This tutorial continues on from where we left off in part 1. In part one we created an object that animates using the vibrate tag, sweep NURBS and a Mograph tracer object.

In this tutorial we will be creating our own material that will give our object that we created from part 1 the illusion of looking like water. We will be going over some basics of materials, shaders and displacement. This tutorial is a bit long but most of that is due to the number of screenshots. It really is a quick process and I can make this material in only a few minutes.

This is a beginner to intermediate level tutorial.

Continue reading Flying Water Tutorial Pt. 2

My apologies for this deceptive title. This ain’t really a tutorial but more of compilation of production screenshots and notes I took when I designed my latest poster, gms2009. I don’t do photoshop tutorial too often. Maybe because I always end up skipping from step 3 to step 22 and then wonder why nothing works. I am not saying it is a bad thing to do them but I prefer reading, watching, bookmark, and going back to specific steps when I encounter a technical problem.

For those reasons, I decided to do this “tutorial” a little bit differently. I have always been more interested in the development and process of my favorite artists rather than knowing the exact settings of the ’satin’ layer styles they used. In this document, I tried to cover the main steps of my process. It is not hard, but you should be armed with patience and already know your way around photoshop because I am not covering the basics( i.e. explain how to use the pen tool).

If you want me to explain a specific step more in detail, let me know in the comments and I’ll post a video update.

See notes:

or download pdf here