{"id":849,"date":"2011-06-27T22:34:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T04:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=849"},"modified":"2011-06-27T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T04:42:28","slug":"working-in-2-5-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/06\/working-in-2-5-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Working In 2.5 Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I liked about <a title=\"Aren't his eyes just dreamy?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/FinalAlleyImage.png\" target=\"_blank\">the Back Alley drawing<\/a>, is&#8230; well the Back Alley background. It was made in what I like to call 2.5-D. This means creating a pseudo 3-dimensional look without the 3D software. Specifically, I used After Effects to accomplish this. The first thing I did was create 2-D images for the walls and floor. This was done with in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyFloor.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-850  aligncenter\" title=\"I wanted the floor to show dirt (Road To Rhode Island reference).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyFloor-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyFloor-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyFloor-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyFloor.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one above is the floor image. I wanted to make sure it didn&#8217;t look too uniform and give it a dirty feeling. The walls were done in a similar fashion. Below is an image of one of the walls (the right one).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyRtWall.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-852  aligncenter\" title=\"Ninjas were here...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyRtWall-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyRtWall-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyRtWall-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AlleyRtWall.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have never actually graffitied in real life; but if I were, I would make sure it said &#8216;Ninjas&#8217;. Anyway, I then took these images and put them into After Effects, and they were converted into 3D layers &#8211; this allowed me to rotate them to create the desired perspective look. After a few tweaks and a little color correction (darkening the alley and adding in a little dark blue), you have the image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SketchScans_062711.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-853  aligncenter\" title=\"These guys all said some fightin' words.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SketchScans_062711-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SketchScans_062711-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SketchScans_062711-1024x522.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have also spent some time sketching out a few ideas for another drawing. I haven&#8217;t decided on a new colored image to create, but I like these poses. Of course these were very quick sketches so they definitely need a lot of touch up work if I plan to move forward with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I liked about the Back Alley drawing, is&#8230; well the Back Alley background. It was made in what I like to call 2.5-D. This means creating a pseudo 3-dimensional look without the 3D software. Specifically, I used After Effects to accomplish this. The first thing I did was create 2-D images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}