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These are all lovely work.

I would be interested to learn more about how you managed to create some of these using the Affinity software.

Specifically how you created the Genesis cover, or the one with the blue/brown water ripples.

I wouldn’t expect you to go into details, they obviously took a lot of time/skill/effort, but if you can tell us some of the functionalities you used and maybe give some general tips on creating that sort of thing then that would be nice.

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Thank you for your appreciation.
I qualified my post by including the tag "3D", which means that the covers of Genesis, The Wings (Venus and Mars), Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells) and Jazzanova (In Between) were essentially built with the software Maxon Cinema 4D and then enhanced with A. Photo.
For the rest, like Jean-Michel Jarre (Equinoxe), Neil Young (Harvets) or even Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here and The Dark Side of the Moon stickers) were designed with A. Designer.
Finally, the idea here was to offer wallpapers, in high definition (5120 x 2880 px), from original covers of iconic 33LPs, which are perfectly “square”!... 😉

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Ah, sorry, I didn’t notice the little “3d” tag – that clears it up.

All I’ll add is that, for the work that’s done in Designer, it’s often good to include a wireframe view which often shows how much work has been put into it or, alternatively, how clever you have been to do it with so few layers.

As I’m sure you’ll be aware, it’s not always clear from the result that hours(/days?) of work have gone into getting it just right.

We often get asked: “How can I recreate <this very complex thing> in the Affinity applications?”, and the only reasonable answer we can give is: “Spend thousands of hours experimenting, learning, ripping it up and trying again from scratch and repeating, and it doesn’t hurt if you also have a talent for it.”

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Le 29 septembre 2023 dernier, Steven Wilson a sorti son 7ème album solo : une merveille (selon mes oreilles et ce qui se trouve entre elles deux) pour ce musicien ultra complet (écriture, interprétation et production) et très productif, en plus d'être très créatif.

Voici une interprétation de la couverture de l'album sous forme d'un wallpaper en HD (5120x2880) et ma petite “sculpture” !...

Le 29 septembre 2023 dernier, Steven Wilson a sorti son 7ème album solo : une merveille (selon mes oreilles) pour ce musicien ultra complet (écriture, interprétation et production) et très productif, en plus d'être très créatif.

Voici une interprétation de la couverture de l'album sous forme d'un wallpaper en HD (5120x2880) et ma petite “sculpture” !...

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🇬🇧 In tribute to Jeff Beck who left us a year ago now, on January 10, 2023: superb album and magnificent illustration by Mark Ryden!…

🇫🇷 En hommage à Jeff Beck qui nous a quitté il y a maintenant un an, le 10 janvier 2023 : superbe album et magnifique illustration de Mark Ryden !…

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🇬🇧 In tribute to Jeff Beck who left us a year ago now, on January 10, 2023: superb album and magnificent illustration by Mark Ryden!…

🇫🇷 En hommage à Jeff Beck qui nous a quitté il y a maintenant un an, le 10 janvier 2023 : superbe album et magnifique illustration de Mark Ryden !…

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Good ole Jeff. I admired him greatly.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

These are not my own words but I sure like this quote.

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🇬🇧 Un autre album des Floyd, Atom Heart Mother (1970), un peu à part, avec ses instrumentations symphoniques, quelques belles balades et autres psychédélismes…

🇫🇷 Another Floyd album, Atom Heart Mother (1970), a little different, with its symphonic instrumentations, some beautiful ballads and other psychedelia...

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🇬🇧 Hi, for the next Record Store Day 2024 (https://recordstoreday.co.uk), which will take place on Saturday April 20, Steven Wilson will release an exclusive new album from “The Harmony Codex” (https://stevenwilsonhq.com/recordings/the-harmony-codex/) and the collaboration of many other musicians. The album is called “Harmonic Divergence” (https://stevenwilsonhq.com/harmonic-divergence-record-store-day-exclusive/). For the occasion, I recomposed the future cover of this record using AD, taking precisely the look of the effects pedals from Boss (https://www.boss.info/fr/).

🇫🇷 Salut, pour le prochain Record Store Day 2024 (https://recordstoreday.co.uk), qui aura le samedi 20 avril, Steven Wilson sortira un nouvel album exclusif issu de “The Harmony Codex” (https://stevenwilsonhq.com/recordings/the-harmony-codex/) et de la collaboration de nombreux autres musiciens. L'album se nomme “Harmonic Divergence” (https://stevenwilsonhq.com/harmonic-divergence-record-store-day-exclusive/). Pour l'occasion, j'ai recomposé sous AD la future pochette de ce disque en reprenant précisemment le look des pédales d'effets de chez Boss (https://www.boss.info/fr/).

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🇬🇧 Complement: in this illustration there are pedals and 6 small connecting cables. To avoid having to build a new object each time with its color and lighting effects, I offer a little tutorial with a tip. Once we have defined these effects, all that remains is to define the base color... with a few adjustments if necessary.

🇫🇷 Complément : dans cette illustration il y a des pédales et 6 petits câbles de liaisons. Pour éviter de devoir à chaque fois construire un nouvel objet avec sa couleur et ses effets de lumière, je propose un petit tuto avec une astuce. Une fois que l'on a défini ces effets, il ne reste plus qu'à définir la couleur de base… avec quelques ajustements si besoin.

 

 

 

 

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