Nox!!

[MassiveDVD]

Hey guys,

Sorry for the delays... the finishing touches took longer than expected. We haven't updated the website yet but you can find the link here:

http://store.payloadz.com/str-asp-i.89294-n.NoxPart1_Video_Educational-end-detail.html

Part 1 contains a .zip file that includes his color wheel, a 50 minute quicktime, and the .psd at the halfway point.

Part 2 should be out later this week and will contain the final .psd.

Let us know your thoughts. :)

ENJOY!

[smugbug]

I'm there like white on rice. Thank you!

[S!R]

Yipee! Sooo gonna snag this soon as I get to the home comp! Thanks to Nox & MassiveDVD!

[Farvus]

Thanks! I'll try to download it tomorrow.

[Diphallia]

Wait, is this "just" a walkthrough of one painting?
I suppose that there's a lot of explanation on stuff?

[hm333]

oh man...

[Moai]

I will download this soon. Thanks, Nox, MB, and whoever else.

[romance]

Cheers Aaron, MB, and especially Nox.

[[void]]

Awesome! Downloading now...

[Duq]

Yay! Downloading now ^^

[DigitallyDumbfounded]

Downloading. :D
And it's awesome you included the colorwheel, can't wait to try that out.
Thanks a bunch!

Oh, and it never felt better to be european. 6,69 € !!!!
This is a steal. looking forward to part 2.

[Slash]

Come to papa!


Downloading...

[_andreas_]

great, i just wanted to go to bed.
downloading now, this is going to be a long night =)

thx for the work that went into it!

[Unbreakable]

I can't wait until it finishes

[romance]

Heya peeps, video is good so far.

If your having problems with the color wheel swatches, as in, it's not actually a wheel, make sure you delete or move the glob of PS generic colors at the top, (you can do this in the swatches preset manager), and all will be well.

[hm333]

hahahahakhadhks oh man nox its funny as shit !


edit: SO AARON WE WILL NEED TO PAY ANOTHER 10 FOR THE PART2??

[Soja]

I s....t in my pans im so nervous!!! Im downloading right now!! right now!!! MUUUUUHAHAHHAHAHA!!!

[MassiveDVD]

hm333: Yeah, part 2 will cost another $10. We did it this way because Nox gave us 30 hours of footage and we thought condensing it into just one hour wouldn't do it justice.

[Slash]

"watching a lot of porn definately helps. I'm serious." -Nox


HAH! I keep telling people that, and they just snicker. :P

Great video, very educational. Who said conceptart was just about tits and robots eh? Thanks for the inspiration!

One thing i wondered about is why you've bleeped out the word "fuck" in some places, but left it in elsewhere. (like around 37 minutes)

..or why you bleeped "fuck" at all, considering the subject matter isn't exactly fit for prudes. :P

[MassiveDVD]

Slash: haha... We thought the "bleep" sounds added comedic value, but yeah, we weren't too worried about censoring it.

[cartoonfox]

Hmm, just bought it, but there was some problem loading the paypal page.
I've gone to my account and it says that I've paid Massive Black $10, but I don't know how to access the download page.

My email is paypal at cartoonfox.com

[hm333]

hm333: Yeah, part 2 will cost another $10. We did it this way because Nox gave us 30 hours of footage and we thought condensing it into just one hour wouldn't do it justice.

yeah i think that is a good deal, that thing with the credit card was great since i dont have a paypal ac. so thanks for that one, and thanks to all the crew! and nox for the great demo!, and long live to the porn! :yum:

ps: looking forward to the part2 so don't be late on that please :sungod: :yayca: :drinkup:

edit2: so the part2 will be another hour? :D

[schlichte]

just got finished watching, this is one of the best digital art videos i have seen, it is also quite humurous, cant wait for part too

thanks alot aaron and mb for doing all of these videos and making them accessable and affordable

[MassiveDVD]

cartoonfox: An email was sent to that account... pm me if you didn't get it.
hm333: The editing is not complete on part II, but yeah, we're pretty much aiming for roughly an hour on all the downloads.

[cartoonfox]

Oh ok, cheers I'm downloading now : ]

[JL.Alfaro]

yeah, kick ass

Nox- thanks for doing the video man, I can see it wasnt easy to do it (talking bout the end of the vid):)
cant wait for part 2!!

