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Clever “Sketches” video shows objects being edited in the real world

01 Dec

A newly published video called “Sketches” from Russian motion graphics designer Vladimir Tomin shows the world around him being edited using video editing tools. The experimental work presents a variety of scenes in which cursors appear to cut and paste birds, type text created from twisted crane pieces, and scrape the painted line off a road.

Clips from the video, which was published on Vimeo, can also be found on Tomin’s Instagram account alongside other videos of clever reality edits. Tomin also offers content on YouTube and through his personal website.

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Adobe Scribbler uses AI to colorize black-and-white portraits and sketches

25 Oct

At the Adobe MAX 2017 conference last week, the engineers at Adobe Research showed off a deep learning system called Project Scribbler that can transform a line sketch or black-and-white portrait into a fully colorized and realistic image. The technology utilizes Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence technology to generate a realistic color image based on a partially-colored sketch created by the user.

As with all of their “Sneaks” at Adobe MAX, Adobe describes this as an early technology, teasing that it “may or may not” become a future product or feature in an existing product like Photoshop.

In a description posted on the Adobe Research website, researchers explain that existing deep convolutional networks are able to generate realistic images, but that users have little control over what the final images look like. This makes the technology “of limited utility,” according to the researchers, a reality not shared by their Scribbler network.

Unlike the aforementioned deep convolutional networks, Scribbler gives users a great deal of control over the final image it generates. This is made possible by feeding Scribbler a sketch where the lines serve as boundaries for the final image. As well, users are able to control how Scribbler colorizes the image by applying “sparse color strokes” to the sketch. These color strokes serve as a guideline so that Scribbler knows what colors to use for each part of the sketch.

Scribbler is capable of realistically coloring sketches and black-and-white photos without the aid of user-created color strokes, though, as demonstrated by Adobe researcher Jingwan Lu in the video above.

Scribbler was also demonstrated as capable of realistically applying existing textures to a sketch. To do this, the user places a texture over the part of the sketch where the desired texture should be applied. And, of course, Scribbler can apply more than one texture to different parts of the same sketch.

A product or feature based on Project Scribbler could prove useful in a variety of ways. Photographers, for example, could use this technology to rapidly colorize a black-and-white photo. Similarly, an artist could use Scribbler to flesh out a quick sketch of a planned art piece, enabling the artist or their client to see a representation of the final artwork before time is invested in creating it.

The full paper detailing the Scribbler colorizing technology is available here, the paper about Scribbler’s texture control technology is available here, and, of course, you should definitely check out the demo at the top.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Drawing Sculptures: 3D Architectural Art Styled After 2D Sketches

01 Dec

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

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This ongoing series of sculptural floating cities and suspended towns could be mistaken for pencil drawings when glanced on a wall or seen in a two-dimensional medium like photography.

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Spanish artist David Moreno sees it that was as well: at attempt to draw sculptures, but using steel rods lashed together with piano wire rather than a pen on a pad. Background depth, shadows and other slight dimensional clues cue viewers into what they are really seeing.

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These stick-figure structures correspondingly look deceptively simple: what would normally be a single stroke is instead a meticulous assembly process, the rods tied together by hand and piano wire wrapped and clipped to support them.

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The Barcelona-based artist has also toyed with 3D-printing extrusion devices to shape similar works in more colorful formats, combining, for instance, a series of stylized chairs into a mass of interconnected hanging sculptures.

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In other cases, strings and wires are looped and stretched to form complex shapes or interact with other objects – stories and figures emerging from a combination of materials and forms.

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While the specifics of his work shifts from one installation to the next, a common theme is clear: taking traditions of line art into the third dimension and seeing what can come of the process (via Colossal).

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Drawing with Wire: Scribbled Sculptures Make Sketches 3D

07 Nov

[ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

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Scribbled sketches seem to leap off the page and hover in mid-air, filling out in three dimensions, in this impressive series of sculptures made from bent wire. Artist David Oliveira captures the essence of his subjects, whether they’re people or mountain lions, by studying their anatomy and translating their sense of vitality and movement into minimalist life-sized forms.

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Oliveira sees his works as existing on some other plane, like an abstracted echo of the physical bodies that exist in our reality. Twisting, looping and curving black wires, he sketches in air, and the resulting sculptures look as if they’ve been peeled off a piece of paper, enlarged and skewed like skeletons that were hidden inside each subject all along.

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As viewers, we look at these gestural impressions of living creatures and our minds fill in the blanks, suggesting to us what the real-life subjects must have looked like, how they must have moved. The sculptures are particularly effective when they’re hung from the ceiling in transparent thread, seeming to float.

