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Learn to make your own solutions
As we know custom tools add a completely new aspect to an artist's work, and there are ton of people out there creating them....so why aren't you?
- Are you competent in the Affinity products of Photo and / or Designer, but not sure how to go about making your own tool?
- Are you not sure what to make, how to develop them...or even what the steps are to make your own tools?
- Or maybe you are in interested in trading or one day selling your tools to those that are fans and follow your work... then this one is for you
I have been teaching the affinity Suite now for over 3 years to thousands of students and I want to put the power to create with this amazing software in your hands....along with so much more.
In this course we will utilize the affinity suite of products ( Designer and Photo) to create the following digital tools
- Brushes (both Vector and Raster)
- Overlays
- Textures
- Asset Packs
- Gradients, LUTS, and Pallets
- Mock ups
- and so much more ....
What kinds of things are covered in the course
We polled Affinity users from some of the largest forums out there and asked them what they wanted to know when it came to tool building ...and then we crammed it into this course , included in the course are topics on
- Smoke and Flame brushes
- Halftone brushes
- Mock up creation
- Hand drawn strokes converted into vector brushes
- Faking studio lights
- Gradient pallets for color grading techniques
What sort of software and projects will be complete
We will be using Affinity Designer and Photo , but we are also going to be using a free software from FX home called HITFILM EXPRESS to bring the world of CGI into play when we make our tools, and as a totally optional piece of my workflow I will be showing you how I use Vector Magic to create vectorized textures for use in larger projects....so from concept to finished tool, you see the entire pipeline we use to create professional tools for use in Affinity
In this course we make the tools and apply them to 2 real life step by step projects....ONE BEING AN ILLUSTRATION , the other is a FULLY RENDERED PHOTO COMPOSITE .... if you don't have BOTH Affinity Programs, no worries , easily 90% of the course content is applicable to BOTH software systems, so you will never feel like the course is geared toward one or the other
Learn to make smoke and flame brushes
In this course we teach you how to make smoke and flame brushes to make images like this
Learn to make VECTORIZED illustration assets
Create vectorized asset packs for use in your illustrations.......if you can draw it by hand we can show you how to make a fully scaled vectorized object
Create LUTS, color presets and overlays
We teach you how to take overlays from both the digital world and the physical world and create something to take your work up a notch
What level of experience do you need to take this course
While this is not a beginner course, you do not need a high level of Affinity knowledge to take this course, and as long as you know the basics you will be fine .... HOWEVER if you are new to digital art ( i.e. if you do not know what a mask layer or a blend mode are) , then this may not be a good fit for you
What will you achieve when you complete the course?
· You get 2 of my professional brush packs that we DID NOT MAKE in the course, just for being part of it
· You get all of the source files, brush files and you will have a complete set of digital tools made and customized by you ...for you
· You will have student support through the platform
· You will have completed 2 projects, one illustration and one composition
Example Curriculum
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Introduction and welcome How the course is structured
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What are digital tools, and why would we want to make them
(5:40)
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What tools are we going to make and what does a pipeline look like
(4:41)
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Making your first texture
(5:15)
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How to reverse engineer a tool
(5:14)
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How to do your market research and define your value
(7:10)
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Introduction to the section
(1:15)
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Downloads for this section
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What are vector brushes and what are they used for
(5:43)
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Making Brushes - intensity vs Image brushes and How to export both
(10:52)
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When to use Intensity vs image brushes
(5:46)
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Tools we will use to create vector brushes
(3:34)
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Making physical strokes on paper
(5:16)
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Scanning and adjusting the image
(9:30)
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Basic Brush settings and troubleshooting
(12:30)
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Where to go to get Vector Brush inspiration
(5:40)
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Making vector brushes in Affinity Designer
(13:40)
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Applying your vector brushes in a real life project
(8:29)
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Applying your vector brushes in a real life project Part 2
(6:33)
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Introduction to the section
(1:21)
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Downloads for this section.
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What is a raster based brush and what is it used for
(12:24)
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Basic Brush settings Part 1
(7:20)
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Basic Brush settings part 2
(7:48)
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Where to go to get images for raster based brushes
(7:26)
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Making a shader set from Concrete
(13:25)
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Making a seamless texture in Affinity Designer
(6:52)
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Making a seamless texture in Affinity Photo
(10:10)
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Working in half tones with Affinity Designer
(16:14)
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Working with half tones in Affinity Photo
(10:57)
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Making a spray brush using multiple nozzle tips
(6:23)
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Making a flame brush using sub brushes
(9:04)
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Shading the snake
(16:03)
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Introduction to the section
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Downloads for this section
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What is a texture vs an overlay
(4:44)
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3 places to find textures
(3:19)
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Making hand drawn textures
(5:51)
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Scanning and adjusting Textures
(12:30)
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Vectorizing textures
(4:26)
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Making half tone overlays in Affinity PHOTO
(2:53)
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Shooting and making textures in Affinity
(7:53)
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Introduction to this section
(1:11)
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Downloads for this section
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What is an asset pack
(6:38)
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Isolating and vectorizing assets part 1
(9:00)
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Manually creating assets and making categories
(6:36)
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Public domain and Vectorizing assets for packs
(10:39)
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Creating Pallets in Affinity Designer
(9:02)
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Creating styles in Affinity Designer
(5:23)
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Introduction the section
(1:21)
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Downloads for this section
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Making Flare brushes in Hit film Express
(8:04)
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Finishing the flare brush in Affinity
(5:55)
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Making smoke and Fog brushes
(12:24)
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Making fog brushes in Affinity Photo
(6:26)
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Making a lightning pack
(9:35)
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Making particle brushes
(10:42)
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Making assets from physical objects
(6:25)
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Making flame brushes
(9:38)
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Making Paper tear brushes
(8:21)
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Working with styles in Affinity Photo
(6:44)
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Making magic effect styles in Affinity
(7:52)
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Introduction to the section
(1:07)
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Downloads for this section
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What is a gradients for use in photos
(9:27)
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Making color pallets from physical objects
(7:10)
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Making Luts in Affinity
(5:19)
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Making studio lights in Affinity
(10:32)
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What is an overlay as I define it
(4:50)
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Making Overlays in Hitfilm Express
(3:48)
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Making Atmospheric overlays
(12:28)
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Introduction to this section.
(1:03)
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Downloads for this section
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Setting up and shooting poster mock up
(3:13)
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Layering the poster mock-up
(6:33)
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Adding Shadows and masking the poster mock up
(9:02)
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Adding images to the poster mock up
(6:21)
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Shooting and Laying out the window lit mock up
(6:12)
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Adding window light and finishing the mock up
(7:50)
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Embedded images lesson 1
(7:40)
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Utilizing embedded images in the poster from the course
(3:59)
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