All Filter Forge Filters By Zephos

Fireworks

Zephos — Wed, 4 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 4, 2007, Editor's Pick

Kagiya! Tamaya! Hanabi happiness for all! Who doesn't love a shower of pyrotechnic ingenious on a warm summer's night -- except maybe people that accidentally burn their house down in the process? Regardless of it's potentially arson related side effects, fireworks are one of the most beautiful man made creations, right next to the sharp pointy stick, and what better way to celebrate it than with Fireworks! Fireworks is a filter that involves fire and works -- able to generate either a single dazzling firework or a grandiose over the top burst pattern in a combination of three overlapping waves! Choose from a variety of up to eleven different fully adjustable firework types ranging from your standard globe of combustibility to starbursts to streamers to rings and even your own original image as a firework within the display! Play with fire without any of the fatal side effects of roasting to death -- try Fireworks!

Coin Age

Zephos — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 22, 2007

Ah, the all mighty coin of expendable income! Long gone are the days of using gi-nourmas stone discs that could accidentally plow over your neighbors, in today's high speed economy, thanks to the innovation of the modern coin, you can now smoke a random pedestrian upside the head at some 90 mph with a shiny gift from your friendly neighborhood government, and do it on purpose too! With coins now becoming worth less than the metal they are cut out of, we are entering a new and wonderful era of projectile economics -- the Coin Age! Coin Age is a coin, medallion and all purpose shiny metal disc miscellaneous something or other generator! Have your favorite images engraved on these wonderfully collectable discs that symbolize the evils of society in either Free Mode for rotation in all axes for that perfect coin toss or in Stack Mode for when you like bling-bling instead of just regular bling! For when your credit card doesn’t double as a knife, there's always time for Coin Age!

DeFence

Zephos — Mon, 7 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

May 7, 2007

They say that good fences make good neighbors, and now you can have the best neighbors in the whole wide world by randomly putting up fences in every single picture that your neighbors dare crop their insignificant existence into! For when obstructing the visual line of sight and mobility of people who happen to live on the same dimensional plane as you is a priority, your best offense is a good DeFence! DeFence is a highly versatile fence generator and all purpose digital image anti-neighbor device, capable of creating an arsenal of unique fences, all the way from your classic white picket fences to cold steel gates stained with the blood of errr... probably neighbors I guess – maybe that crazy guy who steals the newspaper. Control everything from the shape, texture and number of posts or pickets all the way down to splashing on a fine coat of moss and dirt! For when you want to tell your neighbors that you fail to acknowledge the validity of their existence defend with DeFence!

Speedliner Lv2

Zephos — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 25, 2007

Every time you reach out and punch someone with a fist full of slap, do you feel that something is missing to help convey your excessive use of violence? If so, then maybe Speedliner is what you need! Speedliner is a line pattern generator, able to create linear, curved and even burst speedline patterns with ease with adjustable colors, vanishing points, frequency, transparency and more! For the fast times, the violent times, and just the times when you want to fill up excessive background space for no apparent reason, you can't go wrong with speedlines! When accentuating that moment with high velocity blood splatter just doesn't cut it, speed along with Speedliner!

Zantetsuken

Zephos — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 17, 2007

If it’s anything that watching samurai movies has taught us, it’s that people tend to get cut in half a lot when sharp pointy foreign objects are swung at them from various angles. Now with Zantetsuken, you too can cleave anything that can be cut with conviction! Zantetsuken is a filter with a penchant for cutting anything in half from any angle and having those parts shift apart for that oh so wonderful “it’s probably dead” effect that we’ve all come to love! With multiple slash styles, a Yin-Yang Slash feature for dramatic flare and Verticle Extend for tall images, there has never been a better time for cutting stuff up! The Zantetsuken effect is attributed to a legendary sword used by the anime character Goemon Ishikawa XIII, however, the actual cutting effect exhibited in this filter was made popular by Odin from the Final Fantasy series who would basically appear out of nowhere to cut stuff up real good with a sword of the same name -- Zantetsuken!

Bind

Zephos — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

April 16, 2007

Do you like to tie people up using an excessive amount of chain and rope? Who doesn’t!? Well, actually, recent studies have shown quite a few people, although admittedly pulling off random pedestrians into an ominous black van might have adversely affected the study -- but that’s beside the point. Now with Bind, you too can secure any of your beloved images with these marvelous abominations of mankind! Bind is a chain and rope generation filter that not only allows you to fortify your imagery with seven essential binding options for that all so good hostage taking feel, but also allows you to direction them at multiple angles, adjust the size, wrap them around the image, and even cause them to decay, rust and even mold for everything from that super shiny chain straight out of the factory look to your classic old rusty sea logged links with a hint of really bad working conditions! For when you can never have too many chains, leave the bonding to Bind!

