Making
the Cheddar Warrior - looking into the water
3D
software packages these days have powerful methods of creating
all sorts of materials. However sometimes you can save a lot
of time by combining the power of your 3D software with your
2D software. The 3D software I used was Cinema 4D and the 2D
one was Photoshop. Here's how I gave the illusion of water.
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Top
level
The stuff you can see is the uppermost layer in my composited scene. Don't know
what that means? Then click here.
That
grey and white checker board pattern tells me that I haven't
got anything in that region yet. |
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Transparency
Here you can see what I've done to the water. I've made it transparent
at the bottom of the picture going up to not transparent at the top of
the picture. You can judge the amount of transparency by how much of
that grey checker board pattern you can see through it.
In
the next step we won't be seeing grey checker board through
the water. We'll be seeing the sand. |
Making
the Cheddar Warrior
Making a mouse
The hairy bits
The cheesy bits
The foreground leaves
The background tree
The
hazy bits
Sticking it all together
3D
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