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Aug 13, 2006 14:26

wow. i just got back from the best vacation. i spent a week driving around and seeing western Colorado and southern Utah. i am now firmly convinced that the Colorado Plateau is the most beautiful place on earth (or at least the united states ( Read more... )

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n8_zilla August 15 2006, 17:41:43 UTC

good stuff, man. did you happen to see this on boing-boing? as a fan of vector gfx, i thought you'd dig it...

madcowmartini August 16 2006, 04:56:48 UTC

whoa. that shits crazy. its so realistic. but then you get into the whole question of why? i'm sure it took forever to re-create the photo, why not just use the photo?

i think it would be cool to see someone pull off that ultra-realistic vector style but create something new and unique with it. you can only do so much with a literal re-creation of something.

n8_zilla August 16 2006, 06:09:37 UTC

yeah, that's kinda what i thought. it actually reminded me of an illustration class i took in college... my prof wanted us to project/trace photos for our projects. i figured, why not just use the photo, itself?

i'd also like to see someone do some crazy stuff that was more than just a copy of a photo with that intense level of realism...

and i need to learn how to really use that web gradient tool thingy in illustrator ;)

blackturtleneck August 16 2006, 06:51:40 UTC

Wow, yeah that's insane! But you know, with practice most people learn shortcuts for developing work like that and you know what vectoring means... scalable images with no file bloat! I'm all for it man! And I also really like your illustration. It's fun! Have you been adding anything new to your website recently? I've had absolutely no time to do anything outside of work lately.

That is a beautiful photo. I haven't been to Colorado yet but I want to check it out. I absolutely loved the southwest desert, Arizona, New Mexico and the surrounding landscape when we drove through there. I'd go back at the drop of a pin if I had a schedule that gave me the free time.

(Also, just so you know, I've been archiving my old journal posts so anything I post will disappear within a week or two after it's been posted from now on. Just in case you're wondering if you've been locked out of anything, you haven't been).

madcowmartini August 16 2006, 18:58:43 UTC

yeah scalability is one benefit, but even still, the whole time i was working for a billboard printing company we never really needed to scale up anything too much. most of our printing was done between 25 to 50 dpi so most hi-res images worked just fine. also, there is an illustrator plug-in i was reading about in japan where it traces any bitmap image and converts it to a mesh, so soon people won't need to spend countless hours doing such things ( ... )

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