first wheel done... hehehe...
thanx to RX8 Zoomster for image of his RX8.... :)
will post more as it develops... :)

Adobe Illustrator?

I don't get it :confused:

Photoshop will outline with 1 button.... it might not be perfect though.

what are you trying to do

naw... using Flash to illustrate...
dun like those automated tools.... dun look as good.....
i'm not just creating an outline.... doing the whole car as an illustrated image... (now only got the front wheel done)

like these (though these are downsized considerably):
http://www.freewebz.com/mockngbrd/swoggie.txt
http://www.freewebz.com/mockngbrd/g2.txt

Just something i like to do..... :)

You've got waay too much time on your hands.

:P

yeh i'm doing a cell shaded version of the car atm

here is my n00b attempt

About 1/3 thru... sleepy now....Zzzzzz.....

...

no time for sleep we want to see the final result. :)

Getting better..

here's another 1 i just done over the last 3 hours lol

very nice mojo. is that hand drawn? i drank a few beers and watched hbo boxing in the last 3 hours. :)

black and white

nah it's not hand drawn did it on my comp. Any good fights on?

Originally posted by m0j0
nah it's not hand drawn did it on my comp. Any good fights on?

Jerry Springer count?

...could you say what that program is again? I could see how this is used for many illustrations, etc.

Thanks,

jcs

The Program i used is Photoshop but i don't do it the easy way because it doesn't look any good that way.

I slowly make it with a straight line tool when it is zoomed in like 300% it take ages...

i'll post the easy way so u can compare the differences

here

the 1 "step one" (using a filter) still looks ok but looks to much like the photo

where the one that takes more time looks alot more toony

mmm... i'd say 3/4 done....
time to sleep again... :P
here's a black with pink lines test pic... :P
(thanx again to RX8 Zoomster for the great pic to work on)

Those all look pretty good... I like mockngbrd's one where it was aobut 1/3 done. It looked like the drawn one was emerging from the photo. Everything I've seen by M0j0 so far has been pretty decent... There's some talent there... Do you do that for a living?
I wish I had photoshop. I think I would be pretty good at it b/c I do all my drawing on Paint and people like it. They often ask if I did it using Photoshop or sometimes even autoCAD. Everything takes forever using Paint though. You gotta go pixel by pixel.

-JiM

i did this with a pic of my car, i thought it looked kinda cool

horde that does look cool

Yeah Horde that is pretty cool. I set it as my desktop

thanks guys! here's another variation, maybe more or less cool.

DONE!!!!!!! quite happy wif it.... :)

without background.. :) :) :)

cool. maybe you could do a collage of all the different exterior colors.

very accurate

Is it vectorized then?

...no offense M0j0...but I liked the girl better; in fact is there more to here

Beautiful eyes.

wat girl? :confused:

Are you talking about my sig?

damn
the girl is gone

bummer

multi colored

yes thats it! is there a way to arrange them in a more random way instead of in sequential order? can the pictures be rotated to show the rear or side?

good work man!

hows about a black 1?

hmmm... black is kinda hard cos if its black..most of the detials will be lost... but here's one:

Wish i could rotate it ard., its acutally not possible (it like asking if the car in the original pic could be turned around)... wld be nice if i could though...hahaha... :)

yea thats what i thought. the original is static so there's not much you can do.

mojo
you brought the girl back
nice

I likes

yep :P

Originally posted by Mockngbrd
Wish i could rotate it ard., its acutally not possible (it like asking if the car in the original pic could be turned around)... wld be nice if i could though...hahaha... :)

I remember watching Enterprise or some such sci-fi program where they took a picture and extrapolated out the 3d image. Hey... get that program!!

Very Sharp! I really like the first completed one with background still in place. Cartoon on a live background. Great Job.

--JiM

hahaha... thanx for all the comments... :)
I remember watching Enterprise or some such sci-fi program where they took a picture and extrapolated out the 3d image. Hey... get that program!!
i'd rather get an Enterprise... :P

How hard is it to learn how to do that...and exactly how much time did it take? Is there a website that can teach me...I know how to use photoshop, but not that well. I would love to learn though. Looks friggin AWESOME by the way.

all i do is outline all the reflections and the fill them in with a sample of the colour thats already there.

here's tha RE Amemiya car tooned that i did last week



http://members.optushome.com.au/m0j0/rx8/step.jpg

http://members.optushome.com.au/m0j0/rx8/re%20toon.jpg

Looks GOOD...i just wish there was a good step by step tutorial or something.

u can try this guy(Makoto Garage)... he's great... he does covers for japanese magazines / for those model car kit boxes.... though the sites in Japanese... maybe can run it thru a translator..

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/

everyone has their own way of doing this stuff though....
mojo uses photoshop, i use macromedia Flash and the Japanese guy uses Illustrator.... its up to u to find which u prefer.

http://www.fan.hi-ho.ne.jp/m-garage/frame.html

there is a "let's draw section"
http://www.age.jp/~m-garage/gallery/comical4/360-245/gtJunior-red-360.jpg

there must be some on the net... i learnt myself i'll look 4 a tutorial u

here's a tutorial

*NOTE*
this is not my tutorial and not how i do it but it is a way !!

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Start with your picture, probably one that is full of reflections, it makes it look better in the end.

http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/toon/step1.jpg

Make any modifications that you want to in the image right now. It's a best bet to shave the door handles and the emblems, because they are a pain to "cartoonify."

http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/toon/step2.jpg

Make sure you select the line tool and set it at black and start outlining the car, the panels, and the major reflections. Like the picture below. You can add the lines on a different layer if you'd like, but I did not choose to...

http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/toon/step3.jpg

Then select the Polygonal Lasso Tool and select an area between the black lines that you made. Or select an area with a similar color, not necessarily one that is between black lines. Like so...


http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/toon/step4.jpg

Select the eyedropper tool as illustrated above, and sample a color within that area of your selection and fill it with the paintbucket. If you do not know where the paintbucket is, it is under the gradient tool, just right click and it should reveal the paintbucket tool. Alternatively, you can press ALT+Backspace, and it'll fill it just fine

http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/toon/step5.jpg

Just repeat this to the other parts of the car. Here's a look at the "cartooning" in process. You might want to make the windows black, it'll save you a lot of time. Also I used a gradient for the side windows because the original windows looked similar to that. Make sure, everynow and then zoom out and make sure everything looks right.

http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/toon/step6.jpg

Keep in mind if a section that you filled with color looks like crap, then leave it alone. For example lights such as the headlights should be generally left alone unless you have some extreme patience. It's amazing how one section of the picture can make the car look like crap.

Here's the final result. When you save as a jpeg, go to File>Save for Web and put the quality at whatever you want, preferably the highest, and set the blur to 0.5, it'll produce a nicer result without as many jagged edges.


http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/toon/step8.jpg

Originally posted by Mockngbrd
u can try this guy(Makoto Garage)... he's great... he does covers for japanese magazines / for those model car kit boxes.... though the sites in Japanese... maybe can run it thru a translator..

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/

everyone has their own way of doing this stuff though....
mojo uses photoshop, i use macromedia Flash and the Japanese guy uses Illustrator.... its up to u to find which u prefer.

http://www.fan.hi-ho.ne.jp/m-garage/frame.html

there is a "let's draw section"
http://www.age.jp/~m-garage/gallery/comical4/360-245/gtJunior-red-360.jpg

i have the flash mx program, wat do i to do wat u did to cars??
i tried trace bitmap but it doesnt come out like yours

i did not use trace bitmap, i used the line tool and individually drew out the outlines/highlights of the car... took me 3 nights...

no shortcut if u want it to turn out nice

Good Job Mockngbrd!

Are you in interactive, not many people would use Flash to do graphic. Keep it up:cool:

Originally posted by Mockngbrd
i did not use trace bitmap, i used the line tool and individually drew out the outlines/highlights of the car... took me 3 nights...

no shortcut if u want it to turn out nice

wow, i do that too, but u got mad skillz, keep it up :D

thanx for the compliment.. :)
yup... was trained in interactive.... but prefer doing graphic work...
use flash to do my illustrations cos i think its easier than using Freehand or Illustrator...... ;p

You guys are very talented. Neat stuff!

This is a wallpaper I had done long time ago

Here is another one

did u draw it or waT? it looks like u did it by hand AWSOME

I use photoshop