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searching for a flash movie about a little disabled kid drawing his fantasy and then being taken into that fantasy.

starts of with him sitting in a classroom and the kids all playing outside and he starts drawing.

He is a pirate and a mermaid (male)

its an older flash movie, maybe about 8 years old. ending music is by coldplay.

At 3/24/13 05:09 PM, Morthagg wrote: Dans le port d'Amsterdam, y'a des marins qui boivent
Et qui boive et reboivent
Et qui reboivent encore

I was surprised by his pronunciation of ´amsterdam´, but I guess Belgians are able to do so. This song strangely enough reminded me of the most standard dutch meal; haricot verts with potatoes and a meatball, so french...were all fkkn french! idk I popped a molly

At 3/21/13 07:21 AM, LegolaSS wrote:

...and without a mouse, I'm not sure I have too many options for techniques of shading...

No mouse?... what are you using!?... and it shouldn't matter what program or equipment you have, where you apply the shading should still be the same regardless

^This. plz dont tell me youre doing this on a laptop touchpad, 'cause then it would be awesome

At 3/20/13 04:50 PM, Flowers10 wrote: I could make something for you, but im not going to enter a contest...
The 50$ would barely cover the hours i'd spend into making it, and im not even sure i will get that amount, or anything.

rofl, luckily I am way more efficient then you and can create masterpieces in a blink of an eye!

btw OP you want a background? or transparent

At 3/20/13 09:55 AM, Morthagg wrote: Ohhh boy, I've been wanting a cintiq for a while now, but I can't afford one. I totally want to go for this one but it looks like you don't ship outside of the US, is that right?

that was what I was thinking, but even if he did ship it outside US, it will cost about 40-50 dollars I think. assuming you want to insure it.

At 3/19/13 03:51 PM, Lucky wrote:
Did you not hit expand when i gave you the live trace suggestions yesterday :P And the white space tick enabled means you dont need to clear off the non black it will be gone on expand

Ah you meant expand the advanced menu. Yes I did this and tried to fondle with it a bit but this didnt account to much.

At 3/19/13 06:37 PM, Kinsei01 wrote:
no no, it works. you just have to kind of take an extra step. I know that seems like a hassle, but when you don't want to lose all the white it comes in handy. I'd do some screen shots to demonstrate, but I don't have Illustrator installed on my new computer yet.

I tried to figure out what it is exactly what you were explaining. I mean I am now able to use all the functions in AI, but I have no clue what you mean.

Could be a version issue as well, since I see a lot of people complaining and praising the new image trace function. i DONT have live trace, its gone.

btw coming back on the previously names method using the shape builder tool, I guess I now get what the idea is, but its not possible. Since I have to use image trace BEFORE I can manipulate the picture at all (that includes expanding) I lose my white outer lines. Its simple as that, either I ignore white and lose my lines, or I do not ignore white and lose my lines to the white background. I can expand and use all tools I want, but the file lost the information of the white lines....

And on a side note; when I use image trace, it somehow seems like the picture stays in a sort of preview mode (which as far as I know isnt). for example; I image trace the picture and then move it a bit on my clipboard. AI will then render the picture again. If I try to adjust the color balance (with preview on) I immediately see the change, but the picture will then again render like it does when I first image traced it. The graphics wont change, but it keep rendering for every small thing I do, seems weird.

At 3/19/13 08:14 PM, ornery wrote:
My question is do I throw my comp out the window in frustration, or shoot my self in the head first.

Its true though, I have no clue what I am doing. I'm currently trying to erase a small corner of an image and I just cant do it... its driving me fkkn nuts

At 3/19/13 03:51 PM, Lucky wrote:

At 3/19/13 03:24 PM, Tomsan wrote:

At 3/19/13 12:54 PM, Spags wrote:

WORKED!!!! its not ideal (messes a tiny bit with short corners), so I will be looking into it further, but for now thank you so much.

Did you not hit expand when i gave you the live trace suggestions yesterday :P And the white space tick enabled means you dont need to clear off the non black it will be gone on expand

I did play around with expand, but yesterday it didnt account to much. I will not however ignore your advice. I now 'know' what expands does and will try to use it. The method that worked is still a bit messy anddevious. I will post an answer once I know what I am doing. I just didnt immediatly understand excactly what you were saying, and was a bit reticent in admitting so.

At 3/19/13 06:07 PM, Kinsei01 wrote: When using live trace, and I need to delete certain parts after wards. I like to use the select same color option rather the ignore white option. This is of course after expanding.
Use a combination of the eye dropper tool and the select same color to get options beyond just white.
just my two and a half cents...

but if I understand this correctly that will not work when some of the outer linings of the original picture are white. the BG will turn white and AI wont discriminate between the white lines and the BG anymore.. correct?

At 3/19/13 12:54 PM, Spags wrote:
Okay, so there's probably a more straightforward way of doing this, but what you can do is give your illustration an extra black stroke on the outside before placing it in Illustrator. Once you've placed it, do your live trace, and then expand it. Once it's expanded, you can just select the extra black outline and the white background with your direct selection tool and delete them. The black is basically just acting as a shield to your white outline.

