Amiga Artist Newbie

[Ami_GFX]

The redish flares are done with the DpaintV airbrush-the new one-- and processed with a filter in Imagemaster. I used Cybergrafix to use Dpaint in 800x600 rtg mode. That helps a lot. In AGA ham, there tends to be a lot of unwanted artifacting when you use the airbrush.

[amigakidd]

I was also inspired by Who Framed Roger Rabbit movie to start animating. I'll play around with TV Paint. I hope the dev team in Winuae should start doing open source support for Webcams and emulate Video toaster or a fake genlock capabilities into Winuae using cheap 0.3 or higher webcams. ::: Toni Wilen ::: Wink Wink idea...

[Ral-Clan]

Ami_GFX wrote:
The redish flares are done with the DpaintV airbrush-the new one-- and processed with a filter in Imagemaster. I used Cybergrafix to use Dpaint in 800x600 rtg mode. That helps a lot. In AGA ham, there tends to be a lot of unwanted artifacting when you use the airbrush.

How in the world were you able to get D-Paint to use non-native screen modes?  I use DPaint V (yes, it's great), but everytime I try to start it in a non-native Amiga mode it crashes.  I am using it in WinUAE with Picasso96 (I am not aware of any way to get Cybergraphix to work in WinUAE - which is too bad because I am a registered owner of Cybergraphix).

[trilobyte]

Hi,

I personally think Brilliance 2.0 is the best bitmap paint & animation program on the Amiga.  PPaint (Personal Paint) is nice and comes with Amiga Forever, but I really like the interface and keyboard shortcuts of Brilliance.  Plus it has rarely if ever crashed on me.  See if you can find a copy with the manual ... you won't regret it.  It has everything DPaint does except the ARexx commands, but the interface is so well-thought out and convenient... very productive.

Also if you intend to work with 3D, you might want to look for a program called PixelPro, or Pixel 3D Professional.  It's a handy little app that will take your 2D bitmap art and make 3D objects out of it.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Amiga art :-)

Hope that helps
t'byte

[trilobyte]

amigakidd wrote:
wow, the amiga has 4x as much graphics programs as the mac does. This makes the mac a business machine

The Mac used to be more "diverse" with programs such as Freehand, Expression, Painter, Bryce, etc.  These days though the scene is less interesting!

The job recruiter I went to last week gave me a checklist of what programs I know (about 2 page long) it has Aladdin 4D, ImageFX, Lightwave. I'm gonna learn these programs.

I really want to know what job recruiter you're going to who tells you to learn Amiga apps!   :-D    It helped me once when I applied to work at a former Amiga distributor, but those days (and that company) are long gone!

cheers,
t

[Ami_GFX]

ral-clan wrote:
How in the world were you able to get D-Paint to use non-native screen modes?  I use DPaint V (yes, it's great), but everytime I try to start it in a non-native Amiga mode it crashes.  I am using it in WinUAE with Picasso96 (I am not aware of any way to get Cybergraphix to work in WinUAE - which is too bad because I am a registered owner of Cybergraphix).

It won't work with Picasso 96 in ether Winuae or a real Amiga with an RTG card. I have been able to use Dpaint in RTG modes with Cybergrafix, the original Picasso II driver on a Picasso II, the original Merlin drivers and Merlin Probench which shares some code with Cybergraphix. Cybergraphix works the best by far and you can open Dpaint in any 8 bit sreen resolution up to 1024x768. You can even load a 24 bit iff image into it but you will only have an 8 bit pallette and it will be really slow. There seems to be some undocumented 24 bit support in the last versions of Dpaint--probably undocumented because it was a work in progress.

[Matt_H]

There seems to be some undocumented 24 bit support in the last versions of Dpaint--probably undocument because it was a work in progress.

You have no idea how right you are :-)
Seen this before?

[Ami_GFX]

Interesting read, thanks. Now I know a bit more about what I'm working with. I'll have to play a bit more with 24 bit images in Dpaint. :idea: