On 3/30/07, Donn <donn.ingle@...400...> wrote:
BTW, have a look at http://www.khulsey.com/demo_howto_car.html
Damn - that's intense stuff. I wonder what an illustrator would earn for a drawing like that. Amazing.
I think more amazing is people's sheer willingness to do all this insane work in what amounts to hardly adequate tools. By this I refer not only to the lack of any 3D capabilities in Illustrator (all the perspective lines are drawn by hand, etc.) but also to the fact that "final coloring is done in Photoshop", essentially freezing the image and making it uneditable.
And yes, I would charge a lot for this work indeed if I had to, for example, create a gear with such pain and hardship as described at http://www.khulsey.com/illustration_tutorial_gears.html. Here's my favorite bit: it's what AI users have to suffer through when they need to do something as simple as Ctrl+D in Inkscape:
"...select the first tooth and using both the Command and Option keys (cursor becomes double arrow) hit the "Nudge" or "Arrow" key once to the left. This will "Copy and Paste" a duplicate of your selection. Use the "Nudge" or "Arrow" key again to move it back to the right, placing it directly over the original."
Adobe Illustrator never ceases to amaze me.