40 hours of illustrator TIME LAPSE. freaking nuts. watch!
gizmodo.com — This artist set his computer to do a screen cap every 5 seconds as he worked on this piece. pretty amazing.
- 2674 diggs
- digg it
- alexkim804, on 05/18/2008, -4/+94http://store.thebigpugh.com/
theres the site for the artist, you can order a print of this illustrator piece- sjl127, on 05/18/2008, -30/+3Art is stupid.
- kiiwii, on 05/18/2008, -1/+14You're stupid.
- sjl127, on 05/18/2008, -11/+1** chuckle ***
- danomagnum, on 05/18/2008, -2/+5Some art is stupid. This is neat.
- kiiwii, on 05/18/2008, -1/+14You're stupid.
- HotSaucePanCake, on 05/18/2008, -0/+12Will Smith will say the Aliens did this...
No, too soon?- themastersb, on 05/18/2008, -0/+9He was so young. He will always be remembered as an hero.
- danomagnum, on 05/18/2008, -13/+4I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi, but "an" is for vowels and silent h's. It just throws me off when I read an with something that it shouldn't be with.
- cyrusthevirus, on 05/18/2008, -4/+3I could be wrong, but I believe this is the proper British grammar. I think it stems from leading "h"s being silent or something like that.
- FatLoser, on 05/18/2008, -0/+15I could be wrong, but this is a ***** meme.
- inkswamp, on 05/18/2008, -0/+10> I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi
Yes, you are.
And by the way, Nazi is capitalized. - Mejogid, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2'An' should be used when the 'h' is silent, and either is correct if the 'h' is stressed, as it is here. Can't we all just get along?
- YoctoYotta, on 05/19/2008, -1/+2Speaking "an hero" outloud sounds like an total abomination of the language to me, but who's to argue with the people that came up with the word indubitable?
- Dylan47, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1You all fail except fatloser, its purposely wrong...
- themastersb, on 05/18/2008, -0/+9He was so young. He will always be remembered as an hero.
- craigyjack, on 05/18/2008, -0/+10bah, i want a high resolution digital image, not a print, so that i can use it as my background, or just view it in high detail on my computer! But he doesn't have one up yet, hopefully he will sell some high res digital images of it so I can put it on my desktop.
- purelithium, on 05/18/2008, -0/+12I e-mailed him about it, maybe he'll offer it.
- purelithium, on 05/18/2008, -0/+9Just got a reply. He's not sure if he's going to charge for the digital version, he wants to sell the physical prints first.
- Dorke, on 05/18/2008, -17/+5maybe if the music wasn't so headache inducing, and you weren't a douchebag trying to get us to buy his ***** i actually would purchase this piece of ***** art. what i am saying is: ***** you, alexkim804.
- whataboutdave, on 05/18/2008, -0/+5The guy created an illustrator masterwork *complete with a goddam narwhal* and you whine because you don't know where your mute button is. Really?
- mrASSMAN, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Much higher quality video: http://www.vimeo.com/927062
- sjl127, on 05/18/2008, -30/+3Art is stupid.
- papastout, on 05/18/2008, -5/+22That was Freaking Sweet! I am so not worthy.
Though I could see how such a project would appeal to anyone with a God Complex - pearcey, on 05/18/2008, -18/+50Sorry for my naughty language, but............. God Dam that Mother ***** got skills™............... Im unashamedly jealous!
- ahmedb07, on 05/18/2008, -1/+4dugg for trademark
- Whadabala, on 05/19/2008, -1/+2Buried for the trademark.
- ahmedb07, on 05/18/2008, -1/+4dugg for trademark
- n0odles, on 05/18/2008, -12/+6That guy pwns.
- aphonik, on 05/18/2008, -2/+179Final Piece: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadsnuts/2433450474/ ...
- JesperL, on 05/18/2008, -0/+46Is there a larger resolution version? 900x600 really doesn't do it justice.
- Jan33, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4word, need to explore that thing..
