Thursday, June 27, 2013

Deke's Techniques 234: Creating Volumetric Monster Parts with Photoshop Shape Layers

Tutorial

What, you ask, are "volumetric monster parts?" Well, check out this week's free movie and find out. OK, it's really just me replacing the mundane word shapes with the awesome phrase monster parts. And that's basically this week's Deke's Techniques in a nutshell: Deke started with a sketch he created with his son Sam, turned it into shape layers, and then gave the alien dude real volume with the use of deftly applied layer effects.

In other words, this semi-frightening visitor from the absurd mind of McClellands was created solely by entering parametric instructions to Photoshop. (OK, a bit of pen-toolery was required in the transformation from a pencil-and-paper sketch, but the lovely shading of our hero's green complexion was created primarily from entering editable values into Photoshop's Layer Style dialog box.

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