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…
This week I heard about a new tool which is designed for re-lighting photographs, paintings and Illustrations. It uses AI to create depth maps and normal maps from 2D images and has an intuitive interactive way of creating and editing lights for trying different lighting scenarios. More in depth information is available on their blog…
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…
I’ve written a few things about this subject over the years and you will find quite a lot of information around the internet on lighting sprites with normal maps and doing things like making 3D models from depth / height maps. I wanted to add a few things I’ve been playing with to the mix….
This is a workflow I discovered for making 2D images into 3D models by creating normal maps for the 2D images and then converting the normal map into a height map. There is a newer method here: 2D to 3D Laigter to Curvy 3D Dragon Jane the Elf 2D image turned into 3D meshby Christineon…
Why and how I discovered this technique One day I was trying out different filter effects in Affinity Photo, when I saw the lighting filter. I saw the option of loading a “bump map” which intrigued me. I have been learning the basics of 3D modelling so I recognized the term. A bump map is…