[skrubbles]

Sweet! I've been waiting a few days for this. I'm d/ling now :)

[Madman!]

Sweet just finished downloading.

[Madman!]

How do you load the color wheel so it apears as the wheel? mine just displays in the list but not as a wheel.

[Unbreakable]

Madman read Romance's post he tells you how to do it.

Thanks to all the people who put these things together!!!

[Justin.]

Uh... also realize that you must adjust the width of the swatch palette, in case that was missed somehow =P

[Madman!]

sweet thanks it worked.

[Victor B]

purchased and downloading!

[light]

I already asked this earlier but it wasn't answered, will this be popping up on orderable dvd's any time or is it just download?

[Jacob Kobryn]

It's Downloading! Woot!

[Capprotti]

Wooooooooooow. NOX!!!!! I'm drooling over this psd! Time to watch the vid. I can't get my swatches to look all pretty and neat like his though... :(

[FlyingMilton]

Saw the final product, then the blocking in stages. My mouse flew for the buy button. This is just what I've been looking for.

Thanks alot, can't wait for part 2.

[Capprotti]

Ok Got it! Reau figured it out. Go to the Preset Manager and highlight the first batch of colors until you get to the swatch before the first batch of white swatches, then click delete. Presto, you're good to go. Just make sure you resize the swatches window so that it's 20 swatches wide. If this bothered anyone else, I hope this helps. (Sorry if anybody posted about this earlier, to lazy to check :P)

[stephen]

purchased... but i guess it needs to clear before i can download... was there another option besides paypal?

ppoot

[sciboy]

A bit of a specific request, any chance I can get the PSD file in RGB mode? I'd like to open it in GIMP but we don't have support for Lab/CYMK yet.

[Mr. Visions]

Great video so far, one question: Does Nox changes his opacity at all, or is it all based on pen pressure. Ididn't know because of the speed whether it was just that fast, layers, or the pen pressure.

- Visions

Edit: Man, all the edits at the end of the movie really showed us how you guys are troopers, haha. It seemed to hard part wasn't the art. Can't wait for part 2 -

[Salvo]

Holly Shit! Sweeeetness. Thankyou NOX and Massive DVD!

[Atmospheria]

So sexy! thanks Nox!

[G@m]

Was waiting for it
downloading right now.

[archipelago]

I looooove you guys, I really do!!!

[hm333]

one question: Does Nox changes his opacity at all, or is it all based on pen pressure. Ididn't know because of the speed whether it was just that fast, layers, or the pen pressure.



take a look at the upper bar... :oneye:

[Mr. Visions]

Hehe, I did, thanks, but didn't see any change. That why I was wonderin' about whether the footage was just fast or not. Pen pressure I guess it is then -

[Extollere]

grrrrr Massive Black!

You make me give you money!

hehe

[MassiveDVD]

light: just download.
steven: you can also pay via credit card. it's on the left side of the screen where you're asked to login to paypal.

[phoric]

Sweet! Purchased, downloading now and will post a review about it on Sketchfeed.

[Hybridstar]

Rather than one wheel, i get several small ones joining one another and in two rows. Any idea what's wrong?

[Mr. Visions]

Heya peeps, video is good so far.

If your having problems with the color wheel swatches, as in, it's not actually a wheel, make sure you delete or move the glob of PS generic colors at the top, (you can do this in the swatches preset manager), and all will be well.

EDIT: Follow these directions, and simply adjust you color swatch window, shrinking it until it shows you the color wheel.

- Visions

[Extollere]

haha, great video! Definitely worth it. I love it when Nox says "Flippinnnn!"

[MattGamer]

I just had a happy thought.
Dwnldin' nw! Thnx Nox!

[Jacob Kobryn]

That was a really cool video. It shows that I need to be less reluctant about redoing things. He painted like 10 different concepts before he picked one he liked. I normally just work on one for a long time because I'm too lazy to do more than that.
And I feel so conflicted now! In Todd Lockwood's book he says that porn is completely unhelpful and useless and Nox says it helps! Well I've got a few years to figure that one out. ;)

-jk btw

[kraal]

nevermind thanks aaron

[Zaxser]

Downloading right now. I told you I'd buy these.

