Backgrounds

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:54 pm

I have to draw some desert-like landscapes whit altered colours (The sky purple, the soil red, ect) but I can't do nothing good...
Camera angle, elements on the scene, Shadows, depth... Nothing appears good...
Some tip?

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:52 pm

Do it on paper.

Visit your local library. Browse some books about deserts.

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:42 pm

Look for image references in the internet.

dueyftw · Post by **dueyftw** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:01 pm

Take some tissue paper and roll it up into balls, Then press them flat. Photocopy them and import to photoshop to change them to black and white, save as png.

Import with only 20% or so opacity and place a light brown layer at 50% opacity.

The random edges give the effect of dunes.

Example
http://rapidshare.com/files/269630458/desert.zip
Sorry for poor example, I don't have the time to fix.

Dale

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:19 am

Yo that's a clever idea. Dayeem.

ulrik · Post by **ulrik** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:33 am

dueyftw wrote:Take some tissue paper and roll it up into balls, Then press them flat. Photocopy them and import to photoshop to change them to black and white, save as png.

Import with only 20% or so opacity and place a light brown layer at 50% opacity.

The random edges give the effect of dunes.

Example
http://rapidshare.com/files/269630458/desert.zip
Sorry for poor example, I don't have the time to fix.

Dale

Hehe...that's a good idea! I like it!

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:14 pm

It's a good idea, dueyftw!
But I Haven't got ASP 6 and I can't see the .anme file...

dueyftw · Post by **dueyftw** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:33 pm

You got to take sometime and play with the opacity settings. The example above is not very good. but with a little effort it is a nice effect.

So here is another example with 5.6:
http://rapidshare.com/files/269838849/d5.6.zip

Dale

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:25 pm

Google for some Road Runner backgrounds...

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:38 pm

In the meanwhile I've done this... Take a look and tell me how it is!

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9820/desertb.jpg

In my short, the sun doesn't exists so the light is like the sun's zenith (Is a sort of "parallel another world")

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:49 pm

that's not bad at all. nice bg guy.