Topic awaiting preservation: dynamite

Can anyone give me some guidance on making a stick of dynamite with a long fuse?
Thanks.

Well, this is not really the proper fourm for that question, you didn't say what application? If you are talking about real dynamite I can help you. If that's the case try a MacGyver site. I my self would try the photoshop fourm.

Having said that, you should show use what you have tried all ready, what part is giving you a problem? The come back and ask a more specfic question.

Here are some hits. The best way to take on a new project is to brake it down into it's basic parts. What is a stick of dynamite.

The basic parts:

Dynamite is: Basicly it is a cylinder, red, maybe with the words TNT on the side, perhaps beveled inwards on the ends.

Fuse is: a long, thin, curved tube, black or charcoal gray. may be with a little nose added for texture.

Spark on fuse: Basicly a lens flair or sparkel shape. Not it is intensly white at the center point to make it look as glowing. maybe soft faded at the edges.

Now we can draw the basic parts, and there you have it, your vary own Stick of dynamite.

jstuartj




[This message has been edited by jstuartj (edited 11-26-2002).]

oops, sorry, new to this.. in photoshop, I can make the cylinder, and the fuse, the problem I would have would be the spark on the end, and trying to get it to look not so cartoony.

By the way, what's a slimie?

For sparks,

I would create a blank layer, set it to vivid light or overlay mode, then double click on the layer and set the layer effect to outside glow. Do not fill the layer, keep it transparent.

Then using photoshop 7's brushs, choose a nice sparkle bush (Fuzzball), and edit the brushes shape dyamics to size jitter 0 with a control as fade. this will allow you to paint with the bursh that will fide from 100% to 0% in size. Now paint on your new layer with white. Keeping in mind that sparks, have mass, they are burning particals and would fall down. No just adjust your layer effect to taste. and add a lens flair if you like.




ps. A slime is the Asylem form of emoticons, This is a slime:


jstuartj



[This message has been edited by jstuartj (edited 11-27-2002).]

Photoshop is up to 10? I think I overslept!

I ment to say photoshop 7, I was working in Illustrator at the time and had a brain fart....


jstuartj

So it wouldn't work in PS 5.5 or 6?

I bet the basic idea would work, just ignore where he talks about making a special brush and replace it with "draw a bunch of white dots at random."