[daveneale]

Damn, vid, psd, swatches aaand comedy value, Nox is a fuckin dude, I love the little montage at the end

[Benjamen Christ]

Saw it, bought it, loved it!! Now its time to watch it again!


Ben:yum:

[Kan Muftić]

The end is just hilarious!
Loved it..

[Texahol]

I love these 10 dollar downloads.

They are the best.

[robogabo]

Looking forward for the 2 part
It was good to hear Nox comments.

Also it would be interesting if he does
another one in the future, to see the
whole approach he was talking about,
doing studies and working on the design
before attacking the final image.

My honest and truthful respects for his
artistic abilities, great artist :yayca:

[Ramennoodles518]

I'm downloading this! I think it'll be really helpful and educational! Thanks for putting this together!

[carotello]

Thanks Aaron, Jason, Nox, everyone involved in making these available. These are perfect for those of us who can't afford the more expensive dvds, but still want to improve our skills. Keep them coming, because I will keep buying. 10 bucks a download is a sweet deal.

[Farvus]

Downloaded.

When I opened it in Quicktime it wasn't working properly. It was super slow even if I made the window small. Hopefully everything was all right in VLC media player even on fullscreen turned on. Pheew....

The video was great. I definately learned few things that I haven't known before. I also often worry about sticking to steps while here it was all reworked at every single moment and it still looked fresh. Amazing :teeth:

At the end I noticed the hand with middle finger and thought to myself: At which moment did he paint that? I wasn't paying attention enough. Lol.

The end was great . Thanks a lot for the video and swatches. :yayca:

[Carnifex]

WANT!!!11 second part. NOW!

sorry,absolutely great. most of the time i thought "holy shit when did that happen?",as shoulder pads etc. simply emerged from nothingness.

funny addition at the end too :)

edit: MANY thanks for the psd file too. it feels kinda thrilling to have it,it's like being able to say "i have an original noxismad painting!" :D plus being able to see the full resolution and to fuck it up :D :D

edit2: at how many times original speed was this recorded?

[ManiakS]

omg, awesome vid. I can't wait for part 2. how long I have to wait? please hurry up. Thx a lot!

[Zebz]

Thanks for showing your secrets! Ha! I shall use them against you in LMS! ;)

Seriously, tho, thanks for showing us your process. I'll definitely be picking this up tonight when I get home.

[Justin.]

Bought'n


Hmm....

[Donovan V]

Instruction by Nox? Sexy robo killer chick? Yea... like I'm not going to pay $10 for that. :P

I hope the guys at MB can keep these coming. I'm loving the professional work and not having to break the bank to get it.

[Ben Mauro]

really great, thanks!

[Zaxser]

What codecs do you need to watch these videos? I've got CCCP, which usually takes care of me, but now that I've moved the old downloads to this computer, they have no sound, and the Media Player Classic is acting like its playing the video, but has no sound or video. Help!

EDIT: Download VLC, no longer having poblems.

[Sublimus]

Damnit, I thought I was just doing a quick check on the forums before bed. Looks like I'll be up a bit later! I wish it would dl faster, though. heh heh

[Madman!]

Will there be a huge final PSD version on part 2? I would like the final version so I can put it as a desktop.

[Donovan V]

Noxismad Demo = $10

Download Time = 30 min

Having a naked killer robo kitty chick with blood drenched claws on your desktop for all to see....

Priceless!

[Jason Manley]

I run the latest windows media player...have you downloaded that?

j

[Jason Manley]

please post your reviews on the site ok everyone?

it would be greatly appreciated if you would do so. aaron and nox worked really hard on this and we are thankful for the support.

number one...lol...there have not been that many sales...so I think perhaps the site doesn't get all that much traffic. but the support for being here on the forums is just fine...we will pay the bills this month.

[hm333]

cant fine the link in the page to post a review sorry

[Ashrumm]

The Nox demo is pretty unreal, its another steal from massive black! I find it hard to believe you guys are charging only 10 bucks for that much time and energy!

I cannot wait for part 2 keep up the great work Nox and happy belated birthday as well!

