Ok folks, just so you don;t think I've vanished off the face of the earth I thought I'd just give you a little info on what I've been up to!
The novel seems to be taking me on a journey, 1st it was photoshop, now it's movie making software. It's a lot harder trying to create the polished look using 2d images on a film format, especially as it's a mixture of life photography, custom figures and dioramas and artwork found on the net, but I know what I want to achieve and I seem to be going in the right direction. Believe it or not, I've probably spent 80 hours on this next chapter so far and I've only got around 3.5 minutes of film made. A lot of the time has been spent getting my head around the software though and so I expect the process to get simpler as I get more practice.
I can't really give too much away but I will show you today's little project. I'm doing a scene which involves a dogfight above Coruscant so there is lot's of green screen effects to work on. I needed a profile view of an LAAT and as I don't own one I had to use images from the net. Unfortunately finding a good image has been impossible so I had to seriously photoshop one. Here is the comparison between the image from the net and the photoshopped one. Note the detailing inside the cabin, that is a texture from a wall panel decal that I warped to add detail inside the cabin.
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