Posts Tagged ‘Photoshop’

Project001: Year of the Rabbit (Photoshop)

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

year-of-the-rabbit

Sticking to my cre­ative goals, I am exper­i­ment­ing and play­ing 3 times a week to stretch myself as a cre­ative.  Here, I broke out my grunge brushes, which I just love, but I cre­ated a brush from my own pho­to­graph for the rab­bit.  If any­one would be inter­ested in the brush, I would be happy to upload it—just ask.

Earlier ver­sions had “YEAR OF THE RABBIT” text on it as well, but near the end I decided to dump it.  They say that a piece is done when there’s noth­ing left to take away, and that was cer­tainly some­thing I expe­ri­enced as I ham­mered out the final version.

On Roundbottom

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

What is the res­o­lu­tion of your desk­top?  800x600? 1024x768? 1280x1024? 1920x1200?  Or some­thing else?  I am try­ing to deter­mine in which res­o­lu­tions to make Dr. Roundbottom desk­top images available.

I just fin­ished a new image for an upcom­ing piece which I believe turned out quite well.  Back to some macro work on that.

I still need to write Monday’s post.  I know what hap­pens. I just haven’t writ­ten it out yet in Roundbottom’s style.  And we’re hop­ing to have the first pod­cast up as next week’s upload.  I am super pleased with the work Nate, my sound guy, has done on it so far.  I have a script and we will be lay­ing down voice tracks soon.  Yes indeed, you will soon get to hear what Roundbottom and Miss Watkins sound like!

On a less happy note, the read­er­ship num­bers for Roundbottom have been pretty ter­ri­ble. I put a tremen­dous, mas­sive amount of effort into the site and fewer than 100 peo­ple are check­ing it out. I’ll prob­a­bly keep doing it so long as I find it inter­est­ing, but I have no illu­sions about much of any­one lik­ing the project.  Those of you who do read it, I thank you.

Daily Photo: A Close Inspection

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

I am hold­ing out on you. I admit it. The best images from the shoot are going to take some post work to bring up to the level for the Roundbottom sto­ry­line, and I think I won’t reveal them until they go live as part of a story. That way you folks will still have some­thing excit­ing to see… There are some pretty damned good out­takes here though. Like this one. I don’t play with color much because of the Roundbottom sepia thing, but some­times, I just have to make an image like this one, espe­cially when Michelle has such great tat­toos. When I have time, I’m going to write a post­mortem of the shoot, exam­in­ing it for ways that I can improve in the future.

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Daily Photo: The Steam Wraith

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

This is a Dr. Roundbottom image that I am work­ing on for a new sto­ry­line over at the Clockpunk web­site. I haven’t quite worked out all the details of the story, but this char­ac­ter here will cer­tainly end up being an antag­o­nist. I’m meet­ing with a model in an hour that we are cos­tum­ing to shoot for this set of sto­ries. She’s got a really cool look. I bought a cou­ple of 15 pound pipe wrenches that are period for this shoot, to give you a hint of what’s going on in this one. Here’s the photo. Note that you can click on the photo to enlarge it with­out leav­ing the site.

The Steam Wraith