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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+158Every single online "how to draw stuff" tutorial ever made:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/ironicpseudonym/Amastersguide.jpg - mikebshaw, on 10/12/2007, -3/+64Direct Link: http://www.illustratortechniques.com/imitating-a-scanner-darkly.html
- ReneRuiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+58That's in Adobe Illustrator not Photoshop.
- petroK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37I love these types of tutorials. They should start out:
1) come up with 8 hours of free time
2) have artistic talent...
but they never do...Still fun to try'em - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39I'm really, really sorry, but.... your tutorial sucks, as does the result.
- hppypnts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-vector.html
Check out this tutorial for Photoshop version. - lonnieh, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21@ilyag: Amazing guide! Here is what I made after reading: http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7337/monalisabq1.jpg
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoshop
That's the program that was used to created the Rotoscoping in both A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life. It should be noted that most of the art would have been automatically generated via advanced tweening. - bigdt87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10its called a vector.
- HiddenForce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10*bzzt!* I'm sorry, the correct response should have been, "Whoa! (in Keanu voice)"
In any case, I, for one, am glad this was linked. I've been wanting to use this technique on some photos I have using Illustrator rather than Photoshop. - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Agreed. Now, I'm tempted to make a comment such as "why the hell would anyone want something to look like 'A Scanner Darkly,'" but the result is truly awesome. I'm glad it's not just a bunch of filters, but the tradeoff is that you have to be artistic to pull it off.
- elitexero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Damn, it would seem that the casino chips are blocking the tubes to this site :/
- bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Uh...no, actually. I had the same discussion with an up and coming graphic designer who was freaking out that his skills were becoming obsolete, now that LiveTrace in Illustrator was so "good." I pointed out that Flash has been able to do extremely detailed traced bitmaps for years, but that doesn't make them any good.
You don't trace every line, every curve, every aspect. You have to be able to step back and see the work as a piece of art, know which colors are important and which aren't. Where detail is a good thing and where it's a bad thing.
What Illustrator or Flash or Photoshop can do 'automatically' is pitiful in comparison to what a trained artist can do. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Holden: Sorry about him, he's dealing with being an inker.
Alyssa: Oh... you trace - BionicBeefpile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Title is a bit inaccurate, as this details the method in Illustrator.
You can also do this in Photoshop using the pen tool and filling with blocks of color. The end result probably won't look quite as slick as this Illustrator version, and it takes a while (as the author of this tutorial points out, he took ~4 hours to do this image).
The end result is nice, so it's probably worth it for certain situations. - carbonetc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Stuff done by the machine looks like it was done by the machine.
And it gives back cluttered, bloated geometry. - offput, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Step 1: Be Awesome
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4wired did a cover article on ASD.. covers Rotoshop, the producers/directors, making of, and all that good stuff..
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/scanner.html - ShiningToast, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9@ zttrx
What the ***** are you talking about? - hppypnts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow someone sounds really bitter. Maybe it's because they have a hard time "tracing" images.
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Somebody commented about it below. Rotoshop is that custom software.
- PabloMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You work for Flat Black Films, don't you?
http://www.flatblackfilms.com/Rotoshop.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I wouldn't say the result sucks, just if you are trying to approximate waking life and a scanner darkly.
- Hellmark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3smb, tracing often doesnt produce results that look well enough like that. for the coloring and such, yeah you can shortcut things there, but often a lot of hand work is required for the outlines.
- berfmurret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3every time i see the charles schwab commercials i always wonder why would an financial company would want their commercials to look like a mushroom trip?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This tutorial actually looks nothing like A Scanner Darkly, if you look at the detail in ASD you'll see that it's just the face and hair that are really detailed, also A Scanner Darkly doesn't have that many flat colours, everything is more blended.
It's still a good tutorial to help people find their way around Illustrator a bit more I guess. - PabloMac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Please bury my above post. I was referring to bgii2000's "tutorial."
The OP's link won't load for me, but if the direct link posted by mikebshaw:
http://www.illustratortechniques.com/imitating-a-scanner-darkly.html
is what we're supposed to be looking at, then yes, THAT is a cool technique. - bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, nothing against anyone else - but please - this is something that MOST illustrators know how to do. It's not really a tutorial, and its not an 'easy' way to do anything.
http://www.bleutuna.com/qmanning/display.cfm?ID=40
You *must* have an artistic eye to do this. To know what to draw, what not to draw. How thick, how thin. What colors to replicate, what colors to not. Tutorial. Pfft. - edru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4are you people really bitching about being good at illustrator? Of course you gotta have some skill in it...
You want awesome ***** put in your time. - bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's an art school 5hop, so there are about a million "original" people walking around that look exactly the same - piereced lips and noses, with tatoos a-plenty and extremely poor fashion sense.
A typical SCAD student is pretty *****' scenester, honestly. But, there are actually three types of SCAD students:
1) The rich kids - they may or may not be talented, but they are here having a blast wasting mommy and daddy's money. All colleges have these.
