I've made a template in Photoshop with an action, that exports all the different sizes of an icon for you. As it does actually use different icons for the folder at each size to make sure it draws and reads properly at the respective sizes.
I've got hold of a big shiny metal ball (from a garden centre) and have been playing at creating my own panoramic HDRI's
From this:
To this:
To this:
Trying to do things, softwate just does'nt want me to do
i keep getting stuck and thinking of new things, but they end up not being possible either
frustrating !
best solution so far involves throwing aroun $10000 at it and capturing a team of programming monkeys to make specialized tools
well right now I\'m trying to explore the arena of Math Art, Particle/Fluid/Smoke/Firey lorenz attractors/4D fractals/Paramtetric Math Knots
but uhm, applications are not being helpfull
Cinema has a bug, well It's just bad by design, in that it can't handle lots of seperate objects
i can have a 180,000 polygon object on screen easily, but I can only get around 2000 1 polygon objects before it dies
CInema also does'nt render alpha masks properly, they are not pre-multiplied/straight alpha'd properly
its subtle but problematic
zbrush cannot paint in the luminance channel making it really boring
and useless for creating objects like a piece of glowing burnt wood ambers
after effects plugins like lux and others get 3D input in the form of lights, but after effects can only handle a few thousands before looking sad
and realflow (which I\'m stuck to version 3 as I can't get 4 without paying huge sums of money) is horrible to use
and I think only 4 does what I need anywhooo
so I thought instead of trying to do something interesting id just copy everyone else and make vector style art from tracing photos and make it loook all retro
thats popular still right? or... isometric pixel art?
oh oh I know!!! make a bunch of squiggles with Trapcode 3D Stroke, and like.. make em move around and glow and stuff!
on with the creationisms, fun to be had! (within serious program limitations of course)
I've wasted far too much time writing an automated Folder icon maker, it should have only taken arund 10 minutes, but well many issues with really badly documented and designed software (ImageMagick) plus some other hiccups
And to top it all off, It's not really very automated due to lack of tools to get Icons onto folders in a headless fashion.
But you can't sneeze at it if it pops out Icons like these
:-)
Not my idea, but a Client wants a X-factor style award sequence, and when I say 'style' I mean parody of, started around the 2nd of December
Short Award Sequence
Full Intro Sequence:
And here are some stills from the final:
And some Work in progress shots below:
With the help of some NASA Blue Marble images, I\'m creating the Earth
Some older stills:
