http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:52:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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! Contest One: MentalMirage Group Logo Its up to you to ... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=200 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, ... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=190 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... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=184 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 ... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=182 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! Be sure to check out the other ... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=174 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! 1. Greetings and salutations! Thank you for taking the time ... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=110 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 ... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=171 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! http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=169 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 ... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=167 In this third installement of the "Inspiration" posts, we'll take a look at 20 wonderful and talented digital painters! Simply click the pictures for a jump straight to their work! Diane Özdamar Hong, Kuang 匡宏 Nina Ikävalko Wakkawa Natasha Roeoseli Stanley Lau Gonzalo Ordóñez Arias Wen-M Katherine Dinger nibbledpencil.com Linda Khang Le Andrew Hou Michael Oswald Vyrhelle Chris Newman Mike Nesbitt Linda Bergkvist Kyoung Hwan Kim Gnef Support a starving (no, not ... http://www.mentalmirage.com/blog/?p=90