Who uses Illustrator?

Skeebadeetz · Post by **Skeebadeetz** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 5:29 pm

Just recently, I've considered purchasing Adobe Illustrator for making bumpers and overlaying text on pictures. What do you normally do with this program? I just would like to know before I order. Thanks.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 5:31 pm

Illustrator is a vector graphics paint program.

I think you'd be better served with Photoshop if all you really want to do is image overlays.

Illustrator is more for doodling :p Well trying stuff, like stuff you'd use in a flash animation, that's a example of vector art :p

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 5:32 pm

DRAWING not trying stuff WTF!?

Also that's text overlays on images...

I am out of it people :p

~klinky

Skeebadeetz · Post by **Skeebadeetz** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 6:16 pm

klinky wrote:Illustrator is a vector graphics paint program.

I think you'd be better served with Photoshop if all you really want to do is image overlays.

Illustrator is more for doodling :p Well trying stuff, like stuff you'd use in a flash animation, that's a example of vector art :p

~klinky

Yo, Klinky! Thanks man, btw, doo you know of any AMVs that have Illustrator-ized images?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 6:37 pm

Well I don't know of any AMVs that use it, but if you want a example then I would check out penny-arcade.com. I am not sure if he uses Illustrator but that's pretty much what vector graphics look like.

Also if you look at some pure blash animations and you right click and zoom in on them, you'll notice that they don't get pixelized like bitmap/photo images. This is because vector graphics, use vectors(lines) that can be mathmatically scaled to produce clear graphics while bitmap images use a grid with defined colors that doesn't scale so well.

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 6:39 pm

pure FLASH! animation :\ my typing / brain is out of it.

I got up two hours ago after sleeping 16hrs, before of which I stayed up for 32hrs :\

~klinky

Mechaman · Post by **Mechaman** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 6:41 pm

No. Gabe has publicly stated he only uses Photoshop. He _might_ be using the vector graphic system to some degree, but he does most of his work by hand and tablet.

Illustrator(and Freehand, which I prefer) are more geared towards print and page-layout work, since scaling becomes critical in these applications. Video overlays are much, much simpler.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 6:44 pm

Oooh ;p

Well it damn looks vector to me :p

Photoshop I wouldn't be surprised if he used Photoshops paths system then :p Still it's a good example on what teh vectors gfx look like kinda ;p

~klinky

Skeebadeetz · Post by **Skeebadeetz** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 7:12 pm

Okay, guys. I'm just going to purchase Photoshop instead. Coolness 8)