Blinky2004

My WORD this guy's stuff is amazing: http://homepage3.nifty.com/highside/gallery.htm

Frankly i never thought AI had it in it to create this kinda stuff.

He's got a tutorials section too if you hit the front page.

Silky

There is no emoticon in the entire world to express my utter amazment because...dang!...
Especially the ones on the 'favorites page'....
That glass cup! [saywhat]
That lady! [saywhat] [saywhat] [saywhat]
OMG!

Blinky2004

And the baseball glove! [saywhat]

Silky

....the baseball glove.... I'm gona cry...
[saywhat] [saywhat] [saywhat] :cry:
I really want to read his tutorials but every thing looks like this:
Is it Japanese?

Blinky2004

Chinese i believe.

Maybe there's a translation program online that can switch it to english?
I don't think Google has Chinese. Niether does www.babblefish.com.

Silky

Haven't found a Chinese translator, but take a look at this: http://www.geocities.jp/real_trace/
Found this link off the highside gallery.
Some really good ones in here and some not-so-good, but the one that I'm not sure about is the cat. There is no zoom on that one and it just looks to good to be drawn.

ronmatt

absolutely amazing work. I've seen a lot of 'Illustrator' illustration over the years and this is undoubtedly some of the best. Mucho kudos. Hope he's (she's) employed and makin' the big bucks. Now someone explain something to me, because right now I'm pretty dumb. What am I looking at? If these are illustrations done from scratch then I'm quitin'. Or are they tracings that have been enhanced? I can't see how those wireframes (?) are of any value for texturing. \:/ You can't tell me that some of these aren't 'just' photos. Not being able to read the site really inhibits me from understanding the value of it.

Lee

I can't even imagine being able to do that kind of work. When I see something like that I am reminded how little I really do know. [sigh]

ikenn

I looked at the vanvan image and wow! that girl is very realistic although i have some reservation if the face is vector or not. but the body is definitly vector. It a japanese site by the way base on the characters on the menu of the illustrator.

Check www.juniatwork.com too. it was all done in Flash at least i think it is. If you look far a distance some of the works are very realistic. I can't imagine how the guy managed to do that with just the Flash. So if this guy manage to make a realistic photo out of vector i don't see why the japanese guy can't although i really like to know how he did it

Silky

I was wondering the same thing Ron. Some of those I can tell they're illustrated, at least parts of the image, which look either texture-less or kinda flat and funny looking. But some I just can't see any part that would tell me that it's not a real picture...like the baseball glove...@#%*! The texture on the bottom of the leather straps and the wrinkles on the skin...how the heck do you do that with vectors!?!?!
:cry: :cry: :cry: