W0Wn00b 

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Posted 13 January 2007 - 03:49 PM

Nice i love it=]
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 04:37 PM

np man. :w:
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 04:39 PM

thanx man ;) I will do when I come back
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 06:07 PM

Nice tutorial, I'll try it in a second.
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:16 PM

k, i'd love to see some outcomes.
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:33 PM

nice tut, but you shouldn't desaturate, use a b/w gradient map.
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:38 PM

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nice tut, but you shouldn't desaturate, use a b/w gradient map.


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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:54 PM

I think desaturation removes some of the quality.
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:55 PM

b/w gradient map brings out the colors more
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:56 PM

thanks I'm gonna try this
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 09:36 PM

ok, never knew that Fl4med, thnx for the info. :w:
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 01:42 AM

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Step 6: Finishing touches
And as we wrap up this tut, we do it well, i made some gradient spheres and place them in an empty space, (black and white gradient squares will do) then you can do another edit



wat are gradiant squares? or gradiant spheres?

EDIT : nvm i found out =]
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 01:49 AM

Very nice tutorial. I like the result.
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 02:02 AM

haha seems i was the first one to get a result. Mercenary you are very lucky that I have upmost respect for you. Since it took an ass long time to find a render.

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Posted 14 January 2007 - 03:37 AM

lol, awesome outcome, and i kno what u mean, i searched everywhere to find my render...
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 03:59 AM

btw are u gonna make another tut n e time soon?
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 01:02 PM

ya, i'm gonna do one or two today.
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 02:08 PM

How come you say "you" in the tutorial and "u" in other posts? O.o
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 07:46 PM

-.- pointless post

its just for comfort.
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