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You just HAVE to see this

Unbelievable use of the gradient mesh tool in Adobe Illustrator

http://www.photoshopcn.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=150569&fpage=1
from WinCustomize Forums
The site is in Chinese, but the images speak for themselves.
This just totaly blows my mind.

As I don,t have Corel Draw but Adobe Illustrator, I was Googling around to find information on the use of the gradient mesh in Illustrator, and I fell upon this... Just go ahead and check it out. These are NOT pictures, but 100% vector work using the gradient mesh tool. Ooouch!
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yikes!

(Wishing I was one-one hundredth as good as that)

Amazing works.. Thanks for posting the link, Paxx

*goes off sobbing*
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow thanks for refreshing my memory. It have been years since I have last seen that site.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
They have to be starting out with a photo. If you look at the ball glove, it's stained on the thumb strap knot (as would be expected of a real glove)the creasing is a little to "real" . We've used CAD apps for years to produce 3d and we couldn't come close to this, and companies like Pixar and some of the other animation studios would be hard pressed to match this quality given unlimited time to do just 1 of the drawings. If you compare some of the "real world" pics to Yoda, and the dinosaur you can see a big difference in quality.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Lantec is right...too many details are 'real world', not imaginary.

Is the mesh generated from an object scan...or is the object a rendered mesh?

Usually the latter will have a tinge of unreality....some of these do not.

That does not necessarily mean they are just better....it could mean they are faked....to a degree.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I remember a Devart work that looked like a realistic portrait...complete with 'in progress' renders.... yet it was easy as pie to start from an end 'result'...a photograph...and 'devalue' it to imitate a drawing/render process...
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have seen a couple articles on Adobe web site in the Illustrator tutorials where a scanned image was used as a guide to create a mesh - I think it was a tutorial on using the mesh tool and applying color and transparencies.

Jafo may have the right track there.
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I agree with Lantec here. They are starting out with a real photo. On the ball glove, look closely at the registered trademark symbol at the lower right of the word secca in both images. There is a slight difference.
Also, the dog.. no way is that not a photo.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is why I love the mesh tool, I have never tryied anything that compicated. I perfer the mesh tool in Corel to the one in ilustrator, but still these are master peaces. PS. If you look down the list a bit he is using some post effects, bitmap, like on the donut. But thats not to say they arent incredable.
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mormegil has done some tutorials on the Mesh Tool in CorelDraw, which is very similar to the Mesh Tool in Illustrator. You can check them out here: http://mormegil.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?SID=83&aid=61331&UID=299#490237
and
http://mormegil.wincustomize.com/Articles.aspx?SID=83&AID=65716
As well as one on using transparency to give textures to mesh fills here:
http://mormegil.wincustomize.com/Articles.aspx?AID=64100
Here is a sample of some crazy mesh fills that mormegil did
http://mormegil.wincustomize.com/viewskin.aspx?SID=83&skinid=124&libid=18&UID=299
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
impossible............
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not to take anything away from the artist but 3dmax can export to AI format. Never tried it myself as I don't have AI to see what they'd be like. Looking at the complexity of the images I would say they have to have been produced in some sort of 3d application.
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The meshes you see can all be done in Illustrator, though multiple layers are probably used due to the complexity of most of them. Applying transparencies in Illustrator requires mask layers, and direct-selecting the individual paths to apply color in a complex mesh like those shown would be quite the effort.

I also like the mesh tool in CorelDRAW a bit better. The interactive transparency and mesh fill tools are easy to access and use without having to create a lot of layers and masks.

Mormegil shows how easy it can be in his Icon-A-Day and accompanying videos, and is obviously an advanced (may I say "Master") artist of these great techniques.

Having used Illustrator for some time now, I see that Illustrator can do the same job, but it takes a few more steps.
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm learning how to use the gradient mesh tool now. I thought my beetle was good!
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Damn can this be real???I mean God this guys have patience.
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Amazing..thanks Wizop paxx.