DaveWortley
02-20-2009, 01:01 PM
Hi Guys, just thought I'd share something I've recently been working on.
The Task was to create an image of a Rugby players' face made up of individual signatures supplied from a collection of Irish Rugby Fans made at recent games.
This image would then be used on a website and each Rugby Fan could go onto the website, type in their name and find their signature on the image.
The client requested a stylised version of the image with impact, not anything that looked too much like a photo.
The whole image is made with pFlow + MaxScript. There were over 2500 unique signatures that had to be tracked and we ended up repeating them up and this image used somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000. The signatures were supplied at different thicknesses so thicker ones were placed in darker areas of the image, scale and orientation was set by Maxscript to help define the shape and contours of the face/body and it also picks up the colour as well, altho a lot more colour work was done in post.
Each signature was tracked and outputted to a data file which was then used by the web company to locate and overlay a copy of the signature on the rendered image.
http://www.bethedifference.ie - click on the rugby players face "Be the difference"
Unfortunetly at the last minute the client decided they wanted it on a blue background, which looks awful on this version and was not done by our production house, which is a shame. There is also a lot of quality loss on this, the original image was 16,000pixels wide. (think the website might have a few bugs on it getting the high res level to work).
There will be a 2nd image online soon which should hopefully be better quality as we comped it onto a blue background ourselves, and this used over 6000 unique signatures.
The Task was to create an image of a Rugby players' face made up of individual signatures supplied from a collection of Irish Rugby Fans made at recent games.
This image would then be used on a website and each Rugby Fan could go onto the website, type in their name and find their signature on the image.
The client requested a stylised version of the image with impact, not anything that looked too much like a photo.
The whole image is made with pFlow + MaxScript. There were over 2500 unique signatures that had to be tracked and we ended up repeating them up and this image used somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000. The signatures were supplied at different thicknesses so thicker ones were placed in darker areas of the image, scale and orientation was set by Maxscript to help define the shape and contours of the face/body and it also picks up the colour as well, altho a lot more colour work was done in post.
Each signature was tracked and outputted to a data file which was then used by the web company to locate and overlay a copy of the signature on the rendered image.
http://www.bethedifference.ie - click on the rugby players face "Be the difference"
Unfortunetly at the last minute the client decided they wanted it on a blue background, which looks awful on this version and was not done by our production house, which is a shame. There is also a lot of quality loss on this, the original image was 16,000pixels wide. (think the website might have a few bugs on it getting the high res level to work).
There will be a 2nd image online soon which should hopefully be better quality as we comped it onto a blue background ourselves, and this used over 6000 unique signatures.