Giving Your Metallic Surface a Battle-Damaged Look
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- A Pro Tip on Battle Damage Paint From Jamie S. Grove
- Spraying a Nail File With Metallic Paint
- Scratching Your Metallic Surface in All Directions
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"One of the things that I like to do when I’m damaging something is I really scratch it up." -Jamie S. Grove
A Pro Tip on Battle Damage Paint From Jamie S. Grove
His eye for color & detail, his versatility, and his superhuman speed have made Jamie S. Grove a go-to painter for many of the top FX shops in Hollywood, including Stan Winston Studio & Legacy Effects. When an artist with the kind of experience Jamie has under his belt says, "Wanna know a cool trick?" You say, "YES."
(Master creature, robot, and Iron Man painter, Jamie S. Grove, displays one of his secret weapons.)
Spraying a Nail File With Metallic Paint
In this FREE MINI LESSON - excerpted from Jamie's Metallic Painting Techniques - Real Metal Effects - Jamie shares a killer tip that you'll take with you for the rest of your journey as a character painter. 10 years from now, you might be in the middle of a lonely desert in your cube truck, desperately employing all the tricks you've ever learned to distress a robot or armored warrior that has to go in front of camera in half an hour. But you won't panic. You'll calmly pull out an emery board and a spray can... and you'll think of Jamie.
(Simple tools to create amazingly realistic results on your metallic helmet.)
(Jamie attacks the high points of the helmet, playing out in his mind how past battle-damage occurred. If we weren't in the room with four cameras, he would be making fight sounds.)
Scratching Your Metallic Surface in All Directions
"Remember," Jamie says, "you don’t want to go in one particular direction, you want to kind of change it up. Kind of go in different directions, and what that does...when you’re scratching it up, when the light hits it, you can actually see that there’s a physical scratch in there, instead of just a silver line of paint."
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Full Lesson: METALLIC PAINTING TECHNIQUES - REAL METAL EFFECTS