Rendering Tutorial Video - Lateral-g Forums

TonyG · #1 11-01-2008, 02:13 AM

I found this on Youtube and thought it was interesting. I would like to see something similar with actual verbal instructions. I know this vid is sped up. I mainly would like to see the first steps in getting the basic outline. I am guessing it was hand rendered and scanned in as a background layer.

Enjoy.

Detroit Express · #2 11-01-2008, 02:46 AM

thats pretty cool but its a lot harder than it looks

that guy was probably using one of those tablets you can draw on

quite the crappy choice in music by him though :p hahah

TonyG · #3 11-01-2008, 03:02 AM

oh i agree. I know it is a lot harder. I am no newbie to photoshop; I just know that if I had a good tutorial to watch a couple of times I could do it.

I used to do design and typesetting for a few yrs. I graduated from Al Collins Graphic Design school back in 99 but haven't messed with this stuff seriously for about 5 yrs. I still have the software and am looking to do renderings for myself, friends, and the shop I work for part-time.

TonyG · #4 11-01-2008, 03:30 AM

another video that shows working over a hand rendered, scanned in pic.

Detroit Express · #5 11-01-2008, 03:59 AM

if you're interested in doing this kind of thing and you've got some spare cash, pick up a wacom intuos pad (or a cintiq display if you've got a bunch more to spare)

they make drawing on 10000x easier and much more "fun" than a mouse haha

TonyG · #6 11-01-2008, 04:05 AM

well, i am on a laptop and this mouse sure makes it a pain..lol. I have been thinking of getting a desktop later on just for this kind of work sometime in the future.

CarterHickmanDesigns · #7 11-01-2008, 07:45 AM

The first video is from Harald Belker's DVD. I own several from this series and they have all been worth it to me. I like to refer to them as "my brain in a box"

Harald Belker

Hdesign · #8 11-01-2008, 09:19 AM

The Belker series is great, I've got a couple. He reminds me a lot of Syd Mead with all the Sci Fi prop and set design work.

Those tutorials are a close representation of how I do my work, no tablet for me though. I do a lot more masking and probably have 5 times the number of layers that were shown. I usually end up somewhere around 100, especially if the project is very design intensive.

city_ofthe_south · #9 11-03-2008, 09:22 AM

Curiosity killed the cat .... in the second vid, you'll see him draw really blocky shapes and then you see him right click when he rounds the corners off. Are the right click and the rounded corners related? Can anyone tell me what he's doing there? I normally draw my shapes more or less right from the get go rather than rough first and tweak second, but if he's doing something that saves time, I'd like to know. Thanks for posting these, good stuff.

DiasDesign · #10 11-03-2008, 01:22 PM

Hey all,

I'm the author of the second video. I saw a link to this forum in the "Insight" section of my video, and I opened it by curiosity

Thanks for posting it!

city_ofthe_south: What I do is basically what you said... I draw a rough shape of what I want and in the next move I draw it more accurately. It's just my way to do it, I don't know if it's faster...

What you see in the corners is simple: First I draw, for example, a 90º corner with a single anchor point. Then I add two anchor points in each side of it. The 1st anchor point is then deleted which will give you a rounded corner that you can open or close with the anchor points you've added. The right clicks you see it's me adding the anchor points to the Path. It gives you more control in some forms, like for example the headlights/taillights that you see in the movie.

Was it clear? Any help that I can give you just ask

By the way, nice renderings.

Cheers