- Kakemonstere, on 05/18/2008, -0/+13Yeh, you can't even see the cat and the women which has tons of detail.
- cshaaban, on 05/18/2008, -0/+18Well he is trying to sell prints of it. Makes sense that he wouldn't go putting the full size file online.
- Airjuggernaut, on 05/18/2008, -8/+4
Well there's a difference between a Physical Print and an electronic print.
He is trying to sell the PHYSICAL print, so people can put it up on their walls, like art collectors or people that appreciate the fine arts.
I dont think he's selling an elec version of it, so it would be just to ask for a bigger size. - Soave, on 05/18/2008, -0/+12Airjuggernaut:
You can get an electronic image printed out. Therefore, he wouldn't want to give people the ability to print it for free. - Newedge14, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2He wouldn't put a larger version of it online so people wouldn't make their own physical prints.
- Chompy, on 05/18/2008, -1/+14So toss a big transparent "SAMPLE" across the image. The point here is that even if I were interested in buying a print, I couldn't make the decision based on the tiny version of the image that he's made available.
- ligyron, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4The video very clearly showcases the amount of detail that is in the final print. Notice the detail of the woman and cat at 2:20 to 3:30? In the 960x600 image they're only about 8x5 pixels big, so I can only imagine how large and detailed the final print is
- Airjuggernaut, on 05/18/2008, -8/+4
- Schrodinger2, on 05/18/2008, -7/+5Thank you for saving me the trouble of listening to that horrendous music to see the final.
- iamnobody8614, on 05/18/2008, -2/+2Mute?
- dasdef, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1i was annoyed by that music so i decided to play this scratch music by dj qbert and dstyles - Hot Sauce in the Dick Hole (***** up title i know, but its a wicked track). and MAN it went so perfect with the timelapse.. Google for the torrent.
- teambosun, on 05/18/2008, -0/+6Oh cmon! 960x600?! Give us something more to see.
- caramba420, on 05/18/2008, -1/+9Is it just me or does the picture really look a lot like the video for "Remind Me" by Royksopp?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o
Not a rickroll, I promise- Sovereign2142, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2That's the first think I thought of when I saw this. The cut-away/diagnostic art is really fascinating to look through.
- JesperL, on 05/18/2008, -0/+46Is there a larger resolution version? 900x600 really doesn't do it justice.
- rollxnut, on 05/18/2008, -8/+58He needs to start making videos in which he insults us due to our inabilities at illustrator, adds personal comical stories. I heard somewhere that that formula works.
- misconstrued, on 05/18/2008, -1/+6Yeah, watching this video made it abundantly clear to me that I total FAIL at Illustrator :)
- Jackar00, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3I see whatchour getting at.
- macwac, on 05/18/2008, -39/+152Amazing details and quality of work; however awful music..!
- Gimpishi, on 05/18/2008, -4/+37We Carry On by Portishead, in case you liked it / want to avoid it.
- zwei, on 05/18/2008, -5/+24Most people don't get Portishead ...I was quite happy with the song selection.
- dclowd9901, on 05/18/2008, -2/+6Even though the repetitive notes were kind of grating, it's actually one of the first times I've ever felt like the song playing in the background actually fit the sequence on-screen. It actually felt like you were watching the music video for that song.
- LexisNexis, on 05/18/2008, -1/+4It totally fit the action on screen.
- dumpyhumpy, on 05/18/2008, -3/+9I like a lot of Portishead, but that tune made my brain hurt.
- Archon810, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the ID! I loved the song. Got the whole album now.
- Archon810, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1Wow, I got all 3 of their albums + b sides and it's my new favorite band. ***** rocks.
- zwei, on 05/18/2008, -5/+24Most people don't get Portishead ...I was quite happy with the song selection.
- misconstrued, on 05/18/2008, -9/+20Are you crazy? Portishead is great!
- danomagnum, on 05/18/2008, -6/+2Mute on flash player + foobar2000 = what awful music?
- NuckChorris, on 05/18/2008, -7/+1iTunes is way better than foobar2000. Nothing can beat iTunes in awesomeness. At least the most recent version of iTunes. Especially when you have Foxytunes installed, since that almost doubles the awesomeness level.
- vertexoflife, on 05/18/2008, -1/+4Amarok.
- dpjames, on 05/18/2008, -3/+3you die now please thank you
- NuckChorris, on 05/18/2008, -7/+1iTunes is way better than foobar2000. Nothing can beat iTunes in awesomeness. At least the most recent version of iTunes. Especially when you have Foxytunes installed, since that almost doubles the awesomeness level.
- 4d669, on 05/18/2008, -1/+4emo horse is emo
- LeeMaple, on 05/18/2008, -2/+5It could have used a little more cow bell. I thought Jim Carrey made the most annoying sound in the world, no longer...
- theOster, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1i can't believe the amount of detail in teh cat and girl only to shrink them down to pretty much nothing (given the scale of the human finger on his ordering page) (EDIT - just saw scaryclouds below beat me to this comment)
oh yeah the opening droning made me check my speakers...by the end i was pretty much into it... ahh, portishead
- Gimpishi, on 05/18/2008, -4/+37We Carry On by Portishead, in case you liked it / want to avoid it.
- dn11, on 05/18/2008, -60/+27buried as inaccurate. the guy was using windows. it is physically impossible for a professional artist to use windows. j/k..... cool video, cool art.
- monospaced, on 05/18/2008, -29/+9Yeah, he said that his many crashed and BSoDs were a result of a heavily modified Vista or some crap. I know you say you're joking, but honestly, if he did this on a Mac it would have been a lot more stable.
- dn11, on 05/18/2008, -2/+12yeah, i was joking because I use Photoshop and illustrator under both OS X and Windows and I don't really have a preference either way and both are equally stable for me. But I use XP.
- dclowd9901, on 05/18/2008, -1/+6He also said he screwed with the Vista install. I'm no Vista sympathizer, but I've effed with enough computers to know that human error can certainly play a large part in system failures.
- stubear, on 05/18/2008, -6/+5No, Illustrator would continuously crash for no apparent reason. I use CS3 on Tiger at work and I have random crashes of apps ALL the time. Dreamweaver and InDesign are the worst but Illustrator comes in a very lose third. I have both Leopard and Vista systems at home and while I find it easier to work on projects from work at home on the Leopard box because of fonts, I prefer working on my Vista box for nearly everything else, including web development (although Coda is making me rehtink this.)
- solid12345, on 05/18/2008, -1/+4Not true, I have seen so many design students at my university lose an hour of work because OS X crashed
Honestly the problem I find with illustrator the most is I get so many memory crashes and rendering slow-down even though a heavy file with lots of gradient meshes is only 30-40 megabytes in size and I have 3 gigs of ram, it needs to be optimized alot more but I think adobe spends too much time tinkering in photoshop. - Dobby156, on 05/18/2008, -2/+1i dont know why windows using apple fans seem to think that OSX is this shining beaken stabilty.
- dn11, on 05/18/2008, -2/+12yeah, i was joking because I use Photoshop and illustrator under both OS X and Windows and I don't really have a preference either way and both are equally stable for me. But I use XP.
- JYoungest1, on 05/18/2008, -4/+25The way Apple and Adobe are fighting it wont be long until Illustrator is for Windows only. I use PC only for design any how and it works great.
- thescimitar, on 05/18/2008, -1/+6The only thing windows boxes have trouble with these days is color management. There isn't much you can't do with a windows box (besides manage and display color accurately. Without losing your mind, that is).
/multiple platform user: hearty, xp, 10.5- emorphien, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1I can't say I have really found OSX any more reliable/better on that front actually.
- monospaced, on 05/18/2008, -29/+9Yeah, he said that his many crashed and BSoDs were a result of a heavily modified Vista or some crap. I know you say you're joking, but honestly, if he did this on a Mac it would have been a lot more stable.
