Thanks to all who put forward their interpretations of last weeks Lemon and Lime starter image. There were some great ideas and great translation of those ideas into images.
During the two week period of this challenge, we have Halloween coming up. I got to thinking of Shakespeare's witches in Macbeth chanting 'Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble'. So, I've built a cauldron scene in Blender 3D using a fluid simulation for the fire and smoke, textured it in Adobe Substance Painter and finished the rendered image in Photoshop adding the moon surface from a NASA image.. What can you now do to bring it to life? For those that enjoy some realism, it poses challenges with the lighting, from the fire, and also the retention of the smoke and steam in front of any mid ground subjects. For other styles - just go for it. 🙂
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Dave
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I was unable to get it below the 10mb limit as a GIF, even after running the Oil Paint filter and reducing colours to 64 it was still 19mb. 500 pixels on the long side might have done it, but you are giving too much away. I also liked the audio, so I made a thumbnail any put it up as a video. I discovered that not all Firefly models use the same Generative Credits. I was debited 400 credits, so I am not sure what conditions drove that.
Turning on Audio does not seem to add to the credits used (AFAICT)
That leaves me with 3700 Premium Credits with 10 days to run, so I'll be trying the Ray3 HDR before then.
My prompt was 'A giant approaches through the trees. He bends down, picks up the still burning cauldron and drinks from it'. I changed Dave's render to 720p with black bars each side (for the aspect ratio) and uploaded that as the first frame in Firefly.
AFAICT (I am saying that a lot as it is still a learning process) video is the only thing that uses Premium Credits. I have been experimenting hard with all aspects of Ai inside Photoshop, and not seen any change in my credit tally. I've signed up for Jesus Ramariz (The Photoshop Training Channel) Ai Mastery course (the Early Bird price runs out on the 28th) that goes live on the 28th of this month (the same time as MAX) and hope to be filling in the gaps from that. I firmly believe that on top of him being a genius with all things Photoshop, the work he does with Lisa Charney creating artwork for the movie and TV industry is a big part of what drives his ability to discover so much more than anyone else on YouTube etc. when it comes to Adobe Ai.
Beautiful light Bob. I love how it has cast light behind the pumpkin, presumably from the lit windows on the back of the pumpkin. I was assuming this was Ai, but looking at the lack of antialiasing at the top of the pumpkin, I am now wondering if it was composited. Kudos if that's the case Bob.
I love it Brad. I wonder what Patrick Moore would have made of it? That picture actyually has signs of light leakage in the bottom left corner. That's something we don't see nowadays.
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