perkament (3D and photoshop)

This was the outcome from the render from Lightwave 6

http://www.mrfixitonline.com/attachments/perkament.jpg

Then I made the letterseal with photoshop

http://www.mrfixitonline.com/attachments/perkament(1).jpg

And then in the end I added the little piece of cloth

text is in dutch, was made for a friend who makes scenario's for Age of Kings.

that is da bomb dude that is the most realistic version i have seen of a scroll. It looks so real coudl you give me some tips on how to make it.
And i was wondering coudl you give me a list of all the programs you use for graphics design.
Thnx

The paper was made with a 3d program, Lightwave 6.0
It's expensive like hell, but I got a cool nephew who is in film editing-photography who lend me the program when he was on stage. Anyway you'll have a hard time copying that in photoshop, unless your some airbrushing god

Then the seal was made with Photoshop 5.5,

Make a new channel

First a made a circular selection, messed it up with lasso.
Fill it with white and copy it.

Then took the airbrush and made black and grey strokes all over one of the channels (the bump map)
Then I took the Lion of Flanders picture, filled the selection with black in the "bump map" of the seal

Now go to layers, load the selection (not the bump map)
Apply Lightning effects on some setting (I have to learn to save the settings). Directional light I think.

Press OK, and GOD DAMN that looks ugly, blur it a bit (like 2 or 3), resize it, erase the unwanted jaggies. Now that looks better.

I also use Flash 5, but the program frustrates me.

Looks really good, but not to sound smug, I could probably do the job in Photoshop alone, and I'm no airbrushing genius.

The only thing I see to be picky about is the shadowing on the folds. Take a real piece of paper and fold it like the your parchment appears to have been. When you unfold it you'll notice that there are valley folds as well as peak folds. The lighting on yours makes it appear as though they are all peak folds, which in the real world would not be likely.

Looks great, otherwise.

Dit vind ik nou echt cool

I think it looks great but I agree with Utopian about the folds.

Utopian if you can make somethin like that in photoshop I'd like to know how

good Christian, just wondering in your opinion what is the best and easiest to learn to use 3d program out there? I've tried 3ds Max 3, but it was confusing and I haven't tried to learn it yet.

I'm Dutch i'm good in english but Dutch would work easier and faster for me, anyone know a site with Dutch tutorials or forums?

Good Job GC. One thing I would do is cut down on the saturation.

I've seen this tutorial around the net... I think it was at flay.com. Not real sure... but its out there...