- yuutokun, on 05/18/2008, -8/+1Why a fuzzy?
- Scaryclouds, on 05/18/2008, -6/+264I can't get over the level of detail he put into the cat and girl and how small he then made him. They are like 15 freaking pixels tall! There is attention to detail there then there is OCD.
- monospaced, on 05/18/2008, -5/+147In Illustrator, there are no pixels.
- ufia, on 05/18/2008, -2/+6That's right, no pixels. In Illustrator the aH measurement system is used.
- austin006, on 05/18/2008, -6/+75in soviet russia, the pixels illustrate you
- GawtMilk, on 05/18/2008, -1/+26Shh.
http://store.thebigpugh.com/product/science-machin ...
20" x 12". Assuming a 300DPI print size, the dog / woman can be calculated.
Looking at the flickr upload for reference : http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadsnuts/2433450474/ ...
The woman / dog are 6 pixels high, the image is a total height of 900 pixels. This means that the pair make up 0.00667 of the vertical height. Once again, assuming 300DPI, 12 x 300 = 3,600 vertical pixels / dots. Multiplied by the ratio the two take up, you see they are only 24px tall in the final print.
Even if printing at a very high resolution, like 600DPI, they only appear to be 48px tall.
If you look at the detail shot on the website, though, you cannot see the features of the woman or the dog clearly -- indicating that the image was not printed at 300DPI or more.
http://store.thebigpugh.com/product/science-machin ...
While it's true that this is a vector-based image, his comment about it "only being fifteen pixels tall" is still valid, as the vector image must eventually be converted into a print.
A 64 x 40" print at 300DPI would only see the characters being 80px tall, and when looking at a print with a height of three and a half feet, you are not going to be looking at a bit of detail that is smaller than one inch.- dclowd9901, on 05/18/2008, -0/+23Indeed. What he meant to say was, "They're so *RELATIVELY* small in comparison to everything else!" It's how my girlfriend explains her dissatisfaction with my penis.
- milkmit, on 05/18/2008, -1/+2Of course (although there technically are, with raster imagery in Illustrator).
But I think, as you well know, that the point that was being made was that the level of detail that was put into some parts of the scene were insane (if not wasteful) when you consider how small they would render even in, say, a 30" print. Those 40 hours could have been cut down to, perhaps, 30...
Then again, for a lot of people, the process -- and not the finished product -- IS what it's all about. - theOster, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2true, but scaryclouds may have been figuring printed output in their head and making a rough statement...
- ufia, on 05/18/2008, -2/+6That's right, no pixels. In Illustrator the aH measurement system is used.
- mossblaser, on 05/18/2008, -0/+13That is vector - that is what you do.
- donkeySays, on 05/18/2008, -4/+55In that case, you might be shocked to learn that all real artists have OCD.
- theOster, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3not the artists i know...they're lucky if they reach forward for the bowl
EDIT: damn! i see you used the qualifier "real" - point taken
- theOster, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3not the artists i know...they're lucky if they reach forward for the bowl
- fishpen0, on 05/18/2008, -0/+19I could print this on the side of my house and still not see all the detail.
- Stiles05s, on 05/18/2008, -1/+5Well its a vector program, so that document can be scaled to print at any size. They might not end up being so small after all. I highly doubt that was meant to be viewed on screen (at that size).
- TheConman, on 05/18/2008, -2/+17I could print it on the side of your ego and maybe then we would see all the detail.
- dpjames, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2sick burn!
- cvxdes1, on 05/18/2008, -1/+2Leggo my eggo
- LeggoMyEgo, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3Yes?
- ChristianMagic, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Well played.
- JoeCool1986, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1When Michelangelo was working on a statue in the corner of a building, someone came up to him and asked why he was spending so much time on the back of the statue where no one would ever see it. Michelangelo replied, "because God will see it."
Another great quote of his:
"If anyone knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." - J0415, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2There is attention to detail there then there is OCD. Then there is OGC.
- b0rna, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1and then there's i don't get it.
- monospaced, on 05/18/2008, -5/+147In Illustrator, there are no pixels.
- monospaced, on 05/18/2008, -0/+75Wish I could have the full, layered Illustrator file, just to browse in detail. It's easy to get lost in that application when illustrating.
- Neiby, on 05/18/2008, -31/+7Couldn't stand to watch it. The music was way the hell too annoying. And I guess I'm too lazy to reach for the volume slider.
- austin006, on 05/18/2008, -0/+6you totally missed out
- EmitStop, on 05/18/2008, -10/+12Freakin' amazing. Anyone know the name of the song?
- JesperL, on 05/18/2008, -1/+22Portishead - We Carry On
from their latest album, Third
- JesperL, on 05/18/2008, -1/+22Portishead - We Carry On
- Diderotten, on 05/18/2008, -21/+40Portishead rocks.
- Kornstalx, on 05/18/2008, -1/+6Didn't they just release a new album?
And is this one of the new tracks?- sarixe, on 05/18/2008, -0/+7why yes, yes it is. We Carry On.
- TheRealAncodia, on 05/19/2008, -1/+2portis.head-Third (2008) - we.carry.on
- Kornstalx, on 05/18/2008, -1/+6Didn't they just release a new album?
- purpleaffro, on 05/18/2008, -3/+70They're more interested in the fact he used Vista than his actual work..
- jasdf, on 05/18/2008, -0/+28Nice Narwhal.
- alembert, on 05/18/2008, -19/+7Wow the music is sooo annoying. And the video itself is somewhat boring.
- austin006, on 05/18/2008, -1/+4you're boring
- HenkMul, on 05/18/2008, -5/+10After watching the video I can only say one thing: "my head! It hurts!"
- jasdf, on 05/18/2008, -3/+3Was this for Popular Science or something?
- Dobby156, on 05/18/2008, -1/+2no the free maisons
- Cerpin_Taxt, on 05/18/2008, -1/+4Can I have a free house?
- Dobby156, on 05/18/2008, -1/+2no the free maisons
- JensenSteve, on 05/18/2008, -31/+4Buried for using Vi$ta.
- GawtMilk, on 05/18/2008, -1/+11Well since you're probably using an operating system for super creative geniuses, lets see your work.
- xz9925, on 05/18/2008, -2/+5Buried for sounding like an uninformed tool..
- HHP2K, on 05/18/2008, -8/+57"I've screwed with my install of Vista a lot, so I got some crashes and some BSODs, but obviously those were not captured. On the whole, I've been very happy with the OS, though."
PHRASE_DOES_NOT_COMPUTE_ERROR_ERROR- JensenSteve, on 05/18/2008, -34/+2I know, I'm surprised to see a designer even using Vi$ta. You get a BSOD every ten minutes when using any memory intensive program like CS3, and not to mention how painfully slow it runs too. On xp CS3 is known to run 3x as fast. You cant even save large files in Vi$ta because of memory errors, it automatically freezes your whole system.
- aussieNickuss, on 05/18/2008, -2/+17I don't know what the hell is wrong with your computer, but CS3 works a dream on Vista for me.
- JYoungest1, on 05/18/2008, -1/+5same here aussieNickuss, mine works 10 times better now that I have Vista. I can remember people hating XP when it first came out, ohh nooo its sooo different I am scared of different.
- acidandspatter, on 05/18/2008, -2/+10Well stop using some ***** PC that says 'Vista Capable' on it. I'm running CS3 on Vista and it works beautifully, and saving a 500mb file takes about two minutes.
- boris4ka, on 05/18/2008, -1/+3JensenSteve, you ***** retard, is your computer from the 90's?
