Made using Illustrator CS2

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m142/deegsitis/Martinez_Diego_DigitalIllus.jpg

impressive

looks very cool but i'm not positive what is really that awesome about the transition. i have limited photoshop talent myself but admire other peoples work

that's made entirely in illustrator. it's just a bunch of vectors(lines), man. not a real photo. i was trying to take illustrator as far as it can go in showing 2D realism.

if i were to take all of the colour away from it, you'd see a wireframe skeleton.

thats pretty fucking cool man- how oes it work? you draw the fish freehand then render it?

i used a reference. so there is a photograph out there on the web that i tried to imitate. i gave up the attempt at hyper realism after several hours and just made it purtier.

you just draw the basic grid structure of it, then fill in the colour. that's what i did anyway. im sure there are better ways of doing something like this.

in english bitch! so what you traced over a photo then removed the photo and rendered it?

i got the shape from the photograph, then i sampled colour from it. took forever and i'll never do it again.

is the rest of it done by the plastic wrap effect? like the one in photoshop?

i got the shape from the photograph, then i sampled colour from it. took forever and i'll never do it again.

how long?

i would have stuck a floating tit instead of the fish

is the rest of it done by the plastic wrap effect? like the one in photoshop?

no, i used mostly the mesh tool. it makes some nice gradients if you can get a handle on controlling the fucking thing.

im gonna dl it and have a fuck around - i'll bother you for tips and tricks shortly!

i would have stuck a floating tit instead of the fish

FUCK! thta would have been much cooler, but the asian kids in the computer lab would have thought it weird to be looking at a bagged tit for that many hours.

i honestly don't know how long this took, but i know for sure that i fucking hate lines now.

i honestly don't know how long this took, but i know for sure that i fucking hate lines now.

Is very cool, for sure. Nice job.