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OMG Alistor
I FINALLY FINISHED IT. Took me god knows how many hours to retrace and color the whole thing but I did it. Took a scan which I'll post and did a 1:1 scale model of it. Consider it fanboyism, but I won't likely do anything on this scale for a long time (maybe on some original work) but for now I can leave this one done.
>> Alistor
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The original scan.
>> Anonymous
>>73297
holy shit, nice work
there's an small mistake in it, left side, sleeve, y missed a spot, it's white when it's suppose to be black

and i know what you mean, i tried doing a kaliedo star vector from a scan cuz it was so beautiful, i'm done the hair outline and i gave it, cuz it was too hard when i did the easiest part
>> Alistor
>>73301
I knew there would be a few tiny spots but when shrunk down a bit they dissapear. That and I used Photoshop 7 for everything so I took the hard way.
>> Anonymous
This is really, really nice. Good job!

...are there any vector tutorials (Photoshop or Illustrator) that anybody here can recommend?
>> Anonymous
Great work!
Could we have the PNG of this?
>> Anonymous
ZOMG! PNG PLZ!
>> Anonymous
Larger please! png please!
>> Ririko
FOLY HUCK. BUMP FOR YOU, FINE SIR.
>> Anonymous
>>73326
>>73389
>>73426
>> Anonymous
APPROVED
>> Anonymous
SWEET JESUS "IT'S A LION" CHRIST ON TOAST!
Need somewhere to turn this into a poster...
Hell, I'd wallpaper my apartment in this
>> Anonymous
SPICY HOT JPEG ARTIFACTS
>> Anonymous
if you still have the psd, could you post a png for us purists and assholes.

FINE FINE JOB SIR!
>> Alistor
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Because the response has been so great I'll upload a PNG version. I sometimes forget that the limits here aren't like in the other forums. As for making it larger it's at native size. Not shrunk down a bit and for the life of me I don't know of any quick tricks to make it significantly larger without some quality loss. My bad for not thinking that far ahead but in the long run my computer would likely burst into flames. Oh well! Thanks for the support!
>> Anonymous
>>73525
how come the reflection on Canti's face is missing? :(
>> Anonymous
>>73547
off of Haruko's goggles and the camera too.
>> Alistor
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Epic failure on my part. I was fooling around with the PSD and well... gah, well here it is! (again!)
>> Anonymous
>>73567
thank you sir, you win an internet
>> Anonymous
Fucking win, how long did this take you (estimated)
>> Alistor
well, spending a few hours a day recently to finish it (about 3 hrs/day), doing the lines was the loooooooong part and I stopped doing it for awhile and would have given up but I already did 2/3s of it so I didn't want to waste it. It's probably a solid week or so of work if I just sat on my ass all day and just went with the grind.
>> Anonymous
>>73580

This is VERY appreciated, my good sir. It just looks fucking awesome.

A question: with the PSD file you have, is it possible to upscale this without losing detail? (as it is with a vector resize)
>> Tocasia
Fucking nice job, you win... Ninamori always win.
>> Anonymous
You do know thir is a photoshop seting, that dos the same thing you just did and takes 20 secounts.
>> BrendantheJedi !o5NyCIz76o
The only complaint I have with the pic is how the shadding fucks with Haruko's hair. Other than that, the pic is total win.
>> Anonymous
>>73732
Sure. I believe you. No really I do. :P
>> Anonymous
Holy Shit that's magic! <3
>> Anonymous
R/S the psd? please?
>> rustedshut
Totally right on, man. I was thinking as it loaded, "This image is prime quality." And I'll be damned if you're the one that made it. Well done.
>> Anonymous
>>73732
Are you thinking of "Despecle"?
>> Anonymous
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>>73811
No not just Despecle
#1 use Despecle
#2 change the image size to 15000 x 20950 4 gig ram is good.
#3 Use Median Radius set to arount 15.
Change image size back to norm.
I only went to 7,000.
This pc only has 1 gig ram.
>> Anonymous
>>73901
lol only.
>> Anonymous
ram is cheap get more
>> Anonymous
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I hope you realize that the picture you posted is just as shitty as the original scan, whereas the OP's is a vector trace.
>> Anonymous
>>74075
I hope you realize that the picture I posted was not fully compleat and matches more persice the original as the original scan, whereas the OP's is is modafided.
we are teying to make it look like the origenel art that was printed on that poster.
>> Anonymous
>>74099
has ha jha, kh wowq
>> Anonymous
>>74106
kja ptak!
>> Anonymous
>>74116
>>74106
fgsfds

>>73297
alistor = god
>> Anonymous
>>74099
I agree.