- theOster, on 05/18/2008, -2/+2you've been on digg for a month - chill the ***** out with teh Vi$ta crap
- joeydoo, on 05/18/2008, -3/+18He must have screwed with it a lot. My computer has run Vista 24/7 for 3 or 4 months and it's never crashed on me.... There has been some buggy bits and pieces, pre sp1 mainly, but it's never crashed or blue screened.
- teambosun, on 05/18/2008, -2/+5Well you weren't running that bloat of Illustrator, working continuously on a huge vector file, and having it taking screenshots every 5 sec....
- joeydoo, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Vector files are big? i thought the point of using vectors is that because they are just math the end result is highly compressible...
I do run/leave open photoshop, itunes, miro, firefox, email client, 4 orr 5 folders, utorrent all the time... 65 processes and 1.8GB of RAM (24/7) is that enough?
- joeydoo, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Vector files are big? i thought the point of using vectors is that because they are just math the end result is highly compressible...
- teambosun, on 05/18/2008, -2/+5Well you weren't running that bloat of Illustrator, working continuously on a huge vector file, and having it taking screenshots every 5 sec....
- JensenSteve, on 05/18/2008, -34/+2I know, I'm surprised to see a designer even using Vi$ta. You get a BSOD every ten minutes when using any memory intensive program like CS3, and not to mention how painfully slow it runs too. On xp CS3 is known to run 3x as fast. You cant even save large files in Vi$ta because of memory errors, it automatically freezes your whole system.
- icecoldtrashcan, on 05/18/2008, -1/+5Brilliant. I love the hair follicle in the beach, and the solar system underwater. How much are prints?
- TheFerruccio, on 05/18/2008, -0/+5$45 for a print, as shown on his website.
- michaelinnotts, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1And I thought Evangelion wasn't realistic...
- tunafizzle, on 05/18/2008, -25/+188WE'LL DO IT LIVE ***** IT
- alexgamerz, on 05/18/2008, -22/+3no, that wasn't live. he is not that fast... I think..
- IChazI, on 05/18/2008, -3/+3FAIL
- dpjames, on 05/18/2008, -1/+6the new Inside Edition O'Reilly memes are cracking me the ***** up
- DragonForce4, on 05/19/2008, -1/+6what does this have to do with the article?
- Tommyhawk, on 05/19/2008, -1/+2***** THING SUCKS!
- alexgamerz, on 05/18/2008, -22/+3no, that wasn't live. he is not that fast... I think..
- Ninjao, on 05/18/2008, -7/+4O_____o
- truspect0r, on 05/18/2008, -49/+3Buried for using Vi$ta.
- joeydoo, on 05/18/2008, -0/+23You have an xbox logo as your avatar... some Microsoft divisions are more money grabbing than others then?
- truspect0r, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Nope. XP > Vista. Simple.
- Migito, on 05/18/2008, -1/+3wow. what a douchebag.
- joeydoo, on 05/18/2008, -0/+23You have an xbox logo as your avatar... some Microsoft divisions are more money grabbing than others then?
- lucasb, on 05/18/2008, -13/+0and how about this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36jqBoNutLI- acidandspatter, on 05/18/2008, -0/+7How is that relevant to the video we're discussing?
- kinggimped, on 05/18/2008, -16/+6Well, that should win some kind of internet award for having the most annoying ***** music ever to feature as a viral video soundtrack.
I didn't think sound could cause epilepsy, but I'm about to smash my computer in with my bare fists.- sh04, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3Mute button?
- eatbeast, on 05/18/2008, -2/+3pff. portishead can do no wrong
- thebuggalo, on 05/18/2008, -1/+2Thank you! I agree, i am a portishead fan, but that was a terrible choice for this video.
- smashingmonkey, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1The track would have been decent without that awful tone which they kept using.
- kinggimped, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Digg me down all you like, that was just woeful noise.
