We will give you a detailed analysis of the photoshop software and share with you the tutorial on creating a Dory instance of a rat-painted Hollywood animation.
Tutorial sharing:
The movie "bottom story" in 2003 has brought us a super cute little ugly fish, and now the sequel to this classic 3D animated movie "bottom Story 2: Where did I go" has come to us. In a movie, I'm curious about how the blue tang Wang Yu Duoli finds out in her life. At the same time, the realistic 3D animation effect allows us to see the progress of 3D animation production technology. Today's foreign high-quality translation tutorials bring you a Photoshop tutorial to draw the blue pond fish Dolly. Next, let's take a look at the final effect chart.
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Tutorial material
1. Study the style features of Dolly
Before starting painting, you should first ask yourself a few questions: Who is Dolly, where she lives, and what she likes.
If you like to have children or watch cartoons, you may already know the answer to the above question. No matter whether you know it beforehand or not, collecting and analyzing the relevant materials of the painting objects before painting can make creation easier.
Below are the key details to remember:
1. Dolly was designed according to the real life habits of Lantang fish.
2. Dolly has a pair of super bright and super-large red eyes.
3. Due to the forgetful nature of Dolly, the expression may be a little hard-pressed.
4. Dolly has no scales.
Copyright
As we all know, copyrighted design images are protected. In this regard, the author specifically changes the shape, facial structure, and facial expression of the body and the original version to avoid infringement disputes.
Although it seems that Dolly will be completely different, I will try my best to keep it consistent with others. Now I want to figure out Dolly's image in my mind and start sketching.
2. Draw Dolly outlines
Create a 1250*1040 pixel canvas in Photoshop and set the resolution to 150 dpi. Select a hard circle paint brush and start to draw Dolly's outline. Use a simple shape to construct the shape, and then gradually add details. The general effect is as follows:
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Draw the following details, such as eyes and mouth. Here I designed a half-open eye and a small love pattern for Dolly to distinguish it from the original version.
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Continue to use the paint brush of the same hardness, and then finish the contour while cleaning unwanted lines. Here I provide the outline sketch, click here to download it, or use your own painting.
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3. Paste image clips
Step 1
This step adds colors and textures to Dolly's body and face by splicing materials to make Dolly look richer and more authentic. Download the materials provided earlier in the tutorial.
Open the clip and use the magic wand to delete the background of the clip. As shown in the following figure.
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Step 2
Select the polygon hang tool, copy and paste each part of the clip fish into the outline sketch, and fill the fish in the sketch with the vibrant blue. Use the eraser tool to erase parts outside the edge.
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Set the mixed mode of the sketch layer to soft, so that the sketch can be integrated into the blue skin, and then continue to paste the skin.
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When you need to display the sketch to confirm the contour edge, set the layer blending mode to normal. Capture more skins from two clips and transplant them to our sketch using a free transform tool. If the shape is not regular, use the twist option to adjust it according to the sketch outline. Starting from the fin at the upper and lower ends.
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Move the back fin and black skin below to connect the tail. Use the rubber gel tool to erase the shape of small love.
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For the side fin, you can copy and paste the side fin from the second Lantang fish clip into the canvas, and then paste it to the sketch accurately using the free transform tool.
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The following colors Dolly's eyes. As shown in the following figure, the golden shining material is colored with a beautiful magenta color. Select "image> Adjust> color phase/saturation" and set the color phase to-78.
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Just as before, copy and paste the shiny material into the canvas, move it to the eye position, and identify the eye position by adjusting the opacity to 30%. Next, select the eraser tool, just as the primary school students write chalk words, to erase parts other than the eyes.
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After you paste the material on the sketch, you can omit a lot of coloring work. Now I feel that Dolly is coming to the fore, but it will feel a little flat. The next step is required.
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4. From plane to 3D: three-dimensional painting
Step 1
To make the image more stereoscopic and realistic, you need to build a correct light and shadow system. Merge material layers and sketch layers. Create a new layer as the cropping mask and set the layer blending mode to the front slice. Then add the shadow effect to the new layer with the soft circle paint brush.
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From the trunk, to the eyes, fin texture and other details. By constantly using a straw tool to color, you can make the shadow effect very beautiful! Don't forget to add white teeth to Dolly.
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Step 2
The highlighted section is processed below. Create a layer and set the blending mode to overlay. Use a white paint brush to draw the highlight. You can finish the highlights on the same layer. However, we recommend that you create another layer for the eyes and set the blending mode to normal.
When adding light effects, you must note that the light is from the lower right side.
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Step 3
Clear the location that looks rough. Select a circle paint brush and set the hardness to 100%. Complete the edges and clear the roughness.
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5. Create a tough leather effect
First, I noticed the fact that Dolly does not have the scales of common fish. As a matter of fact, we can find that the skin of the Lantang fish is meticulous and tough, even though it is difficult to show this texture on the movie backdrop.
The key to reflecting this texture is to make the fish cover a uniform material. Add a layer, set the blending mode to soft light, select a hard circle brush, and add a gray layer on the Dolly skin.
Right-click the layer thumbnail to enter the layer style, select the pattern overlay, and select the heavy canvas material to fill the gray part. Adjust the opacity of the layer to 35%, so that the effect is not too abrupt.
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Don't forget to add her cute freckles to Dolly. Use a hard circle brush and add blue freckles to Dolly's "nose". Use an eraser tool to adjust the freckles so that the freckles can be better integrated into the skin.
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6. Create a submarine background
Step 1
This step is very simple and you can use any background material you want.
The submarine material is provided at the beginning of the tutorial, and two coral reef materials are available here. Click here now coral reef 1 and coral reef 2.
You can search for your favorite background materials. However, we should pay attention to the best fit of materials such as distance and light in our design.
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Step 2
Put the selected material under the Duoli design layer. The author selects this material (Click here to download it ). First, select "Edit> free change> horizontal flip". If you need to adjust the size of the canvas, press Ctrl + T to adjust the size, but make sure that the main character Dolly is still in the center of the scene.
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Step 3
To make the background look more like a movie, add a slight Gaussian blur here. The blur effect can not only show that Dolly is moving, but also design the depth of field effect to make the screen more layered.
Select the background layer, select "filter> blur> Gaussian blur", and set the blur radius to 4 pixels. The following figure shows the final effect chart.
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Summary
Through this PS tutorial, we can see that Dolly's image can be presented through a simple design. These simple designs are reflected in the consideration and handling of local details. We all know how powerful digital painting is, but if it is applied first, you will feel how amazing it can be. I hope that you will feel the idea of image synthesis in the tutorial so that it can be applied to future creative design.
All right, the above information is all the content shared by the creation tutorial of the Hollywood animation Dory instance for the users of photoshop's software, you can see that the user here, Xiaobian believes that you are now very clear about the production method, then you will come to follow the small series of tutorials to create their own to see the results.
