nice volley >flashl!ght< specially the textured vector work..
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nice volley >flashl!ght< specially the textured vector work..
Say flashlight can you please share some of your knowledge on the vectoring and subtle line work in the background? I love all of the little detail in your image.
There's really no trick, I'm just piling on layers. Background is a paper texture only moderately manipulated.I use Fireworks, which is a hybrid vector/raster app so it's easy to throw vectors around, cut them up, etc and mix them with bitmap manipulations. Just a bunch of circles, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by thedarkness
I also used the SWF thing I posted in my first post to create some background geometry. Here's the quick 'study' I made before scripting the SWF, gradually adding detail to a block and piece of text.
Both links above are Fireworks PNGs, so if you open them in Fireworks you get the vector objects, although there's really nothing to them.
Nice I see the cirles you made with different widths now my thing is the lines you threw in there how is that you spaced them evenly in a circle and thanks for the sharing of info too.
Well for the lines they aren't actually perfectly even if you look. I basically just drew a perfectly vertical line using the standard shift+drag thing, then a perfectly horizontal line using shift, so I have a crosshair of 2 lines. Then I selected both lines, duplicate, and rotated holding shift to get a 45 degree angle, which resulted in 4 lines. Then I select the four lines, duplicated, and rotated roughly so they were even, which resulted in 8 lines. Then did the same thing a few more times, selecting all, duplicating, rotating so it's roughly even. The lines aren't actually perfectly even, but since I was making them overlayed so lightly I didn't bother... there is probably a way in Fireworks or Illustrator using some array command to do it perfectly, but basically I just duplicated and rotated.
I also used some align commands to make sure everything was perfectly centered...
Nice Im working on something currently! Im going to try and detail it out. we shall see
Just a quickie you might say
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/990...ss1techli5.jpg
Back from the dead. Cause I'm board(as evidenced by this image).
http://www.abeall.com/battle/darkfly.jpg
Flashlight, if you've got some time can you desktop that one for me?
Its fken sweet man!
holy crap flashy! beautiful! I'd love to know your technique on shading the swoops.
Was this made in illustrator or PS?
beautiful work flashlight! I apologize if I'm a little out of line here as I am merely an observer of The Arena but never an active participant, but is it just me or is the image a little bit phallic? sorry again if I'm out of line here... been up all night on a project...
How is it phallic?
There's only one tall vertical, and it's predominance in the layout doesn't make it a feature, merely an accessory.
Phallic! PAH!
then again, that might be why I like it so much :P
Natsia - no problemo, it's pretty much all vector so easily resizable(so long as my computer doesn't die) -- what size ya want? It's 3:2 aspect currently...
lefteye - it was made using Fireworks, which is a hybrid vector/raster app -- I guess kinda like the core toolset of PS and AI combined. Technique on the swoops meaning the psuedo 3d-ish effect? I created the swoops using the pen tool, usually only 4 points, sometimes 6 points, and it's just a gradient fill. Then I duplicated, moved the dupe below the original, changed the dupe fill to be darker and offset some of the points to reveal them emerging behind the original to create the perspective feel. Really simple, but a convinving enough effect -- same effect used in Vita, my march madness geoconstruct(that was the first time I tried it) and various other images. Then I added some brush strokes over top with various blend modes to make it look a bit less solid and more natural/textured.
chase - nope. the idea was to sort of counter the Vita image in many subtle ways: face looking upward rather than downward, light background rather than dark, glowing open eyes rather than dark scowling eyes, smooth and clean "free" feeling swooshes rather than twisted gnarly broken up swooshes, horizontal canvas rather than vertical canvas, etc
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what size ya want? It's 3:2 aspect currently...
Puuurrrfect!
Thank you hunny! :hug:
Sorry I didn't check back sooner.
Jujumon I love your blue image.
FlashL!ght what can I say...
YOU are one of my inspirations... my first battle was with you and Mandisected... Your work is outstanding.
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/9093/56380762hw5.jpg
Here is my attempt!
@ FlashL!ght ....wow...
Thats nice nepzap, the upper half reminds me of Star Trek: Enterprise opening...It looks like at the bottom half you lost your train of though though...It kind of flows together, but it looks like you got distracted or rushed on it.
It's nice overall just looks like you lost your original thought. Btw, everything except that purplish/blue thing leading off to the right, leads the eye very well down your page, going to every element.
It's better than what I could do. :) GJ...wow...I got a bit long winded...
It seems I have been away for a while with the projects I have going on right now but damn this is the kinda of stuff that gets my Hyped to become better. I came here for inspiration for a banner Im doing for vzw internally and look what I see flash I want that las image too for a desktop. all of the tech images I see are crazy I have a lot of work especially on my vectors.
Flashl!ght I have to ask how is it that you got the cables so smooth in the curve and variation of colors? Also for the vectoring what program did you use to do that?
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Originally Posted by >flashl!ght<
I guess I need to post something else here too whew tough crowd these days
Oh, even though this is a themed battle there's quiet a variety in the images. Good work to both :)
Inspired by the colors of zap's last image...
http://abeall.com/battle/tech.useless.jpg
Dude flashl!ght you are sick with the detail.
OK... I sorta lost my way on this one, so I am posting it today (i.e. cutting myself off before MM starts).
I will say that tech style is not my strong suit, but I wanted to challenge myself. Especially after looking at some of flashlight's images.
So with that in mind, give me some feedback.
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7...organicse3.jpg
Hey group I like the image. I like how you created a since of depth in the picture. Now as far as the layout it somewhat has my eye just jumping from here to there, I would have like have seen some different colors besides green on green so to speak. On the plant stem the edges are a bit choppy but for this to be your weakness overall a good stab at it. Yeah flashl!ght's work is whew I tend to find myself in awwwww when I look at it. Hope to see another post here from you.
Thanks for the feedback. I was going for the monochromatic look, I will broaden the color pallet next time.
I was trying to make a contrasting point between the "artificial" and organic delivery of life, but I do agree with you on the layout.
I will definitely give it another go soon.
(How soon depends on how I do in March Madness)
Too much drugs on your blood stream :DQuote:
Originally Posted by thedarkness
i really like it groupof1. and i really like the monochromatic (is that really a word?!) look.
personally, composition-wise, i think it would work better if you cut it off just after the word technorganic (nice word!).
only other criticism is as thedarkness said- some of the vector-looking bits are a little choppy. and the word technorganic would do with being a little ....crisper.
but definitely nice work :thumbsup:
Thanks, I was trying to make the text sink into the picture like the vines but may have got carried away with the blur tool. And, looking at it now, I see what you mean about cutting it off after the text.
Oh yeah, yes monochromatic is a word. (technorganic isn't :shhh: )
Maybe u should test with a duplicate layer of the text, render it and then do a motion blur and test with the layer effects (multiply, screen, etc...) or use a gradient effect on the text layerQuote:
Originally Posted by groupof1
flashlight, i just have to say that your VITA image is AMAZING.
I really like the rules. It has provided a lot of scope for creativity which delivers *thumbs up*
Not has good has some of the other images, but it was one of the images I was doing for MM2008 Round 1, I think it fits a little bit in here ^^
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2053/...aa76ed0a_b.jpg
All I can say herr is I luv it I luv it. I luv how you use the nautilus shell as a focal point and everything else moves outward. I also like the placement of the lettering.