Concepts

I found on my hard drive some old concepts which I made more than half year ago. Simple speed monsters.

VFX Project

I'm writing my master diploma project and I did some reference to my old project which I realized with my colleague from university.
I thought it's nice to refresh it and post to blog some information about that project. I was first attempt to VFX in life-footage. Below are screens and breakdowns from production and final movie.

I was responsible for FX which I did in After Effects and 3ds Max as well I cleaned footage a bit and painted some elements in Photoshop. Further more I animated the robot in second scene and put everything together at the end.



Project was did as a semester's project in University. Everything maybe it's not so much perfect but I learnt a lot.

Flying High - First Shot

Finaly I finished first shot of animation called Flying High. Picture was cut for layers which were set in 3d. After this I was able to add camera and some animation. Wheats were animated using CC Bender effect. All animation and composition was did in After Effects. At the end I add sounds in Premiere.

Environment - Digital Painting

Enivonment for my short animation project. It will be projected and I will add some camera movement to it and motion clouds.

Military Chests

Lowpoly models for my friend's master diploma project. Modeled, textured in 3ds Max. Diffuse and Ambient Occlusion passes. Compositing in Photoshop with color correction.

Digital Painting

I did this painting for my personal project. For long time I had this picture in my imagination and finally I found time to painted it.

Logistics Support - Web design

I'm cooperating with Losigistics Support and designing web site for them. Here you can see some samples of designing and concepts. There are two versions - light and dark.

In this example I modeled and rendered in 3d top graphics. Next I did some post production touch.

I tried mix some texture with designing. It gives great looking style.

Photoshop Sharpen Filter Tip

I would like to share some tip that I discovered working in Photoshop during making Video Copilot Banner. It gave me batter look and mood of banner and also increase quality as riddance of graphic too. It was more clean and all elements were better consisted together. Working with another one posted in this tread. I noticed that I can improve a quality by adding a little sharpness for finished version of banner.

What I did I made a copy of layer (short key ctrl + J) and turned it to Smart Filter. Smart Filter helps you precisely adjust amount of effect of filter that you applied to your graphic without doing this same again by deleting and creating layers. Smart Filters appear in the Layers panel below the Smart Object layer to which they are applied. Because you can adjust, remove, or hide Smart Filters, they are nondestructive. You can get more information from Photoshop Online Support. Next step is just applying sharpening filter Filter/Sharpen/Sharpen More and adjusting opacity for better consisting both layer. We don’t want to be sharpness too strong. If the effect is too hard in some parts of picture I also using Mask and Soft Brushes for better and precises adjusting. That’s all. You can also try others sharpen filters, something one will be better than others. It depends on your project.

I thinks it’s very settle effect but improve quality of your designing. Everything is more clear. We removed this washed and blurred effects that was not very good. I think many people forgetters about sharpening and leaves graphics blurred and not sharp and strong clear. I think with this kind of effect it looks more filmy.

Here below you can see the difference between banners.

On the left without sharpness filter, on the left after applying Sharpen More filter. I think it doesn't need any additional comment.

In conclusion I enquire you for using this kind of technique for improving quality and clearness your art works. If you need more information or have some answers don’t hesitate to email me.

Teapots

I just wanted to try some different style. I made this random designing for fun and creative training. Project is composition of 3d rendered teapots and 2d designed elements in Photoshop.

  

Digital Painting - Angel

Wreszcie ukończyłem projekt, który leżał na dysku od prawie roku. Znalazł się czas i przede wszystkim "motywacja", gdyż praca zarazem stała się prezentem. Inspiracji nie brakowało, zapału i chęci również. Praca oczywiście wykonana na tablecie Wacom Bamboo Fun w Photoshopie.