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Illustrator Live Trace + Flash == Nice

August 5, 2010

Most designers cringe when they hear someone is using the Live Trace feature in Illustrator. I’ll gladly admit that I’m one of those designers, but I came across an interesting interaction yesterday while I was working on a Flash banner ad.

I had a large, live traced paint stroke in Flash that I had significantly scaled down and needed to edit. When I pasted it back into Illustrator I found that Flash had essentially simplified the form into angular shapes that were hotter than the day is long. Hitting the Merge button (Pathfinder palette) cleaned up all of the stray lines and I was left with a really nice geometric piece.

Here’s the same process applied to someone’s doodle I found on google images.

Before:

After:

I haven’t tried it with anything but a one color image, but more colors might be worth a shot.

BWCW, a Tee-Shirt

April 14, 2010

BWCW is an acronym for a t-shirt that I’m going to be making. After it’s done I will be uploading drawings and comps from various stages, but right now all I can give is a little taste-ation. Above is a small portion of a digital sketch.

Additionally, I had the good fortune of borrow a Wacom tablet from a co-worker, Maria. This being my first time using a drawing tablet I must say that I’m thoroughly impressed. I want to say that it’s like fishing with dynamite, but it’s more like drawing with an awesome digital pencil with the advantage of Command-Z. Nobody can shake a stick at that.

Doc Dre – What’s the Difference

February 8, 2010

Unfinished Processing video. Increased buffer size & image output after the jump.
Using MovieMaker for the video & the Ess library for the audio data.

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Processing + People of Walmart

January 31, 2010

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