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Just wondering if anyone has seen this and are able to reproduce how the effect of how their eyes glow. I mean the outside of the occular cavity seems to light up.

I've tried light feathering of a scorpion green but its too much and too thick. I'm using a size 0 brush but I am not sure how to get it even finer....

Any thoughts? Hopefully peeking at the Nov White Dwarf will allude to what I'm talking about.

The technique used is Object Source Lighting aka OSL if you check out the tutorial section or work some google magic you should be able to come up with a few different ways to get the desired effect.

What I did with my CC terminators for their eyes was to put a little but of Enchanted blue where the eyes are and drybrush over in ice blue. Once dry applied a small amount of blue wash on the eye.

Awesome, thanks guys

You're welcome, hope you find a method that works well for you, try it out on a few old minis first

Practice makes Perfect

Most of the stuff in WD now has been Photoshopped... Do a search for Object Source Lighting

Clthomps wrote:Most of the stuff in WD now has been Photoshopped...

I'm normally a cynic, but this can't be true, not the actual model.

Lead Farmer wrote:

Clthomps wrote:Most of the stuff in WD now has been Photoshopped...

I'm normally a cynic, but this can't be true, not the actual model.

Yes but no but yes. GW (along with everyone else) does photoshop their promotional imagery just like every other publication out there.

Now, GW's painters are very very good. Not exaclty on par with the guys the ninja turtles are named after, but certainly well above most of us.

That said... When you take a nice good close up shot of a model under very carefully controlled lighting, you can get a good clean image to work with, and there's a lot of little tricks in photoshop that you can do to make the colors pop, to make the glows softer, to make the highlights lighter and the shadows more sinister, make paint look smoother and more natural and so on.
Make no mistake, GW does all those things.

What's better, a lot of these little tricks aren't needed when you back off, so the edits aren't needed for those large army shots, that far back you can't see enough detail to notice.

Remember, those photos aren't there to show off the skills of the Evy metal team, they are there to make you want to buy little plastic men. And making that sale means haveing lots of sexy sexy photos to show how awesome the model is. And to do that, you need to make something that looks like it could walk right off the page and flay you with a magnetic energy cannon. If that means photoshopping the painted on glow effect to really pop... that's just business.

It's no different then Kim Kardashian having her butt photoshopped to look nice and smooth when the real thing is a little lumpy and has a bruise from sitting on her cell phone. It's not about her butt, it's about you wanting her butt and whatever product she happens to be holding up next to it.

They've done it before (multiple IDENTICAL units, down to basing and details in battle reports). It makes them the same as any other magazine in that respect (they ALL photoshop stuff).