LAB#3015 Skybase

Kinda like a double post.

I made this for the 2010 new years using that cubey generator thing I uploaded some time ago.

any way to make those spiral galaxies not quite so regularly shaped? they look a bit more like pinwheels than galaxies currently.

"Take That" is ... well I don't know, it's abstract, wild and somehow very pinkish.

Color Schemer is a fresh new utility I began constructing using the new FilterForge 2 nodes which came out with the 3rd beta.

Color Schemer was intended as a tool to aid artists find the right color combination. It consequently also dazzles you with various colors that go kinda nicely toghether.

So if you need a color scheme, this can be a tool for you. I'm in the stage of adding more features to it

Continuing on with this utility, since yesterday I added several more features to make it a bit better (least for myself.)

Now it can display a very (simple) and special graph that allows you to see how much dark colors you have visually. The darker the image, the higher these bars will be. Of course, this is more of a gimmick and I didn't intend this to be practical in anyway. But it's a visual indication of color and its relation with lights and darks.

Oh and just as an idea, I thought it'd be nice if I knew where the colors came from. So I made a tiny image tag that goes on the top right hand side. You can turn it on or off.

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Kraellin wrote: hmmm, how about doing a histogram?

ThreeDee took care of that some time ago

And another one

And once again... its easy to use. Very very simple and yet complex.

Just aside from the actual FilterForge thing, I found Sikuli, a python based screenshot-programming language and I decided to have some fun with it.

I made a script that basically renders me as many patterns (using pattern lab v 1) as I want. It's easy to use... kinda like making a macro for yourself.

Sikuli can temporary use your mouse to click / doubleClick / drag n drop / and otherwise. It can do neat things. Go check out Sikuli off of google.

By the way, I do know the existence of command line renders, its just that this was awesome.

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Totte wrote: Skybase, you should take a look at my FF Batch Master for Mac OS X.

Oh I haven't forgotten about it. It came into great use when I totally needed 100 patterns out of 100% randomness. I must have just not hit "post reply" when I wrote a commentary to it. In essence, Batch Master is damn useful. Obviously better than that script I made.

Sikuli's just a nice visual approach to scripting and I thought I put it here. High five on the Batch Master, it's seriously come in handy in various situations when I needed a serious number of things.

So far, I haven't found trouble with it.

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Totte wrote: I need to figure out a way to do color modifications, haven't done that yet.

I modified Pattern Lab to just use Hue / Saturation adjustments for now to get differnet variations of color. But a color mod would help a lot within the program. I'm probably just going to find ways around it, such as make RGB sliders for the batch render edition.

Makes life kinda easy, but that to me is just going around to avoid the problem.

Figures.

Maybe the program can literally just randomize / morph the HEX values or something. I mean, even RGB values can work.

Oh hai. Long time no update here. I've been cranking out, playing around with the new features of filterforge, and came to the conclusion that my head is going to burst.

To get myself started I wanted a better FilterForge 2.0 version of those manga zoom lines. I mean this is great: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2197.html but it didn't work well with me since I was just trying to get the zoomlines.

So to work around it here's something I made.

Pseudocoloring!!! And Photochrom styles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom

Ok this is still in the works, but it does have a distinctive CMY process and RGB processes. The example's a bit dim, but I can do some fixing for that.

Want a retro feel? I think this filter will do.

It's a "pseudo maze" but you can try going from one end to the other. It works.

This is just one way I've been playing around with the bomber to achieve a specific style / look for several up coming filters.

Not so hard, just a matter of tweaks.

Here's something I was inspired by SilentHill3. Bloody, gorey, fleshy... strange.... texture With AO + reflective AO it takes a while to render, but its wonderful

Here's a simple window frame I made Has the life saver default background.

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Skybase wrote: Here's another, BETTER example. Strictly speaking this pseudo coloring process is done by hand. Photochroms aren't, they're done through negatives. So I'm marrying two different processes in 1 filter. Posted: June 25, 2010 7:44 pm

I really like this look, kind of moody with a shallow depth of field look.

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Skybase wrote: HAS anybody done this already?

Yeah, I made a rudimentary maze filter with the bomber a while back. I don't think it is actually solvable, though.

Also, that "gorey" filter looks pretty nice, or whatever the correct equivalent of nice is for bloody flesh. And keep up on the window and the zoom lines.

Metal plate texture + some rust. Made it originally for a Maya scene, I decided to expand it. Ambient Occlusion is enabled on these. Kinda ... dark.

And another one....

I'm too lazy to draw lately. So I decided to make a filter that worked for me.

And another one.

Kinda looks like some nice vector art.