#tutorial02

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Here is the style frame for my painted reveal. A fan graphic for Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption.

The style frame and the motion test was composed of these three images in the centre.

A ‘background-less,’ in-game image of the game’s protagonist, John Marston taking aim; obtained from a Playstation-related website. This image has been edited in Photoshop for a stylised appearance. A ‘gradient map’ has been applied to replace all hues and shades with only red; whites and blacks; a known aesthetic among graphics related to Red Dead Redemption. Some curve adjustments were also made to add contrast to the lighting and shading of the character.

A photograph of a desert landscape, reminiscent to the environments featured in Red Dead Redemption. A gradient map was also added to fit the style of the game’s stylised graphic imagery. However, unlike the character, no whites were applied to the photograph’s gradient map to allow the character to better stand out from the background, which the photograph serves as within the graphic.

The official Red Dead Redemption logo, with no background. No modifications made.

The style frame and general aesthetic of the graphic itself are inspired by the ‘title card’ that appears before the game’s end credits in the final story mission of the game, as well as the game’s cover art as seen in the two bottommost images.

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Applying what I learned from the tutorial, here is the motion test for my ‘painted reveal.’

As visible, my painted reveal is a piece of fanart for the video game, Red Dead Redemption; an open-world Western, released in 2010 by Rockstar Games.

I used the brushes provided with Paul’s demo files for the track-matted brush effect. The motion has been sequenced in a way to draw the viewers eye to the graphic’s subjects one by one.

Motion lasts for 5 seconds.

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My results for week 3′s painted reveal tutorial for KNB123.

In respective order, from left to right, each bit of graffiti has a different approach.

Motion sketched write-on effect

‘Track-matted’ brush composition, done using linear wipes

Same as listed above

Animated mask path, with some adjustments to the ‘feather’ setting

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#2 TUTORIAL

 1.         2.         3.         4.         5.         6.         7.         8.         9.         10

A site that                                                                            A site that

simply posts                                                                         does not use

pre-existing media online                                                 pre-existing media.

1.    The University of Melbourne

Rating: 6

Most of the content that the university website posts are written/created by people within the university. However it gives access to information as books and articles, which are pre-existing media.

 2.    The Age

Rating: 7

As any newspaper website, most of the content is produced by journalists and reporters from the organisation. However many of the pieces can be based on pre-existing media from several different sources.

3.    ninemsn

Rating: 3

It is possible to say that this is a news website that hosts several other websites. They do have some original content, but most of the website is just links to other websites (that are hosted in ninemsn)

 4.    Jodi

Rating: 10

Never saw any website that has the same sort of content, I can only assume it is 100% original material.

5.    Riot

Rating: 9

Although it does need pre-existing media, the outcome of the website is very original. "Riot is an alternative Web browser that builds its page by combining text, images and links from the recent pages that any Riot user has surfed to".

6.    Wikipedia

Rating: 9

It makes use of several different sources and pre-existing media, but it is posted in a different way, trying to fit as many reliable content as possible (however is not always that reliable).

7.    Cyanide & Happiness

Rating: 9

Several comics that are original, however it does use pre-existing media as base to those comics.

8.    Lifehacker

Rating: 8

It is a technology website, which posts several guides, tips and news. As any news website, it does have most of its content as original pieces, but it also have some links to other websites.

9.    Gizmodo

Rating: 8

Quite similar approach as Lifehacker, but it is more "geek", with more gadget and science news.

10.    Facebook

Rating: 6

It has a somewhat unique way to illustrate things, but it does rely on pre-existing media, since people are constantly sharing, posting links from other websites, or simply copy-paste on their timelines.

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Tutorial 02 - Fading and Moving Text Effect

I had a tutorial request for this post, I explained how to make the gif here and I'm gonna explain how to do the text effect on this tutorial.

We will be doing these things: 

Creating a gif using text

Making moving text inside a gif

Making fading text inside a gif

The ending result should be something like this:

Alrighty let's start!

Start by making your graphic/gif/edit. We are going to add the text when we are done, that way it makes everything easier.

Colour/sharper do whatever you want with it. For this tutorial I am not going to make a gif myself, that way it will be easier and clearer to show you how to do the text effect, instead, I made this (30 frames of black background set to 0,14 seconds delay time).

Now it's time to start adding the text, i recommend creating a group and putting all the text layers there, it makes things more organised.

Make a new text layer and write in it whatever you want

To make it fade:

Select the SECOND frame and change the opacity of the text layer to about 80% x

Now, select the THIRD frame and change the opacity of the text to about 60% x

Go on like this: 4th frame - 40% opacity, 5th frame - 20% opacity, 6th frame - 10% opacity

Now you want the text to disappear for the rest of the gif, so to do this:

Select ALL the frames you don't want your text in

On your layers panel, make the text layer invisible using this button next to the layer:

Basically you'll be doing this

So now your text should look something like this:

To make the text move:

Select FRAME TWO and the text layer, and with the move tool selected, press the down/up/left/right arrow keys 2 times

Select FRAME THREE and the text layer, and to the same as before, but press the arrow keys 4 times

With frame four, press arrow keys 6 times

And so on until your text is where you want it to be

Your text should look something like this:

Now, to make new text show up:

Make a new text layer with the text you want it to have

Make it invisible in the frame you dont want it to show up (how I told you before)

On the first frame where your text shows up, put it on 10% opacity

On the next frame, on 20% opacity

And so on like this: 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%

If you want that text to move as well, do it like before, with the arrow keys and everytime moving it a bit more

Your text should do something like this: (i also made it fade out again)

That's it!

I hope this tutorial helped, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me:)