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Help in creating this effect please

Hello all, just a quick plea

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the work of companies like twelveten and magictorch, but both of them employ a particuliar style that I am keen to adapt for some of my own techniques. The style that I am reffering to is a vector outline of people with sparse details like hair and trousers etc filled in with solid block colours.

I hope that I have explained myself sufficiently for some of you to outline the methods used.

My primary applications are illustrator and photoshop

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"When fishes flew and forests walked and fig grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood, then surely I was born..." G.K. Chesterton - The Donkey

can you supply an example?

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example

sorry it took so long to repost, i include an example in case any bright sparks out there no this technique

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"When fishes flew and forests walked and fig grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood, then surely I was born..." G.K. Chesterton - The Donkey

i know how.
1. import image into flash
2. modify->trace bitmap
3. change all the color to one
4. select to publish as jpg and ur done

if you want me to demostarte i will but i am to lazy now so just post ur image and i will

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What does this mean???


[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by bernie [/i]
3. change all the color to one

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haha sorry typing to fast, that means to change the colors for say of the pants to one color. b/c when it traces the bitmap it coverts to vector with full color so u have to change the colors urself. hope that clears it up.

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click on my button to see an example of a traced bitmap in flash that monkey is traced.

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not right 1, anymore ideas?

thank you all who have responded. I am aware of the trace bitmap function in flash and as far as I am aware this is not the technique that I am after. Sorry to rain on any1s parade day, but if there are any other ideas out there, they are all gladly recieved.

For other examples of this kind of artwork, I would pont people to companies such as magictorch and twelveten - and the magazine / website computer arts.

Thx once again!

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"When fishes flew and forests walked and fig grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood, then surely I was born..." G.K. Chesterton - The Donkey

Well, I've been messing around and I think Ihave it figured out!

If you have Freehand, here's how. It'll probably work in Illustrator also.

Just import your bitmap image and use the trace tool.

Make sure you set the tool to "Outer Edge" and it will simply create a path around the outer edge of the image. You will need to clean it up and colorize it but that should be it.

I'll keep trying and post an image.

Well, I couldn't get that to work very well.

Here's how I made the image below.

I just used the drawing tool and pretty much traced around the edge of each shape.

For instance - I traced around the hair as one shape, the jacket as another, the face and neck as yet another. Then I just arranged them correctly and filled with the correct color.

By the way, it's a picture of a woman looking to her right and singing into a microphone, in case you were wondering. Obviously, the simpler the picture the better.

I could have taken time to add the fingers and microphone, but I think this shows the technique well enough.

Last edited by Heavy_Trigger, October 26th, 2001 07:22 PM (Edited 1 times)