Tutorial Link : How to digital paint grass in Photoshop

After an introduction, the tutorial starts about 3 minutes, 30 seconds into the video. It teaches you how to set up your brushes to paint strokes with gradients that layer nicely into one another. I will definitely have to try this out! ~ http://vimeo.com/78183651

State Library of Victoria - A history of books

Early last year (2013) I went on a walk by myself through the city after running some errands. It was a nice day, so I brought my camera with me and decided to go wherever was interesting. Among other things, I ended up finding a little free exhibition in the State Library about old types of books.

Full photoset here ~
http://unikorn.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Melbourne-30th-Jan-2013

Elsa has mutant powers XD

Hilarious little animation!

Blood Moon Eclipse

There was an eclipse this evening, causing the moon to have a red color. I enhanced it a little in post.

I experimented with longer exposures to get more of a glow, came out pretty cool.

3D Animated version of the Card Captor Sakura opening.

Beautiful fan creation of a 3D animation version of the Card Captor Sakura opening! The amount of work put into this to get the timing, models and colors right would have been painstaking. Amazing work by Tomo.

Nendoroid More PJ's!

1/125 @ f10 400ISO

I got the Nendoroid More Pajamas set! It's very cute to put your nendo's in PJ's! Seeing if you can match up all the colors is fun. I have 12 Nendoroids at the moment, so there will be a bit of swapping around for more pictures. Although I do have 3 versions of Miku and 2 versions of Kaito. XD

I shot this in front of a bright sunny window. So I had to adjust the lighting a bit in post processing as the figures were a little dark for my lighting. I could have used flash to brighten them up but I wanted the soft natural lighting.

ACM138 Animation - Autodesk Maya - Water Temple

Deakin University was a good place to do my Graphic Design degree because it had flexibility with elective subjects. Which meant I could explore other things I was interested in studying. I took a few subjects from the Animation section and learnt a little bit about using Maya - a 3D animation program. I was very noob at it because Animation was not my major but I had fun making things.

The major assignment for the first subject was to build a room and then have a camera pan through it. So while people built bedrooms and lounge rooms, I decided to make a water temple and try to emulate bloom effects.

I will have to see if I can track down the actual video that panned through this room, I'm not sure if I managed to back it up on my USB drive because the file was quite large. But here are the screenshots of it.

And here is the video!

ACM102 Comparitive Imaging - Assignment 5

This was a photography assignment from university. In the first part we were asked to create a series of alike things - a typology. I have a lot of keyrings, so I made a photo set of them! The second part of the assignment required us to create a rule which would mean we had to take a photo. Mine was I had to take a photo of everything I ate and I did that for 5 days. As you can see I'm naughty and eat a lot of junk. XD

Preying mantis

Yesterday I had a visitor, this praying mantis was sitting on my car bonnet! I noticed it when looking out the window and scurried off to grab my camera and a zoom lens. I probably looked strange still wearing my PJ's and pointing my camera at my car but you have to be quick to catch cool things like this!

Miniature Towns

Michael Paul Smith photographs a town that is very special to him; Elgin Park. These lovely photos look they were taken decades ago when these retro homes and cars were brand new.

But Mr Smith has a secret... this town is tiny!

Not only does this miniature town look amazing but he built it himself!

As I myself like to photograph miniatures in the way of figurines, I am definitely impressed by his time poured in and the attention to detail in his models. It would take a lot of patience that I certainly don't have! Although I'd love to put my figmas in that little town XD

There's some great behind the scenes shots on his Flickr.

Michael Paul Smith - Elgin Park 

Smugmug  : http://elginpark.smugmug.com/Street-Scenes/Elgin-Park/11485172_4X4fK8#!i=809002693&k=rr99Vcw

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/with/11127209176