During a recent RMSP Creative Compositing workshop in Boulder, one of the lively participants, Lindsay Castor, presented an image of a train that triggered a variety of clever ideas. One of the most exciting suggestions was to gradually fade the train into a drawing or painting. Lindsay and I loved the idea so we got right to work.
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Mark & Lindsay, even though I was there in person when you created this in the CC workshop, it’s just as exciting to see it happen again in this workbench! Love the resulting image!!!