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Vafann

Vafann

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This didn´t turn out like I meant it to at all. I was trying to make the woman look like she was frozen into the ice wall, but the only way I could figure out how to do it was with using some layers styles, and it looks totally wrong. I also don´t think the reflection works at all, but I don´t know how to fix that either.

I also wanted the text itself to look frozen, but I gave up on it, because it was too hard to do.

Anyway, this is how it turned out, if anyone knows how I could have done otherwise, please don´t be shy lol. :)

Frozen--3-för-sammanl.jpg
 
thats cool (literally) there are some filters you may want to try adding though like a soft glass effect to give it that ice cube look
 
Beautiful! Love the blue feeling! But sad when thinking about that summer is kinda over by now and we´re heading for something similar to that phrozen h*ll as shown in your artwork.. sigh!
 
Hoogleman said:
thats cool (literally) there are some filters you may want to try adding though like a soft glass effect to give it that ice cube look
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Thank you Hoogleman! I will try using filters, I always have problems with them though, because I don´t seem to able to use them unless I´ve flattened something first. I´ll have to read up on that! :)
 
fenix said:
Beautiful! Love the blue feeling! But sad when thinking about that summer is kinda over by now and we´re heading for something similar to that phrozen h*ll as shown in your artwork.. sigh!
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Thank you Fenix! Yes, it´ll be cold again soon, and we haven´t even really had any summer yet, sigh. :)
 
Vafann said:
I was trying to make the woman look like she was frozen into the ice wall I also don´t think the reflection works at all, but I don´t know how to fix that either.

I also wanted the text itself to look frozen, but I gave up on it, because it was too hard to do.
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Like Hoogle said, try the filters. Glass is a really good one and I used glass with plastic wrap over it to get an icy effect in letters. As for the reflection, decide what it's reflecting on. Then bring your distance closer and make the reflection shorter than the figure itself. If the reflection is over a bumpy surface (and I realize it isn't in this picture), just warp it a bit. You could try a displacement map if you have the energy for that. I would take the easy way and do a warp first. Just duplicate it before you mess with it. Also bend the angle with a distort or perspective transformation, or even the warp. Is your figure suspended in the air? If the reflection is meant to be on the "wall," then I would distort it so that it falls behind and bends with the angle where the walls meet.

It's Cool (ha ha). I really do like it Vafann.

Here's a not very good distortion transformation. I chose the ice wall to his side for reflecting. Just decide what is doing the reflecting. In the situation, it may be multiple places, but you could pick one and few would question it!
 

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Hi Vafann

Nice Try, but I know you can do a lot better, you just need some Frozen tips and patience

This may help you whit some tips on getting that effect
How to Create a Human Being Frozen

The frozen text is a pretty simple effect
Frozen Text

The reflections effect it's basically created by using a layer mask and a basic gradient like in this tut.
Reflections

Hope this helps

 
Vafann i made this, your idea inspired me:)
 

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ibclare said:
Like Hoogle said, try the filters. Glass is a really good one and I used glass with plastic wrap over it to get an icy effect in letters. As for the reflection, decide what it's reflecting on. Then bring your distance closer and make the reflection shorter than the figure itself. If the reflection is over a bumpy surface (and I realize it isn't in this picture), just warp it a bit. You could try a displacement map if you have the energy for that. I would take the easy way and do a warp first. Just duplicate it before you mess with it. Also bend the angle with a distort or perspective transformation, or even the warp. Is your figure suspended in the air? If the reflection is meant to be on the "wall," then I would distort it so that it falls behind and bends with the angle where the walls meet.

It's Cool (ha ha). I really do like it Vafann.

Here's a not very good distortion transformation. I chose the ice wall to his side for reflecting. Just decide what is doing the reflecting. In the situation, it may be multiple places, but you could pick one and few would question it!
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Thank you Clare for allt the helpful advice! I am going to copy that to a note to my computer so that I can look at while I´m trying again! And thank you for taking the time to show me visually what you meant with the reflection, that´s always clearer to understand!! :)
 
$1r_M4x1mu$ said:
Hi Vafann

Nice Try, but I know you can do a lot better, you just need some Frozen tips and patience

This may help you whit some tips on getting that effect
How to Create a Human Being Frozen

The frozen text is a pretty simple effect
Frozen Text

The reflections effect it's basically created by using a layer mask and a basic gradient like in this tut.
Reflections

Hope this helps
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Thank you Maximus! I will try again and I will utilize the links you posted to help me this time, I just read through them, and there were a lot of things that I have never thought of. It does mention "Vector masks" a lot, I haven´t even figured out what those are for yet, I have no idea what the difference is between a regular layer mask and a vector mask.
I´ll keep learning though! :)
 
No it's two layers one of the ice cubes and one of the woman, the woman layer i over saturated it and recolored her slightly, then made a new copy of her and multiplied that also, then dropped the percentage back until i was happy. then i combined all layers and made a copy of that then i did a multiply again and dropped the percentages again lol. Probably a easier way but that's how i did it.
 
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