great image made with Xara. They are coming fast and thick....keep posting Masque there are great..tao
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great image made with Xara. They are coming fast and thick....keep posting Masque there are great..tao
- would love to know how you did it. The colours are great, too. Thanks - Penny
Thanks for the interest Penny.
Actualy there's not much to say on how it was done, it's all a bit of a blur.
The spheres are circles filled with a straw texture and a few drawn darker patches overlaid to give the impression of indents in the surface, dictated by marks on the surface, and then of course shadowing to mould the 3D shape of the sphere.
The sky is part of a photograph from the Xara CD blended at the horizon to a photograph of water. Then the spashes beneath the spheres are small sections of another water photograph, rough water this time, with an amount of eliptical transparency to fade out the hard edges. This was accompanied by a degree of feathering to further disguise the edges. Finally an eliptical shadow was overlaid on the splash to create an apparent indentation in the water surface.
It's not an exact art I'm afraid, just dabbling and experimentation with effects.
Colours were dictated by the original bitmaps to a large extent.
The streams of water falling from the spheres are simply white filled freehand drawn shapes, heavily feathered and with fractal cloud transpancy to give the needed 'look'.
The final result depends a lot on serendipity, (happy accidents), I depend on that a lot, but all art has done since...well, forever. Why not?
What is amazing on all your explanation and on the picture is the fact that it's not easy to find out how was it done until it's explained by the author. There are such pictures which are easily decipherable, but yours one is si well done that it's hard to say "hey that was done using this and this tool. For me that it is a mark of true art. It must have been hours of work and the result is really worth them.
Masque, I'm sorry for the delayed comment, just recently saw it! Truly amazing piece, very surreal, and love the explanation. Falling water is one of the hardest things to do on the computer (Yes, even in 3D!) and you have captured it beautifully. Great job!
Steve Newport