Offline and helpless.
July 17th, 2007
Man. 1and1.com had a major server failure last friday. They finally decided 3 days later that they couldn’t fix it and had to move my account over to a new server. So all of my sites have been down or functioning badly since then. Hopefully we’re back up for good now.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Hey! You’re back!!! Yay!
Now is my turn on the tutorial stuff! Hahaha!
Well, it’s easy: I took a photo for reference, draw Hiro, and clean up all interferences, like trafic, people around him, signs,etc; and paste/flatten the colors of the buildings as much as possible, to give this blocky look. Then, the good photoshop with grain and texture filters, and added a little green to the whole scene to unity.
And that’s it! Hiro Nakamura all good and done! Easy, huh?!
July 18th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Hey Bruna, Cool! That is a really cool technique, it looks almost like watercolor and friskit. If anyone’s curious, here’s the illustration: http://bp0.blogger.com/_OahkrUg4LfY/RpUBvqQLR8I/AAAAAAAAAYw/2B7XYN2yY9Q/s1600-h/hironakamura_bbrito.jpg
July 19th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Sorry to hear about your internet issue. Love your character!!
July 19th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Thanks Alina, it was awful. It ended up being almost a week. aaaaaargh!
July 19th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Dude, FI-YAH dey butts!! Take your ball and find another host. 4 days???!! That’s utterly unconscionable.
-k
July 19th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Keith, I agree. I am now taking suggestions for good web hosts.