I’ve discovered a platform called Substack recently and decided to use that for my email newsletter. You can subscribe via email. I’ll be using it like I’ve been using Medium, as a mini blog telling people what I’ve been up to and about updates to this website. I’ve been updating Medium every now and then…
Just a few things I noticed this month. These are probably not very recent though, I’ve been out of the loop since leaving social media and I’m not really in a position to keep doing research for the blog at the moment. 3D Meshrender is a 3D rendering software by the same developer that makes…
I did a little painting study of a squirrel for this article. I wanted to test how bristle brushes and impasto brushes compared and worked together (if at all) in Krita, Corel Painter (version 2021) and Rebelle (version 6). I decided to use those software because they all have brush engines that help create handpainted…
I know I haven’t posted much recently but I think I need a little break. Perhaps I’ll be back at some point. I have been in more of a brainstorming and idea exploration phase lately and I need to develop my own art. The blog has primarily been about getting back into art and discovering…
There have been a lot of developments with Howler 2024 recently but one of the coolest is the ability to render geometry and use it for making animated brushes. It supports .obj files. Howler is a unique program for digital painting, animation and VFX, it has many interesting features I haven’t seen in other digital…
Disclaimer: I haven’t been asked or paid to mention any of these resources by any of the people or companies associated with them (I should just put this in a banner across my website). 2D art Ink brushes for Krita Ramon Miranda has made 2 amazing sets of brushes for Krita which emulate various ink…
I did another blender lighting experiment a few weeks ago with one of my digital painting studies. Creating the Normal Map I created a normal map using the 4 hand painted light direction method. This time I did start off with a depth map because it helped speed up the process. I tried the depth…
I think I have mentioned this in one of the resource roundups but here is a reminder that you can still download the full version of Howler (PD Howler AKA Project Dogwaffle- it’s all the same thing I think) 2022 for free. Howler sounds cooler though. Today is the last day you can update to…
I have been making a different version of the squirrel mascot for this blog in 3D for several years now. Here is the latest one: I used Curvy 3D, ZBrush, 3DCoat and Blender (I’m staying on version 3.5) for this one. The eyes in this picture are from the Tinyeyes Blender asset pack, I made…
I have been busy making some 3D models for my Sketchfab store. I will be designing and making some more, including some bas relief models for CNC and 3D printing. Seahorse Seahorse by Christine on Sketchfab Humpback Whale Humpback Whale by Christine on Sketchfab Dolphin Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) by Christine on Sketchfab Mouse and…
I had another go with Ebsynth, a non-AI tool (often mistaken as AI) to synthesize an inputted style onto video or animation frames using stylized key frames. It is a tool for digital rotoscope animation. There are limitations to this tool insofar that the keyframes have to match the video frames pretty closely for the…
It has taken a little longer for me to compile some resources I’ve found due to other commitments but here we are for August. I might add to this more over the next few days as I go through my notes 3D Matcaps are useful things to have and make (for NPR and nice looks…
I’ve been working on some studies for a personal hybrid 3D and 2D Illustration project I’m doing. The main character is humanoid. I’m still developing the project, there will be non-humanoid characters as well but that is for later. I have already sculpted and prepared the character for painting but I wanted to do some…