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Hey guys,

I'm beginning to expand my tutorial series from drawing into painting. I'm now using -- you guessed it -- TVPaint for these, and I'll be recording more and more episodes over the week.

First up - a chapter on silhouettes...

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=E_vSQGjDG ... 69&index=4

The series continues... This time a chapter on Direct Lighting.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nmKkXAPjp ... 69&index=6

Hi Mark,

Those tutorials are really cool ...
Excellent job !

See you soon

Thanks Fabrice, I just recorded another chapter - this one on Indirect Lighting!

http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/20 ... hting.html

And now, this is how I start all of my paintings!

http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/20 ... ether.html

One hour lecture on exposure, colour and specularity. Don't watch it all in one sitting!

http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/20 ... arity.html

Your are listing Nausicaa from the Valley of wind from Joe Hisaishi !

Where can we get this new version of the PPalette ??

Fabrice wrote:Your are listing Nausicaa from the Valley of wind from Joe Hisaishi !

Fabrice i'm pretty sure its not the Nausicaa soundtrack, although its does sound a bit Hisaishi-ish (...oooh nice word) especially around 5:00.


i am also very intrigued by that popup-palette.
it seems to work in the same vein as the maya direct menu, always there where you are.

Mark,

People are asking some questions about the software you are using in the youtube comments

Fabrice wrote:Your are listing Nausicaa from the Valley of wind from Joe Hisaishi !

The 2nd track is by Joe Hisaishi, the main theme from the "Le Petit Poucet" soundtrack. The 7th track is also a Hisaishi track, the main theme from "Laputa, The Castle In The Sky"

Tantalus wrote:Fabrice i'm pretty sure its not the Nausicaa soundtrack, although its does sound a bit Hisaishi-ish (...oooh nice word) especially around 5:00.

Fabrice wrote:Where can we get this new version of the PPalette ??

Check your email.

Tantalus wrote:I am also very intrigued by that popup-palette.
it seems to work in the same vein as the maya direct menu, always there where you are.

Send me your email if you are interested. For the time being, I am only sending it to beta testers upon request.

Fabrice wrote:People are asking some questions about the software you are using in the youtube comments

And I keep saying during the tutorials, "It's TVPaint, it's TVPaint!"

Congratulation, it's a good project.
"To be continues..."

Mark, how are you getting the pop up PPalette color circles?
is it an unpublished version of ppalette?
(I saw as well you are somehow collapsing the ppalette window downwards)

The pop up palette is a recent addition I made called the "Dartboard". Here's what it is:

- It's a saturation/value colour picker.
- You call it up when your cursor is positioned over some part of the image. Doing this grabs the colour under your stylus (just like the eyedropper tool)
- the Dartboard's HUE is set to whatever colour is under your stylus.
- On the left side of the Dartboard, the further towards the edge you go, the less saturated the colours are than the current colour
- On the right side of the Dartboard, the further towards the edge you go, the more saturated the colours are than the current colour
- Value is arranged radially around on the Dartboard
- Channel clip indicators show wherever an RGB channel is completely saturated (255) or bottomed-out (0).
- Dragging outside the Dartboard allows you to perform a Hue shift
- Dragging the center of the Dartboard lets you move it around and select a new colour.
- To use it effectively, you have to have an idea of what colour you'd like to have in the first place.
- When I work from photo reference, I glance first at a portion of the photo to tell what hue that region is. Then I call up the Dartboard, perform a hue shift, and then examine the Dartboard to see if the colour I want is on it. I grab that colour, and lay down one or two brush strokes and compare that colour against the rest of my painting. If it's a bit off, then I'll call up the Dartboard again on the brushstrokes I just made, and examine the Dartboard to find the colour I need.
- Usually my first attempt at picking colour is about 95% accurate (in the ballpark). Calling up the Dartboard a second time lets me make that final adjustment.
- If you see me pop it up and dismiss it without choosing a colour, I'm just using it like a regular eyedropper.

As for PPalette, I found I can close the interface completely, relying solely on the Dartboard. That little window you see at the bottom is RocknRoll, which takes care of rolling/flipping automation for animation, drawing my full-screen crosshair and the Paper Trail effect(if I'm sketching).

Although I don't have an official sales page for PPalette yet, I can make individual sales. Just PM me your email address. It's $10.00 for noncommercial/educational licenses and $50.00 for a commercial license.

lemec wrote:Thanks Fabrice, I just recorded another chapter - this one on Indirect Lighting!

http://tenminutedrawing.blogspot.com/20 ... hting.html

What brush do you use when you make the sphere in this indirectlighting-film, if I may ask?
And what are the settings?