Jun 17
Illustrator madness
2004 at 01.10 am posted by Veerle
I’m still recovering from the shock after seeing this lovely cruise ship drawn in Adobe Illustrator. Be sure to zoom in on the different segments of the boat.
Click on the image to see a bigger version of the cruise ship. Recently I’ve been working on a technical scheme in Adobe Illustrator and that for about a day. Nothing compared when you look at this cruise ship. It took the creator of this lovely work of art Kevin Hulsey 720 hours in less then 2 months. Wait, it gets better: the export alone to Photoshop was 9 hours on a G4! The final CYMK file was 640MB and contained 35 layers.
All the hard work pays off because it is mildly put stunning! You can view all the steps needed to create the cruise ship. First the line-art part and after that the Color Work. Very educational. I feel quite small after seeing this ;-)
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I was going to do a post about this ship work but you’ve said it all and presented it nicely!
The fact the illustrator states he worked 90hrs/wk for 2 months on this is amazing - I wonder if he got paid per hour or per job? I’m thinking it’s per job.
The other thing I find interesting is the positioning of a cable directly above the helipad.. Is this just a guide line left in or a mis-spec?
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Speechless! A stunning piece of work … beautiful & awe inspiring. A masterpiece of digital illustration
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fascinating and mindboggling
What I’m wondering, I don’t work with/in Illustrator myself. But is this ‘workable’ in the end, with so much detail in the work?
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@markie, yes I’m sure this is still all workable as long as you have a heavy video card and enough RAM and a fast machine. I’ve worked on illustrations in Illustrator with a lot of layers (over 50 or so) and I mostly use the “eye icons” to hide the other layers, this helps a lot.
I think the things that can make the illustration heavy in Illustrator are the use of patterns and gradients, but once you hide them in the layer it won’t slow down the preview.
Or you could work in wire frame mode, but that’s not always handy, you have to preview now and then to see what you are doing.
Still, this cruise ship doesn’t come close to what I have drawn so far, it’s really impressive.
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Yeah, I saw this a little while ago too. Very impressive indeed. BTW I really dig the styling of your navbar.
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trippy…
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Absolutely amazing. My jaw is on the floor.
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I have been working with clipart and illustrator for many years. I have to say this is the most amazing use of illustrator that I have ever seen. Stunning.
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:O that is brilliant, amazing artwork. The guy must have the paitients of a saint to spend that long in program!
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this one is similar
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• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.
these people are incredible