2) The "poor/normal" students - these are typically people, like myself, who are older and come back to school to pick up an education after experience the ***** hardships of life. We tend to work our asses off, because we understand that spending $2500 a class is insane, and you better get your damn money's worth. All colleges have these as well.
3) The jocks/dumbasses - even though NO ONE but athletes care about athletics at a school full of art nerds, many athletes at SCAD have full paid scholarships. Not all jocks are dumbasses (I know a few who are ridiculously talented), but a vast majority are here simply because its a free ride. Which, leads to the straight-up dumbasses: at last I checked, SCAD allowed 85% of applicants into the school. Some are weeded out by the class-load/harsh attendance policy, but others go all the way through because its the only college they could get into, and everyone thinks they're a graphic designer/photographer/filmmaker.
There are some amazing teachers here, particularly in the Film & Television major. And some equally talented kids. But like all institutions, you take the good with the bad. You get out of college what you put in - and SCAD's a shining example of that.
So, to follow up - yeah, a typical SCAD student may look "gay" to you. C'est la vie. - zlyoga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Um this style's been all over deviantart forever
- fasm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5this is hardly new, the title might as well be.. "how to use illustrator"
- FUElitists, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This isn't bad. Illustrator has some auto paint tools that will do this as well, but it's frowned upon in the Vector art community.
- rekanize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For those that say,"Oh, Live Trace does that." you're half right... I'd say that the colors and whatnot could be done with Live Trace (at least, if you didn't want to fool with it all day), but the "inking" will still be done by hand. Live Trace's success will vary from image to image, some working better than others. The technique shown should allow you to create the look from ANY image. Live Trace will not magically create line-art for you, unless you're actually Live Tracing line-art (which is its real purpose anyhow. Besides, it's a welcome leap forward from Adobe Streamline)
I'm a professional designer, and while I already know how to create an image in the way they demonstrated, I thought it was a well done tutorial. - panguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I actually live about 30 mins from SCAD. It's a bitchin' school. And yes, there is a big difference between Rich SCAD Kids, and Cool SCAD Kids.
- carbonetc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's... umm... yeah... ugh.
- WiretapStudios, on 12/25/2008, -0/+1We did this in one our first graphic design classes. It's really simple on one image. A Scanner Darkly was done a little differently (rotoscoping), but the same general concept.
Wikipedia:
In the mid-1990s, Bob Sabiston, an animator and computer scientist veteran of the MIT Media Lab, developed a computer-assisted "interpolated rotoscoping" process which the director Richard Linklater later employed in the full-length feature films Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).[6] Linklater licensed the same proprietary rotoscoping process for the look of both films. Linklater is the first director to use digital rotoscoping to create an entire feature film. - tuxthepenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Perhaps you would like to show us your work?
- 5hop4orce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"For the final poster, the large thumbnail at the left, I wanted to focus on the 'look' of what is considered to be a typical SCAD student..." i.e. gay as all *****. Jesus Christ, man. What kind of school is that?
- habitat2050, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2you can do this in flash as well, just import an image then use onion skinning to get a transparency, trace the outlines, fill with color, post guide on digg...
its a little more time consuming but when your done you can animate it if you wish - wassah2200, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2everybody who has illustrator should already know how to do that...
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"turn off the Image layer and clean up the illustration."
ohhh.. so that's like 'tightening up the graphics' right? - iniquity2007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Good luck trying to replicate the look of "A Scanner Darkly"...
The animation was accomplished via the process of rotoscoping using Bob Sabiston's own Rotoshop software, a process employed in Richard Linklater's earlier movie, Waking Life. First shot in live-action, the footage was then painted over, with attention to stylistic consistency — a lengthy undertaking that, even with warnings from Sabiston, the producers underbid causing the film to miss its initial September 2005 release date by an entire year. - WiretapStudios, on 12/25/2008, -0/+1Go ahead and live trace an image and see if you get the same effect. Not as nice huh? Next!
- xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1An alternative would be using the "cutout" filter in Photoshop.
It won't be the exact same but similar. I have done some work using it on my main picture then doing all the black work on a seperate layer and then combining them. It has a look that is half Linklater and half fascist Propoganda Posters. Look spretty cool.
Just play with the levels in "Cutout", but make sure you have difinitive lines so that the colors don't bleed. - tuxthepenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Live Trace tool does a ***** jobs on complex images
***** move this down one comment - SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1/sarcasm?
- WiretapStudios, on 12/25/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMwhZryRUr4
- WiretapStudios, on 12/25/2008, -0/+1This is for one image, not a frame of a movie. Are you asking how to get a multimillion dollar effect on your crap student film on the cheap?
- Shaft0rz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This may seem obvious, but I thought the point was exactly to make it feel cartoony, and by extension, somewhat surreal.
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