- elvenseven, on 05/18/2008, -25/+240hrs? lol
Vista? lol - ysss, on 05/18/2008, -25/+2I bet he could finish it in less than 30 minutes if he had used XP instead of Vista :P
- Corr0sive, on 05/18/2008, -5/+14anyone else catch him making the two sheep look like they were having sex?? it was towards the end...around 6:05 to 6:09. On another note, does anyone know the song title and artist, and a possible place to obtain it...you know what i mean.
- Volatile, on 05/18/2008, -1/+7It's from Portishead's new album. I liked it enough to buy it. You probably know where to go.
- Corr0sive, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Ahh thank you kind internet person. I will listen to a little and see if its what i was thinkin.
- BassJunkie, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3I thought I imagined it, as it only appears for like a single frame :-)
- Elliuotatar, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2Yeah me too. I tried to go back and pause it to find the frame but then I couldn't, and thought my mind was playing tricks on me.
- Volatile, on 05/18/2008, -1/+7It's from Portishead's new album. I liked it enough to buy it. You probably know where to go.
- cgruber, on 05/18/2008, -4/+34I think my speakers are broken.
- wenomspitta, on 05/18/2008, -15/+6This might seem dumb to some people, but what is the pic about? I mean, it seems as if he just threw all kinds of ***** in there, kinda like those "End Poverty" collages, which are supposed to show me "our diversity" and "make me think about things"...
Or am I missing something in the pic, cuz I really appreciated the time and work it took. Kinda don't really want to believe it was for some ***** point...- JYoungest1, on 05/18/2008, -3/+3Hes using the scientific diagrams as an artistic statement while being eye candy. Its called thinking abstractly, some say thinking that way makes you more intelligent.
- Evolutuon, on 05/18/2008, -2/+2Its art, it needs no explanation.
- diggrnumber1, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1actually, the opposite is true. the guy above you just provided an explanation. if no explanation is required, then that picture is just as profound as a baby's crayon drawing on a wall.
- h3lx, on 05/18/2008, -6/+5340 hours with a standard mouse equates to about 5 hours with a WACOM.
I wish I had time to devote 40 hours to a single piece. Our production is running at about 5-15 jobs a day, 2//3rds of them converting shotty ppt files into functional art.- useful_idiot, on 05/18/2008, -0/+12I have a WACOM too and I've honestly grown to prefer the mouse in Illustrator. Photoshop is a different story.
- Zpanzer, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3Agreed, using a mouse when using tools such as the pen tool means alot more accuracy for me. Still love my WACOM when using everything else :)
I've never really used illustrator that much, but damn I can't imagine how he can put so much detail into every little piece o.O - LoveYouSomeEric, on 05/18/2008, -0/+6I agree with useful_idiot. Accurate vector work is not efficient with a tablet, but with Photoshop and Painter I almost never touch my mouse.
- solid12345, on 05/18/2008, -1/+7I never even touch photoshop for any graphic work other than what absolutely cannot be done in illustrator. I prefer doing everything in vectors because it is so much easier to go back and change one piece here or there, while on photoshop everything is raster and you must keep sometimes over 100 layers to keep order which actually to my scatterbrain is not very orderly at all.
- Maver1c, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4Have you ever used a WACOM Tablet h3lx? I love my intuos to death but for illustrator work like this where all you are basically using is pen tool it is pretty much useless. There is no need for a pressure sensitive tablet with this kind of work. Maybe I could see myself using it to sketch out a basic outline for this piece that its pretty much it.
- h3lx, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2I keep a low end pen I use primarily as a pointer, another high end pen I use for my sensitive brush work. Illustrator sketches just like photoshop in the sense that brushes can be made to behave much the same way. I make my blue-line sketches, raster, make template, then do the fineline work. It's very efficient. I can pretty much mimic a 'real-world' liner brush with illustrator where as Photoshop simply will not do it.
Aside from all of that, Painter X is the *****.
www.h3lx.net
- h3lx, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2I keep a low end pen I use primarily as a pointer, another high end pen I use for my sensitive brush work. Illustrator sketches just like photoshop in the sense that brushes can be made to behave much the same way. I make my blue-line sketches, raster, make template, then do the fineline work. It's very efficient. I can pretty much mimic a 'real-world' liner brush with illustrator where as Photoshop simply will not do it.