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Window Sketches: Minimalist Landscapes of Steam & Glass

16 Mar

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

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No smoke-and-mirrors or post-production here, just fleeting vignettes swiftly staged on steamed windows and set against natural outdoor backgrounds.

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Jim Osborne is a self-taught landscape artist who typically works in watercolor, acrylic and oils. He describes himself as being inspired by his surroundings, light and the weather. Recently, however, he has begun working in a new direction with water condensation on glass window surfaces.

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His Steamy Windows Collection represents a bit of a departure for him in terms of tools and approach – the work is necessarily fast, drawing on organic backdrops, lighting conditions and perceptual cues. Each piece is shot quickly as well, and prints can be found for sale on his website.

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With the need for speed, every little gesture counts – the results are simultaneously planned but ultimately uncontrolled, a mixture of simple figures and hasty grounds that somehow manages to look like more than the sum of its parts. The approach seems like a a great way to train oneself to think in an agile fashion and be nimble in execution.

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Real 3D Sketches: 3 Furniture Sets that Draw on 2D Doodles

15 Jan

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

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Like photo-realistic art in reverse, these three-dimensional objects are carefully crafted to look like rough-edged, hand-sketched representations. If the approach looks familiar, you might be recalling our previous coverage of work by Daigo Fukawa from the Tokyo University for the Arts.

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In this series, Jinil Park indeed also with sketches of this chairs, table and lamp set. The artist then hammered wires to create variegated metal lines in the air that look convincingly like those one would expect to find where pen meets paper. These pieces were then welded together to form the finished products.

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If the first set seems to have too fine a point on things, you might prefer the subtler work of Maya Selway instead. This designer has crafted a series of vessels made to look like minimalist outlines. Each piece is perfectly balanced to create the illusion of incompleteness while still being able to stand on its own.

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Speaking of the intersection of 2D and 3D, any article would be remiss not to mention the remarkable work of FRONT, a group that takes virtual 2D-captured sketches (drawn by hand in the air) and turns them into 3D-printed models.

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A camera-linked computer program extrapolates the form from the gestures of the designers, then extrudes a corresponding shape with surprising (and increasing) accuracy coupled with a strong touch of whimsy (like a 3D Doodler writ large).

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That’s Sketchy: Rough Sketches Turned Into Real Furniture

22 Dec

[ By Steph in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

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These images may look like people photoshopped onto a background of sketches, but look again – those scribbles are actual, three-dimensional furniture. Art student Daigo Fukawa of Tokyo University for the Arts created a collection of chairs and benches that seem like they just magically popped up off the paper.

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Made for his senior thesis, the series of optical illusion furniture appears to be made from welded metal, and while it’s probably not the most comfortable seating anyone has ever experienced, it’s definitely cool to look at, undoubtedly eliciting plenty of double-takes in person.

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See lots more unusual, creative and transforming furniture including convertible designs, flat-pack furniture, recycled pieces and brilliant bookcases.

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That’s Sketchy: Rough Sketches Turned Into Real Furniture

13 Dec

[ By Steph in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

Rough Sketch Furniture 1
These images may look like people photoshopped onto a background of sketches, but look again – those scribbles are actual, three-dimensional furniture. Art student Daigo Fukawa of Tokyo University for the Arts created a collection of chairs and benches that seem like they just magically popped up off the paper.

Rough Sketch Furniture 2

Made for his senior thesis, the series of optical illusion furniture appears to be made from welded metal, and while it’s probably not the most comfortable seating anyone has ever experienced, it’s definitely cool to look at, undoubtedly eliciting plenty of double-takes in person.

Rough Sketch Furniture 3

Rough Sketch Furniture 4

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How to easily color sketches in Photoshop

26 Oct

BETTER AUDIO HERE: www.youtube.com … Sketch by “Pandabaka” at Deviant art (link below) Just a demonstration of how to color in sketches using Photoshop. Sorry about the audio, I was using a new recording software and didn’t know it wouldn’t get my voice very well. Sketch Artist pandabaka.deviantart.com
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Mänty Sketches

01 Aug

Wenn man sich ernsthaft mit der Landschaftsfotografie beschäftigt, merkt man schnell, wie zeitintensiv diese Kategorie werden kann. Um so offensichtlicher wird das, wenn man nicht damit seinen Lebensunterhalt verdient, aber trotzdem weiter an der Fotografie arbeiten möchte und (freie) Zeit zum Ausüben seiner Leidenschaft selten und kostbar ist.

