Bouton's stuff, Volume 2

[Gare]

My childhood, too. I think this bad boy tool two D cells.

Oen question: does anyone prefer to see the finished art and a wireframe so you get a better idea how to reproduce effects. I listed them with Mr. Robot (that's an excellent TV series!) but much of the fun is education and provoking artists to riff on an idea


Here a created a cylindrical-kinda shape in Cinema 4D, rendered it in limited shading mode and then auto-traced it (with Vector Magic) to turn the bitmap into a series of vector paths, and then imported them to Xara. The crude, limited number of vectors was deliberate, to give me room for smooth shading, using gradients, transparencies, and blends. I don't think Auto-tracing by any measure is finished art.

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Tracing is not cheating. That was the subject of a Xara Xone tutorial years ago, I believe it's still up on YouTube.




My Best,

Gary