From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero

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Blend, scale, and rotate photographic flames

Blend, scale, and rotate photographic flames

From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero

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Blend, scale, and rotate photographic flames

In this movie, we are going to take our relatively mild mannered super hero. Who appears hot of course, but he doesn't exactly look like his is on fire. And we are going to set him on fire like so, using what almost appears to be a Xerography technique. In other words, it looks like the fire has being Xeroxed, as opposed to hand painted. And we are going to be applying all kinds of flame patterns, starting with this one right here. And I'll press Shift + Tab to hide the right side panel, so you can see this entire length of flame. It comes to us, once again, from the Fotolia image library. And I think this is one of the best demonstrations for why stock imagery exists. Especially for those of us who are designers. Because we can find this kind of material created in advance. And we don't have to go out and photograph fire, for example, on our own. And of course, you can find out more, if you like, at fotolia.com/deke. I'm going to duplicate my fire. By right clicking inside the Image…

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