giantlobsterprd
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Another of my occasional movie posters. This one took a bit of redrafting (and rewatching) before it came together.
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1 hour ago, Ali said:
What a brilliant advertisement for AD! Thanks for sharing. They are superb, and I particularly like that 1930s/40s vibe - reminds me of a poster I once created for a production of Anything Goes.
@Ali glad that comes across - it's exactly the vibe I was going for. Had to do quite a bit of research around travel posters of the era.
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I was recently commissioned to create a set of illustrations to go on construction hoardings around the Euston Station (London) area. I picked Affinity Designer as my weapon of choice, and the results can be seen if you take a wander around the district.
The one small production bummer was that the agency doing the artwork insisted on AI files so I have to convert them all before sending them out. Even despite that I would still have used Affinity for these as it's just a much nicer illustration tool than Adobe. I think these would have taken me twice as long in Illustrator, and given me a migraine along the way.
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Mucking about during Covid downtime. This is a combination of AD and Cinema 4D.
- lepr, AffinityJules, Alfred and 12 others
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For all the people out there that love peak 70's high-camp Vincent Price horror movies.
Yes, both of you.
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2 hours ago, MikeW said:
Other than some factual inaccuracies
...neither of which enjoyed anything like the market dominance that QXP had in the late 90s, which is the period I’m describing here. So I’ll stand by my facts.
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1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:
I am sorry, but that's an extra button to press, which I am not going to do. I can probably guess what it says anyway
Good decision
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Here's a story for anyone under 30 who might not have been there at the time (I have put it into spoiler tags so as not to annoy the TL:DR contingent):
Once upon a time there was an application called QuarkXPress. It was the only game in town for desktop publishing. It was expensive, buggy, and the developer were really slow to bring in new features. Even despite all that, Quark users were loyal, because there was no alternative. Quark had a monopoly, and had grown fat and lazy on the proceeds. When Apple launched OSX, Quark opened one lazy eye, looked around, and decided it was too much effort to rebuild their software for the modern age.
Meanwhile, up popped Adobe. They were a bit of a cheeky upstart at the time, mostly known for Photoshop, and a vector app called Illustrator (everyone preferred Freehand). Adobe were hungry and lean, and created an app called InDesign to take on the fat lazy giant called Quark. They priced aggressively, turned out updates quickly, and before you knew it, people were deserting Quark in droves. Adobe were the heroes of the hour – Quark's jaded customers didn't need much encouragement to jump across.
Fast forward seventeen-or-so years and Adobe are the ones who have become bloated and arrogant. The situation is different for two reasons: first, we're talking about a suite of software rather than a single app, and secondly, the subscription pricing model means that people have to keep paying as long as they want to be able to open existing files. Clever. But what the Quark story proves is that no monopoly is unbreakable, and you take your customers for granted at your peril. Adobe's software is bug ridden, the features are often a confusing mess, and their mobile app strategy is beyond bizarre. Serif have made such leaps in such a short time that I think it's only a matter of time before Adobe get worried. And even if that doesn't result in Adobe's death in the market, if it gives them a kick up the arse then that can only be a good thing. Competition should, in theory, mean better software for everyone.
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21 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:
Perhaps the answer is to sandwich the text between ‘spoiler’ tags
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Top tip!
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Incidentally now available as a 4K wallpaper on my site at
giantlobster.uk/wallpapers
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36 minutes ago, GarryP said:
If there is a place to showcase what Affinity software can do on an iPad then this is certainly a contender for inclusion.
Thanks! I do think iPad deserves its own space on the forum. I’m fascinated to see how far people can push it.
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15 minutes ago, AffinityJules said:
Going by your descriptive title, I expected to see something entirely different.
Two guys, two girls and a pair of massive sausages. What more could you possibly want?
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On 5/29/2018 at 10:49 AM, VectorVonDoom said:
AD's not even close to AI in terms of functionality ...
Yes and no. Illustrator does everything, but not particularly well. For example, the chart tools haven’t been updated in years, the perspective grid is a nightmare of awkwardness, 3D rotate/extrude creates overly complex objects, and those new-fangled shape-creation tools are next to impossible to get your head around.
The only thing they’ve added recently that I thought was half-decent was the puppet warp function. And yet I still haven’t used it because I keep forgetting it’s there.
For now, I have to keep on using AI purely because it works well with After Effects. But I live in hope that one day soon I’ll be able to give it the elbow for good.
- SrPx and douglasrthomson
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17 hours ago, Ros said:
About the export issue, I would recommend using the export persona. (Transparency is on by default).
Interesting - I'll look into this. Thanks
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So Affinity Designer, as it turns out, has a lot of potential for cel animation work. You can create a decent enough animatic in the bitmap persona using layers for onion skin, then just stick it all together in your editor of choice.
My only request - could we have an "export selected layers as PNGs" feature please? That would save me having to go through toggling transparency and exporting one-at-a-time.
- retrograde, Alfred, GarryP and 1 other
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Animated in After Effects admittedly, but all the artwork was created in Affinity Designer. It's all possible, you just need to think about the workflow a little bit.
- retrograde, StuartRc, Chris B and 4 others
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On 27/02/2018 at 0:15 AM, Alfred said:
The obvious question here is, “What’s wrong with Wensleydale?”
I can't get on board with Wensleydale. It's too damn crumbly. Sorry, Wallace.
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Been a while since I just sat down with Affinity and let something happen more-or-less on its own.
This is what came out this morning. I like her, she's sassy.