Anyone know how this is done.(Tenticles)?

http://rainer.glazov.net:8101/surfstation/cover001/

WOW, that site belongs in the cool site forum thanks for showing it to us. (I'm sure some of you had seen it....I had not)


tenticles/vines/whatever....
there are at least a half dozen tutorials I've seen dealing with this...but most of them are long and drawnout. I'll see if I can hunt a few of them up....

In the meantime...

I did this in a few minutes (5 minutes max) after reading your post...
http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbutts/oddstuff/tenticles.jpg

ALL those are the simple result of using the 'polygon lasso' and making a long narrow triangle....then simply applying the >filter>distort>polar coordinates. Followed by adding a bevel.

on some of them I also tinkered with the perspective and/or used the 3d transform filter....

hope this helps.

You can try using the pen tool to draw a curve, stroke i (paintbrush and choose your colo)t, skew one end to bring it to a point, control click to select the layer. Then create a channel, apply a gausian blur to it. Go back to the layer and render a lighting effect on the alpha channel you created. I've gotten an ok effect with that but you gotta be good at drawing curves to get it smooth. I'm at work now so don't have time to really mess with but with some more effort, this way may work.

There's a good chance those were done in a 3D program as well...

Chris

I didn't spend alot of time on this but if you follow the technique I described above, I'm sure you can get a much better effect.
www.sanookthai.com/tentacle.gif

Originally posted by Moglie
I didn't spend alot of time on this but if you follow the technique I described above, I'm sure you can get a much better effect.
www.sanookthai.com/tentacle.gif

id have to agree with you there. thats a lot of intricate work to be done using photoshop. not that its impossible, but that looks a little too clean for photoshop

I'd also bet there would be some 3D software used on that. I like to think of that style as "junkyard". Not because it is junk but because it reminds me of a junkyard for some reason. All the different metallic shapes strewn about...

Ok, a little more playing around and got this.
www.sanookthai.com/twister.jpg

Moglie that's pretty sweet. Now if only you turned them into snakes it would make it really freaking cool.

I think I could do that. All you gotta do to get that effect is use KPT 6 Gel. Draw a curvey line, then use the pinch brush to taper it. Draw a bunch, merge 'em, duplicate, rotate etc. Just discovered that one.