#Multimedia & Design

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B.sc In Multimedia Animation Graphics Eligibility

Explore the dynamic world of multimedia with a B.Sc in Multimedia, Animation, and Graphics at George College. Eligibility includes passing 10+2 in any stream from a recognized board. Dive into cutting-edge tools, creative design, and animation techniques, preparing for a rewarding career in the media and entertainment industry.

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[thecinematicbandicoot]

Where is the Cinematic Bandicoot? - Update 2

By Jose Anguiano Dec. 25th, 2023 It’s been several months since I posted my last review, and for good reason. I have changed majors in college from journalism to multimedia design and communication. What this means is that I won’t be churning out as many reviews because I am focusing on building my student portfolio for a future in tech and art, which offers more opportunities in the real…

[sunlit-mess]

I envy your art style 😭

Ok, take this. You're welcome

For those who want inspiration from my art style. ::")

No, this is not a tutorial but some key points from my style you can try and practice to explore yours!

PS. I am not a professional artist, nor an art expert. I still have A LOT to practice/improve, especially since I just got back to drawing. One could say my skills are just average!

[scipunk]

The Matrix (1999)

[sunflowerpastels]

hatsune miku x little silver, or silver miku 🩶🩷🩵

thanks to @theus-what-are-you-doing for the idea :)

[wiltingwillowtrees]

Love birds.

PENELOPE AND ODYSSEUS

AND

NUZI

I LOVE THEM

(And i love being a multishipper 💜)

(Psst.. gimme stuff to draw in my ask box..)

[rocanny]

Salmon

Be careful of the fish that swim off the coast of the old Black Quarry, they bite!

Fish by themselves under the cut lol

[stoovrs]

trying something new for class so i accidentally made jerma 🍴

[gorgecollegeblog]

The B.Sc. in Multimedia Animation and Graphics Design is the right course for creative minds who want to learn more and grow technically in the fields of animation, graphic design, and multimedia. This program integrates creativity and meaningful creations with contemporary IT facilities, featuring the students as future professionals in the ever-evolving profession of new media design. This is why at George College, you will learn practical plain and information to prepare you for the Multimedia Industry which is always dynamic.

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the end of miffy / all things end

inspired by evangelion

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

im holding horace somnusson so gently like fucking imagine you're twelve and get assigned the horrific prophetic nightmare superpower that makes monsters want to eat your eyes then everyone calls you a coward for being scared all the time of your prophetic nightmares or the monsters that want to eat your eyes

Full background below cut:

[sunlit-mess]

Hallo! Just needed to ask if the next michelin stars comic is coming , like, radioapple with dead plate is just too genius (I don't want to push your buttons, but is been 20 days)

can't promise you when...

[deepdreamnights]

Making a Monster - A Midjourney/Photoshop Tutorial

Today, I'm going to be breaking down how I use Midjourney for character design.

I've recently figured out what I want to do with my joust at the Poke/Digi/Rancher-of- Mon type concept. A lot will be coming from that soon, I don't have a name yet, but the mathematical formula is:

"oops, all Gardevoirs" multiplied by LadyDeviMon + the square root of MOTU over Bluth.

A couple of BioCritters are getting ported over to this new concept, specifically the Waifusaurus evolution branch:

Which was itself a parody of pokemon that are essentially just ladies anyhow, so its probably more accurate to say Waifusaurus spawned unnamed LadyMon Project.

I made most of the first BioCritters in Dall-E3 through Bing Image creator, and Bing makes finding old prompts a pain, and while Straifu, the Lois Griffin parody form, is the subject of today's process, they followed the same prompt format I used with the Flintstones-inspired base Waifusaurus form:

vintage animation cell, a slender dinosaur-anthro housewife on flinstones, resembles humanoid dino the dinosaur, blue dinosaur-lady, purple tigerskin housedress, holding rolling-pin-made-of-rock 1963, in the style of 1960s hanna-barbera TV animation, character cel on white background, posed in a determined ready fighting stance

However, I have a specific look for this new project in mind, so its time to evolve the design.

Step one was to start with basic prompting. I built a new prompt that described what I wanted:

fullbody original production cel, white border all around, vintage animation cel, lavender humanoid woman-creature with large t-rex legs and tail, fan of feathers at the end, wearing teal button up blouse, bob haircut, clawed hands, lois griffin as a pokemon, female character design vintage cartoon screen capture (1993) by AKOM and TOEI , white background, beautiful variable-width black line art with cel shaded vintage cartoon color, painted backdrop, official media, UHQ 1996, official media, UHQ

I ran this in Niji 6, using the style moodboard I'd made for the purpose: --p m7298241701452185637 - largely a mix of full body character designs I'd generated in the style I wanted and 1980s animation model sheets. Moodboards are an expanded version of style prompting, which I outline here.

