Something for the weekend - Part 144 - Shielding

[davescm]

Thanks to all those who took part our last "Repair Shop" challenge. This week, we have something different.

There has been a lot of shielding going on around the world over the past year so I wondered what the Photoshop community would make with an actual shield.

I made this shield as an exercise in creating an "object" entirely as a material, using Adobe's 3D Substance Designer. So it is all procedural, stringing together 3D Designer's nodes, and no modelling was involved at all. I then rendered the material on a flat, square, plane in Blender 3D, using the material's height map to displace the surface and give it depth.

Now you have the shield, what can you do with it?

The “rules”:

* Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc

* Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum "regulars".

* There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!

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Have fun.

Dave

[EuanWilliamson]

Not according to Wikipedia !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace

[Dean_Utian]

Brought a smile to my face 🙂

[War Unicorn]

I'm always late to these. (And my mind takes me to weird, abstract places.) lol

"Mandela"

[Jacob Bugge]

Indeed, James.

[davescm]

Quite bizarre - and yet it works. Nice one James !

Dave

[Trevor.Dennis]

Mandela - orian

[War Unicorn]

HAHA  xD

[Trevor.Dennis]

This is the way

[Trevor.Dennis]

[davescm]

Mesmerising Trevor!

A small detail, but the strokes around the outside help hold it all together nicely.

Dave

[Jacob Bugge]

Mesmerising indeed, Trevor, as Dave said.

Most importantly it brings attention to the little horse.

[Jumpenjax]

Nice!👍

[JJMack]

113 Defensive moves.

[JJMack]

Which  Way are things rotating?

[Ussnorway]

your first one breaks on my Firefox Mack i.e, plays once then locks itself until a browser refresh... not sure if that is by design or not mate

[JJMack]

It is the last frame is the composite of all the 113  positions.

[Trevor.Dennis]

JJ that reminds me of a previous SFTW (but I can't remember which one 😞 )  It had a multi spoked wheel so you only needed to animate it thhrough a quarter turn.  At that point preceding spokes would catch up and give the effect of full rotation.  The problem was that you could blink, and the wheel would appear to reverse direction.

[Dean_Utian]

All these spinning sheilds are making me dizzy 🙂

@JJMack - In your spinning shield - is it just me or does the middle circle appear to be spinning faster than the outer circle. I know this is not the case though.

[JJMack]

Its simply a layer rotating clockwise its your eyes and brain messing  with you. The inner hub seem to be rotating at a different rate as other elements and the outer  rim's rivets seem to be rotating counter clockwise.

[Trevor.Dennis]

If you select all of the frames, and try to be careful, you can move things around, resize, transform etc. without loosing frame and layer sync.

And just to demonstrate.  Each set of layers needs to be its own group, but it's always a good idea to keep things tidy when you need to manaually sync the same frames to multiple layers.  Unfortunately, you can't copy a group and retain its contained layer/frame sync.  You can't warp a group nor sharpen its layers (as is needed with the skewed centre shield below) without losing frame sync.   For those of us lucky enough to have an ACP badge, its way easier with Animate, and I really should get round to learning it.

[JJMack]

The eye can be tricked....magic is not real it a trick but it can look real..

[Dean_Utian]

Well done @Trevor.Dennis .
It looks great. I just can't look at it too long 🙂

[Ged_Traynor]

Bit late to the party 😀

[davescm]

I like that one Ged - a bit of a story in it 🙂

Dave

[Trevor.Dennis]

It's beautiful Ged, but I feel like it should mean something to us.  What is the context?  It's like Palpatine and his pet raven meet the Baby Jesus, and Jimmy Page gets a killer idea for a song.