Mr. Peanut Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 thanks for the compliment slave. I'd love to see more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosoner Posted October 13, 2004 Author Share Posted October 13, 2004 Originally posted by Al Green@Oct 12 2004, 07:54 PM ...as for trapping.. i have no clue.. if anyone would like to enlighten us on that.. it would be great. -al Quoted post iv always just incresed or added a stroke for the trapping, but iv done very little in the way of screens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIBS Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 i will try that select same fill color. thanks everyone for your tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DITDxCULT Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 In my opinion I think vector illustrations have been played out, for years! Barely any designers do them justice anymore. One of them being Mr. Upso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DITDxCULT Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 What I meant to say is that UPSO does do them justice ... oops. Where the fuck is the edit post button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Peanut Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 you can only edit for a few minutes after your post. go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beardo Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 all been posted before i love me some illustrator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosoner Posted October 16, 2004 Author Share Posted October 16, 2004 great as always, beardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domo-Kun Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Some of the shit you guys do with illustrator is insane. i havee photoshop and illus, but i dont know how to use them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porque Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 ^^...just read the tutorials and play around with it...you'll get dramatically better in the matter of days...it can be overwhealming at first but just break it down to one thing at a time, lines, shapes, etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war pigs Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 those are bangin beardo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 its fucked. when i was a 'kid' i could teach myself programs no problem. now it's like trying to talk the devil into trying anal for it's first time. i know i'd like some of the stuff you can do with it, but im just afraid it would take me so damn long. i guess i should just pull up some tutorials, i just dont have the time to invest. oh well. i'd probably just make a bunch of generic shit anyway. fuck it. im going back to slangin yayo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war pigs Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 shit..yeah...online tutorials suck though...i know for myself i don't have the patience for it...i'm trying to teach myself maya now and it's just like...sifting through bad information trying to find out a little bit about what i'm trying to do... there's usually some good books on the programs you're trying to learn..but then again..sitting there with a book takes the fun outta the shit...and makes you lose motivation...by the time you work out your inital idea, usually the spark is gone... i used to try to approach computer software like video game...like remember back in the day when you'd play super mario brothers and sit there for a couple days trying to master the "turtle trick"...i tried applying that mentality towards photoshop and stuff and sometimes it works...but some software is way too technical for that approach.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porque Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 ...i like to get a foothold first by going into the help files...then i just play around and see what i can do...it really helps if you know someone else that is using it, even if they're just learning too, you can share things you figure out and see how people do things differently...the only reason i've really been working on learning it is for job oppurnunities...allthough even now my resume says i'm an expert, even though i barely know shit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 yeah, if i can have someone show me the very basics, im usually ok. it's just getting that intial step that's a pain in the ass. whatever. i'm just gonna be punk rock and keep it pen and paper. throwback, naw'mean?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war pigs Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 most of the shit in illustrator is pretty basic... the biggest pain to learn is the bezier tool...and what sucks about it also is the bezier pen tool works different between illustrator and photoshop..different hot keys..different ways of closing points and curves... but once you get it ...the rest is pretty smooth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 how do you make lines like these? i'm familiar with the super clean looking stuff, but how do you do things that are more 'textured'? is it just by defining brushes, or what? and lets say with this image for instance. would you take an original picture, then take the pen tool or whatever it is, outline all the area that are a specific area, fill them in, then make another layer and do the same for the next color? basically what i'm asking is do you have to define any area you want filled with the pen tool, or can you do it like photoshop, where you select a color on the 'base' image, make a new layer, then fill that area on the new layer? does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war pigs Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 yeah...me and johnny been knockin some shit out this year... with that image...it looks like it was a photograph that was brought into a streamline..which is a bitmap to vector conversion tool...well..that's prolly how i'd do it if i wanted to create somethin like that... but you could technically sit there and trace all the color fields and layer and stack em... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 cool. you've been doing some real nice stuff. johnny's showed me some flics. streamline makes a bit more sense. do they have that for osx yet? or is there something that has taken it's place? i'd like to use it but im not loading 9 back onto this thing just for one program that i'll hardly use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war pigs Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 thanks mang... and yeah..there's a streamline alternative....i've been using this program called silhouette http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11461 i'm still usin the trial version but it's fully functional...it just makes you wait like a minute before it fully launches....seems to be just as good as streamline... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosoner Posted October 19, 2004 Author Share Posted October 19, 2004 that was done all in illustrator. i found a picture of a tank i liked and definded all the diffrent color areas i wanted by outlining them with the pen tool and setting the fill to whatever. all the parts that are "unclean" i guess you would call it are just small paths drawn in with the pen tool. im sure there is a better way to create the same image, but its the only way i could figure it out, i dont know shit about illustrator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosoner Posted October 30, 2004 Author Share Posted October 30, 2004 bump? or have we reached the end of this discution? lame ass video camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastBoyScout Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 Illustrator is dope beardo the horse stamp i have an incredible hard time believing that the tank and stuff is not streamliner or the trace tool. i would bet money on it vector not just flat colors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosoner Posted November 1, 2004 Author Share Posted November 1, 2004 by trace do you mean place an image and trace withthe pen tool? if so then yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoB Hope ONER Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 wait The Las Boy Scout.. are you saying that bike is all vector? if so.. thats kinda nuts.. but whats the point.. i dont get why thats not just a raster img. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyLox Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 infinitly scaleable is one reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoB Hope ONER Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 duh.. my infinite jest is....unfuckwithable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 I'm gonna agree with LastBoyScout. The tank and camera looks EXACTLY like what Streamline (or even Flash for that matter) would produce, with the same line styles and little remaining bits and offset outlines. I would imagine if it was done by hand it would look vastly different, regardless of the stylistic avenue you took. I dunno dos, only you know for sure, but if it was done by hand I suggest picking a different style, cause nobody's gonna appreciate for what it is otherwise since it looks Streamlined. That last bike though, if all vectors, is absolutely fucking insane, even if it was made through an automatic process. I tip my hat to whoever made it, or whoever designed the tracing app (it sure wasn't Streamline). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastBoyScout Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 The bike was all hand done, gradient mesh is a powerful tool if you got the time. and bobby photo realism is just cool. when that was done it killed memory so much in order to work i had to do 6 different files then put them togeather at the end. heavy you got vector work. lets see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoB Hope ONER Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 yes LBS... just seems nutty.. btw can you show a close up.? the thought of trying that makes my computer want to crash.. i cant wait until they make Illustrator more stable.. i originally used freehand and vellum for drafting..so im quite happy with illustrator in comparisson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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