A Work in Progress: Dark Viper



This guide was made for entry:
Dark Viper
In Contest:
car skin


step 1 of 6

This texture made with help from tutorial listed below. I ad-libed some when it came to the settings and instead of a gradient I used a difference cloud layer as the base.

Creation of Dark Viper: Step 1
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step 2 of 6

I used layer masking to extract the car. The car was desaturated, inverted and adjustments to the levels. This is the map for the displacement filter used to apply my snake skin texture.

Creation of Dark Viper: Step 2

step 3 of 6

The home made snake skin texture was duplicated several times scaled and transformed for perspective. The displacement filter was used for each major piece of car like the hood, fenders, roof and front clip.

Creation of Dark Viper: Step 3

step 4 of 6

Creation of Dark Viper: Step 4

step 5 of 6

Finished skinned out car. Masked and ready to place over the background.

Creation of Dark Viper: Step 5

step 6 of 6

The shadow work was done with soft brush and black color with gaussian blur and opacity adjustments. The lights are brushed in. The woman masked and placed into scene. Some adjustments to the hue/sat and curves were made to the car after it was placed into the scene.

Creation of Dark Viper: Step 6

Final result

Creation of Dark Viper: Final Result

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