Stop & Post March 2012

[xtom]

Just finishing up on this website revamp. Hopefully done design wise, just back and forth with content.



and trying a bit of a logo re-do for another site revamp, top is original that I did ages ago pre-xara I think, and bottom one is the new final result (I think!), probably not a whole lot better but it should hopefully be a bit fresher looking on a new site design.

[gwpriester]

Fred - Where was that design when I was doing drugs?

That's really very elegant.

[gwpriester]

I've been working on a new series of stereograms using layers of transparency. I'm in en experimental mode.

[gracehjs]

Those I really like.

[Penny O'Rorke]

Gary, those are all great, especially the third one.

Penny

[MEB]

Interesting image Fred C. It reminds me of Guilloche patterns used in security documents and banknotes. I´ve researched about the subject sometime ago. I remember there´s an interesting illustrator tutorial around that i bookmarked at the time along with some documentation, but didn´t have the time to do something about it yet It can lead to very interesting results as in your image. Thanks for posting.

[Fred C]

Appreciate your comments, Miguel. Yes, Guilloche designs...with Xara's Blend (along a curve), Contours, and Moulds and Dimitry's Spray, Xara is addictive. Sure beats the old Spirograph.

Regards,

[MEB]

@ankhor
I really don´t know. I remember that the first time i saw the depth (some years ago) was the most complicated, but after that first time i was able to see it easily. Then i never saw another stereogram until Gary started posting their work here on Talkgraphics. Unfortunately i never managed to perceive the depth again. I have no problems seeing 3D in movies no matter what the system used.

@BONES
Impressive work there. Can you post a more detailed view of the glowing(?) blue knobs?
It´s not easy to render realistically so many surface´s materials and light. I find it quite challenging and sometimes i do play a little in Xara trying to find ways to achieve certain effects. Fortunately Xara is quite flexible allowing to stack several shapes with different transparencies, gradients, whatever needed to make it work.
Interesting to see Xara used as a GUI design tool.

[Niamh-Allan]

what you say about this
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[ZEBtoonz]

Unbelievably great, Gary! You always amaze me with your stereograms. Just terrific!