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Daveaustin
02-23-2003, 02:19 PM
this is a pic taken when i spent a year in France in Biot [on placement]
i'm on the right!

http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/group1/dave/images/group_shot.jpg

one of the rarest days in the riviera when it snowed...
just wondered if anyone on the forum lives near there.. and remembers it..


and for anyone who doesn't believe me then you're right :thumbsup:

it's all a hoax
here's the orig shot..

http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/group1/dave/images/group_shot_orig.jpg
nose
02-23-2003, 02:28 PM
Hahaha :) cool!
Daveaustin
02-23-2003, 02:39 PM
:thumbsup:
Cheers Nose..

I did the whole painting in the space of a morning.. from 10 - 2pm incl lunch :p

it's my first proper painting on my wacom since i got it last wednesday, so it's been a good practise

is there anything that doesn't seem right? personally i wasn't too sure about the bkground trees.. i didn't know how far too take the snow!
nose
02-23-2003, 02:50 PM
Well, the trees on the very back have some snow on it, but then the closer trees on the hills don't have anything on it at all. Maybe you can work on that one. But don't make it too much. Just curious about if it will look better.
And the foreground, the snow where you're standing in, it looks too flat. But don't ask me how to make it better, I really have no idea :hmm:
Daveaustin
02-23-2003, 02:55 PM
yeh i know what you mean...

i did try the trees on the side having more snow on em... but then i thought i looked better with less... as if that side of the hill was slightly more sheltered than the top :shrug:

yeh i'm not sure either about the balcony snow, ah well... prob needs some extra shading in there
phoenix2k
02-23-2003, 03:36 PM
lol... I thought: whtas youre friend doing with no top in winter *argh*... and two of you have got short trousers :surprised ... lol...
nose
02-23-2003, 03:51 PM
By the way, do trees have leaves in winter? ;) (just strikes me now...)
Bradf0rd010
02-23-2003, 04:21 PM
Originally posted by nose
By the way, do trees have leaves in winter? ;) (just strikes me now...)

'Evergreen'. :D

Had me fooled, so an obvious :thumbsup: there.

Didn't know Ollie was out there as well (unless he was just visiting). And cheer up you miserable git :cool:

P.S. Do you read your PMs, Dave?
Daveaustin
02-23-2003, 05:08 PM
haha oh yeah i never thought about the trees! :thumbsup: ah well it still looks alright in my eyes. i'll pass them off as evergreens good idea Phil!

Phil... yeh Oli, Ant and Dunk were out with me.. had a crackin time, but i didn't fool Dunk with the pic! ah well.. managed to get a few people going :shrug:

urm i haven't checked my PM's for a while.. *lookin now*

Cheers everyone for believing!
Bradf0rd010
02-23-2003, 05:17 PM
Check now :D
Daveaustin
02-23-2003, 05:23 PM
Cheers Phil... i've replied
Daveaustin
02-23-2003, 09:27 PM
ok... I decided to have a further play with it [added another village in the background...off to the left]

so here's the update!

http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/group1/dave/images/snowy_biot.jpg

comments will be gladly appreciated

:beer:
Incitatus
02-23-2003, 09:36 PM
hehe cool :)

but i think the mirroring is just a bit to evident on the last one.
ThirdEye
02-23-2003, 09:38 PM
Yeah, the mirroring is too simple, try to copy and paste from another pic a different village
Daveaustin
02-23-2003, 10:18 PM
yeh i know what you mean.. after all it was a simple flip.. i just wanted to see what it would be like to have a different horizon in there, i was used to seein the same skyline for a year...

will have a mess around with it :thumbsup:
wedge
02-24-2003, 01:30 AM
i thought this was VERY believable, so bravo!
aenema
02-24-2003, 08:18 AM
heh, u also fooled me! i feel so gullibal now :beer:
Daveaustin
02-24-2003, 09:42 AM
Thanks guys!!

This is one area of the industry i really wanna get into, so hearing that it's believable is great..

BTW i've written a basic tutorial with pop-up images on this and it can be found at Ballistic Panda (http://www.ballisticpanda.com)
click on the resources tab, and you will find it there, along with some tutorials written for Xsi, and a coupla other things

:beer: :thumbsup:
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