On May 23, 12:04 pm, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <el...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> for better or for worse, it's im****tant if your goal is to move beyond a
> very low level.
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> The better your designs work in a digital world, the better off you are.
> You can easily create designs that can't be printed; digital skills will
> help prevent that.
Hmmm! How so? Any examples? Easily create designs that can't be
printed?? Wow, I've never even heard of the concept, "designs that
can't be printed"....
> But it's not just "digital skills". If you REALLY want to succeed and
> be marketable, you'll understand the entire production process for
> whatever field you're illustrating. I can speak for the printing world;
> if you spend time in all facets of a print facility, doing the actual
> work in those areas, you'll find out quickly how to be a great
> illustrator within the context of the printing world. I know one
> woman--classically trained as an illustrator, but spent large amounts of
> time in a print shop doing all parts of the process--and her stuff just
> absolutely flies through now. You can blindly take what she submits and
> know that it will work all the way through with little to no alteration.
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> That's unusual, and is highly regarded, respected, and desired. It also
> cuts costs tremendously.
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> Similar gains are found in the film world, television world, etc. Yes,
> the production processes are all digital, they've come to where they are
> in their own way, and the more you know about the entire chain of
> events, the better off you are.
Sure, it's always good to just know "A-to-Z"...but it almost appears
to be *absolutely necessary* now. Which sounds weird since it seems
that things are getting more and more "specialized" instead...like how
video games used to be designed and programmed by the same one person
back in the '70s and '80s, and now it's several people involved in the
art department alone....
Are illustrators trained to use graphics software these days? I'm
just puzzled 'cause it seems like such a learning curve for something
which is so much more quickly and easily done -- with more "soul," if
I may say so -- by hand!
So for sounding like such a n00b, but of course, I am one! My point
of reference is the '80s (ahem), and the only thing I can think of
using software for is ray-tracing, for an "antiseptic" sort of
photorealism....
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