WORKED!!!! its not ideal (messes a tiny bit with short corners), so I will be looking into it further, but for now thank you so much.

abc

for example how would one image trace this picture? assuming the blue BG is transparent and without losing the white lines

When I open a png file I am not able to use any tool from the side bar. I cannot for example use paintbrush, it gives this 'denied' sign when hovering over the image. layers are NOT locked. the same goes for shape builder tool

I can manually select a brush (not the same as load brushes) and paint, but shape builder tool is not working.

(CS6)

argh! There is this thingy I cant figure out. I find it way more difficult to find info online on illustrator compared to PS.
I am using image trace to convert png (and psd) files to vectors. Very simple and effective, but to keep a transparent background I have to select "ignore white". only some of the files I want to convert include white outer linings that I want to keep in the vector. If I select 'ignore white' those lines will be removed, but if I dont select 'ignore white' illustrator will fill the (previously transparent) background with all white.

I tried using invert colors then image trace and invert back, but this isnt applicable when you also have black in it (since it will go white).

Since I have to do this trick a few times, I really wanna know the solution to this. Its sound so obvious, but I cannot find an answer anywhere.

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At 3/19/13 11:23 AM, ReNaeNae wrote:

if I dont select 'ignore white' illustrator will fill the (previously transparent) background with all white.

Look for tutorials on the Shape Builder Tool. That will probably solve all your problems.
If you have any other issues, post them or pm me. I will happily help when I can.
Good luck :)

with consent of Renaenae I am starting this thread dedicated to adobe illustrator questions. Ill probably be active here the coming few days, and I will also try to answer my own questions when I find get them from another source. It seems that information on illustrator is more scarce then, for example, photoshop, so hence this topic.

I am new to illustrator and am a bit baffled that my PS experience means nothing.

--dont forget to mention your AI version--

Well asuming I can avoid hordes of zombies, I guess an individual zombie cant hurt me when I wear my motorcycle outfit and just ducttape all the parts that need to be ducttaped. put on my helmet and they can bite as much as they want.

probably more suited here

At 3/13/13 04:18 PM, Luwano wrote:
I once wanted to print something on my hoodie and they told me flex print only allowed 4 colors at their place. I just looked up an online store and they only allow 3 colors. So I guess it's not something suited for full color PNGs.

If you import PNGs to illustrator, I assume it automatically renders them into vector based images, thus resulting in a quality loss. Lucky or Nae would know a lot more about this I guess.

You should ask the print shop for details anyways, but if you uploaded or linked an example design, people can mich easier help you. Or is it something we can find in your thread already?

Well I did ask for specifics to the seller (no answer yet), but I dont wanna come off as a complete newb on the subject since I am trying to get him to sell my designs. Which is worth more for me then for him I guess.

anyway the questions are as broad as one may interpreted them. I have made some vector graphs, but only for texts, I am hoping that I can atleast convert some designs from PNG (or psd) without problems.

You confirmed my ideas about flex priniting, Ill do some more reserach on converting to illustrator.

thx

Hi,

I was wondering if any of you can tell me a bit more on flex printing as opposed to digital printing techniques. I am currently negotiating with a online webshop to sell some of my designs, but they only offer flex printing. As far as I know flex printing is not suited for gradients of colors. Also I believe that flex printing requires vector designs in .svg, .ai, .eps formats. Is this true? is a .PNG file not fitted for flex printing?

actually I know and understand very little about flex printing on shirts and what this entails. What are the limitations and what is possible. If I import .psd or.PNG files into adobe illustrator it fucks the picture up quite badly, why is that?

I am trying to research it, but thought I might ask this here as well

thx

At 3/12/13 05:51 PM, hopelesswonder wrote: Hello Fellow NGers :)

Full details can be found here.

although your rules are clear and you did provide your target audience, I am a bit confused as to what it is that your blog aims at... hot chicks, MMA fighters and gamers? If you like you could provide us with some more directions on what you have in mind.

At 3/9/13 05:50 PM, theflog wrote: Looking for artist who can do an angry bird style picture.
I want to do Dog version of the Angry Birds. Red, Yellow, Black, White.


Can you give me a price and message me here with examples of your work?

I might pic this up, but do you have a time limit? 'cause I am not sure how soon I will be able to work on it

At 3/9/13 06:40 PM, Luwano wrote:

At 3/9/13 06:34 PM, Tomsan wrote: stuff

Either way, he deleted it and there is no need for any additional negativity when it has been resolved. vkreate responded reasonable and did the right thing.

crocodile tears, a 9 yo could (and shouldf) realize its silly to do and post in an art forum. btw I am not sure as to how to interpreted "I rebrushed the whole thing"

dude lol! fuck tracing, I do that (outer lines) and I am not ashamed of it at all.

