Hitting the 700 members milestone for the MentalMirage Flickr Group has certainly been awesome!
However, as the group grows in size, the needs of the group also changes. Because of this, we will be holding the first MENTAL MIRAGE DESIGN CONTEST! Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
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Mar
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The MentalMirage Flickr Pool has now grown to be over 1300 wild and interesting photo’s, and a massive 500+ members!
If your still not a member, go join!
To celebrate this milestone, I have selected (what I feel is) the best 50 pictures in the group! This has been a difficult process, with several hundred pictures in consideration! To illustrate just how difficult the selection process has been, first it was Best 10, then Best 15, then Best 25, then Best 30, until I admitted to myself, I had to at least have a Best 50 to show just a fraction of the photo’s I thought were awesome. But a choice had to be made, and the following pictures is what I feel best illustrates creativity, individualism, new thinking, and general awesomeness! Read the rest of this entry »
Mar
4
I was a bit bored, and decided to do some photo retouching. Its been a while since I had the chance to do something like that anyway. What you see is the result.
The original photo can be found here:
flickr.com/photos/belleville/2894404510/in/set-7215760754…
Mar
4
I was cruising around Vimeo, and found some graphic show reels I thought I would share with you.
One thing that becomes evident when watching many of them, is however, that certain techniques are getting horridly overused, and you see them in every single reel. I wish people would try to be a little more original and creative, instead of just copying others. Heck, I even found a showreel, that showed an exact replica of a certain AE tutorial. Not cool.
Nonetheless, I do quite like these. So keep on reading to watch them!
Jan
29
In this tutorial, we’ll over over how I made the Druid picture here.
With 12 steps, we’ll go over removing the background, adding more realistic hair, color correction, adding textures, shadows and hightlights, all to make a simple figurine pop out and come to life!
Jan
29
Starting off our first interview here on MentalMirage, I have talked to Vitaly Samarin Alexius, about his workflow in his digital paintings, inspiration, and much more! Join us in a slightly different, and humorous, view on the world of digital painting!
Jan
29
Was a little bored, and thought I would explore an idea I’ve had for a while, which is taking a picture of a figurine into photoshop, and see what could be done with it. This is how my little experiment turned out:
I might end up doing a little tutorial on it, as the techniques required arent that hard.
To get an idea where it started, take a look at this:
You can check out the original model and pictures over at DC Here.
With that said, I’m sorry I havent updated a lot lately. Been having exams at my school (aced my Design Theory exam, so I might eventually bother writing that up in english and sharing), calming down after returning to Denmark, keeping in touch with my japanese girlfriend, and so on. I promise things will start going up in the near future!
Jan
20
A quick and personal “three cheers for Barack Obama, the latest President of the United States of America!”
Here’s to hoping for good things to come!
Jan
6
Here’s a bit of random footage I have from Tokyo! Everything from the Imperial Gardens (open only twice a year), kareoke, new years celebration at “Train Bar”, Illumination in Roppongi, the huge masses gathering in Harajuku for the post-christmas discount sales, and more!
Support a starving (no, not really) artist and buy some prints!
Jan
2
In this third installement of the “Inspiration” posts, we’ll take a look at 20 wonderful and talented digital painters!
