Customer Gallery
Our customers continue to amaze us with wonderful images. Here is a sampling of customer projects that have used SkyPaint or SkyPaintGE.
All panoramas below are copyrighted by their creators and may not be used or redistributed without their permission. If you have work you'd like to see displayed here, send email to gavin@skypaint.com.
Cyro Barreto
Theatre
Created using 3DStudio, converted into Live Picture's panoramic format using SkyPaint.
The creation of the 3DStudio scene and panoramas is the starting point for the "Globe São Paulo" project. Java-based panoramas are an excellent way of conveying the sense of an architectural space, without requiring the user to download huge files or plugins.
Paul S. Hoffman
Digital Space Art
Colorado Mountain
The story of the image:
A number of years ago, I took about 20 35mm shots of the view from the top of a rock wall in the vicinity of our cabin in Colorado. They were overlapping shots, but not taken with a tripod, and not all aimed horizontally.
Needless to say, PhotoVista could not deal with the varying vertical positions of the images in trying to stitch them together into a panorama. I ended up setting up a number of 720x720 canvases in PhotoShop, and worked with layers and varying transparency settings to composite the photos into segments of the whole panorama.
In SkyPaint, I pasted parts of the composites in as appropriate, depending on the segment of the sphere I was viewing. Then all I had to do was to repaint the sky and create missing elements in the foliage and rocks (not covered by the set of photos).
I must admit that I originally thought that SkyPaint would limit me a bit, because it seemed to emphasize "painting by hand"; this project convinced me otherwise.
Galaxy
The background starfield was created using "Universe" from Diard Software. The Milky Way image was initially hand drawn by astronomers at the Lund Observatory in Sweden.
After scanning the image, I painstakingly removed all hints of the oval grid from the original, and then composited it over the background starfields in Photoshop, using SkyPaint to get the proper wrap-around perspective at something close to the correct angle (the plane of the galaxy is tilted at an angle of 60.45 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic).
Courtyard
This is the entry courtyard at Cognetics Corporation, in Princeton Junction, New Jersey.
A partial panorama was created using Live Picture's PhotoVista software. SkyPaint was used to fill in the ground with plausible scenery, creating a full 360-degree panorama.