We’ve moved our continuing mission to build a robot costume to it’s own web page. Now you can find all updated previous entries and further information as we continue to make our own robot suit.
Check it out here.
Here at Blunt HQ we’ve been experimenting with simple space ship fly bys. Basically using some fishing wire we dangled our space rocket in front of a bluescreen and spun it slowly.
Then we cut the shot with the space rocket beginning pointing towards the camera and finishing pointing away. we keyed out [...]
Yes it’s been some time since we last did any preperation on our robot suit. To be hones we really hadn’t got past designing it. Well today I’m going to put all that behind me and get down to ordering some materials. I’ve thought long and hard about this and have decided the best [...]
Using the bevel function in photoshop we’re going to construct a simple backdrop for a sci fi scene.
Taking the metal texture from yesterday we start by cutting out a shape for monitor.
Now add two strips.
Add a frame around the monitor.
Little circles bevelled look great as rivets.
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Learning the ancient art of beveling and embossing will open a whole new world to your sci-fi scenes.
First we’ll take a piece of metal texture.
We select a circle from the texture.
Copy it and then paste.
In your layers box click on the layer you want to emboss.
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Here at Blunt Productions we like to give ourselves a challenge and so we’ve decided to set the task of building a full robot suit. This will be an ongoing process so be sure to return to see our progress. Our original Robots for some of our first Blunt films consisted of wrapping tinfoil [...]
