home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   rec.arts.sf.composition      The writing and publishing of speculativ      144,800 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 144,311 of 144,800   
   John F. Eldredge to Kevin C   
   Re: Cover Creation   
   06 Jul 15 15:16:27   
   
   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Sun, 05 Jul 2015 05:18:54 -0700, Kevin C wrote:   
      
   > Questions for the Indie authors:   
   >   
   > 1. Do you do your own covers?   
   > 2. If you do, do you use something like Gimp, or go for photorealistic   
   > in Blender?   
   >   
   > Thanks in advance.   
      
   One thing to keep in mind, if you try to use Blender to generate photo-   
   realistic images of people, is the uncanny valley effect.  You need to   
   either be be very realistic, or stylized enough for that to be evident to   
   the observer.  Otherwise, the image is creepy.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca