I've been making a lot of use of the Coat of Arms Visual Designer lately. It's nice to be able to present the players in my campaign with a coat of arms for any NPC without going through a lot of effort
Here are a few examples that I've processed further with graphics editing software to get a "hand-painted" look:
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death." -Robert Fulghum
My basic procedure is to enlarge the orginal Coat of Arms Visual Designer image by 300%, since Virtual Painter works better at a larger size.
Then I color in the Coat of Arms with gradients and textures, again because Virtual Painter gives a better result if there is more variance in the image.
Finally, I run the Virtual Painter plugin. Usually I combine the Oil Painting and Impasto filters to get the hand painted shield look.
The images posted here I resized back to their original dimensions.
Those are great! I hope you share more down the road!
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“It only surprised me up until around 1977, ... I had thought we were going to have a considerable audience of gamers and science fiction and fantasy fans. I thought easily with those we'd have 50,000 or more [buyers], but when people began to write me [with questions] about what fantasy books to read, and I saw the wide range of both younger and older people who were attracted to the game, I understood that it was reaching a deeper chord, something deep within us.” – E. Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008)
Those are superb! I need to learn how to do that - or to comission someone to do some of these for the ruling families in my campaign setting.
Indeed, indeed.
Vail, I looked through your album. Definitely awesome work!
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death." -Robert Fulghum
So what is the best way for me to get these from you? Just "save as...", or do you have them saved in a PDF, or similar? Do you have them on Photobucket?
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So what is the best way for me to get these from you? Just "save as...", or do you have them saved in a PDF, or similar? Do you have them on Photobucket?
All the images are in an album here on EN World. I don't see any download options, so I think you would have to navigate through the album and 'Save image as' each coat of arms you were interested in.
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