Use Stock Photography and 3D Objects to Create a Robotic Woman – Psd Premium Tutorial
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Use Stock Photography and 3D Objects to Create a Robotic Woman – Psd Premium Tutorial

on Apr 22nd 2010 with 47 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS4 & Cinema 4D
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Estimated Completion Time: 6 - 8 Hours
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump!

This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips

In Photoshop, sometimes we need to combine several types of elements to complete our compositions. In today’s tutorial, my good friend Bram Vanhaeren and I will demonstrate how to combine stock photography, 3D objects, patterns, and digital painting techniques to create a robotic woman in Photoshop.

Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside

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Emil Agarunov is from Brooklyn, New York. He has been using Photoshop for around four years and has been using Illustrator lightly for the past couple of years. His main techniques are vector based images and photo-manipulations.  

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  • http://www.infictus.com Paul

    The overall final image looks pretty good but the closeup of the hand and ‘heart’ could use some more work, in my opinion. It’s not a bad result, it just needed some additional tweaking.

    • http://www.antonagestam.se/ Anton Agestam

      Exactly my thought!

    • http://into1.be Tim

      I almost agree, although I have to say that it seems that the close ups are not the original close ups of the final result. There’s obviously been some more tweaking.

      Great result!

    • http://www.dawn-designs.fr p0ulpe

      You’re right.

    • Luke

      i think that that is just one of the steps, I dont think it is part of the finished product :)

    • http://www.digitalink.me Digital Ink

      You do realize that it is just a snapshot of the tutorial. Meaning, that specific close-up may be from before the hand was fully rendered.

      Love the final piece. Tuts+ worthy.

    • http://noir-badger.deviantart.com spiderm0nkey

      I agree. The problem is that the ‘robotic’ parts in her chest and arm are both sharp, but everything else isn’t, so the two don’t fit together. Not too hard to fix though :)

    • http://desaindigital.com/en Jeprie

      I think that’s not the final result. It’s part of the step by step image. You can see that woman underneath it also has no shadow under her feet. I think it’s worth the premium quality.

  • http://www.psdmaterial.com/ psdmaterial

    nice results man

  • 1.

    T-H-I-R-S-T

  • Brittle Fingers

    Yeah the tutorial is definitely a good idea, but fine tuning is definitely in order. You could really pull off the look with some shading on the inside of the hand and heart, and a bit of better blending as well with the skin color. The angle for how she’s turned too needs to be perfected to the innards. But that’s just me! I love the idea though!! I certainly like the detail on the nylons, as if she’s powering up.

    -Brittle Fingers

  • http://aevion.net AEVION

    Cool image! The effect for the skin looks kind of like this: http://aevion.net/photoshop/the-disease/

    It is easy to do, but it produces some awesome results.

  • ss

    ^so ultimately Zach Bush?

    • http://aevion.net AEVION

      Yeah, that’s true

  • http://into1.be Bram Vanhaeren

    For those who are interested, there is a slightly different version off the final artwork. You can find it in my behance project. ( http://beta10.behance.net/gallery/Robotic/490777 )

    I hope we shared some useful tips. Enjoy.

    • http://www.behance.net/AhmedElabbar Ahmad

      I’ve been following you and Tim for some time now and you keep getting better at your style, definitely one of the best Premium tuts I’ve read.

  • Servant

    Lights/shadows are wrong, as usual. etc
    Pretty pointless final outcome.

    • http://noir-badger.deviantart.com spiderm0nkey

      What’s wrong with the lighting? I don’t really see any glaringly obvious faults with it.

      And stop judging it based on the final outcome. Chances are there will be some good techniques in the tutorial and that is the POINT of a tut. -.-

  • Michael Owens

    Wow ; this looks awesome on the final image ; and yes, from the comments above, some of the more detailed parts could use some tweaking (it looks too unrealistic).

    I would love to try this out! Shame… not a PSD Premium Member.

    Can UK viewers subscribe?

  • http://www.arvinbautista.com Arvin Bautista

    Um, wow, yeah, I’m glad I’m not paying for a Premium subscription.

    • Geir benny nystad

      yeah i am also glad that your not

  • Patrick Kavanagh

    seriously guys, when i first looked a the final image, yeah, maybe i didn’t think much of it but when paying for a Premium subscription you get so much more, you get to learn the techniques, the thoughts behind the creative process, its so much more than making this one image! everytime i read comments here some people just give out about this and that and it annoys the heck outta me!! i’ve had a subscription for ages now and i can without a doubt say that TUTS+ is one of the best educational resources on the net for creatives in all dicsiplines…just my two cents!

    • Geir Benny Nystad

      totally agree!!!!

  • http://www.goph3r.com Goph3r

    I’ve been following PSDtuts since the start and I must say I’ve seen some questionable tuts, but this is definitely the worst I’ve seen so far.

  • Childesign

    May it is not good. I think you can make it better.

  • http://lenkerdesign.com Columbia Web Design

    Nice effects. Thanks.

