No idea how to render a masterplan? Neither did I two weeks ago. How then?
Quite simply, I watched some YouTube tutorials. No joke. When people said that’s all they did – I honest to god did not believe them. But after I’d watched two, I realized it’s essentially colouring in - but on a computer. The rest I guess, is just practice.
It also helps if you have some rather nice people kicking about the studio or some super talented friends that are willing to help you, such as my friend Nisha Gandhi (check out her website it’s pretty damn good!).
So what I’ve done here is put together a list of some useful links and tutorials to help you get started.
And remember the 3 golden rules
1. WORK ON A NEW LAYER
2. CONSTANTLY SAVE YOUR WORK
3. LEAVE TWICE AS MUCH TIME AS YOU THINK YOU NEED!!!!
(and 4 – have fun!)
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- Some people have had some rather negative things to say about the videos by this guy, but I think for a total beginner who has no confidence or no idea how to use Photoshop these videos are a godsend - Chris Harrison goes through everything slowly and methodologically.
- The absolute messiah however seems to be Alex Hogrefe – if you haven’t already, check out his website to understand why!
- For textures most people just google but getting the right angle can be annoying – try this website for some instant textures.
- And entourages i.e people and trees with white backgrounds? Try Immediate Entourage.
- Some good books to get out from the library are:
and the soon to be released;
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