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Post by sanguinehearts »

as for a DOTT poster, you can try this guy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/akutou/233996193/

its his own rendition of the original art, I managed to get a copy of it but he has asked me not to pass it on.

you might be lucky and get him to send you a copy
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Ah, well, the regular DOTT-cover isn't that hard to "reconstruct", since it's already pretty clean line-art. I'm having bigger plans for it, which incorporates Hoagie and Laverne from the rest of the artwork as well:

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But thanks for the heads up anyway!
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While we're at DOTT and vectors, to learn Inkscape I did:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/stuff/dott.png and

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/ ... _error.png

(both created after screenshots from the intro)
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clem wrote:While we're at DOTT and vectors, to learn Inkscape I did:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/stuff/dott.png and

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/ ... _error.png

(both created after screenshots from the intro)
Nice work!

but...but... green tentacle is the good guy! :P not the purple one!
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probably that's why clem called the file "spot_the_error.png" ;-)
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Great, found a nice place to get the posters printed. Now I just hope the magazine isn't lost in the mail (which seems to have happened to my last auction winning :-/)!

clem: Did you follow any tutorials (if they're good, please share some links :-)) or just mess around to learn it?
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[vEX] wrote: clem: Did you follow any tutorials (if they're good, please share some links :-)) or just mess around to learn it?
Just messed around. As usual, I discovered some useful features only afterwards (snap to grid etc, hehe), so I could basically start over. Those pics are not the latest versions, I still have some a little bit more polished ones on HD.
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Check out THIS free online-tool. The best vectorization tool I know.
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Laserschwert wrote:Check out THIS free online-tool. The best vectorization tool I know.
That's impressive! My first attempt yielded this:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/ ... -lobby.png
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Yeah... it helps to use the tool's "edit" function to erase some rogue pixels, that cause artifacts like the ones between the floor-tiles on your image.

It's even easier to screen-grab the image in "edit"-mode (at 100% zoom!), and paste it in Photoshop (or some other graphics-app), because there you usually have more tools to clean up the image. The result can then be fed into VectorMagic again.
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clem wrote:
Laserschwert wrote:Check out THIS free online-tool. The best vectorization tool I know.
That's impressive! My first attempt yielded this:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/ ... -lobby.png
Not bad! I know a lot of artists who still haven't gotten the hang of vector drawing.
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VectorMagic is JUST what I have been looking for
Shame its web only
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Laserschwert wrote:Check out THIS free online-tool. The best vectorization tool I know.
Many thanks for this great tool.
My first attempt: Maniac Mansion (PNG) (here is an EPS if anyone interested).
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Laserschwert wrote:Ah, well, the regular DOTT-cover isn't that hard to "reconstruct", since it's already pretty clean line-art. I'm having bigger plans for it, which incorporates Hoagie and Laverne from the rest of the artwork as well:

http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/vr9y4o1h/cdback.jpg
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That was such a good idea I just had to give it a go myself. It actually comes out pretty good from VectorMagic already, though the sky, as one would guess, doesn't since it's a gradient. Oh, and it's not perfect, Bernards right shoe (the one to the left) is my work, well the bottom half anyway. Can't find it on any picture so I'm guessing some.
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Post by Laserschwert »

Don't bother, I'm already on it:

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I've vectorized all four characters, painting in the missing parts (hello shoe!), and adding shading.

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HERE you can download them in EPS-format.

The poster itself isn't finished yet... the thing above is my low-res mockup. I'm building the full-res poster (60x80cm @ 300dpi) as we speak... uhm... type.

EDIT:
You can now download the full-res-version HERE.
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