Google’s Earth Studio gives concept artists and authors of transmedia stories, graphic novels, and illustrated books another tool for developing cityscapes. While the graphics are not photorealistic, the 3D graphics rendered in Earth Studio can be the starting point for image compositing. There are issues with the visual quality ofContinue Reading
When creating sci fi technologies, understanding the concept of competitive advantage is important. One of the big irritants for me are sci fi and fantasy visuals that include technology that looks “cool” but is totally useless or worse, a hinderance to the user. Competition is essentially a contest between two orContinue Reading
There are a few glitches in the rendering of these images, but overall the quality of the images is quite good. The flicker-free quality of the animations is particularly significant.Continue Reading
I continue to be amazed at the technology that is being developed for visual storytelling. The latest surprise is EbSynth. It makes the job of converting video into painting-like animations. The best part…it’s free! I’ll post some video examples that I did in an afternoon while learning the software. ThisContinue Reading
Science and technology are a defining element of science fiction. Getting them right is critical to the credibility of the story and having readers or viewers willingly suspend their disbelief. As I noted in the first part of this series of posts, the Creator of a storyworld is free to makeContinue Reading
Creating strong scenes is an essential skill for writers. Over the years, I’ve struggled with writing scenes but it was only when I began to study the structure of comic books and graphic novels that I saw a simple framework for structuring scenes. My first efforts were done in aContinue Reading
A video recording of the Motion Graphics: Easy Animation for Visual Storytelling webinar and sample materials (including actual motion graphics developed in Photoshop) are available from Daz3d at https://www.daz3d.com/motion-graphics–easy-animation-for-visual-storytelling.Continue Reading
Open domain, Creative Commons, and stock photographs are a great resource for transmedia creators. Millions of photos can be downloaded and used in videos, motion graphics, and comics. Using the photographs as they are will work for some photo comics, but other visual styles can be created using filters toContinue Reading