My very first test video for recording my work progress! :D This is just a sketchy speed paint for testing purposes, but in the future I plan on recording lots of my painting processes. Please let me know what you guys would like to see added in the videos, I can try audio narration of the techniques I'm using, or have captioned tutorial explanations :)
Chaotica Animation Editor Basics - Part 2 by tatasz, journal
Chaotica Animation Editor Basics - Part 2
A quick introduction to the animation editor.
You may also want to check out the Chaotica Editor Basics tutorial.
Creating a simple animation
As an example, i will create a small animated gif.
We start setting FPS and animation time. Since we are making a gif, we will pick some low FPS value and short animation time (else it will be very huge and take time to load). Here, i used 10 FPS and 30 seconds, which means 300 frames overall.
Now move a bit along the timeline.
Switch to the World Editor and just move/skew/rotate/scale your affines, change the transform variables, edit weights and shaders.
Editor before changes:
Editor after chang
Chaotica Animation Editor Basics - Part 3 by tatasz, journal
Chaotica Animation Editor Basics - Part 3
A quick introduction to the animation editor.
You may also want to check out the Chaotica Editor Basics tutorial.
Render settings - Resolution
For animated gifs, try to keep the resolution low. High resolution gifs are not very user friendly, and may take a long time to load for most users.
Here are some standard resolutions for video/animations:Full HD or 1080p: 1920 x 1080HD or 720p: 1280 x 720Lower res for eg YouTube: 960 x 540, 640 x 360
Render settings - Other settings
For both gifs and animations, the optimal settings are AA level 2 and Anti-aising mode Smooth. Those settings produce pretty nice results and are also efficient for ba
So you want to be an illustrator? by MarcBrunet, journal
So you want to be an illustrator?
Ah the mysterious world of illustrators! It always sounds like the dream career, working from home on cool illustrations!
How does one get to that point though? Here I discuss what it means to be an illustrator and the steps you can take to get there.
There are obviously many other ways but this road seems to be shared by a lot of the prominent artists in the industry so surely it's worth taking note!
*video might still be processing*