Oh yeah can't forget Aaron, good work man keep'em coming.

[MattGamer]

hm333: I think Jason means to review it here (http://www.sketchfeed.com/2007/12/06/nox-video-tutorial-part-1/) on this thread.

I though it was well worth my hour and $10. Now that I purchased it, I can go back and watch it again with the PSD on hand. Quite exciting and good insight of the thoughts of the painting. I can hardly wait for Part 2.

Thank you Nox and Aaron.

[MassiveDVD]

Carnifex: It's most typically 200%, 300%, and 500% of actual speed. It depends on how detailed we want to show what he's doing and also how much time he needs to talk about it.

hm333: http://store.payloadz.com/str-asp-i.89294-n.NoxPart1_Video_Educational-end-detail.html

it's just under the "buy and download now" part. :)

[Pau1Winslow]

Just bought this to add to the collection. I was so stoked with Jason and Andrew's videos, and I'm sure I'll enjoy this just as much.

[hm333]

it's just under the "buy and download now" part.

thanks

[Soja]

The Video is pretty damn good!! And it's so cool to have nox colorwheel and his original psd!!! Def worth 10$!!!
Man cant wait for jasons and androids new videos!!
Gonna save all my christmas money for that!!!!:mittenbop: :mittenbop: :mittenbop:

[-leo]

Cool. The only problem that it doesn't work in QuickTime player (buffer overrun error) while Andrew/Jason demos works fine.

Considering video, would be great if you add more info on tools setup in future. I see Nox painting at 100% opacity while brush strokes aren't solid.

[carotello]

Considering video, would be great if you add more info on tools setup in future. I see Nox painting at 100% opacity while brush strokes aren't solid.

Leo, Nox seems to be using a very simple brush and he has just adjusted the Opacity jitter in the Brush presets menu in Photoshop.
This allows you to vary the opacity of your brush through the pressure of the stylus on the tablet, so you don't have to adjust opacity all the time.
It's a fairly simple setup which is probably why an explanation of tool setup wasn't included in the video.

As for the buffer overrun error, this means the video wasn't downloaded in full. It happened to me with Jason's video. Just re-download it, and make sure the file is the correct size when the download is complete.

[kraal]

Ok here is a quick review of the NOX part 1. FIRST OF ALL the download method is great just make sure your paypal isnt set to echeck method or there will be a delay.
I will start with the negatives since nothing is perfect. First and formost the subject mater. No matter what you say it won't appeal to everyone. which is a shame cause this type of art style can benefit the younger generation of artist and the price tag is great for high school students. Draw back number 2 is the actual use of photoshop is not mentioned ( no expaination of brushes, opacity, or settings) the color wheel is included but even that is not explained and to how he uses it.
Ok the art work is great and worth watching from start to finish. The editing is good ( no major jumps from on stage to the next). It is always great to see how art is work from revision to revision. The lessons and tips are great even to hear an artist complain about thier own methods is refreshing. There is a lot to learn from this down load with a great drawing to boot. The language used in the instruction can get on your nerves if you don't like foul language. ( something that should be considered, there is a reason most teachers and leaders don't use foul language it adds a bit of professionalism to the speak as opposed to a novelty). this is a definate must get Not one of the character DVD's from that other 'workshop' website cover as much territory at 5 times the price

[-leo]

carotello, thanks a lot! You've saved me many hours! :) Yeah with 6-10% opacity jitter it behaviours almost the same way.

Anyway those tiny things may be obvious for someone while others would have no idea why it works that way. A good teacher always keep in mind that people are different and trying to shape the message so it affects everyone. Ironically the best painters aren't always the best teachers.

Personally I've found Andrew demo is the best: it's live presentation packed with energy, humor, tons of ideas and as a result it has tremendous impact. The rest is fine though it looks like artist have fun while painting and then he trying to remember what he was doing.

ps. The unrared mov shows 232 062 976 bytes and runs fine in other players (I use GOM Player).

[Farvus]

I wrote short comment on the website.

As for the brushes. Actually this video is perfect example that they are not the thing that make your illustration good looking. You just take simple round brush and do almost everything with it. Just like when rendering with pencil.
But in case you didn't notice - he switched back and forth between completely opaque round brush (without opacity jitter) and round brush with opacity jitter. The first one for blocking solid shapes and second one for rendering.

Next day I started doodling something random in Photoshop with this video in mind and many things worked out suprisingly well. Of course earlier I was reading a lot about color theory and it propably gave some additional kick to my choices. The funny thing is that by coincidence I also had problems with stomach area and repainted it many times :P.

I think it wouldn't be so helpful without the PSD file. I looked into it several times to make sure of few things.

[Hybridstar]

I echo the comments that the $10 downloads are an amazing resource for all artists. I hope we see a steady trickle if not a torrent of them in the future!

The Nox demo is inspiring, great to see a painter so familiar with his tools, working environment and procedure. Nox's commentary simply rounds it all off, and the outakes made me do a little wee in me pants. Great stuff once again guys.

[Jason Manley]

thanks everyone. more are on the way. thanks to yumiko, I made some great progress today on mine. will reshoot some stuff this week and hopefully have em up in a few days.

Andrews are about done as well...so just a few more days for the nox part 2 and the new drop from andrew.


jason

[squidmonk3j]

awesome effort, guys...very much appreciated:) bought and d/l'ed everything so far, and i'm looking forward to the new stuff! i really hope this idea works out well for you and the site....that said, i'd also hope to see more dvd projects in the future!

you're the inspiration of thousands:)

[guterrez]

I bought it two days ago, just couldn`t resist the magic of nox
but I have to say I hoped for a bigger bunch when I heard nox will bring out a tutorial; something like a dvd with more NOXPOWER in it!
it is really cool to follow the process through the psd file
can`t wait to see the final in hires
cheers,
Mathias

[Peter Konig]

Hey Nox...I love watching you work, this one was great, looking forward to #2. Ten bucks well spent. See you in Seattle...I'll buy you a whiskey.

Pete K.

[Jonas Heirwegh]

Great tutorials, looking forward to part two!

And OMG at the end, Great bloopers:D

[lithim]

number one...lol...there have not been that many sales...so I think perhaps the site doesn't get all that much traffic. but the support for being here on the forums is just fine...we will pay the bills this month.

Well, this is my first post here on CA, though I've lurked on the forums for quite some time now, and I must say that its a shame that you haven't had many sales of these videos. I've purchased all of them and they are all absolutely amazing. Each one of these has practically a whole painting course worth of information in them and all for $10.

There is one thing that I've noticed though, I've searched the entire Massive Black website and maybe I'm just dumb/blind but I could not find a link to these downloads from your website. I can easily access them from here on CA, but I think adding a simple link to the MB website could help increase the sales some.

Hell, you already have a new dvd/downloads page created for these so you could simply replace the current http://massiveblack.com/mbNew/html/dvd.shtml link with the newer http://dvd.massiveblack.com/downloads.html link.

Anyways, that's just my 2 cents. Thanks again for the awesome videos and I cant wait for the next ones to be released.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, when I first purchased andrew and jason's videos, while I was watching jason's video an illustration professor at the college I go to (SCAD) asked me about the videos and asked where I got it because she wanted to tell her classes about them and without really thinking I told her I got them from massive black, assuming that there was a link on the site to them. Since I cant find link on your site I don't know if she found the videos or not, but that potentially could have been multiple classes worth of downloads as well as anyone else they may have told about them.

[cmalidore]

Thanks for doing these, guys. They're such wonderful videos - I plug them to a lot of people in the hopes of supporting these endeavors. I learned so much off of these so far - can't wait to view this one :)

[CGMonkey]

By now I think MB would make a lot more profit if you would perhaps start dealing with shipment and payment yourself, no? It seems like there is a lot middle hand money or I guess the actual sales numbers aren't high enough :/

Anyhow -- I'm downloading as a I write, I'm really looking forward to this one! Thanks Nox and MB! :)

[steptoe]

Hello, I've been lurking/learning since 2004 lol, i've learned stack loads from the artists here at CA Thankyou'all thanks nox & t0 all involved with the $10 downloads.Good value..... just 1 thing about the credit card paypal thing, I was having dramas dl'ing the .rar file directly from the website until i used the link i got in the email. it worked 1st pop.thanx again.

