Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:45 pm   Reply with quote         

For those interested in my Beach Ball entry, I made a layer-by-layer animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG3FS5ZE-8E

This is not really a tutorial as the layers are not in the order in which they were created. All stripes are made from smart objects free-transformed to fit, with gradient overlays and bevel/emboss effects. The shadows were mostly eyeballed. And, of course, I used a reference to build the whole thing

Reduced PSD here
http://www.box.net/shared/ef41y8zxa4

made in CS4 Extended, I'm not sure if the smart object transformations will read correctly in older versions.

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Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:49 pm   Reply with quote         

Cool! Thnx

Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:01 pm   Reply with quote         

That's awesome! I'm glad you added that they're not in order because the last thing I do is add the shadows.

Thanks for sharing!

Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:03 pm   Reply with quote         

great chop, like you i'm that good i can guestimate where the shadows will fall then throw the rest in

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Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:00 pm   Reply with quote         

Shu-weet!

Did you make the paper model references yourself or were they a pick that you found for reference? (not that it matters just curious).

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splodge wrote:

great chop, like you i'm that good i can guestimate where the shadows will fall then throw the rest in

Great Chop Vok. Well deserved.

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Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:29 am   Reply with quote         

.. much appreciated, thx !

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