Binary Universe Lv2

Zephos — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 29, 2007

Happiness is down sampling your computer's most complicated programs into a ridiculously long sequence of '1's and '0's, then reprocessing the data through a card punching machine for the sole purpose of driving yourself to the brink of insanity. Not sure if that has anything to do with this filter, but with Binary Universe, you can now do exactly the same thing to your favorite images - but with half as many card punching machines! Binary Universe is a filter that converts your image into exact ‘1’s and ‘0’s to render an entire picture! With highly adjustable resolution and threshold you can either have literally just gigantic ‘1’s and ‘0’s dominate the screen or have them so small that they form a detailed rendition of your picture! For when you want to make your friends think that you’ve finally lost it by printing out fifty sheets of pure binary code and assembling them together to make up a picture of your favorite animal cracker, try Binary Universe!

Sketch Book Lv2

Zephos — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 29, 2007

Introducing an artist’s second worst nightmare – a blank page! Well, now you can compound all that anxiety and fear of royally screwing up on the first stroke into collective form with Sketch Book! Despite the blank page main preset that is to scare off people with good old academic trauma, Sketch Book instantly turns any image into a drawing, rendering or painting on a variety of different paper textures and types including classic old school ruled paper, graph paper and picture book paper! Not only can Sketch Book make great expendable dead tree processed byproducts, but it can also bind and punch your image to give it that classic extra economical educational sketch book feel – you know the type you used as a projectile in school! With seven different art mediums including, pencil, pencil crayon, crayon, ink, watercolor paint, oil paint and photography, there’s virtually no end to how much you can vandalize your trusty paper pad with Sketch Book!

Shoji Screen Lv2

Zephos — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 26, 2007

It's good to know that even in world of anime and manga where giant killer meteors, giant killer energy beams and giant killer everything in general tend to be a daily event, residents of Japan protect their precious homes with sliding screens of wood and rice paper. Not to be out done by this timeless tradition of inviting wanton destruction into your home, Shoji Screen is happy to stand by for you! Shoji Screen does literally what its name suggests -- creates a traditional Japanese translucent room divider, window or panel! What you may not know is that Shoji Screen offers you the control of everything right from the dirt on the frame to the thickness and pattern of the screen, and of course, no Shoji Screen filter would be complete without having the option of blood stains compliment of the local angry samurai next door! For when conventional doors and walls leave you feeling too vulnerable, slap on a Shoji Screen!

Sakurama Lv2

Zephos — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 26, 2007

It doesn't matter if it's a romantic kiss between lovers, disemboweling the local neighborhood samurai or watching your pet mongoose eat snakes, life is better with sakura -- well, at least in anime and manga. When life demands sakura, demand Sakurama! Sakurama is a leaf and flower field generator that not only creates dramatic petals floating in the air, but also creates a healthy lush field below! Although specializing in sakura, which are pink fluffy cherry blossoms in Japan that for some unfathomable reason don't actually come from cherry fruit trees, Sakurama is also ideal for any flower or leafy atmosphere, such as the vibrant colors of the autumn leaves or a field of lovely lilies! For when you absolutely, positively must have sakura floating around to symbolically elaborate whatever it is you are doing as interpreted by society, trust Sakurama!

Stick It Notes

Zephos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 19, 2007

Nothing says that you are severely overworked like having your entire desk and computer screen covered with sticky notes, and now with Stick It Notes, you can relive your office miseries of being excessively overburdened with things to do in your art! Stick It Notes is a sticky generator that can either create one large sticky note based on your image or create a full spread of sticky notes for that dangerously burned out feel! Control everything from the curl to the color to the consistency of the notes all the way up to crumpling them, which is great for in the case that you happen to like to obliterate old sticky notes from your current plane of existence as much as I do! Stick it Notes also allows you to adjust the type of writing utensil the image is drawn with, including pencil, ink and marker! For those days when your memory actually doesn’t serve you correctly and you have to substitute you sanity for a wall full of paper redundancy, trust Stick It Notes!

