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#41

I think I might have figured out what was going on with your devil. It looks like you might have been doing some masking in Photoshop. You might have had your ‘left’ image layer still visible under your composite anaglyph layer. Check which of your Photoshop layers are visible.

Actually, on closer inspecting it looks like the problem might be more complicated than that, but I would start by checking your PS layers.

Thanks!!! I’m glad someone is enjoying my process. It seems like I’m always in experimental mode. I think it is the artistic condition.

#42

So I lost some work on this one. My Zbrush crashes quite a bit. Here a 2-D:
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I really am going to finish my guide on anaglyphs. Just got to get my head around this last little thing so that I feel like I completely understand the magic.

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#43

Hmmmm Actually, my ZBrush did not crash for the past three month. And before, I was not careful regarding memory limits. I also tuned the settings according to the quick links tutorial regarding this topic. It’s the most stable 3d app I have followed by XSI, then a gap… then a few others I respectfully don;t want to mention…

Cheers
Lemo

#44

It’s my machine. I have a dual-processor system that I had no business building myself, but did it anyway. I messed with those performance and memory settings a couple of months ago and it seems to have improved the situation some. I have bigger system-wide prefomance issues though. My favorite is the ‘spontaneous reboot.’ That one always puts a smile on my face. Anyway, the one thing that seems to crash my Zbrush almost every time I use it is when I try to use the Depth Brush with a Scatter stroke, which happens to be an effect I’ve fallen in love with recently and Crash is like this jealous old boyfriend that keeps comming around and beating my new lover to a bloody pulp.

An unfinished Smudge experiment. Some sumdging in Zbrush, some in Photoshop. Ran out of time.
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#45

Nice smudge! I made a little holder on my LCD screen so the red&green glasses have a good place. So keep it coming.

My older PC got into the same problems. Old 1.9GHZ P4. The spontaneous reboot is also a thing which transforms me into a Zen Budhist… Breathe in breathe out… release… Ommmmmmm. Mostly followed by GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. And some other sounds not suitable for this forum.

You seem to have memory timing problems. There is a cool memory test program which you have to burn onto a CD and boot from it. That shows a lot. Regular PC’s do not have error correction or parity bit’s showing the problem. All of a sudden instructions show up for the CPU sending it to hell. My new box has ECC memory and is more a server mainboard than a regular PC. I had it with the cheap stuff.

Good luck! Your technique is really nice!

Lemo

#46

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This is a variation on a previous piece. I mixed it up a little so as not to post exactly the same thing. I distorted a little too much depth into the top image, but oh well. I wasn’t actually working on the image content so much as the process of putting it together.

I was finally able the bugs out of the dual-depth (popping in and popping out) process. The background is easy, but it gets really tricky when you layer the other image on top. As far as I can see as of right now, there is no way to do both parts at once and still have it look fairly clean.

I also realized that it is important to expand the size of the canvas to create a distortion margin of sorts on the left and right of the image.

Now that I have explored the extremes of this process I think I can finally get going on my own little anaglyph guide for all two of you out there that seem to be interested in this subject. I plan on illustrating it and explaining the ‘why’ in addition to the ‘how’ if you care to read that part of it. I will also post some Photoshop Actions that I have recorded which automate a substantial portion of the process with instructions on how to implement those actions properly.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

EDIT: Baaah! I take it back. There is a way to do both at once and it will still look decent. One little experiment right after I posted and it hit me. I think this other way is easier too, as I should have known it would be. Back to the drawing board.

#47

Make that 3 people who are interested. :slight_smile:

Really nice anaglyphs. I’m hoping to try your tips out this weekend and really look forward to the guide you’re planning. Thanks for sharing. :+1: