BUILDING A HIGH QUALITY B-17 (PART 10)

August.05.2011 · Posted By - Paul

The B-17 has an access tunnel that is located under the cockpit.  A forward hatch leads to the interior.  Once inside, going left will lead to the foreword compartment and right leads up to the cockpit.  The access tunnel is also used for storage and allows access to cables running down from the cockpit.  This room is only about three feet high making mobility difficult.

Building the model was interesting because there is a lot of stuff crammed into this space.  …

BUILDING A SIMPLE SCENE USING MAYA AND PHOTOSHOP – PART 2 OF 2

August.03.2011 · Posted By - Paul

I started compositing in Photoshop using four images.  One image was an aerial photograph that I picked up off of Shutterstock.  The other three had the aircraft as well as contrail guides.

I applied a hue/saturation adjustment to the aircraft as well as a photo filter adjustment.  My intention was to color cast the aircraft with a little blue so that they would merge better into the scene.  I also feathered the edges of the aircraft and used the erase tool …

BUILDING A SIMPLE SCENE USING MAYA AND PHOTOSHOP – PART 1 OF 2

August.02.2011 · Posted By - Paul

 

Having built a lot of WWI and WWII aircraft over the years I decided it was time to finally do a little digital art image with a few of the models.  During a weekend in July 2011 I tossed together the image that can be seen below.  In its original size it is 4922 pixels across.  The aircraft were built and skinned in Maya and were integrated into a scene in Photoshop CS5.

The image depicts a few P-51D Mustang fighters …