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Simoun Again NegativeZero !b7g0lwC/7.
My weekly Simoun trace is late this week. This trace took an absolute ton of fucking around and finding out just how shitty Illustrator is. The vector got so complicated (nearly 200 layers, and I estimate close to 500 paths) that Illustrator started to hang while saving. Had to disable the PDF compatibility in the file to stop it bloating to 4-5mb and choking illustrator to death.
>> NegativeZero !b7g0lwC/7.
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1600x1200.
>> NegativeZero !b7g0lwC/7.
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Here's a re-creation of the original eyecatch. Sorry, 1920x1200 only - it just doesn't crop down well.
>> NegativeZero !b7g0lwC/7.
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Finally, a Sepia-toned version of the framed one. Again, 1920x1200 only, sorry.
>> Ex-narutard
How does this work? Do you have to do some manual work or do you just set requested quality or something and puch "Trace" button?
>> Anonymous
>>141214do you just set requested quality or something and puch "Trace" button

Kind of funny, you do have an option like that in Illustrator. But no, the kind of work N-Zero does is the manual construction of colored shapes layered to make an image that can be exported to a nice file type near you.
>> Anonymous
Excellent job as always! Your tracing is some of the very best I've seen around here.
>>141214
Vector tracing is a fully manual affair. You take a source picture, blow it up and start laying vector layers upon it one by one. I've done a bit of that myself (~10 traces or thereabouts) so I can appreciate how much work NZero puts into his.
>> NegativeZero !b7g0lwC/7.
>>141214

Illustrator CS2 did introduce a 'Live Trace' facility, however it's generally crappy and only works on very simple images. Instead, it's all got to be done manually, meaning hours of work. Anal-retentives only stuff.
>> Lee-San
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>> Anonymous
You win many awards for this! Fabulous!!!
>> Anonymous !VAepLw811Y
>>141200
Good stuff as always. Keep up the excellent work.