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Hiuki

01-23-2007, 10:40 PM

Hello :)

This is my first post on the WIP forums and I've not made many posts before, so I'm sorry if mess it up a bit

Ok, this is a Musspel Fire Giant for my Final Year Project at university (I'm doing a Computer Games Art BA at Teesside uni) My project is to do Concept/visuals/and some finished artwork for a fictitious game I've come up with. It's part of a 2-piece set I need to do (I haven't done the second one if your wondering) It's the best photoshopping I've done, but I'm aware theres flaws, and, since it's my final year project, I want it to be the best it can possibly be. So all comments/crits welcome :)

Also, any help with the fire would be brilliant, I've tried playing around with a few tutorials, but it seems like it's near impossible doing any of them to the original size of the picture, so if anyone could help me out there, that would be appretiated most of all!

Sorry about the ramble, and thanks for your help in advance ;)

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/hiukisan/Muspelfiregiant.jpg

Ivy00

01-24-2007, 09:13 AM

flames are tricky, this is how I do mine and everyone has their method, but this works easy for me.

round brush, put some color on, round soft edged smudge tool set at 100% smear the colors around a bit, turn the smudge tool down to about 55 % or so and soften the edges. Just remember flames have depth, so look at some good reference images of flames and practice using many layers of flames to try to get that depth you need in them.

You might also want to check out blaz porenta's (hope I spelled that correctly) Eon entry in the Eon illustration forum, his flames are unbeatable in that image, it's incredible.

here is a link to his thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=213&t=412834)

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-11/1230395/flames.jpg

Hiuki

01-26-2007, 08:34 PM

Ooh! Cheers, I'll give that a go :)

The way i tried it involved using a glass filter on some gaussian blured painted flames, but didn't work for this size.

Thanks again for that :)

anymore tips/crits/comments welcome :)

Ivy00

01-26-2007, 08:46 PM

hope it helps and be sure to check that thread link I gave you, in the initial concept sketch he used a huge round brush and it is just so cool :)

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