{"id":1754,"date":"2013-05-01T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2013-05-01T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:21:39","slug":"retropolis-rocket-ship-kickstarter-update-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/01\/retropolis-rocket-ship-kickstarter-update-may-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Retropolis Rocket Ship Kickstarter update, May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onClick='popup_2016_setup(\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/popups\/kickstarter_rocket_May_01_large.jpg\",900,649);'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/kickstarter_rocket_may01.jpg\" alt=\"Retropolis Rocket Ship Print: Work in Progress\" width=\"501\" height=\"361\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">Today&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/101187357\/retropolis-rocket-ship-limited-edition-archival-pr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em> Retropolis Rocket Ship<\/em><\/a> preview shows us the picture&#8217;s final lighting &#8211; though it&#8217;s still not the final picture. I  need to render the two layers at their full resolution and when that&#8217;s done there will be quite a bit of retouching in Photoshop. It&#8217;s also likely that I&#8217;ll re-render some small areas (particularly the windows) in slightly different ways. All that work will get combined in Photoshop into what will be the final picture.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/101187357\/retropolis-rocket-ship-limited-edition-archival-pr\/widget\/card.html\" width=\"220\" style=\"float:left;margin-right:12px;margin-bottom:12px;\"><\/iframe>Those windows are a tricky prospect. Although I quite liked the way they were looking earlier I need to ensure that the rendered layers are transparent &#8211; or, really, partly transparent &#8211; so that I can paint the final space backdrop in Photoshop <em>behind<\/em> the rocket layers. Since my earlier glass materials came through as opaque (in the rendering), that wouldn&#8217;t be possible. That&#8217;s why I expect to render out a variant for the window areas.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The alternative would be to create the final backdrop ahead of time. That would work, but I&#8217;d have a lot less freedom as I did the retouching and overpainting. So we&#8217;ll try it this way and see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The lighting phase was every bit as persnickety as I said it would be, what with minor changes and test renderings, after which: rinse and repeat. At this point everything is balanced just about the way I want it and from here on out any changes will take place in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Retropolis Rocket Ship preview shows us the picture&#8217;s final lighting &#8211; though it&#8217;s still not the final picture. I need to render the two layers at their full resolution and when that&#8217;s done there will be quite a bit of retouching in Photoshop. It&#8217;s also likely that I&#8217;ll re-render some small areas (particularly the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}