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    Smile A couple of vectors

    Haven't been round here for a while so thought I'd post a couple of vector-art's I've been doing, in case anyone is interested in that sorta stuff.

    Used Adobe Illustrator for both. Not sure if you need to copy and paste links or if they will work.

    Here is the first just a girl, traced from a magazine pic, took like 5 hours though ><

    http://files.deviantart.com/f/2004/0...didasgirl2.gif

    Here is the second, a VW beetle which I traced from a pic but jazzed up a bit and added a background to:

    http://files.deviantart.com/f/2004/0...etleflames.gif
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    >>> Nice pictures, Have you ever tried that Flash program?, that use vector art too..
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    I don't know what an Illustrator is or what it's supposed to do, but those pics look great!
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    Thanks black orb and Leeza, yeah I've used Flash a bit, it's quite fun. And Illustrator is Adobe Illustrator, a program which makes vector graphics, they have a nice look to them, I think =)
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    I like them. Do you mind saying what vector art is?

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    Thanks Chaos.

    This is a description from a FAQ at DeviantArt:

    // What does "vector" mean? //

    Vector Art is a technique, not a style. Perhaps a better term for the category would be " vector-based art," meaning art created in a vector-based program. Vector art consists of creating paths and points in a program such as illustrator or freehand. The program keeps track of the relationships between these points and paths. Everytime the image is scaled, the paths are regenerated... this creates images that are infinitely scalable without degradation. Great for illustrations, logos and things that need to be sharp. So vector art is anything that's created in illustrator, freehand, corel draw, flash or other " vector" illustration programs. (vector programs: Illustrator, Freehand, Flash, Corel Draw...)

    The other side of the coin is raster art. Raster art consists of pixel information, where every pixel is assigned a RGB or CMYK value. This can create smoother and more detailed images for photos and paintings, but if the image is scaled, the program has to create new information resulting in that crappy look too massively scaled gifs and jpegs. (Raster programs: Photoshop, Painter, Fireworks, MS Paint, Gimp, etc.)



    Obviously my picture is not a true vector now because it has to be saved as a jpg, which is a raster file format. But, I created it as vectors by making paths in Illustrator with the pen. In Illustrator these can be scaled up and down, without losing quality. I find vector images have a nice look to them, you see these sorta things in magazine illustrations or logos. So yeah.. it's a format not a style but generally you would use vector art as a term for things created in Illustrator like this.
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    Ohh... vector art. The first thing that poped into my head when I read vector was Geometry. Hey, these are pretty good! I like the stuff.
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    it probably is based on geometry from the impression I got in the description, lol

    those are really cool...wish I could draw or have good art programs like that *is cheap but not into illegal stuff*
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