Videos tagged with from scratch

You challenged Philippe to make a bill of a currency from scratch. It is a lot more complicated than it looks at the first glance – of course – otherwise I would print some Euro notes at the beginning of the week instead of going into the school for earning my pay. Bills have a complicated background for discouraging counterfeiters. Philippe analyses the background of a 10 SFR bill ...

Philippe was working on bank notes - but it turned out to be a too big task for the available time. The designers of these notes have one thing on top of their minds - make it difficult to copy. With the money being on the back burner, Philippe made us a bowl of soup - absolutely low on calories and from scratch. You’ll see how to get a textured plane into the shape of the soup, create re...

A metal sign has been sitting on a wooden wall for decades, rusting away in the weather.Nobody really cared. But in reality this sign was made from scratch by Philippe, with a generous amout of bump mapping and applying plasma. Two things are to be thought about - making this three dimensional and getting the age effects right. Rust blooms and runs and so there are several ways to go to emulate...

Philippe has a problem with Software Patents - and so he makes a headstone for them. Todays topic is simulating a stone carving. Again Philippe starts with an analysis of the real world: how do we perceive the depth of a carving? It’s not only a drop shadow, like in so many illustrations. For “believability” additional highlights and some effects from dirt and imperfections ar...

After reading all your comments to this post and tracing back the origin of the mail I found out that this upcoming device is not from China but Chile. It’s only two letters difference…. OK, it’s a fake - but you should have seen this at one glance. Which device for nerds is shown with a bearded guy and not with someone female and near 20? Thank you to the people who recogniz...