Graphic Designer + Recession = Bored in Illustrator
Thinking about hammering out the Tricorder and Phaser too. I have no idea what font they are using for the displays in the new movie. I think it's somewhere between Microgramma Bold Ext and the Terminator font. But I cant hammer it down.
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
Aw crap wrong forum. My bad!!
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
Tweaked a bit
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Moved.
Good work. Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Me likey aloty. Is this based on the new movie prop?
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
Yes, my reference was the toy communicator they recently released. I'm really interested to see how it looks on-screen. I'm really digging the White/Black/Blue/Cyan theme the new movie has going for the ships and tech. I mostly did this because I haven't done anything trek-related in ages, and I wanted to see how I could get lighting effects to work well using only vectors (the glow around the blue orb was created using multiple gradient fills on one object).
Midway through doing this I realize how much I loved doing trek themed art!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The blue glowy part is the deflector- now annoying people will be deflected from your immediate path as you walk down the street.
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
The glowy bit has turned out really well. I wondered how you did it and thought you must've used photoshop for that bit till I read your comment.
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
The glowy bit has a bit of 'clouds' applied which is unfortunately actually a raster image from Photoshop. The glow its 'reflecting' off the bezel around it is what I was referring to as multiple gradient fills.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Ack! CLOUDS?! I occasionally use a tasteful bit of lens flare... but never clouds.
I'll let you slide on it though since it came out so well... Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
There is no tasteful use of Lens Flare.... Unless it's an intentional cheesy gag- like putting a sparkle on someone's teeth or a twinkle in their eye.
Posted by HerbShrump (Member # 1230) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Ack! CLOUDS?! I occasionally use a tasteful bit of lens flare... but never clouds.
I'll let you slide on it though since it came out so well...
Oh dude, I use clouds quite a bit. Not always as the final result mind you. Sometimes though.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I can recall at least two occasions where I used lens flare with a good result.
I also like it for generating reference for a similar effect on traditional illustrations.
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
Use Clouds with Black and White, then difference clouds, then tweak with the curves and add noise and dodge the center of the image, and you get what I got up there. Clouds are okay for some things!
Lens flares can be too, as long as you don't just place one on a pic and do nothing to it. Then everyone knows its a photoshop flare.
I cringe every time I see that default 105mm flare when Amargosa implodes in Generations.
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
I was sad to not spot these at all in my 3 viewings of the movie.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Well I saw a communicator on Spock's belt before he beamed down to Vulcan. But no close up of it.
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