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Womball
03-24-2009, 04:23 PM
Is there any special technique for quickly laying out tiny little veins, say in the eye? Up to now I have been drawing each vein by hand. However I can't seem to create enough randomness or variation of size to make it look convincing. Also could this techinque or brush be used to make the largers superficial veins in the forearm?
Shagrath
03-24-2009, 05:33 PM
There is actually a great way of doing this using paint effects in Maya. If you check out the Gnomon Workshop site they have a free tutorial for creating believable eyes.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/category/171/Free-Tutorials-All

The main idea is that you create roots using paint effects using parameters to control how dense you want them etc. Then you render them in an appropriate viewport and use the alpha you get to mask out the veins in Photoshop. Works great!

Good luck!
Womball
03-25-2009, 06:10 PM
Is there away in photoshop or zbrush?
divi
03-25-2009, 11:19 PM
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v851708WcEQPerQ

maybe you can adapt parts of his workflow for your problem.

cheers
Pthomas
03-26-2009, 04:06 AM
Veins


Go to Google Earth.
find DELTA's like Missisipie or The Nile.
FILE/SAVE IMAGE
Extract the river color

make a btush frm the shape

Second, look for SHADOW PS brushes of TREEs cut ot hte branches and use these as
Veins

hope hthis helsp tyoing in bed/
PixelRod
03-26-2009, 05:25 PM
Try look for Lightning pictures. There are also lightning brushes out there for Photoshop.
Womball
03-26-2009, 05:41 PM
Can you have the lighting brushes change randomly in photoshop?
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