Salience

Suuuuppp


yaaaaa moar musings/amusing when producing this waaaannn. this took toooh long, but thats cause like i pretty much did 4 seperate pieaces and then combined them trololo
so interms of efficency, twasnt tooh bad around 8 hrs per image????? give or take some for experimentatione ect, what ever the case took me like 10 sittings to kick thos mofo's @$$

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Techniques:
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dude, wtf Clone stamp tool ftw.... its like thee only way (i've relised) to keep the scale of the detail of object whilst applying the texture/asthetic to another object..
the fiddly part is just choosing


also a cool pseudo-3d explosion thang i learned up here @

was pretty neat for the ear/essplosion fx


usual HDR burn/dodge sheeit was used befor i even started anything..

i'm not sure why i botherd, doing a 4 by 4 thing again, i thought it would just be a fun challenge to do 4 diametrically different look/asthetics and then connecting/failing to connect them up some way lol.


The title of thiss waaan is reffernce to the Neuroscience deinition of
"Salience" which refers to "the state or quality of an item that stands out relative to neighboring items."

so in this case, there is little to no focal point, every gad damn persona/perspective is fighting amongst the rest to outshine (good song by sound garden btw @ ) the others yarr


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Stock/ References
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Smoke was taken from Mediamalitia's free stock packs @ [link]

Used this tutorial [link] to score the smokey face satanicalized moi mwahaha



bullet casings were taken from @ [link]

clouds were taken from [link]

blood wall spatter taken from [link]

leather texture for lower left face based on this leather Stock cover @ [link]

checkerd bg based on the free stock from LostAndTaken @ [link]

Manga Blood Spatter stock brush from @ [link]

bullet holes stock from @ [link]


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Video Timelapse
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Video ON how this sheeit even got made @ [link]


a great deal (like half the gad damn footage got lost because i had to change development to my laptop, during summer, which is not my main rig cuz after summer my desktop mobo crapped up.. so i havnt put it back together yet..
this lead me to have to tinker with the Camstudio codec, which i've never used on this laptop..sooo gad damn eveything seemed ok in settings but when it came to test..fakkk 8 hrs flushed away cause the codec just created corrupted usless 4gb kaka file chunks!!
sooo the fix (Divx codec) meant i had to go get the latest Mega K-lite (k as in kazaa!!) codec pack (been using since 1999!!) @ [link] which enabled the Divx/Xvid codec which was uber efficent/decent compression, was around about 40mins:1gb @ max quality via 1920*1200 resolution..kinda cool.
soohh yaa asheeittt hopefully no maor hickups everrrrrr

music in the timelapse vid is

1. Aquafur Emerald Idea @ [link]

2. Bluetech - Prophetic Sines @ [link]