Well you should probably rethink your attitude. Maybe this is partly why some of your pics don't look homogenous, but more like a collage of stuff with different angle / perspective sometimes. Tracing is also frowned upon usually.

opinions opinions, I can only think of one pic that looks weird because the outer linings were traced, and you will probably not be able to tell which one it is. So as far as your 'insult' is concerned its probably more due to my lack of skill

At 3/9/13 06:09 PM, Otto wrote:

At 3/9/13 05:56 PM, vkreate wrote: no in fact i used a downloaded brush and re brushed the whole thing i know it isnt exactly original but there is more to it than you think and i appreciate you being curious :D

Did you use the colour-picker and re-brush it on another layer, on top of the original? This is tracing. It seems like you did; a lot of your work does seem that way. You seem a very friendly and pleasant person so it would be a shame if it does. If you're really not then I can't apologise enough! But you must understand it happens a lot and it diminishes real effort.

dude lol! fuck tracing, I do that (outer lines) and I am not ashamed of it at all. but this isnt tracing. This is without a doubt just an altered picture with excessive use of smudge or whatever and probably a filter or 2. He did not paint one bit of this picture. There are a few signs that show this, e.g. the sudden detail in one of the jewelry where he forgot to smudge. lmao

At 3/8/13 11:11 AM, balto7 wrote: look at my art pls
and if you want vote or comment

not rlly how it works. post your art in this thread. I however looked in your account, its oke, but just the same boring anime style errbody uses.

At 3/7/13 02:24 PM, maficmelody wrote: I like it! The one idea I do have though would be to consider having the guy's arms spread out sort of in that "this is mine" fashion of an air-hug. This probably a design thing but I'm not a fan of the Queen's legs disappearing behind the rock. As I redraw the torso and such in my head it doesn't add up.

Thanks mafic, glad you like it. I kinda like the idea of an ´air hug´, its a big change (for me) however, but ill look into it. The legs were longer in the start, but it didnt really look right then. I replaced the rock twice. I think though that I can color the rock in such a way the dimensions are a bit more realistic.

thx

This one is nearly finished. Its a Tshirt design for the occasion of Queensday. Our queen resigned and the new king will be inaugurated on queensday. All hail the king!

anyway I am hoping someone is willing to give some pointers if needed. The rock is unfinished. I used fat black lines which is better if its a tshirt design, but since The faces are pretty detailed I am not sure if it fits. all ideas are welcome..

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/471bf1c765a68cb6fc422122 5a05d107

At 3/6/13 07:07 AM, LittleNerdyGem wrote: any tip for
- colouring
- shading
- highlights
- shadows
- make sure all areas are filled in
- realistic
- detail
- texture
need help on all but you dont have to answers all of them
in traditional art or photoshop and flash

were you supposed to include a picture you drew? or just wanting general advice on the named topics? if its the latter then I think youre better off googling those topics and read/watch tutorials.

basically your asking how to draw period, but whole books have been written about that so I am not sure as to what you are expecting.

if you include a drawing however people can comment on that

At 3/2/13 04:20 PM, Morthagg wrote: Oh, and some other faces.
I challenged myself to draw bald, fat, and relatively androgynous heads and have them still look significantly different.
Also good practice.

top left; britney spears?

At 2/28/13 02:10 PM, Cairos wrote:

At 2/28/13 10:28 AM, Tomsan wrote: can someone please give some pointers on how to make this better?

Your details are lost in darkness and the greens are nearly black. Brighten it up my friend.
Try to make the giant more blue to have him belong in the background.
Good luck.

thanks mayun! The darkness is also a bit of issue on NG. In PS its much much brighter, though darker then your version. a lot of details are lost somehow when uploading. Though I noticed it also depends on what kind of screen I watch it (desktop shows more detail on NG then on laptop). I think Ill lighten things up once the drawing is done, but I do intend to keep the big difference between light and dark. (again, how it shows now on my desktop in paintshop is the right coloring)

I really like what you did with the branch, ill copy that. I also agree that I need to make the giant more blueish. Also the arm positioning is nicer in your version. thanks

can someone please give some pointers on how to make this better? I am reasonably satisfied with the left part, including the giant, but the right side needs work. This is my first try working this 'technique' and I am a little like a fish on dry land. I would appreciate feedback

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/9ef73e9d01d41f1360a57538 d141dd98

At 2/27/13 09:01 AM, Decky wrote:

At 2/19/13 01:06 PM, Decky wrote: 3D purple planet, been a while since I tried 3D.

Using the same sort of technique I've started to make what I think I might use as a title page in my portfolio for up and coming university interviews. What do you think so far?

haha that looks awefull! I know you can take it.

The opposing light sources make no sense. bright light on the mountains from the front and pretty bright light on the planets from the side/back.

At 2/27/13 02:36 AM, Lucky wrote:

At 2/26/13 11:55 PM, Sifyro wrote: I live in South America, if i create a design and i win how i would get the prices?

Paypal + your bank account

it says visa gift card. So I dont see problems for outside US participants