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…
Here is another roundup of resources for digital art. Some free and some not so free. As usual I’m not affiliated with any of the resources I write about here and I haven’t been asked to mention them, I just want to. 3D I found a great hair curve brush for ZBrush by “artmonky“. There…
Well the weather doesn’t feel very spring like with all the rain we have been having in the UK but here is another random lot of cool things I’ve found on the internet related to digital art. Sorry it has been a while. 3D ZBrush Guides has some free materials for use in ZBrush. I…
Last week I looked into methods of making digital marbling textures using the various software I have available to me. I chose to use Krita and G’MIC, PD Howler and Affinity Photo for these experiments. I made some videos to show you because it is difficult to explain otherwise. Marbling using PD Howler and gradients…
I decided to try out the Beta for Adobe Firefly, which is Adobe’s new AI art tool. The Beta is free for anyone to try right now. None of the images can be used for commercial purposes while in this Beta stage. I think they are testing things to see what people would use it…
Over the weekend I went down another rabbit hole of sorts finding out about an open source tool called Image Colour Transfer Processing by M RenzuIIo and T Johnson. There is a very informative Medium article they wrote here if you would like to learn more. Since it immediately reminded me of another tool I…
For this painting I started out as usual by making small painting studies in Krita using basic brushes. I tried a different approach than I have before for this image where I took the Initial grayscale colours and colourized them using Deoldify, an open source deep learning model to help colourize grayscale images. When I…
This article is a transcript of the process shown in this video. For this mini project I started with a 3D sculpt for the frog using ZBrush and 3D coat. Any 3D software you use is fine as long as you are happy with it and this is optional if you are not interested in…
Another resource roundup post of random yet interconnected things in the world of digital art. Digital Painting Ramon Miranda is working on another set of brushes over at the Krita Artists forum. This time he is doing a coloured pencil variant for the pencil sketching brushes he made last year. I tried them out by…
I saw that ugocapeto3d had mentioned MiDaS v 3.1 recently which is a AI monocular depth estimation tool. It creates depth maps using a single 2D image which is pretty amazing. I have used a previous version of this tool in the past which I mentioned in an older dev diary post. I won’t go…