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In case you haven't seen this yet )

http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/200 ... r-art.html

holy sh*t!

There is no way this one is vector! I bet this has been "vectored" from a picture.

Reproducing reality is always not that easy, but creating your own is the real challenge.

Here are two of my first real cracks at doing vector art, The watch was the first and is free hand and the Audi (WIP) was traced both were done in Expression Graphic Designer a Beta vector program by MS


OK they do look CG but it was my first go but I do not do it all day.

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Yes, these are pretty easy doing with Adobe Illustator's gradient mesh tool.

Take a closer look at Xara Xtreme's vector art gallery, it's pretty impressive

http://www.xara.com/gallery/

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markps wrote:In case you haven't seen this yet )

http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/200 ... r-art.html

That's a *really nice* cigar.
And I don't smoke.

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here is the creation process.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26905706/

tom wrote:Yes, these are pretty easy doing with Adobe Illustator's gradient mesh tool.

Easy? Well, I guess we'll be seeing one from you tomorrow morning.

8etty wrote:i'm mildly impressed by:

the juggling 'artist' who can juggle 46 knives. of course he can! he trained it since he was 3 years old..so what?

the illustrator who repaints a photo realistically...what's the point? it took him 5 gazillion hours..where's the art?

the 3d 'artist' that renders a bunker realistically...err..it took him 3 months

i much more prefer the guy who does a 3 min sketch that makes me laugh or think or cry..or pee...or love formz...sorry

Betty you can look at it all sorts of ways
.... that juggling guy with the 46 knives, if he was not on a street corner showing his 'art' he could use his skills as a lethal silent killer.
......the illustrator who repaints a photo realistically, well she/he is building up his/her skills that could land that well paying Ad agency job
......that guy who does a 3 min sketches..... well he is our boss. He creates the sketches with pencil.....traces the pencil with pen refining the sketch.... we then talk over.....scanning the sketches, tracing in CAD, refining further..... building in 3d refining.... print screenshots......trace and sketch.....update 3d ...... render..... trace....update ...... etc. etc using our skills, some acquired in spending hours tracing, copying and mimicking other work. Who knows the Pope might ask one of those vector guys to do something that can be printed on a huge vinyl and use it to wrap the Sistine Chapel to preserve it for the future.

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Am I the only one who doesn't understand the point of this "Vector Art?" Like, he copied a picture of Keira Knightley in Illustrator... and the point is? I mean, what we do pre-visualizes something. What they're doing proves they're great at copying. Not that I'm trying to downplay the amount of skill involved in what they do, I just don't see the point.

Side note, the mesh I see next to the picture... is there a way to convert that into something we can use in 3D? I just ask because, you know, having Keira 3D...