Making graphics with FF ... my Gallery

I'm working on learning cartooning a little better. This is a simple happy girl.

Ever since Tim2501 uploaded his Vinyl filter into the library I have been trying to find different ways to use it. Many of you may not even know what vinyl is, but I am very old. This is a kinda retro poster graphic. Go Go girls are supposed to wear white boots, but I kept fooling around with one of my own texture filters and came up with this animal hide look to her boots. The material I used for her dress was created by using the Olas de Luz filter by sorpresagual. I used the very versatile HDRI filter by Betis to give the image a more graphic look.



My T-shirt site .... Captured Image Design

I haven't posted to this thread for awhile, but I have uploaded a couple of filters in the last month, so I thought I would put up a some of demo images. This is Pepe's on Caroline Street in Key West. It is the oldest cafe in town.

Using the same Dogs tile with the Pixels Size slider adjusted to make the paper texture smaller you can get a rough surface painted like look to your image. I have used the Painter software for many years and always loved the ability to place an image on a background paper. With this filter you can use any seamlessly tiled image to produce your own paper textures.

This another Caroline Street restaurant in Key West. It's a funky little place that locals hang out in called Harpoon Harry's. Good food.

One of my most resent filter uploads “Simple Image Tiling” is one that I don't think most folks would see an immediate use for. You can pretty much tile patterns within FF and make textures tile-able as well. But I wanted to have a filter that could be used to tile external images onto a background. I recently dug out my old copy of Visual Basic and played around creating graphics. I created a tile pattern program.( this is not the first time I have done this using basic) The tiles are small (500 by 500 pixels) and not very high resolution but I can produce a wide range of designs such as this one.

OK, what we need now is a half naked young lady. Hope that doesn’t offend anyone, but it is an excuse to use my background. The tiger stripe pattern on her night clothing was created as a material with my Puzzles, Streaks, and Strings filter.


My T-shirt shop ... Captured Image Design

I'm not sure if my Image Brush Abstract filters is of use for many images. I think it is best for very simple graphics. So, I thought I'd try it on a really complicated picture. This is BO's Fish Wagon, another Caroline Street restaurant in Key West. Yes, it looks like a wreck. They call that Key West Funky.

I did an image using the Scrapbook Sherbert filter by Mardar. This time I reduced the size of the abstract which made a more subtle result. Any input image which is used at a reduced size will not overwhelm the overall look of the image. It makes for a colorful painterly look.


My T-shirt site ... Captured Image Design

Oh, and Gene you will have to forgive my old eyes, but I just saw your "Super filter guy" comic and it made me laugh out loud. Thank you for that.

these last lot look good

Mardar ... glad that you liked how I used your filter. I'm a sucker for cool textures and patterns. Keep making them. Also glad you got a laugh out of my cartoon. I expected to get some nasty comments from some of the young folks around here, but they didn't pay me any attention. Thanks for laughing at my feeble attempt at humor .....

Carl ... Thanks for looking. Your Comments are always welcome .....

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Gene S Morgan wrote: Some say he used stuff he found washed up after the storm for the building.

When I started reading the sentence I thought it was gonna go something like this:
"Some say he used stuff he found washed up after the storm as the food he was serving." Boy, it's good to be wrong!

BTW, was it hurricane Ivan? I was in FL before the hurricane, and then it hit and alot of the places I had visited were destroyed.

It has been mentioned in the forum that Daz 3D was giving away software. Many of you folks don't do 3D, so you may not have checked it out. One of those programs I have fooled with for quite some time is Bryce. It is a fun program to just play with. I made this far off planet image in about 10 minutes. On this planet they have already built a fancy highrise hotel on the beachfront for tourist. As I said, I did it quick, so I lost some reality in the shadow areas. I was just goofing and I knew I was going to process the image, so I didn't worry about that much.

Nice job on the 10 minutes work of art
I bet the bryce + FF render times were longer than the time it took you to compose the scene.

The before image (Bryce) looks CG, but the after image looks much more artistic. It's a cool thing you manage to combine several filters to an end effect. It takes some thinking ahead in order for everything to work togather.
Good job!

Hey Gene with the free programs is it possible to simply use a sphere or cube to use as a ff texture test, that will show height/lighting etc ...... I am void of any 3d program knowledge

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Don't make the mistake of thinking I know what I'm doing. I just throw it in the air and see what comes down.

Glad I'm not the only one that does that Gene. LOL Thought I was going crazy.....or are we both heading that way.

I like your far off planet picture. I've never dabbled in 3D programs, but you have made me curious. I'll have to give this a try.

Carl ... I'm sure Morgantao is way ahead of me on 3D stuff and hate to disagree with him but Blender is one weird and hard to learn program to start with. (I hope he is not offended by by my opinion) You can pretty easily use FF textures as materials in Daz Studio. There are other simple free programs out there on the web. I have fun with another Daz product called Carrara Pro. I have got copies of it free a number of times in issues of 3D Artist magazine. Daz has odd marketing methods (kinda like the FF guys) and lots of time give their stuff away. I don't think it is free right now, but I'm sure it will be again. My favorite 3D program which I have shown many examples of here in this thread with my strange face guys early on and my more recent tiki stuff is a free digital sculpting program called Sculptris. I love it because you don't have to learn anything, just push and pull it like clay. I have always been more of a sculpture than painter.

Marder... Many folks have suggested it might be a pretty short trip for me to crazy. And check out my above comments about sculptris. I think you would have fun with it.

Gene thanks for advice I'll have a search for Sculptis, sounds fun, I have no real reason to get too heavily into 3d, or the spare brain space .......... oh and your saying never listen to what Morgantao say, probly good advice [ of course kidding ]
Morgantao that what I need where all I have to is plop on a texture and walla it all pretty and bumpy

Yep, some fine examples on your site.

I haven't tried Sculptis yet, but I have tried to use Zbrush (The big sister of Sculptis) when it was still beta. All I can say is that if Sctulptis is like Zbrush, it feels like painting with tooth paste

Mardar you said "Even a monkey can do it"... Well, not this monkey
I couldn't sculpt an ash tray to save my life.

Yeah I got it and played around with it for half an hour.
I have created some kind of an abomintaion that even it's mother wouldn't love
Didn't save it, it could cause mass suicide

It was fun to make though

Funny your Chocolate King Mardar.

I'll try this soft tonight but I'm sure that your king should be much better than the one I will create.