Lord of the Rings text tute

Graechan · **Posted:** Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:01 am **(#21)**

Fencepost you are the animation king which is why I started collecting your scripts anyway and the animated LOTR-Letterdrop was a script that quickly combined an existing animation with your LOTR script for PhotoComix

Odinbc whats this TWC site as it looks interesting

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Masterfully done Esper.
Actually, awesome effect.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

thanks mate :bigthup

its not shiny, yeah

(your comment about shininess being old and the post about the minimalistic designs and the longshadow had kind of an impact on me)

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Esper wrote:

its not shiny, yeah

(your comment about shininess being old and the post about the minimalistic designs and the longshadow had kind of an impact on me)

it wasn't my intention and I don't really think bling-bling effects are all bad.
Depends on execution.
I really like the effect :bigthup

You added something else to your Chisel effect tutorial to achieve it. Environmental map?

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

K1TesseraEna wrote:

You added something else to your Chisel effect tutorial to achieve it. Environmental map?[/font]

no, nothing like that
two things

first: the killer feature of this effect are the irregular edges of the font that leadto the special texture of the chiselled bevel
so i chose another font that had this very detail

second: when i showed 2-ton and Wallace yesterday another way to colourise the text, i played around with a different colour.
it was purple (i blame Wallace, lol)
then i played around with curves (all four of them) on the chiselled text and the fiery red started forming
i decided i wanted more texture so i fired up G'MIC and applied coloured pencils on a duplicate
that layer on 'Soft Light' and bobs yer uncle

this is another one and goes out to a different kind of king, lol

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

I see now. Thanks Esper.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

now with tutorial

http://gimp-science-labs.blogspot.de/20 ... orial.html

AnMal · **Posted:** Sun Dec 08, 2013 7:51 pm **(#29)**

esper:

and you have to post those when i don't have time to do tutorials, do you?! really cool text effect, nice job on it!

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

excuse me ma'am
but they are really quick ones

promise ! :mrgreen:

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

molly wrote:

I just liked it cuz it can save so much room. Do spoilers take up the same amount of bandwidth when they are closed?

I believe Tux researched this and yes the bandwidth remains the same for either way.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Great tut Esper! Thanks
Will definitely try it when I get more leisure time

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Rod wrote:

molly wrote:

I just liked it cuz it can save so much room. Do spoilers take up the same amount of bandwidth when they are closed?

I believe Tux researched this and yes the bandwidth remains the same for either way.

good to know Rod, thanks

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:07 pm **(#34)**

Esper wrote:

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I did 2 of your tutorials Esper, I enjoyed them very much.

What do you think?

fluffybunny · **Posted:** Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:51 pm **(#35)**

Wallace wrote:

Esper wrote:

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I did 2 of your tutorials Esper, I enjoyed them very much.

What do you think?

I know your question was directed at Esper Wallace, but I hope you don't mind me wading in...
I think the Viking one might also look good on a dark timber.
Would you be interested in humouring me and posting it using the attached pattern or any other dark timber you may have?

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:51 pm **(#36)**

Wallace wrote:

Esper wrote:

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I did 2 of your tutorials Esper, I enjoyed them very much.

What do you think?

fluffybunny wrote:

I know your question was directed at Esper Wallace, but I hope you don't mind me wading in...
I think the Viking one might also look good on a dark timber.
Would you be interested in humouring me and posting it using the attached pattern or any other dark timber you may have?

Yeah... sure thing FB, I'd like to try that out. Give me a moment and I'll whip that up.

Here it is. I hope that this is the pattern, it was the only pattern with the name 'Woodblack". What do you think. I think the grain is very tight, like oak or some other really hard wood. I hand drew the pattern I used for my Viking text image.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

Wallace wrote:

I did 2 of your tutorials Esper, I enjoyed them very much.What do you think?

i think you did great, Wallace
love the abstract look of the Viking text :bigthup

thanks for trying this effect !

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:34 pm **(#38)**

Esper wrote:

Wallace wrote:

I did 2 of your tutorials Esper, I enjoyed them very much.What do you think?

i think you did great, Wallace
love the abstract look of the looking text :bigthup

thanks for trying this effect !

I love your work and I hop that you keep doing it. You create some really sweet tutorials. Even though some are not for the faint at hart. Nonetheless... I enjoy going through them and sometime adding my own personal twist to try and stump you, haven't accomplished that yet and I don't think I ever will. :hehe

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

thanks for the nice words Wallace
people like you keep me going

im always open for constructive criticism or ideas/requests

what exactly do you mean with: not for the faint of heart ?

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:48 pm **(#40)**

Esper wrote:

thanks for the nice words Wallace
people like you keep me going

im always open for constructive criticism or ideas/requests

what exactly do you mean with: not for the faint of heart ?

Only that some of your tutorials are for the more advanced Gimpers, I like this kind of tut and you do them very well.