Before & After

Zephos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 19, 2007

As a stand alone filter, Before & After might look like something out of one of Andy Warhol’s more normal dreams, but used in combination with the business end of any other filter, it allows you to sample the effects of up to four filter results at once side by side without having to render each result separately! Simply plug the result you would like to see into the Background slot of any one of the four colored Blend components (Has an Image component attached by default) in the top of the node structure, turn off the Color Code, and watch as your connected results are rendered on the screen all at once! For when seeing the difference is all that matters, trust Before & After! Tip: For use with bump maps, duplicate the filter, hook the new Switch node up to the Height slot in the Result and synchronize the samples and controls.

Sketch Cleaner Lite

Zephos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 19, 2007

Sketch Cleaner Lite is a simplified version of the Sketch Cleaner that retains the core features to produce the same great results of its big sister but with far less complexity – encouraging ease of use and quick results! It’s so compact that even this description is short! Try Sketch Cleaner Lite!

Warning Signs

Zephos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 19, 2007

As history has proven time and time again, humans just love to ignore warning signs that depict hazardous and potentially fatal scenarios, and now with Warning Signs, viewers can ignore just about anything by placing it on a blatantly obvious sign! Capable of near infinite variation, Warning Signs covers all your favorite classic signs of impending doom, including the standard triangle hazard, time tested circular crossed out sign to indicate exactly what rule should be broken, and of course, the classic diamond “we prefer if you paid attention to this” sign! Make either clean shiny signs with all of the clarity of the attention pop up boxes on your PC (and thusly ignored) right down to signs with so much dirt and distress on them that they look like they’ve had a few days too many with the backside of a Buick! For when it absolutely positively must be ignored with extreme indifference, trust Warning Signs!

Celestia

Zephos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 19, 2007

Do you love to gaze at the wonders of outer space but don’t have confidence in your ability to dodge small planets being hurled at you? If so, then Celestia is your ticket to all things ginourmas and interplanetary that can cause severe bodily harm in general! Originally, Celestia was actually literally called "Giant Killer Meteor", due to the fact that it's original presets where all giant meteors that could kill -- more less. However, it was discovered shortly after that it is also works great on planets, comets, nebulae, asteroids, black holes and of course, just plain old meteors of the none giant killer variety – pretty much anything that can cause obliteration of the Earth upon impact in general really. You know, 9999 HP damage stuff. With Celestia, you can adjust everything from the water on a lush green planet to the atmospheric friction on a flaming meteor for that oh so familiar "There goes the world again" feel. For all things ginourmas and celestial, trust Celestia!

Sniper

Zephos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 19, 2007

Do you like to shoot things with your gun without the social consequences that come with actually shooting things with your gun? If so, then Sniper might just be the filter you’re looking for! Locked and loaded with a highly adjustable crosshair with modifiable increments, targeting and lock on indicators, those who like to hunt to an even higher extreme can turn on Night Vision or Infrared Vision for that oh so good feel of shooting things in funny colors! Also new is Excellion Mode for those who like ridiculously overpowered magic sta… errr… guns that can lock on with 1000 different futuristic variations. Along with it's ability to effect your sniper sight, Sniper also comes with gun shot residue, scattered bullet holes, and one potentially ginourmas bullet hole for those special occasions when you really want a big gaping hole in a picture for personal reasons – and did we mention gratuitous amounts of blood? When something needs to be shot, call the shots with Sniper!

Curtain Craft

Zephos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 19, 2007

Does having a lack of an oversized cloth that blocks out sunlight and peering eyes distinctively leave you with a feeling of vulnerability? When you need the craftiness of a curtain, make it Curtain Craft! Curtain Craft transforms your original image either into black and white embroidery or a full colored image on a curtain! This wonderful invention we like to call a curtain can be raised and drawn as well for those times when you just feel that the outside world isn't hostile towards you! What sheer awesomeness! Remember, when other humans threaten your personal sense of privacy, simply craft a curtain with Curtain Craft!

Deluge Disaster

Zephos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

March 19, 2007

Do you miss the good old days when you could just step outside and incidentally drown from inhaling too much water, be struck by lightning or get attacked by a gigantic man eating squid – you know the type with the funny hats? Well, I guess if you do, you’re probably not reading this, but in the case that you like the idea of epic floods and killer storms without the slightly fatally inducing side-effects, then Deluge Disaster is for you! Deluge Disaster is a storm generator that not only introduces flood and rain into your image, but also storm clouds and lightning, right over your existing image! Flexible enough to shift from a shining trickle on a clear day to death by deluge to a storm of blood on a black horizon! For when wreaking unfathomable flooding on your image seems like a good idea, trust Deluge Disaster!

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