Examples from runs that produced nothing remotely like what I wanted. I could spend some time tinkering with the prompt to get closer but character prompting is right there, why not just load the original design in?

Yeah, Midjourney/NijiJourney cannot, as of v6, grok abstract cartoony art styles, and character reference always pulls at least a bit of art style as one of its limitations, so the general grotesqueness of its interpretations of these designs leak through.

Now, there's still several things I could do here. The easiest would be to take the straifu on the right and use a combination of in-painting and gradually swapping out the character prompt for a mix of "closer" options over a series of variations until it became something relatively close.

But around about now, I started getting ideas on how I wanted her to look. I liked the idea of a sort of "dinotaur", so I rendered up a regular rex, and combined it with one of the first-wave prompt-only failures and a recolored head in the style I was going for in photoshop.

This was a Q&D mockup, only intended for prompting purposes.

Using a combination of the mockups, the original design, and various results from their iteration-chain, I was able to get very close to the basic concept, only to run into two major issues: One, the huge lower body effect wasn't coming across as intentional (either disappearing into standard thicc-cartoon milfness or looking like AI screwups) and two: the design was boring when divorced from its bug-eyed cartoon aesthetics.

Now, you can do a lot with a flawed design, but a boring one means you need to start re-conceptualizing.

Which begins under the fold:

Straifu is a parody of Lois Griffin. In the broadest sense, that brings to mind the nasal voice, and in a battle-monster genre setting that means sonic attacks. Sonic + dinosaur means parasaurolophus to me.

Above, I mentioned I could have in-painted one of the cartoony results. I had actually done that, using the mockup face as a character prompt, and one of its results was interesting, so I started refining based on that:

You can use edit to zoom in with Midjourney, it's just you can only do it horizontally or vertically in any given go. I zoomed in using this method, and redid her eyes in the process.

I did another mockup of her with a crest and in-painted, then iterated in the in-painting result.

I did a lot of iterations at this stage, some as basic variations, some as full strong variations, but eventually by combining various results into the character prompt, I got the variation I liked best.

My initial thought was to restore the "beak" from those earlier versions but her duckbill face was too perfect to pass up.

I then attempted to get her a full body via outpainting.

I didn't have much luck, once again the results were either too ai-fuckup-like or too basic.

The idea that came to me to solve the problem was to make her a full on parasaurolopus-taur, forelimbs and all. Midjourney wasn't going to cooperate on that, really weird designs aren't well understood by the current character reference.

Omnireference is supposed to fix that, but to paraphrase 'Oh Brother, Where Art Thou': Well ain't version 7 a temporal miracle? Two weeks from everywhen!

Now, it was time to do things the old fashioned way. With editing.

I went through a lot of attempts to make a base dinosaur:

Eventually landing on this fellow, and this torso forming this rough-cut:

Now, there's one thing to note, the line quality on the two is completely different. Fixing that means getting at the lines.

The best way to do this in photoshop is by upscaling the image 200%, and using a fill bucket set to around 10-25% (anti-aliasing on) and white to make any dark colors gradually lighter so threshold can drop them to pure lines.

From there, I selected individual sections of thin lines and duplicated them, using a combination of 1 px strokes and nuding sections a pixel in any given direction to match the line width without it looking like a coloring book.

Which I then re-colored using your basic comic coloring process. I went with what is largely an inverse of the original colors because I already have a purple/lavender parasaurolophus character in DynoGuard.

Then, I started doing this tutorial, and realized one of the early versions shirt had formed a sort of plastron, and I went in and painted all that over on top.

I could go into more detail, but I'm out of images and this is already novel-length.

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The gif at the start was made in Vidu, using the subject reference feature, the final image of Straifu, a background image, and this prompt:

a green creature with a purple shirt, she takes a deep breath and screams, the scream lasting 2 full seconds, Sakuga animation, eyecatch animation. Vintage traditional cel animation, TOEI, disney, don bluth, filmation productions, scene from Masters of the Universe (1983), ultra-high quality flawless animation sequence, Blu-Ray remaster. Every frame in focus and sharply detailed. Animated on 2s matte background painting.

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

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