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"

m0j0

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

m0j0

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.



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."



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...



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...




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



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.



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.

mental pimp

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

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

M-ster

Good Job Mockngbrd!

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

mental pimp

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

Mockngbrd

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

carnut

You guys are very talented. Neat stuff!

thklam

This is a wallpaper I had done long time ago

thklam

Here is another one

mental pimp

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

thklam

I use photoshop