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[ck_serious]

Something I've been working on today, I just felt like messing around with something that involved texturing and backgrounds, the purple lower portion of the image is dreadful!!!! Oh well, by the time I realised it was too late to go back. The different variations was just adjusting the layers to see how it would look. It was a little rushed,

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Hi mate

[anonymous]

This is Mo, I use to be in your class (year 2003-2005). How you doing mate?, I hope you are fine and doing well in your life and UNI.

My comment: I love the way you design.I think you have used Photoshop to paint your cartoonish character (2d), and the background is realistic. I suggest to change the background as cartoon style by using the filter (colour pencil)so you can make your character's transparency 100%. Then useImage>addgesment>level from window popup menu to make it closer to your character's brightness, and see the differnece.

I would like to contact with each other sometimes as mates and to learn from each other so many things.

My E-mail: mojama40@hotmail.com
mo-multitalent@hotmail.co.uk

your mate,
MOHAMMED JAMA

Re: Hi mate

[ck_serious]

Whoa Mo long time, I'll keep in touch, I want to talk to you about a few things and I want to see how your project worked out, I'm doing ok, started to up my work pace because I'm not happy with my presented work right now. Anyway I'm at work now but I'll try fiddling with the background later, slight problem is the forest is made of several layers. Truth is the character was designed to be a bit more realistic but I couldn't help drawing it out in the anime-ish style I'm used to doing.
Thanks again for the tip and I'll catch up with you soon.

Re: Hi mate

[anonymous]

Thanks mate and I'm so happy to contact with you. I have a few links to help you to get some ideas and might help you to improve your skills more. Because these websites really cool and quality work. These designers use graphic pen (tablet) in any size for quality painting, but much of them prefer big size. I hope you like them and get good ideas of it.

1. http://www.carbodydesign.com
2. http://www.2advanced.com
3. http://www.ballisticpublishing.com

Re: Hi mate

[ck_serious]

Cool I'll scan through the sites and see what I like, I try to work in large spaces too, the source for this image was 3072 x 3072, I just shrunk it for the web. I need to get a tablet too, I just don't want to spend too much.

Re: Hi mate

[anonymous]

hi mate, this is Mo, how you doing now?, I hope you get so many ideas of the designers world. They K.O me When I see their illustrations...loool. I asked my self "what I'm doing here?". These designers made me think and figure out how my designs and my ideas work with 21 century. Any way I will try my best to beat them but it might take me long...loool

Re: Hi mate

[ck_serious]

Well thats one way of putting it, being better then the rest, that I am not, but I'll certainly try once I've ironed out my objectives.

I didn't find my Research Seminar topic difficult to talk about dispite being a 20min presentation because I chose an area I wanted to talk about (game physics), I know my grade was one of the highest but it still wasn't that high because I didn't go into enough detail. I can't really suggest anything in detail here, but have fun working on your topic, you'll want to talk about it more freely instead of picking something random. Find time to practice too, and bring notes if you think you'll forget. I don't ever write complete presentations on cards or digitally because you'll only end up reading directly from the source, I like to give my audience attention. We can go into details either by email, phone (don't leave your number here) or at campus, I gotta go back to finish a first year module in order to graduate haha...