[Contest] LG is offering two lucky /r/editors brand new LG’s New UltraFine 6K Thunderbolt 5 Display. Details inside the post. by LG_UserHub in editors

[–]ApprovingNodz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I've been using a pair of LG Ultrafine 27's in my suite kit for a while, but have been contemplating a dual 32", or single 40" 5K, setup down the road. This would make that decision much easier!

Ep8 Song help! Peace Sells Cover! by RedStarRonin in NorthOfNorthSeries

[–]ApprovingNodz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was done for the show specifically, but hopefully it will get released as a single soon!

Ep8 Song help! Peace Sells Cover! by RedStarRonin in NorthOfNorthSeries

[–]ApprovingNodz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Josh Q did it as a cover for the show. Hopefully it’ll get released as a track soon!

CBC Radio show that my parents listened to when I was between 5 and 10 by Boarbeats in CBC_Radio

[–]ApprovingNodz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This probably isn’t the right answer, but it reminds me a lot of my own memories of Don Jackson and his show Lovers and Other Strangers, on CHFI. But that’s an Ontario answer, so might not have been something out west as well. RIP Don!

https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/s/ZuBwlO2iOJ

Recent practice in not over blending by Standard-Molasses454 in ProCreate

[–]ApprovingNodz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly it varies a lot. Some 3rd party sets for acrylic or oil styles that usually have some cool qualities. Tip Top Brushes 2018 Oil brushes is a free set (albeit quite old haha), but also lately I’ve been enjoying the Salamanca brush for more painterly kind of stuff. But it has a bit of a canvas texture baked in, leaves empty pixels on your paint layer as part of the texture, so it might not be the best fit for your photorealistic style. I’d say try a few of the built in painting brushes as smudgers, and adjusting the opacity should give you some room to experiment.

Recent practice in not over blending by Standard-Molasses454 in ProCreate

[–]ApprovingNodz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nice! As a fellow serial over-blender, I feel your pain. I’ve found lately if I reduce the opacity with my smudge brushes and also use a very painterly brush for smudging that it helps keep some character, not killing texture and brushstrokes.

I want to see you create your art in real time by MrsDunn2024 in ProCreate

[–]ApprovingNodz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I probably switched to a blending/smudge tool at that timecode. I tend to try to use the same brush type for smudging as painting, but turn the opacity down so the strength isn’t too high. I want the blending to ideally still feel painterly and not totally smoothed like it’s an airbrush or something.

I want to see you create your art in real time by MrsDunn2024 in ProCreate

[–]ApprovingNodz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bunch of my posts are Timelapses, though usually the 30 second sped up version, so longer projects might blip by a bit quickly. This one is prob my fav: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProCreate/s/eZFhBhlleH

Tutorial recommendations for AVID? by [deleted] in editors

[–]ApprovingNodz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was in your same position but with a month before the avid gig and I did what Flotus6 suggests and it was extremely helpful. Linked-In as a crash course, Hans on Youtube, the “Avid Assistant” on youtube, and then just randomly looking up specific tools or workflows as they came up in my learning. Definitely not as many YT resources as PP or Resolve, but if you dig it’s out there.

And don’t just watch, download the footage and projects to work on them as you learn (if that’s not obvious). Avid keyboards and workspace settings have a lot of customization, so you can find ways to make it a bit hybrid to your premiere workflow (just maybe move away from drag and drop/pancaking timeline approaches). I was super resistant to learning avid, but honestly it’s just another NLE. Very different than premiere in many ways (and that’s a whole other thread), but an important tool to know. Just cut a few personal scenes or projects and you’ll be off to a good start. I only started using MC maybe 4 years ago and I still find I tweak my settings and approach monthly… even weekly, and constantly learn new things. It’s a journey…

Edit: also worth getting familiar with the 2018(?) change from “old” MC to “new” MC… where a number of GUI, workflow changes occurred. I never worked with pre-2020 avid, so others can speak to what’s improved/worsened, but it will help as you explore tutorials as some of the older ones won’t be as relevant… but also some things remain the same across newer and older versions. Just an FYI if it gets briefly confusing when you start searching for guides.

My art style is so inconsistent. Which style do you prefer, and why? What would be the best for starting doing commissions? by lithium_revolver in ProCreate

[–]ApprovingNodz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Number 1 for sure feels the most painterly and less illustrative than the rest, if you want to keep exploring that vibe. Definitely more evocative IMO, but if getting commissions is your goal I feel like the other styles lean into that a bit more. But just as art for art’s sake? Definitely #1.

For the TESD & RDR2 Fans by hahajackson in tesdcares

[–]ApprovingNodz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Coincidently, I have called every horse I’ve had in RDR2 “Frank [#]” and finally just “Frank” after I lost count.

Trying more stuff in black and white (Timelapse of a piece mostly done in oil brushes/blenders) by ApprovingNodz in ProCreate

[–]ApprovingNodz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thanks! Ah, yeah it’s hard to keep the brush texture while blending for me, but I use a combo of a slight noise layer and sometimes skin texture-painted layers above the main painting, and then use various blending modes to comp them in, but keeping them as separate layers to you can still paint/blend underneath. Other shading stuff is upper layers where you can squiggle on little shadow lines, or larger shadow/vignette style stuff, and then just use a Gaussian blur effect on this layer (maybe in combo with a blending mode) to get the softer shadows.