Hi Shannon, thanks for an amazing post! Bit of a noob question, but what was the process used to create the erode texture? Did you hand paint it and/or use different filters in Photoshop?
Hiya Tash! I’m happy this post has been useful I did hand paint my erosion texture with a lot of motion blur haha. I think the Kog’maw post might also have some heavy use of motion blur too. Here’s a little img one what the use of motion blur and transfer brush with pen pressure on can get ya! Also, if you ever want to test out what your erode will look like slap on a threshold mask in Photoshop!
Ahhh, thank you so much Shannon for taking the time to reply and for the image! Really appreciate your little tutorials and for making VFX more accessible to beginners. Going to try it out now. Hope you’re doing well!
Here’s the trail material I made using Shannon’s tutorial! I’ve also attached a picture of the shader as I’ve still not got a 100% understanding when it comes to making shaders yet and any pointers would be appreciated!
looks really nice even though i could imagine that it would be better to let the little highlights go with the direction of trail and not against it. right now the movement works a little bit against eachother in my eyes…
You can also use Median under Filter>Noise>Median to help smooth out some of the sketchy strokes before using motion blur. Just keep in mind to offset the texture and touch it up if you want it to tile!
Wow I love that part about building trust, and the importance of not only communicating when things go wrong, but to keep up the communications more frequently to build a good relationship. I’ve been thinking a lot about this communication and trust at my new company and this seem to be so much true! It’s important to get to know each other to get an understanding of what everyones’ abilities are in the teams. In one scenarios it took months for me to realise a colleague could do so much more than I expected, and also enjoyed doing it.
Building up the knowns and unknowns is also an idea I will push to my team early on in a project. Thanks!