April 2014 Giveaway - Ten Free Textures and a Tutorial on how to Use Them

That is a very bizarre composition, Frances, and I LOVE it!

By the way, you can use some of the textures, past and present, to make spheres with textures that conform to the curvature of the sphere by:

1. Use the Mould tool in Encelope mode and use the Circular setting.

2. Then use the Live Effect>Deformation>Fisheye lens.

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It seems to take two applications of distortion to actually get a pattern to bulge at the centre and recede at the edges.. File's attached.

My Best,

Gary



P.S. I didn't bother to make the check pattern into a bitmap, the but steps will work with a group of vectors or bitmaps images.

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Originally Posted by Gare

That is a very bizarre composition, Frances, and I LOVE it!

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Yes that scene sure makes the viewer to think, for example how that dung beetle rolled his ball to the top of the cube and after why disappeared in the fog without that? :) It is very imaginative, maybe later once that ball will fall but exactly bouncing on those stones away from the scene.. :)

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Originally Posted by Gare

I didn't create a chicken texture for this month's giveaway, Larry.

I've bee sure t put it on my To Do List,

-g

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I know, I was just saying, because of the ax in the block.

Larry, the day you take me seriously, is the day you'll get in unimaginable trouble.

:)

Save your imagination for more productive, trouble-free endeavors.

-g

I used a different technique to sphereize my mud ball. I applied the texture to a circle and then I used the Dent/Bump deformation filter. Slide the the dent/bump slider all the way to left (-100) to fully bump the texture. You can also apply the filter more than once to enhance the spherical effect. The attached example has had the filter applied twice. (and a bit of work with the eraser tool)

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Originally Posted by wizard509

Maybe you need a chicken on the block too. ;))

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Finally decided to not go with the horror scenario, let's have an artist with that axe and so a chicken should be maybe from the block and not on :D

Considering the cube dimensions maybe in such size could come out? :)

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Thats a very good wood carving csehz considering you only used an axe ;))

Stygg

Yes and this artist orderly even cleared all the shavings :D

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Originally Posted by csehz

Yes and this artist orderly even cleared all the shavings :D

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I just borrowed that axe and chipped out a new asteroid :D
I used the Dent/Bump method Francis used with a couple of transparencies.

Stygg

That's really novel, stygg.

Now can you do the phases of this planetoid?

I think it deserves a name, too.

How about "Planet X" ? It's where all the weird artists come from.

-g