  • tuxuu

    Hailrwork looks terrible. Yeap, she is robot, but come on, what is that greenish hilight on her cheek, flat elbow with perspectiveless balls flying out of it? Is that green stripes allover must be glowing? Why they not give any light in darkened areas? There was pretty awesome photo manipulations before, not even in premium and why is this stuff in there?

    P.s. Agreed with Arvin Bautista.

  • Topflysecurity

    Not premium matrial

  • http://solvstrom.com Morten

    I’m not a premium user, but the final result looks great. To all of those who think the tutorial is bad, please try to post som work that even match the final result of this tutorial. I am quite sure that most of them can’t.

    I cant say this enough, but the final result isn’t the important thing. It is the techniques that are used.

    • http://www.arvinbautista.com Arvin Bautista

      I’m not complaining about this tutorial since I’m not a premium member, but I would sympathize with those that are.

      Listen, I don’t drive a Toyota, and if you asked me or anyone who paid money for a Prius to build one it would look like a potato sack with wheels, but that doesn’t mean those who paid good money for their car can’t complain that their breaks don’t work.

      People expect and deserve a certain quality when they put their trust and in certain cases money into a business. I still love Tuts+ (the recent tutorial on making a vintage TV icon was both extremely educational and had an exceptional final result, and it was FREE!), and us who are “complaining” were only doing so because we’ve come to expect much better from them.

  • TuanAnh

    agree, the close up looks not convincing. I think that this model doesn’t suit the whole image also

  • http://gomobile.com.ar/ Zim

    Uhm… Come on guys, you can do better than this :)
    Specially if it’s a premium tutorial!

  • http://www.joelremigioabeyta.com Joel

    Seriously. Why are there green balls flying out of her elbow? I can appreciate most of what’s going on here. Every once in a while I do wonder how this kind of stuff makes it into a Plus tutorial; and then I’m glad I didn’t pay to see why.

  • http://www.evilonegraphics.com Trizicklo

    I really like the overall image but she does not look robotic at all. For a moment I thought she was wearing an emerald necklace, bracelet and earrings. The wireframe on her legs just doesn’t do it for me. In my personal opinion I think it needs a little bit more work to really make it robotic. That’s just me, though.

  • http://www.modny73.com/ Cook

    cool tutorial…excellent end result too…loved it

  • http://www.leuldeoras.ro Leul de Oras

    Is it just me or is PSDTuts now all about “hey, this is my cool image and this is how I made it” ?

    I think people are forgetting the meaning / purpose of tutorials.

  • http://ricardofx.deviantart.com/ ricardofx

    stunning;i love this.CONGRATULATIONS.

  • http://www.smh.net.au/DavidHughes.html Tax Lawyer Gold Coast

    Really good tutorial. I can’t wait to try it out. Love it.

  • Limbis

    He just stealed that idea from this 17 years old designer from Brazil that I read an article about around here, and now he’s earning MONEY for this?!

  • http://slayyou2.deviantart.com/ slayyou

    haters, every one of you are haters and that’s just my opinion
    the final image looks awsome!

  • http://www.lektira.me lektira

    oh, it looks awesome,
    thanks for sharing this, but, could you make something like a robotic man like a logo of nod32?
    do you know what i mean? that will be great! :)

  • kd

    Whoever is saying “haters” is simply being ignorant and unable to prove a point. Some are giving constructive criticism about these pieces and explaining why this is not worth a plus tutorial. Not all premium tutorials are considered great quality. People really need to be more mature and differentiate the A plus tutorials and the mediocre ones. Those who agree this is wonderful and excellent simply do not understand the concept of a good manipulated image or design. They simply need to grow on their design skills to be able to scrutinize what’s premium and what isn’t.

  • http://www.y2kboys.webs.com Rahidy2k

    wow! Damn,its look very nice n she look like a realistic robot.

  • http://www.clippingpathcenter.com Al Kamal Md. Razib

    Great pic with instruction ! Thanks for sharing.

  • Nom

    What this image is lacking isn’t so much technical detail –– it’s composition. THis image is just kind of -there. Like the abstract #D style illustrations that were so big in the 80′s. It seems to have no readon for being. The femmebot’s attire is all wrong. She’s “standing” in a vacuum, there is no atmosphere, no life to the image. Her pose is awkward and she looks like she’d fall over. The shading is indeed off as is the lighting. In general this tutorial appears to be a hodge-podge of different effects thrown together with minimal result.

    And to be perfectly frank –– she doesn’t look like a robot. She looks like a model with a bunch of tropes of “robotic futurism” thrown on her, wearing some weird day-glo stockings.

    This image has no story. And while it might be technically nice to be able to replicate it ––what need would I ever have for a “model with a bunch of stuff glow-y thrown on her toppling over in an atmosphere-less environment” image?

    This is simply not your best work.

  • http://www.clippingpathindia.com Clipping Path India

    Recently i learned something about 3d software. Today i have been more clear by this tutorial. Thanks for sharing this one.

  • http://avisualidentity.com dave

    Thats pretty cool how everything this was done. I like how her hand looks. Thanks for the post.