About the Poster
First, I generated new pictures of the coronavirus in Blender 2.8 to have more different cells to play with within Photoshop. Okay, the lighting effects are the same on every cell, so that doesn’t change anything on the visual and doesn’t make it look bad or weird. I didn’t create a canvas in Blender because I don’t master Blender. I am far from having the skills to create something entirely interesting in this 3D software.
After I imported the files of my cells in Photoshop, I applied some Adjustment Filters, such as Levels and Hue/Saturation. Then, I tried to find an acceptable placement for each to generate an interesting layout within the canvas by playing with sizes and white space.
I found the right colors for the background by playing with the Blending Mode Exclusion. Before that, I created a radial gradient with the cell’s colors and put a white rectangle over the set with Exclusion to help me find the right color.
At that time, I inserted the text into the poster. I was playing with the dimensions of the letter and its variation to create distances between the cells. I tried several times to find the right combination of my elements and decided to make something more structured. I placed the cells on the top and bottom of the canvas and the text in the center.
Later, when I finished the poster, I noticed that the first composition I created was nice enough to make a poster; it only needed more work on the cells and color treatment. So, I made 50% of tomorrow’s poster because I will use the first composition I realized today.
Poster speed art
As usual, here is the speed art video, in which you can watch me work from Blender to Photoshop.
Tomorrow, I will create poster number 411. Don’t forget to take a look!
Have a nice day!
Music Credit
The song I use today is titled Lucid Haze and was made by Amulets (YouTube). It is the second day I have used music from Amulets because this song perfectly matches the mini-series with its dramatic music.