Official Winner Page
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Still from Animation
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Sketched out tree, thought combining it with a torch would be a cool idea for the theme.
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I wanted to create a detailed tree in a short amount of time, so I sketched out pieces of the tree so that I could creat custom brushes to draw it out in Adobe Sketch.
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I imported the handrawn sketches into Adobe Photoshop Fix and croped them.
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I desaturated and increased the contrast on the textures.
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This allowed me to mask out and isolate the different textures to import into Adobe Brush.
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Brushes I created based on my sketches.
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I found an image of a torch online, and drew the various parts of the tree over the torch to keep the silougete intact.
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I then screen recorded water color brush strokes to use as mask to reveal the differnt parts of the tree.
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I comped all the various pieces in After Effects to animate the tree in.
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I used Particular to create leaf embers to add to the torch effect.