- blueRAP, on 05/18/2008, -6/+1WACOM? is that what they're saying instead of "beating meat" now days?
- caillier, on 05/18/2008, -13/+5Woah...I can't believe he put up with vista for that entire piece...kuuudos!
- JAFFA, on 05/18/2008, -0/+13Tut please! ;-)
- marx2k, on 05/18/2008, -2/+0mmM seizure inducing...
- EpicSelekta, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2Buried for causing motion sickness?
- AlexanderCurtis, on 05/18/2008, -1/+8This piece would be more realistic with the inclusion of disembodied thetans & Xenu.
But dude most definitely has skills. - stark2051, on 05/18/2008, -7/+5Does anyone know what the song title/artist is?
- encrypteduser, on 05/18/2008, -0/+6Artist: Portishead
Song: We Carry On
Album: Third- badjoke, on 05/18/2008, -2/+4Thanks! *Adds to blacklist*
- encrypteduser, on 05/18/2008, -0/+6Artist: Portishead
- StinkyPete312, on 05/18/2008, -11/+5Choice of music = poopers
- jobbernowl, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4Thanks for the migraine. I'll return the favor eventually...
- drgirlfriend, on 05/18/2008, -0/+100No wonder it took 40 hours---he's drawing invididual parameciums out in the water.
- p0tent1al, on 05/18/2008, -17/+2He's a great artist, but yet another ignorant Vista user.
"Yeah my OS BSOD'd and crashed a couple of times, no worries though Vista rocks!"- useful_idiot, on 05/18/2008, -1/+2I use macs too and like them. I never said Vista rocks, I've just enjoyed using it.
- TheSnuffster, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1I don't see how that makes him ignorant...
- wedges, on 05/18/2008, -12/+7sure there's a lot of content, but nothing he did was technically very hard. props for the complexity on the whole, but frankly i'm more interested in detail, not volume.
- thebuggalo, on 05/18/2008, -3/+1I was just coming here to post the same thing. It's nothing that no other artist could do, if they had the time and interest. Frankly, I don't find the piece to be too attractive to look at. It's a jumbled mess of items. There is a lot to it, but there was not a time in the video were I was really blown away. I believe anyone who really knows Illustrator could make something like that if they put the same amount of time into it.
- Hijack32, on 05/18/2008, -1/+5Wow that guy has a lot of time to devote...
GO HIM!- iamnobody8614, on 05/18/2008, -0/+140 hrs over several months really isn't that much.
- colin8651, on 05/18/2008, -8/+3"I got some crashes and some BSODs, but obviously those were not captured. On the whole, I've been very happy with the OS, though."
[Sarcasm]I hate it when my XP Pro machine BSOD's [/Sarcasm] - amercer, on 05/18/2008, -1/+15Very Katamari Damacy.
- iNunchuk, on 05/18/2008, -10/+3The woman should of had bigger boobs.
- dtzitz, on 05/18/2008, -4/+32SHOPP... err ILLUSTRATED
- theradical, on 05/18/2008, -4/+222wow he didn't even check facebook once.
- iNiz, on 05/18/2008, -1/+15best comment.
- ammi, on 05/18/2008, -10/+3Worst comment!
- Whadabala, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Yup, even reported!
- andypop481, on 05/18/2008, -1/+3Mediocre comment!
- ammi, on 05/18/2008, -10/+3Worst comment!
- cdrj, on 05/18/2008, -7/+2Great comment. Should be dugg up more.
- Seanathan, on 05/18/2008, -3/+5Haha definitely the best comment. I was sitting there waiting for him to do it, but alas, he's stronger than most of us apparently.
- melonhedd, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1In that he doesn't even have a Facebook account.
- iNiz, on 05/18/2008, -1/+15best comment.
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