--

[Rist]

From what i have seen of you guys, I think you are doing all you can to sell them, I guess you could advertise on the TV, but for 10$ that would be crazy talk.

I still have not watched this one even though it has been on my HDD for the past weekend.

[Salavin]

Downloading once I get my home comp up and running
Jee whizz what a treat

[Merlin]

Fantastic tutorial, love his style, thnx Nox and MB.

Just one little thing. In the intro you see weird lines running true Nox's face when he is moving. If you want to get rid of this, you should put Deinterlace on. I don't know what editing software you use, but in adobe premiere you can select this when you export the footage.

Here is a wiki article about deinterlacing if you don't know what I mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinterlacing

[h2rra]

Yeah, I think there also were some deinterlacing issues in Shawn's dvd? Otherwise fantastic stuff guys!

[Soja]

Hey what about just putting a pop up window wit a link to nox video download!
I think most of those who havent heard about it wont know that one exists.

[Benjamen Christ]

i would like to say that every time i buy one of these demos, it is the BEST ten$ ive ever spent......every time!!!! ***** 5 stars GIVE ME MORE!!!!!!!!!!

Ben

[MassiveDVD]

Hey guys,

Thanks so much for the positive response. We're extremely happy you're finding the downloads to be such a good value and we've got a bunch more planned.

Yeah, we're a bit slow on updating the webpage. It's not yet an official part of the pipeline but we're working on it.

The main footage isn't interlaced so I didn't de-interlace the project. I don't know what happens when you de-interlace progressive-scan footage... I guess it's time for some tests?? :) We've already figured out a number of technical issues since Jason Chan. Smaller file sizes, fewer compression artifacts, and we've just improved our setup for doing the voiceovers.

Cheers!!

[Pav]

thanks, purchased and downloading!

[hm333]

oh man wheres part2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 ???

xD

[archipelago]

ive been trying to use the colourwheel swatch while painting in photoshop, but I just dont understand how you are supposed to use it to get different colours and what its advantages are over the photoshop colour picker?

from the video it seems like nox uses the colour(f6) tool to mix the colours, but i still dont understand why the colourwheel swatch is so important?

sorry if it's a dumb question...

btw, its great that MB is investing more into these vids, just one thing, maybe you guys should have a 1 min preview for each of the vids to make it clearer to the buyer what they are getting? although, it is pretty clear already, but it might help!

cheers

[Main Loop]

^you dont have to switch tools or use any keys to change tools just for color. clicking on the color will automatically change you to that color, which is a huge convenience in photoshop... It also makes your color more simplified and pure because you limit your range..

[Delmar]

just downloaded...yehaa!
Big thanks to nox and mb, for these incredible fount of wisdom and inspiration:yum:

...one thing (and i feel really retarded right now), i tried to load the color swatch.....before i deleted the existing one in the preset manager...but it's still no color wheel, just rows...........

"make sure you delete or move the glob of PS generic colors at the top"

...maybe I misinterpretet this sentence...but "the glob" are the existing swatches right ?


I really need to have this color wheel, i'm getting crazy with the color picker....way too much options

[wesburt]

do "replace swatches" instead of just loading it. it will make sure its coordinated correctly. from there, you just have to alter the width of the swatch menu so that the circle forms. the swatch menu needs to be 20 boxes wide.
after the circle is there, you can go ahead an reload other swatches below if for more stuff

[Delmar]

thanks wesburt,but now i replaced it and still no wheel.....i know it's annoying, but if someone could help me out there. Is it possible that smth is wrong in my general PS presets..?

[MeTaL-Mike]

why is "Shit" and "Tits" not censored??? ohh and you've missed one Fuck :D:D:D. I would not censor anything. this is the artists way of thinking so it should be there.

[Delmar]

Thanks a lot....

it's working now

[Valiance]

hey guys apart from the interlacing artifacts, this video is a bit choppy/stuttery right? or is it just my pc?

[kraal]

that could just be your player. i had to use vlc instead of quicktime

[maxetormer]

I'm downloading mine, a very good investment :)

[maxetormer]

I have bit of trouble with the color wheel.

