Hard Mix Halftones

A (Failed) Experiment in Time Traveling Halftones

Splines Used to be Real

A Way of Thinking About Bezier Curves

A Vectornator Halloween Pumkin using 3D CG as Reference Photography

Tensegrity is more than that Floating Table you see everywhere

The Gray Strawberry Illusion in Photoshop

Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola’s long-standing Interest in LED Volume stages

Photography Seamless Backgrounds with C2 Surface Continuity, like a roller coaster loop

Last Action Hero particle systems

Frames are periods OF time. Not points IN time.

Little Monsters (1988) Particle Systems with floating point birth frames

Camera Settings for your Next Shoot on Pluto

Green Lantern and the Star Trek Genesis Effect

The Many Benefits of Distributed Ray Tracing 1984

How Should Hue Change as Luminosity Falls Off?

ST Maps and Image Displacement

Getting the Distance and Focal Length of a Lens from a Picture of a Cube

Loomis vs Hale: Are You Drawing the Wrong Head Ball?

The Glass Cube we used for Disney World EPCOT Living Seas 1985 motion tracking

Disney, TRON, MAGI and the Dissolve Blend Mode

A Dip Pen Nib in a Clutch Pencil?

Fury (1995) Renaissance-era Superspy

Photoshop uses both the Red AND Green Channels for Displacement

Parabolic Reflectors

Truchet Tiles based on my original 2009 method

How to Paint, Draw or Sculpt the Eye

Demolition Man ice wipe or burn effect transition in more detail

FocalPaint Multispectral Paint App lets you define your pigment’s waveform

Rubik’s Cube Art with Indexed Color and Gradient Maps

The 17 Hidden Wallpaper Symmetry Groups of Photoshop

Adjustment Laters with their own Blend Modes

Simulating Early Color Photography from the Prokudin-Gorsky Collection with Photoshop

Anamorphic Art

Camera Mapping makes Photos look 3D

A Softbox is like a Microphone

The Inverse Square Law of Paint (and Light)

The 5-Eye Line and Portraiture

Color Mask and the Overlay Blend Mode

Color vs Value

What exactly is a lens?

You Don’t Actually Need a Sphere!

Encrypt and Decrypt Secret Images using Blend Modes and 32-bit Photoshop

Divide Blend Mode #shorts

Leaf Skeleton Portrait using Hard Mix Blend Mode #shorts

Custom Halftone MAGIC with the Hard Mix Blend Mode - Photoshop or After Effects - no plugins!

Adobe Substance Designer 6 Pixel Processor Hard Mix Blend Mode Custom Halftone Effect

Secrets of the FX-Map Node in Adobe Substance Designer 6

Maxwell Render Booleans: Energy Pass-Through - This is NOT what this feature was invented to do!

Make a Demo for Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing

Blending Acrylic with Rebelle 1.5

Experimenting with Arroway Textures and the Maxwell Renderer

Deleting Edges and Bad Vertices in Maya

Maxwell Render Glass - a quick look

32 bits, Maxwell Multilight and the Photoshop Plugin

A Casual Look at the Maxwell Renderer via the Maya plugin

Maya 3D Procedural Textures - Tricky Workflow - Maya was not meant to be used like this

Maya Hypnodisk Shader - Custom Procedural 3D Shader Autodesk Maya

Capturing the Photoshop Blend-If Mask

You are NOT SUPPOSED to Use those Plugins Like That!