To accentuate the details of the angel model, while keeping to simple lighting, an ambient occlusion node
was used;
Fortitude
Music: Jimmy W - Pan
Created in Photoshop & GIMP using a photo I took at an antique store.
Since this image already has a very dark background, we can separate the subject nicely just by harshly
pulling shadow tones to black.
1-bit ordered dithering can be nicely emulated in GIMP by generating a bayer matrix, and "hard mix" blending
it with the layers below.
This is extremely helpful for working with a dithered image non-destructively and in real-time.
From here, I just did some basic adjustments and painting to get a look I was happy with.
I didn't save the project file for it, but the rain background was created by applying harsh motion blur to
a noise pattern, then I thresholded the result to get small white lines.
Created in Photoshop & GIMP using a photo I took at an antique store.
Since this image already has a very dark background, we can separate the subject nicely just by harshly
pulling shadow tones to black.
1-bit ordered dithering can be nicely emulated in GIMP by generating a bayer matrix, and "hard mix" blending
it with the layers below.
This is extremely helpful for working with a dithered image non-destructively and in real-time.
From here, I just did some basic adjustments and painting to get a look I was happy with.
I didn't save the project file for it, but the rain background was created by applying harsh motion blur to
a noise pattern, then I thresholded the result to get small white lines.
Similar to fortitude, I used the "Hard Mix" bayer trick to edit an dithered version of the image. From here
it was just painting and adjusting colours;
The flame effect was made by applying the "wind" effect to some noise, then using tile-seamless to make it
wrap well. A gradient was overlayed to fade the effect near the edges.
The key here is that the camera is at an angle, so the drawn lines appear to warp around the subject. If you
were to look at the subject from a perpendicular viewpoint, the illusion is broken;
Then some lighting adjustments and the same bayer-blend trick;
Once I was happy with the lighting, I used GIMPs "slur" noise effect to get a subtle noisy distortion;
Repeating this filter with a different seed each time, then dithering, I generated the frames for the
animation.
The glitched version underneath created by flipping random bits of the image in vim, copying the glitched
(but still visible portion) of the image, and stitching those glitches together.
This is the full glitched version;
I also used a similar (albeit much simpler) setup of dithering as a blender compositing step.