Ok i get that I should delete the previous swatches on the color managent
tab, and it should be 20 swaches wide to be visible, now how do I fix
this error here? :) I cant figure out how to make the color wheel look
like a whole, I have Photo Shop CS3.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/maxetormer/colorwheel.jpg

Thanks in advance
-Luis- :yayca:

[Dominus]

maxetormer, just go to the swatches preset manager and erase the first colors that i've marked with red here:

[deltron05]

Merci NOX....et Joyeux noel !
A +
D.

[Beonarri]

That color wheel is so awesome, it alone makes the purchase worth it. I mean the artwork is cool too...but that color wheel is a nice workaround for something lacking in the whole of Photoshop.

Thanks x10! :D

[ThisIsImpossible]

EDIT: Follow these directions, and simply adjust you color swatch window, shrinking it until it shows you the color wheel.

- Visions
I tried and all I get is several wheels!!
could you sqhare your ps workspace with us?
U. "this is my first posting and I feel shhhhhhhhhy"

[Mark Bot]

wonderful amazing excelent

sex and robots. fun fun.... oh and nice work btw. love the quality insights

[AdamR]

How large are the movies in terms of filesize?

[m@.]

you're doin it

[MassiveDVD]

AdamR: Most of them are around 300 megabytes.

[ThisIsImpossible]

Visions said:"Follow these directions, and simply adjust you color swatch window, shrinking it until it shows you the color wheel."

I tried and all I get is several wheels side by side (all incomplete I guess).
All pieces of advise most most welcome

[dtran]

Thisisimpossible, you need to fill in blank swatch tiles first so that Nox's palette doesn't get ramped into the emplty slots, making it all weird. Then load in Nox's swatches.

Also you might need to drag the corner of the Palette dialog box a bit. Let me know if this helps.

[Diphallia]

Looking forward for the 2 part
It was good to hear Nox comments.

Also it would be interesting if he does
another one in the future, to see the
whole approach he was talking about,
doing studies and working on the design
before attacking the final image.

My honest and truthful respects for his
artistic abilities, great artist :yayca:

If I'm not all wrong, I'd like to make a statement.
There was no studies or design sketching.
Everything is showed in the video.

But I might also be wrong.


Gonna download it soon!

[nimbusnacho]

woo just bought this one, it was my first download and I loved it, just wish I had the extra ten bucks laying around to ge tthe second half lol. Yeah I would have preferred some more commentary on using photoshop in general, like brush settings and stuff but thanks to the comments in this thread I figured out most of it. I guess it is listed as intermediate skill level so Im sure you're assuming that people know this stuff. Only other suggestion is that theres a lot of time where nothing is being said, Im sure you could just spout random good tips about photoshop or something there in addition to the stuff about your thought process. Great though, I loved it.

[ThisIsImpossible]

Thanks for the info DTRAN, I have tried the two things you said: resize the palette itself and filling in blanks, I also tried the two combined, and also I tried loading Nox's palette by itself.
The best I get after hours of resizing is this - helllp!
[IMG]http://homepage.mac.com/magichippo/.Public/Picture%203.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/magichippo/.Public/Picture%202.jpg

This is driving me nuts!!

Many thanks for the help!
U.

[romance]

argggg... for those with swatch palette problems, get rid of ALL of the colors that occur before the 6 white swatches in a row (they are just the standard PS swatches), then scale the palette until the circle snaps into place. C'mon people, setting up these swatches shouldn't take hours, this ain't rocket surgery :P

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[ThisIsImpossible]

ROMANCE: I've done that! the pics in my last post show Nox's palette on it's own!
("replace" not "append" palette)

I agree that it should not be rocket science - that's WHY it's driving me nuts!!!

[h2rra]

I think the problem with color wheel is that photoshop's replace swatches function doesn't seem to work. I had to manually delete the default swatches(edit-preset manager-swatches) and then load the color wheel.

[romance]

ThisIsImpossible - Hey dude, even after a REPLACE of the swatches, you have to delete the extra stuff at the top. Photoshop's REPLACE function is NOT broken, Nox's color wheel just contains the default swatches and a duplicate color wheel for some reason. So just do a clean REPLACE, then go to the PRESET MANAGER and delete that chunk of default colors that litter the top and the duplicate color wheel thats in there as well.

