Digital 2D art / Cologne Ad / Nektar 21 years ago

Cologne Ad

This one is for Illustrator, and I have a week to go. Another poster, this time for Ralph Lauren's Conflagration. Made the name up, and I'm in the process of tracing over the following template:
http://www.vividreams.net/illustrator/yazzi_elf.jpg

Haven't learned gradient mesh yet, so I'm concentrating on shades. Here's what I have so far:
http://www.vividreams.net/illustrator/dragonoid.jpg

A screenshot of all the anchor points behind it:
http://www.vividreams.net/illustrator/dragonoidanchors.jpg

Too bad browsers don't support .ai format because jpg makes it look blurry. Pretty rough atm, as I haven't even touched the wings. The hand is a little fucked too.

The dragon will basically serve as background. The standard cologne ad has the bottle centered, which I'll just mask out with Photoshop. And I have yet to read online tutorials for flame effect on the word Conflagration.

ROzbeans 21 years ago
Wow, I want to see the end result of this one. This is really wild. OH and there are really easy tuts out there for flames. Type like 'flame text photoshop' and it'll pop up one million. lol.
drizzi 21 years ago
you should check out adobe streamline, itll generate a vector image in *.ai format for you =P
and those flame effect tutorials usually look like crap and im not sure if it will fit that picture all too well
Nektar 21 years ago
drizzi
you should check out adobe streamline, itll generate a vector image in *.ai format for you =P


I'm not sure I understand. As far as I know, jpg isn't a vectored format. That was my original template, which I traced over with Illustrator. But converting the traceover back to jpg looks like caca.
drizzi 21 years ago
streamline looks for shapes in the picture and generates a vector file and can safe it for illustrator.
its similar to the cuttout filter in photoshop, but better
drizzi 21 years ago
Adobe Streamline traces raster files, and automatically converts them to line art that can be edited in vector based drawing applications compatible with Adobe Illustrator files. You can clear images before conversion for better tracing with the selection, pen, line, and eraser tools. After conversion, you can further refine the line art with the familiar vector tools.

There are three methods that can be activated alone or simultaneously in conversion (outline, centerline, and line recognition). You can also play with the noise suppression, line thinning and tolerance controls. Although it is certainly a powerful application, Adobe Streamline is starting to show its age. The last version was released in 1997, and there isn't a multiple undo/redo feature or an elliptical marquee tool for instance.
Nektar 21 years ago
drizzi
streamline looks for shapes in the picture and generates a vector file and can safe it for illustrator.
its similar to the cuttout filter in photoshop, but better


My TA was telling me about autotrace today, but I thought that was cheating :-o Is that what you're referring to? Just learned about it, so don't know what to do.

Want to show the teacher I poured in my share of effort, but the TA (who happens to teach creativity) said autotrace will take over soon anyways. Something about efficiency, time is money yada yada yada.

Question is, will my Illustrator prof catch on if I use autotrace? That the cutouts will look too perfect or generic?
drizzi 21 years ago
well, you can import it into illustrator and then start working on it some more the way you want to have it. i dont think its any more cheating than working with stock images from everyones friend google
Nektar 21 years ago
drizzi
well, you can import it into illustrator and then start working on it some more the way you want to have it. i dont think its any more cheating than working with stock images from everyones friend google


Is Streamline free? Or piratable? Prolly stick to classic traceover this project, but might wanna play around with Streamline for the next.