Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:21 am   Reply with quote         

ok, so the school year started and i need your help again with an assignment.

i'm trying to make tongues. in the end it's going to be a 10 sec animation (2D) but right now i just need to get the material/texture right. so i really need some tips on making something in ps that gives the feel of a slimy tongue with saliva dripping...

this is my reference pic

any help will be appreciated

Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:45 am   Reply with quote         

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Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:39 am   Reply with quote         

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Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:52 am   Reply with quote         

A tongue is a natural thing. Most stuff in nature is random. Your highlights are too perfect. Looks like marble. You need to randomize and break up the highlights and change up colors. I worked on one of the tongues a bit.

I create different brushes for textures like that.
This one looked like this.

Good example
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randysonofrobert/404355223/sizes/o/

Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:56 am   Reply with quote         

that's brilliant reyrey
now you have to tell me how you made that brush...

just to clarify, i didn't make the pic i posted, i just used it for reference...

Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:30 am   Reply with quote         

Popped in during a free 10 minutes and saw this post about tonguing so naturally it caught my eye. Then I thought "Waitaminute. I thought Rey was brokened and couldn't use Photoshop?"

ReyRey wrote:

A tongue is a natural thing. Most stuff in nature is random. Your highlights are too perfect. Looks like marble. You need to randomize and break up the highlights and change up colors. I worked on one of the tongues a bit.

I create different brushes for textures like that.
This one looked like this.

Good example
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randysonofrobert/404355223/sizes/o/

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Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:02 pm   Reply with quote         

ReyRey adapted his other hand nicely into the chopping tool for the time being....

Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:34 pm   Reply with quote         

I am getting a lot of motion back in my fingers. I can chop now. It is uncomfortable and sloppy but, I can do it.

Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:20 am   Reply with quote         

this took me about an hour, and it doesn't look that good....
10 seconds of animation would take me forever

Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:53 pm   Reply with quote         

nevet wrote:

this took me about an hour, and it doesn't look that good....
10 seconds of animation would take me forever

yes but thats a good start.... Tell me if you think this helps, just a quick adjustment with a couple of filters.

Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:23 am   Reply with quote         

ok so it's finished... i'm not really happy with the end result (mostly of the animation part) but that's the best i could do....

anyways, for some reason i had trouble exporting the movie to avi (from flash) so i only have it in swf format... and i can't upload it to all the photobucket/youtube sites...

so if anyone is interested i got it on box.net
http://www.box.net/shared/ap1br3xdao

and thanks to everyone that helped

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Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:02 am   Reply with quote         

ReyRey wrote:

Mac here.

Hi Mac. Call me Roy.

The video plays for me. Nice wiggly tongue action.

Is that your name at the end? Looks like it's made out of the tongues. Cool!

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Created using photoshop and absolutely no talent. - reyrey