{"id":80,"date":"2012-11-30T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/index.php\/2012\/11\/30\/dragon-brushes-in-gimp\/"},"modified":"2016-02-22T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T09:31:28","slug":"dragon-brushes-in-gimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/2012\/11\/dragon-brushes-in-gimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon brushes in GIMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-3QEQpgTcys0\/ULjaqf7YV4I\/AAAAAAAAGQU\/K8y0AX7bw-4\/s1600\/2012_11_30_dragon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-3QEQpgTcys0\/ULjaqf7YV4I\/AAAAAAAAGQU\/K8y0AX7bw-4\/s320\/2012_11_30_dragon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hello guys,<\/p>\n<p>Today, I will show you how to create animated brushes in GIMP 2.8, and this post will also be a useful reminder for me :). I will propose Dragon brushes because dragons are cool, and everybody likes them. The philosophy behind using brushes is not to make the whole painting with them, but rather have a good idea of the final render without spending too much time on it. It is also used to add sparse textures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/null\" name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>First of all, I must link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ujcVZL4gUb4\">this video<\/a> who greatly helped me in designing those brushes. So thanks a lot to M. <span dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Paint a pair of dragons with Ubisoft's Remko Troost\">Remko Troost for his nice video.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>I &#8211; Download<\/h3>\n<p>You can download the dragon brush pack <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download&amp;confirm=no_antivirus&amp;id=0ByRJvz-qeKVPcGFBWVNNT3hOSDg\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt contains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 skin brush<\/li>\n<li>2 simple scale brushes<\/li>\n<li>1 horn brush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to use them in your work. Credits are appreciated but not mandatory. Here after I explain how you can create (improve? \ud83d\ude09 ) and use these brushes.<\/p>\n<h3>II &#8211; Creating an animated brush<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>First of all, create a new grayscale (in the advance parameters) square image if you want a classic &#8220;transparent&#8221; brush (actually, color brushes are not that useful). Use a white background (= full transparent brush). Don&#8217;t make it too big, something like 200x200px is quite good.<\/li>\n<li>Start painting some scales in black. Generally lizard\/reptile skin is made of geometric patterns (squares, pentagon, N-gons) well intricated together and separated by little creases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BDN7qlAyF9Y\/ULjLpigyAMI\/AAAAAAAAGPU\/E3YA-1ep6kQ\/s1600\/dragonSkin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-BDN7qlAyF9Y\/ULjLpigyAMI\/AAAAAAAAGPU\/E3YA-1ep6kQ\/s1600\/dragonSkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Create another layer and paint anoter type of scales. You can use as many layers as you want to create variations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-len43bY8rsY\/ULjL5hF26uI\/AAAAAAAAGPc\/Xyy8VYHPZNo\/s1600\/dragonSkin2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-len43bY8rsY\/ULjL5hF26uI\/AAAAAAAAGPc\/Xyy8VYHPZNo\/s1600\/dragonSkin2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The goal is to use those 2 layers randomly in order to create irregularity in the skin.<\/p>\n<h3>III &#8211; Saving the brush correctly<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Save the brush using the GIMP animated brush format: .gih. Save the file in the .gimp-2.8\/brushes folder (in your home folder).\n<ul>\n<li>Use a spacing of 50-75 depending on how much you covered the image surface<\/li>\n<li>Number of cells should be your number of layers (2 for me)<\/li>\n<li>Dimension is 1 as the brush will only depend on 1 parameter (random only here, no angle track or whatever)<\/li>\n<li>Ranks is 2 &#8211; Random, which means that random will be used to choose between the first 2 layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Now you can reload the brushes in the brush panel. Be aware that the &#8220;reload&#8221; button doesn&#8217;t seem to work very well. I think it only loads new brushes, not modified ones. So if you want to tweak\/modify an existing brush, you have to suppress the file, and then create it again. Be warned that if you already have a lot of brushes, it may be difficult to find the new one in the list!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>IV &#8211; Going further using dynamics<\/h3>\n<p>You can now use this brush in GIMP. But GIMP 2.8 provides another option to influence brush behaviour: Dynamics. It can control how speed, orientation, pressure (for graphic tablet users) and much more parameters affect the brush (in rotation, size, opacity&#8230;). For example, to add a random rotation, you can use the existing dynamics &#8220;Basic Simple&#8221; or &#8220;Pencil Shader&#8221; for example, or create your own.<\/p>\n<p>Some dynamics are quite useful, especially the ones that follow the direction of the movement to align a brush, for example &#8220;Speed Size Opacity&#8221;, or even &#8220;Track Direction&#8221; if you don&#8217;t want to use pressure. But if you plan to use them, you have to well design the underlying brush.<\/p>\n<p>And thus, if you want to create an &#8220;oriented&#8221; brush, you have to know that the &#8220;direction&#8221; needs to be horizontal towards the right-hand side when you create the brush. Here is a &#8220;horn&#8221; brush:<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_vAsrKQRxHM\/ULjVu6m5JUI\/AAAAAAAAGPw\/F5OPz6cUfh4\/s1600\/dragonHorn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_vAsrKQRxHM\/ULjVu6m5JUI\/AAAAAAAAGPw\/F5OPz6cUfh4\/s1600\/dragonHorn.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>A horn brush oriented towards the right-hand side<\/i><\/div>\n<p>When used in a drawing in combination with other brushes you can quickly create a basic design:<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hrCQD-0WR68\/ULjV03KnzWI\/AAAAAAAAGP4\/H_41vy_7eIE\/s1600\/brushesTuto2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hrCQD-0WR68\/ULjV03KnzWI\/AAAAAAAAGP4\/H_41vy_7eIE\/s320\/brushesTuto2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>A very quick design of a dragon<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Or you can use them in a final render just like the first image of this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello guys, Today, I will show you how to create animated brushes in GIMP 2.8, and this post will also be a useful reminder for me :). 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