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…
This PDF eBook has taken me a while to put together in between other art related and real life tasks I’ve been doing but I’ve decided to hit the publish button on it today. I do not think this will be a regular thing I will do but it was interesting to try a different…
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…
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…
It is starting to get colder here in Britain, the last few days have been grey and foggy. It is important to keep motivated and working on projects as well as look after your health and mental well being during these darker days. The articles here may slow down a bit for the winter as…
I’ve been looking at how to make animated brushes in PD Howler using some free sprite sheet animations I downloaded from itch.io. The sprites I used in the video are from these sources: Pixel Effects Pack Forks of Flame I made two narrated videos about this because I thought it would be better to show…
I have found enough things of interest in the world of digital art and tech to write another one of these posts. Bit of a mixed bag this month. I haven’t put anything in any particular order, there are things for audio editing, digital art and business. Useful Apps and Software Ardour Ardour is an…