>>74075
Vector trace is fine but when it is used to alter the lines in the original. it fucking fails. Why not just re ink the pic. Or why not spit in the face of the original artist . That is what you are doing.
>> Anonymous
>>74099
>>74184
Bullshit.

The scan is not preferable to the vector for three reasons:

1. Its coloring is inconsistent, full of moire patterns due to its having been printed. The method used by>>73901does not eliminate this problem.

2. The lines are indefinite and soaked in JPEG artifacts.>>73901does not fix this but exacerbates the problem, rendering originally black lines into blurred gray smudges. It does not look like you tried to make the original look better, for in fact, it lacks any clarity the original once had.

3. The vector does not have any meaningful difference in lineart. The vector trace looks like just that, a trace. Were it to look precisely the same as the scan, it would be a poor excuse for an /hr/ post. You're not required to like it.

The vector is preferable to the scan for the following three reasons:

1. The lines are tight, defined, and imposed on smooth colors. Remember, the on-screen artwork of FLCL was originally created and colored using the assistance of computers.
>> Anonymous
>>74210
dumb ass blear out the patterns due to its having been printed. and do not alter it. make it look as cloce to posable as the origenel un printed pic.
mod = fan art no mader how cloce it looks to the origenel.

PS i am missspelling so you can posable under asand me better.
>> Anonymous
>>74213
Blurring the picture makes it look blurry, does not eliminate the pattern, and alters the pic. It is a change from the original, so it is fan art by your own definition. You change the pic, you end up with fan art, no matter how close it looks to the original. In fact, the very act of scanning changes the pic. If there is dust on the pic being scanned, if there are JPEG artifacts upon it, it's all an alteration of the original. Your own definition slices your argument to ribbons. The vector is a better change than making it look like a blurred mess. Vector wins. You fail.

P.S. You are misspelling because you are incompetent. Do you under asand me?
>> Anonymous
>>74213
Call it fan art if you like, it's still high-quality work. It's also a good thing that making a trace doesn't somehow destroy the original scan. That way, you can enjoy the scan and ignore the traces that you seem to hate so much.

Vectors have a few more advantages beyond subjective image quality that I've noticed:

1. Scale up/down easily without ever losing objective quality (or needing 4 GB of ram?). This is a boon for printing and for increasing the size of smaller images.

2. Dramatic file-size saving. The OPs file in a proper vector format would probably be about 200 or 300 KB.

3. Recycling: it can be trivial to remove an element from a picture and reuse it elsewhere. Like in a wallpaper or a flash movie.

However vectors do have a very large disadvantage:
They require lots of effort to make.

>The vector is a credit to the vector-tracers of 4chan, and exemplifies the fine artwork of the original work better than other techniques of improving the scan.
>> Sim
>>74220
Would you vector tracers be willing to point me in the direction of learning your ways? Please tell me there's more than going over everything with the pen tool.
>> Anonymous
>>73901

Whatever you did to the original scan as shown>>73298...you made it 100x worse. So what was the point of even showing it? Are you blind, or just stupid?

Vectoring it is not spitting in the face of the original artist. In fact it's pretty much just copying something that already exists, but in doing so, we are making it so you can resize it to anything necessary...so maybe if you want a big ass fucking poster...you can print one now thanks to the OP.

Good work OP...that is an incredible job you did, and I am very impressed by your patience to do such a taskfull job!
>> Anonymous
jesus fucking christ you people are picky bitches. just enjoy the work, if you dont like it move along.