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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.
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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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    The devil makes work for idle hands
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    @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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    @MattP shout if you do - I can give you exact locations
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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.
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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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    Observed in Peckham, drawn in AD on my iPad and then animated in After Effects.
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    Tinkering during a slow work week. Inspired by the rain hammering against my office window.
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    Something I’ve been putting together between other projects. Prints available (probably)
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    ...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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    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):
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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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    One-legged guys need love too. It's 2018 after all...
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    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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    Two guys, two girls and a pair of massive sausages. What more could you possibly want?
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    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.
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    My first piece of work done entirely on iPad. Absolute game changer, thanks for all your efforts Serif. It was worth it. (Hi-res of this will end up on instagram later, once I’ve worked out how to reformat for square on iPad)
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    Interesting - I'll look into this. Thanks D
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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. animatic_scene2.mp4
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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. TV_kid.mp4
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    I can't get on board with Wensleydale. It's too damn crumbly. Sorry, Wallace.
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