eebee Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 A friend of mine is making a no-budget Star Wars fan film. He likes to make models of ships and sets but of course there were a few things that required some digital effects. One thing he needed (and he needed it in a hurry!) was an animated "hologram" of the planet Coruscant (a planet completely coved by a giant city). I used Affinity Photo making heavy use of the Pixel Tool and the Mirror Distort (I wish I'd kept better track of the steps, but it was late and I was working fast!). I made three or four different small patterns like the two shown on the left. Then I copy pasted the patterns several times changing their scale and distributing them around the canvas. Next I used the eraser to remove small and large sections of the patterns to make them look different. More layers and shifted copies. Then a layer of just straight lines connecting "hubs". Finaly the pattern was colour adjusted to be bright red (I didn't want to stare a bright red the entire time I was working on it). The pattern was UV mapped onto a sphere in Blender and then animated with a slow 360 degree revolution on a tilted axis. The animation was later composed over the live action shot of Princess Leia, who was filmed with a red light shining on her. David and paolo.limoncelli 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Clever stuff and the final photo looks great. Quote DART | Twitter | Dribbble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted April 27, 2016 Staff Share Posted April 27, 2016 Very well done indeed! The composite shot at the end looks great! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Very nice! Did you try the Affine tool? Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eebee Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share Posted April 27, 2016 Very nice! Did you try the Affine tool? Ha! You know I DIDN'T! Why didn't I? What can I say.. it really was late! paolo.limoncelli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eebee Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share Posted April 27, 2016 Very well done indeed! The composite shot at the end looks great! :) Thanks! Someone else did the video compositing, I just had to make the spinning globe. The composite image is just a screen grab from a half-res rough cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 I'd like to see more of this; it's great! Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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