Analog film textures
About the Product
In my ongoing quest to make digital art les flat, it's time to introduce the latest offering from The Shop: the analog film textures.
My wife's grand father gifted me some of his film cameras over a decade ago. I shot some rolls of film, then promptly forgot to get them processed. I recently found the rolls, and a nice, independent lab to get them taken care of.
Since I don't know too much what I'm doing when shooting manually, the results were really funky, and captured more the arftefacts of the process (gain, light leaks, dust, etc.) than actual images. That means one can overlay these on top of flat artwork, and instantly give it depth, substance, and meaning. All from real film!
Each negative strip has been scanned at ultra-high resolution (1,200 ppi+), then carefully edited, then output into 18" wide images at 300 ppi.
The resulting sixty-nine (69) textures produce interesting things either by using blending modes (Overlay, Soft light, Screen, Lighten, Color dodge), or on their own, as background elements.