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…
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…
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…
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…
Last week a new video was created by Ramón Miranda showing how to use his new pencil sketching brush set for Krita. The brushes are free and you can find links to them in the video description or on this thread at the Krita Artists forum. I took part in the challenge to draw some…
You can read about the development notes for this update on the official Krita website here. This is a major new feature release which includes the following highlights: Even more operations can handle multiple selected layers. Improved support for the WebP, Photoshop layered TIFF and Photoshop files, and there’s new support for the JPEG-XL file…
I’ve touched upon this subject before on this blog. My earlier articles around this subject are as follows: Using Normal Maps for Illustration Lighting 2D Art with Normal Maps Using Normal and Height Maps to Light 2D Art Lighting 2D Art with Depth Maps A Method for Making 2D Images Into 3D Models I recently…
For this article I focus on how I turned an Illustrated 2D dragon into a rough base mesh using a program called Curvy 3D. I tried a few methods but this one was the easiest way to do it. I will discuss some other things I tried toward the end of the article and some…
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…
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…
Earlier this year I sculpted this rabbit in ZBrush and then painted it using 3D Coat and Krita. It is also available on my Sketchfab page to view as a 3D model. Handpainted Jumping Rabbit by Christine on Sketchfab If you would like to see the process for the texture painting I recorded all of…