If your still having problems, I've uploaded a clean version of it HERE (http://www.divshare.com/download/3445848-533). Hopefully it's ok to post this, if not, someone let me know and I'll take it down.

[Main Loop]

hey nox, just wondering if you're going to post the "dragon brush" here, along with the other custom brushes that coro used at seattle... thanks!

[zenmaster]

Will there be a 20 $ deal including part1&2 for the nox video similar to the coro video ? :lifedrawing:

[ThisIsImpossible]

Oooooooooh! thanks a BUNCH - now I get it and I'll rush back to my ps computer as soon as possible to try this (I'm about to move abroad- big mess)

THANKS!!!!!!!

[dimezanime88]

...You have to pay?

[Studio Colrouphobia]

Will there be a 20 $ deal including part1&2 for the nox video similar to the coro video ? :lifedrawing:

Not sure if that's applicable... unless they altered the prizes of the older ones as well.
I bought these at $10 a piece... I thought only the ones released after jan 1st where going to be $14 a piece...

[Rune Rask]

Got All Downloads so far!! and i cant say that i regret any off them!

ive been around the net for this kinda stuff for years, and ive been there, Lynda.com, workshop, ect ect,

and NOWHERE do i get this kinda quality unless i wanna pay 50-100 bucks

THANK YOU MASSIVE BLACK!!!!!!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :)

EDIT : Uh a quick question, the color wheel is a real treat in PS and all, works wonders, been laying with it and all.
But since my main software is Painter i was wandering if there was anyway i could transfer it over? or do i have to
make a color set from a image with all the colors from the color wheel? i really like how the swatches limit your color choice.

Anyways hope u got some ideas :)

EDIT 2 : Ok nevermind, you cant have duplicate swatches in painter so that kinda disentegrates that idea for me ..... :(

EDIT 3 : YAY! for all interested in having the swatch color wheel in Painter, i have this little tip:
When u got the wheel working correctly in PS, simply take a screenshot of your workspace, then paste into a new image in PS,
then cutout the swatch and save it at maximum size. Now open up the image in painter, if you screen is large enough you should have room
for the swatch image besides your working image. this is a veeeery user-unfriendly way around it, but hey it helps me choose my colors! :D


EDIT 4 : For your convinience :

[mirskov]

Rune Rask: i think the reason he made this for photoshop as there's no way to keep the color palette open while working, not even a shortcut to open it (but we've all hacked it and at least got a shortcut). Painter let's you do this with a more advanced palette and feedback. My advice is not to get hung up in things like these.

[EKOes]

True! There is a method for keep the swatches while working or to have recourse to force shortcuts?

thanks! :)

[kraal]

i dont get it.... it is just a color wheel painter comes standard with a color wheel... why bring that into painter? ok let for get about the color wheel and realize that it is about painting and drawing not how to pick the color yellow

[EKOes]

how i make to visualize the nox's swatches of colors whell orders to you in circular wayand not rectangular?
Please help me!

[Samuel Gray]

great purchase. thanks alot massive black and nox for the stuff

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

Great video, I mean to get all of these but only just found the time to start in on them. Nox is funny, and his sexy french accent helps everything.

Swearing is good.

[aussiedeza]

Excellent videos and they have convinced me to purchase many more of the massive blacks downloads/dvds you guyz are just awesome for sharing your knowledge.
cheers Dan

[snake280]

how i make to visualize the nox's swatches of colors whell orders to you in circular wayand not rectangular?
Please help me!

Dont worry man, people tend to take things for granted... follow this steps to have the wheel in photoshop:

1.- Download the wheel.
2.- Open photoshop and go to "swatches" (in "Window" , in case you don´t have it opened yet.)
3.- In the swatches window, click the little ">" (up, right, below the "x" for closing the window).
4.- Click the "replace swatches" option and select nox´s file(wherever is that you have it, don´t expect to immediately see it, you have to find the folder... this should be obvious anyway...).
5.- Now, what you have to do is resize that same window (by clicking in the small arrow pointing down, right[ that arrow is there too, down right]) until the wheel is formed.

I hope this to be useful :D

[snake280]

I know this was like 3 years ago, but maybe new people still visit this thread... haha this is kinda forever alone