Xiandi for journey'woman'

I FOURTH that!!

Looks awesome xiandi!  

And sound bites to go with them.

I claim the fifth......excellent blind Xiandi.

Its super.I likes it.

If it were me...I would add a touch of colored texture to the greyscale pipe gradients...its too pure and clean.Also I would transform the texture to appear closer in the middle and recede at the top and bottom.That would give you a nice round pipe.

As for animating steam...I made steam animate from one frame to the next by distorting it one frame at a time with the wave distortion effect in PS...by lightly distorting  a steam layer,copy,distort,copy again etc... for each succesive frame while diminishing the opacity a little each time.

Sounds awesome Brainy!!

Sounds do-able. I was thinking along the lines of 'pressurized' steam, that spews out at high speed. Your tip might work for that if I'm carefull.

Thanks for the tips, Brain!

Steam, Bolts and rivets, rust and grunge...sounds great! Better and better! 

Maybe two versions?

Wow! That's nutty! (In a good way)

Dare I suggest that you make a dirty copper/brass/leather steampunk edition?

Here's an inspirational image:

OK....whats happenin here!? Did someone let the steam out!

We have steam!

I ended up using Po's suggestion, and made it by hand, frame by frame. The picture does not really show it off well, because it's animated. It looks much better in motion.

Congrats Xiandi!  You've just given birth to a beautiful bouncing baby, er ah.....Calliope!

   And to think I'd never see one!

Congrats! Good work!

This is one hot blind, folks! Pun intended. Cyndie has done an awesome job with the steam! I love it!  Totally Friggin' Awesome!!  Thanx, Cyndie! 

Looking awesome!

Solid work.