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…
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…
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’ve been just as distracted by the festivities as most people around this time of year, but I thought I would squeeze another resource roundup post in. Tutorials Winter Wonderland Grant Abbitt makes a lovely winter wonderland scene using Blender 3.4. As a side note I did use this sort of approach recently for an…
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…
Things feel a bit sparse lately when it comes to digital art related things I can mention in the resource roundup, but if I find anything else during Autumn I will add it to this article. It might just be because I’ve been re-organizing myself and doing an anatomy course on Udemy though. Video Tutorials…
I own a copy of ZBrush 2022 so I’ve been using it to do more 3D sculpting lately. It keeps me busy and lets me explore my 2D sketch ideas in 3D. (I’ve tried using Blender for this sometimes and it is a lot better than it used to be for sculpting but my computer…
I’ve been experimenting with another normal map and digital painting related tool over the last few weeks which you can find in G’MIC (a full-featured open-source framework for digital image processing). Luckily G’MIC is incorporated into the latest version(s) of Krita and can be used in other software as plugins you can find on the…
Over the last few years I have noticed websites offering Illustration packs in mostly flat, hand drawn / doodle and colorful styles celebrating diversity. I thought it worth mentioning here. I think in some cases they could be useful or used as inspiration. When I used to make websites I was always on the lookout…
Krita 5 was released just before Christmas 2021 and had its first bug fix on the 7th of January 2022 bringing it to the current version 5.02. Krita is a free open source digital painting program which also has animation features. There were a lot of updates in version 5 of the program which you…