Rudantu Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Hi! I've been having a lot of fun with purely 2D illustration, and a bit of worldbuilding. These are from a series 'Pelagicogakkia' - focusing on a mysterious region of the ocean. Everything is made in Affinity Designer. Those pseudo-3D landforms are my favourite part, they're made with many duplications of one layer, and varying contours. The fog effect gives things a lot of depth, and is both cumbersome and elegant. Its just many many thin levels of 'screen layer' inbetween each 'real layer'. This means you can simply put objects at whatever 'depth' looks right (by using the layer stack) and the fog automatically overlays the colour and tone realistically. buschbrand, StuartRc, MikeW and 7 others 10 Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smee Again Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Why not try "blend if" (the little gear at the upper right of the layers panel) to get the same effect with the fog? Rudantu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudantu Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 7 hours ago, Smee Again said: Why not try "blend if" (the little gear at the upper right of the layers panel) to get the same effect with the fog? I think the difficulty, and at the same time beauty, of this technique is that I'm adjusting very few things. All the landmass layers are exactly one layer color, and the mist layers also just one layer - repeated often. So the resulting mix is determined by just mixing two tones, hues, or intensities of fog. It makes the layer stack a bit of a nightmare since its land, fog, land, fog, land, fog, but I'm enjoying pushing what these features are intended for Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Evocative. I like the design ideas greatly. Rudantu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Damn, that's awesome! Rudantu 1 Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudantu Posted September 7, 2021 Author Share Posted September 7, 2021 Earlier on in this project, I was trying out some animation by bringing *many many exported layers* into AfterEffects: To create that spiral column - its essentially one shape (star, I believe) layer that gets duplicated upwards and rotated a bit each time. A cylindrical gradient gives a sense of light and shadow, and some fun contours at the very top creates a cross section effect. Super fun! DragonFruit.mp4 Wosven, MikeW, StuartRc and 1 other 4 Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudantu Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 Red Hotel Hadosupply That geodesic dome though 😭😭😭 I was crying. I loved making this one too. Colours are wild, but they feel right. All still entirely in Affinity Designer, also avoiding any reference for these. StuartRc, MikeW and telemax 3 Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 The fine noise effect looks good, was it also created in Affinity? Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudantu Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 9 hours ago, telemax said: The fine noise effect looks good, was it also created in Affinity? I believe that's one of the only raster elements I'm bringing in for these - I took a 50%-gray blank document, and applied noise using Adobe Lightroom, which has quite good film grain emulation. Putting that on top of your canvas, set to around 20% Overlay adds a nice subtle texture ☁🌫 telemax 1 Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony parks Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Just gorgeous, you've certainly found a "voice". In awe, more please. Rudantu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudantu Posted September 13, 2021 Author Share Posted September 13, 2021 Rockpool Six Geodome Thank you for the kind words all ❤️ Certainly a fun series. Some friends have said that these would make for good videogame concept art - quite honored. StuartRc, MikeW and telemax 3 Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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