How to paint a Metal or Reflections

In this video I give you tips on what to think about when painting a shiny metallic surface like chrome.

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About Aaron Blaise:
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Aaron Blaise is an animation feature film director and wildlife artist.

For 21 years Aaron worked with Disney helping to create some of the greatest animated films ever made. During that time he worked as an animator or supervising animator on "The Rescuers Down Under", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Mulan" and more.

In 2003 he was co-director of "Brother Bear" for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film.

[amateural]

I really appreciate the lack of speed painting in this video. He's showing that you really can achieve this effect in a matter of minutes tops and you can almost just carry along with the instruction without having to continuously pause and catch up like many other art tutorials.

[marcusbrown]

I think painting textures is something that I (and many others I think) struggle with. Especially with how light might interact with those textures. So anything that helps with that is great! Hope you do more of these! 👍

[sonseraedesigns]

You’re amazing! I used to airbrush paint with a tank back in the 80s…there was a big trend to do chrome back then. You make this look so easy!! Such talent. Thank you.

[varun]

Loving it sir. Lots of love and blessings from India🇮🇳🇮🇳💓🇮🇳🇮🇳

[broshbrolin]

I understand how to paint reflection is when i learn perspective, project the environment > warp perspective if the surface are curving > put higlight to indicate the surface

[couchetart]

gonna watch this, it's always a pleasure to watch you working Aaron !

[Soundguydan]

This is awesome! I love it. Could you do glowing objects sometime too? Thanks Aaron.

[Anonymous-cqdl]

I wish you also showed us how to apply it to things like eyes, skin and more complex shapes😊

[annavannoni]

Finally, I think I understand the process! Now on to the practice!

[TheInkSideofThings]

From the thumbnail I thought those were actually real metal

[esonthomas]

Thank you for this great video!!! You’re a fantastic teacher. Liked and subbed

[NostalgiaDigital]

Thanks for the Escher recomendation and tutorial, I really appreciate it

[TwoelizAnimations]

This is quite helpful. Excellent work !

[jovianarchitect]

Yayy, I've really missed these videos. Thanks!

[ericwayne]

Hi Aaron. This seems a bit of a new direction. You're my favorite teacher, but I also would like to learn more about painting things like robots and cyborgs. Wonder if you could do one of your livestreams of a robot (not cartoony, but using metals, other materials, perhaps rust, chips, things like that). If not, no problem. I'm a premium member and have volumes of wonderful stuff to work through.

[urbanEzio]

I learned a lot from this video. Btw a clipping mask will prevent you from coloring outside of the lines

[ZEBASS]

That's a really cool tutorial, thanks, Aaron! I do have a question, though:
When you have a complex object made of several metallic parts, let's say... a coffee machine or whatever. It has a main structure, maybe a lid, some tubes here and there, different sections to it. What parts of the ouside world would each of them reflect? Do they all "repeat" the room on each separate metal surface? How/when do you set the limits on what surface reflects what? Maybe on each cut between different pieces of the object? I hope I'm making myself clear here, hahaha. Cheers!

[Bean-Machine]

Whats the physics behind that tint? For example for the blue sky light, what happens for it to turn red? I assumed reflections could only keep their color like they would in a mirror. Is there a name for that effect/attribute of reflective surfaces?

[tolgayldz]

Create a sphere or something (it should be a block object like in this video). Create a new layer on top. Then hold the "ALT" key and place the cursor the edge in-between the two layers without clicking. You must see a weird symbol (something like ⤺) then click. Now, you're done. From now, when you are painting on the empty layer, it only will shown if you are painting in the borders of the layer underneath. It won't overflow. You're welcome.

[ambience]

Wow, what a great video. I learned a lot! Thank you