Dear Gary
I was happy to make the picture for you . You know
I understand and speak Russian
BTW I'm not Russian. I'm Slovak.
Bratislava is as far from Moscow as Liverpool, NY from Orlando, FL;))
and Ukraine is between Slovak and Russia
Here is one that is only partially mine. I discovered the original, scanned at 1 bit per pixel, too small for just about anything. There is no copyright; I offer the Xara version freely as a gift to the community.
For anyone who is into the origins of symbology, this piece, very sdimilar to the eye in a pyramid on the back of U.S. currency, is an early Christian symbol, not a demonish one as suggested by the superstitious.
The eye is the all-seeing eye of God. The pyramid is actually a triangle representing the 3 expressions of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
I'm not inclined to revel or attach any super significance to symbols, precisely because they are symbols, representations, icons of something that is often intangible.
Anyhow, I like this particular, woodcuttish version, as a nice design.
I did this at about the same time I wrote the book on Xara. One was published and I gave away the XAR drawing, and this one I didn't. It's almost entirely Extruded I later traced off so I could export it and stuff.
21 September 2020, 04:28 PM
Gare
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Pantone colors and paint strokes
I have very little idea why PANTONE skipped right past the year 2021, and went straight to Spring/Summer 2022.
Whatever; Here are most of the colors in a XAR file.
And as a little bonus, I hand traced these paint strokes.
Use 'em in good health, but you MUST use PANTONE colors on them.
Thanks, Gare. They're nice colors albeit a bit pale, faded.
21 September 2020, 09:36 PM
Gare
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Re: Pantone colors and paint strokes
Oh, I agree. It was my way of giving our the paint strokes, if truth be known. Someone didn't understand what an EPS file is, a long time ago, so what I did was use P'shop to write it out as a standard bitmap collection of strokes, auto-taced it and did some hand noodling.
As far as color palettes go, Barbara recently repainted my office a specific shade of green.
We got the color out of a Valspar (TM) paint catalogue, and I fell so in love with the samples I photographed the chips and am in the process of making a color palette for Xara out of them.
You could almost use that green wall to chromakey videos.
22 September 2020, 11:35 AM
Gare
Re: Pantone colors and paint strokes
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Originally Posted by Boy
You could almost use that green wall to chromakey videos.
I think the lighting, which is all LED, corrupted the true color of the green, Boy. It's more like billiard table felt green.
But I DID experiment several years ago with green screen material, and it's not as important what the RGB values are as it is that no other color in the scene has a similar shade. Barbara and I bought a small stage green screen years ago, and after ironing it and fussing with it, we went to stock green (acid green) fabric, worked out how to avoid spill, and we did some nice chromakey work.
I don't know how others do compositing work because in film I'm officially a Nobody, but I use Adobe After Effects and I can "tune" the key areas I want to drop out.
This is 11 years ago, so please look at the concept and not the quality!
-g
22 September 2020, 12:22 PM
Boy
Re: Pantone colors and paint strokes
I knew that you also did some creative greenscreen video stuff! The fire of chi!