Die Winter hier im Norden von Finnland sind lang und um die Zeit wenigstens ein wenig kreativ zu nutzen, wählte ich im letzten Winter ein Projekt, das mir schon seit einiger Zeit nahe lag und an dem ich in einer freien Minute immer wieder mal so zwischendurch arbeiten konnte.

Schon oft hatte mich der Anblick der mit frischem Schnee bedeckten Mänty (Waldkiefer) fasziniert und da diese Bäume hier praktisch überall wachsen, schien es ein geeignetes Projekt zu sein. Die richtigen Bedingungen waren nur noch eine Frage der Zeit.

Beginnend von Dezember habe ich bis Ende März dann immer wieder eine freie Minute genutzt, um an diesem Projekt zu arbeiten. Manchmal war es einfach. Eines meiner liebsten Bilder habe ich schlicht von meinem Schlafzimmerfenster aus gemacht, ein anderes von einem Parkplatz eines Supermarktes aus. Für einige andere wiederum musste ich länger Ausschau halten und auf frischen Schnee warten.

Meine Herangehensweise war der bei einem Portraitfotos nicht unähnlich. Entscheidend war es, möglichst auf Augenhöhe mit den Baumkronen zu kommen, da man nur hier diese interessanten Strukturen in den Ästen zusammen mit dem Kontrast der schneebedeckten Nadeln findet, der mich interessierte.

Mit einer durchschnittlichen Höhe der Bäume von 17 Metern war das jedoch nicht immer möglich. Falls vorhanden, versuchte ich, von einem höheren Standpunkt aus zu fotografieren. War keiner vorhanden, konnte ich jedoch mit Hilfe eines Tele-Objektivs und genügend Abstand zum Motiv, um Verzerrungen weitestgehend zu vermeiden, dann aber doch einen relativ flachen Winkel zu den Baumkronen zu bekommen und somit eher auf Augenhöhe kommen.

Vom praktischen Nutzen des 70-200mm Objektives abgesehen, war mir auch die entstehende Ästhetik wichtig: Durch die lange Brennweite konnte ich das ohnehin schon vorhandene Chaos in den Baumkronen weiter komprimieren, somit noch mehr verstärken und dadurch den Kontrast zwischen Nadeln und den Ästen auf die entstehenden Strukturen hervorheben.

Die besten Bedingungen fand ich in der Regel vor, wenn der Schnee frisch und nass genug war, um auf den Nadeln der Bäume liegen zu bleiben. Gewissermaßen nebenbei bekamen die Fotos durch den oft noch andauernden Schneefall einen leicht impressionistischen Touch. Um die Kamera vor dem nassen Schnee zu schützen, habe ich einfach ein Loch in eine Plastiktüte gemacht, durch dieses das Objektiv (in dieser Serie habe ich ausschließlich mein 70-200mm f/4 verwendet) gesteckt und das Ganze mit der Gegenlichtblende ein wenig festklemmt. Voilà, ein selbstgebauter Regen- und Schneeschutz für 10ct.

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Im Gegensatz zu den Projekten, die ich während des letzten Jahres gemacht habe, war mir bei diesem Projekt von Anfang an klar, dass ich es in Farbe machen muss. Die Kompositionen würden in der sonst von mir bevorzugten Schwarzweiß-Konvertierung nicht nur ihre Wirkung verlieren, sondern auch eines ihrer essentiellen Charakteristiken beraubt werden: Der Kontrast in den Farben zwischen dem Blaugrün der Nadeln, dem Weiß des frischen Schnees und dem Orangerot der Äste und Stämme.

Bearbeitet habe ich die Bilder hauptsächlich in Lightroom 4 und lediglich zum Abschluss noch einmal ein wenig an den Kontrasten in Photoshop gearbeitet. Mit den verbesserten Kontrollen für Tiefen und Lichter in Lightroom 4 habe ich nunmehr alle Werkzeuge zur Verfügung, um die Bilder zu bearbeiten und der Schritt rüber zu Photoshop wird immer seltener nötig.

Für’s Erste betrachte ich diese Serie als mehr oder weniger abgeschlossen, halte mir aber durchaus die Möglichkeit offen, im nächsten Winter weiter daran zu arbeiten, sofern mir nicht ein anderes Thema einfällt, um die Wintermonate ein wenig kreativ zu nutzen.

Weitere Bilder dieser Serie könnt Ihr auf meiner Webseite betrachten.


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