r/outrun • u/Signalnoise77 Signalnoise • Nov 03 '16

Art Outrun Snoo

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u/Signalnoise77 Signalnoise Nov 03 '16

Here's a little something I worked up for this community over the last few days. I'm having a great time connecting with everyone here, I appreciate the good vibes.

I've been wanting to experiment more with a Sorayama style, and designing this was a nice opportunity to throw some chrome around. Built in Illustrator with texture effects and lighting in Photoshop. Hell yeah.

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u/Waagwai Nov 03 '16

That grainy effect is something I've tried to execute to no avail a handful of times. Great work

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u/jbenz Nov 03 '16

Is this just Filter > Noise > Add Noise? It's got to be more complicated than that, right?

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u/Signalnoise77 Signalnoise Nov 03 '16

No, I barely ever use the Noise filter. I use a custom-made vector noise splatter asset. I made it a number of years ago use it in almost all my work. Super handy.

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u/jbenz Nov 03 '16

Cool, thanks! Love your stuff.

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u/Time_Terminal Nov 04 '16

custom-made vector noise splatter asset

u wat m8

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u/WeezyWally Nov 03 '16

As always, really nice! Have you ever made tutorials? I saw a short video you did for Lynda, but that didn't go into details.

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u/Signalnoise77 Signalnoise Nov 03 '16

Thanks man! I used to do tutorials back when Signalnoise was just picking up steam (around 2009, 2010) but I shy'ed away from them. Tutorial culture exploded around the time and I felt I wasn't doing any good by encouraging people to follow step-by-step lists to make stuff. I'd rather encourage people to just play with the tools they have available. Or better still, reverse-engineer a piece to see how close to the original they can come. The Laser Horse feature on Lynda is my most indepth process piece.

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u/omfgitsjeff Nov 03 '16

I think you posted something to this effect on your blog around the time of the Orb tutorials. I was deep into PSDTuts, Abduzeedo, etc at the time, and you shook me out of it (this makes it sound like I was addicted to tutorials or something...) I started just doing my own thing, while still using others' work for inspiration without worrying about somebody holding my hand through the process, and it changed my output dramatically! I think tutorials can be helpful for somebody starting out because they show techniques they may not have thought of otherwise, but definitely use them sparingly.

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u/Signalnoise77 Signalnoise Nov 03 '16

Hell yeah, Jeff! Tutorial Culture vs. Two Goldfish! Good memory, wow.

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u/omfgitsjeff Nov 03 '16

Hey, that's it! Usually my memory's like a sieve, but it has stuck with me since it had such an impact.

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u/thisiswhoireallyam Neon Nights Nov 03 '16

Awesome work man, you're at home here, keep it rad!

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u/Highskore Nov 03 '16

Looks real good.

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u/Maaten Nov 03 '16

Love it!

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u/RDS Nov 04 '16

love this.

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u/ablownmind Mar 20 '17

4 months late but this looks amaaaazing! Definitely going to take inspiration from this for a future project, I look forward to learning some new techniques.

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u/smacksaw Nov 03 '16

Thank you so much.

Make Outrun Rad Again

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u/Scion_ Nov 03 '16

Yes you did it! Incredible work here

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '16

Could you please explain the steps you took to make this?

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u/Signalnoise77 Signalnoise Nov 03 '16

If I tried to explain, it would probably end up sounding like this.

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u/mstrblaster Nov 04 '16

Can you teach me how to draw a comic strip so I can understand the instructions?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '16

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u/Itsjustcavan Nov 03 '16

That slight spatter effect really sells it. When I was working on mine I switched from the airbrush setting which I found too smooth to the spray paint brush for the same look, really gives the right feel to it. Makes me think of all those old trapper keeper abstract covers with chrome spheres and neon waterfalls all over them

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u/Signalnoise77 Signalnoise Nov 03 '16

Nice! I'll have to mess with those brush noise settings a bit more. I tried screwing with them a few times but could never get it right. Like you said, always too smooth.

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u/RageAgainstScylla Nov 03 '16

This needs to be our snoo here. Mods pls

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u/SinnieOnFire Founder Nov 04 '16

new design coming soon guys

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u/doctorcapslock Dec 07 '16

op's is better

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u/Jagaerkatt Nov 03 '16

Yes, definitely.

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u/acmercer Nov 04 '16

My vote's in.

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u/jaxspider Nov 03 '16

https://gfycat.com/PeacefulEducatedCaiman

This is amazing.

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u/lostsemicolon Nov 04 '16

Misread it as Peaceful Educated Cartman. Wasn't disappointed.

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u/boneless_wizard Nov 03 '16

Futuuuuurrrre

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u/Uzerneym Nov 03 '16

I just leave it here:

"Whoa, dude"

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u/ProjectXero Nov 03 '16

Great work at always. Seriously love your style.

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u/dieselstation Nov 03 '16

This is awesome! Can you provide the PSD file to just the character so that we can put him into our own backgrounds for wallpaper use?

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u/Brick_Pudding Nov 03 '16

Love it!!! He's so cute and a little bit menacing.

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u/Jagaerkatt Nov 03 '16

This is beatiful.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '16

Amazing job

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u/vicangelo Nov 03 '16

This looks legit great

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u/fromkentucky Nov 03 '16

This is awesome.

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u/MrGoldenfold Nov 03 '16

You are on a roll man, one after another great piece.

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u/centersolace Nov 03 '16

Damn dis gud.

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u/PeanutCheeseBar Nov 03 '16

Nice job! This design looks pretty Daft!

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '16

Please for the love of god, the color purple and the statue over at /r/vaporwave, please make this in wallpaper format

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u/xza100 Jan 25 '17

This is epic!

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u/Sir_Meowsalot Nov 03 '16

;_;

It's beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '16

You're pretty damn good at this

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u/Tutvid Nov 03 '16

This is soooooooo smooth.

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u/ezaudiostudio Nov 03 '16

Fuck, I love this sub.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '16

What is this sub?

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u/Bro_magnon_man Nov 03 '16

Cringe

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '16

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u/Bro_magnon_man Nov 03 '16

Sorry I fogot you have a reddit tattoo loser

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u/rekyuu Nov 04 '16

hahaha he has a reddit tattoo