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Kpt Vector Effects For Illustrator
Vectortuts+ is pleased to bring you an interview with Kako from SÃo Paulo, Brazil. This highly talented illustrator has an extensive portfolio ranging from editorials to advertisements to comics and others. His distinguishable style has brought him clients from all over the world which includes huge names like: Coca Cola, Discovery World, Saatchi and Saatchi, Nokia, Toshiba, MTV, and more.
Illustration was always part of my life; occasionally I did a job here and there, only for magazines and newspapers, but never did I think to follow it as a career. Maybe because it was so part of me that I didn't see it as a job; maybe because I couldn't bear the thought of doing the same thing everyday. But now I realize that being an illustrator I can be right in the middle of it all. Illustration allows me to flirt with other areas, such as fashion, comic books or movies. It allows me to be a graphic or a web designer again whenever needed. I'm right now where I've always wanted to be; everywhere at the same time.
My first vector illustration was an old Linotype machine, quite bold for a starter, but I had to see what I could do with vectors. It worked fine and kept my interest to practice more and more. Since then I never stopped. Mainly because it gives me such power, such control over the lines, something that was quite difficult to do when inking.
I try to avoid using the word style; I'd rather use technique. I don't think it's wrong and I know they have almost the same meaning, but for me the first gives me the idea of accommodation while the later gives a sense of action. In a weird way I find that you might find yourself trapped if you have a style and I don't like it. Though I think it works well in the American market, where Illustrators have almost a trademark technique for all their lives and your commissions are tailor-made, it doesn't work that way in Brazil, especially in the advertising business. Our market is not so big as theirs and you have to be able to attend to a great number of different briefings in order to survive, so one day you find yourself with a number of different techniques in your portfolio, with one or two specialities. Of course there are one-style illustrators in Brazil, most of them on editorial market, but it was not my case.
I'm a huge fan of Bernard Cornwell. I love the way he creates historical fictions with the right balance between research and creativity. When designer Marcelo Martinez called me to create the covers for the Brazilian edition of the Saxon Stories I was in heaven. He already had commissioned other Cornwell's titles to great Brazilian illustrators such as Renato AlarcÃo and Kipper, it felt great to be part of it too.
9. You organize a monthly illustrator's meeting that is called "BistecÃo Ilustrado." Tell us a bit more about this meeting: what does "BistecÃo Ilustrado" stands for and the motivation behind the meeting? Our non-Brazilian readers would love to know about it.
It all started 3 years ago. I was already working with illustration but didn't know any other illustrator personally. Even though I took part on online forums and was already a member of the Society of Illustrators of Brazil (SIB), I felt a distance between them and me. All our online conversations were about how to improve our profession and all that surrounds it, but how could I help anybody if I was beginning my career? I had yet much to learn and felt the best way I could help was stay in my place and listen. But it was not enough, I felt the need to act, so I thought that if I couldn't help in the client/professional matter I could maybe improve our personal/professional relations.
I felt that if we were closer to each other, then we would probably go further in our decisions as a group because we wouldn't think twice to help the fellow illustrator that was now your friend. Bonding, as soldiers in trenches. So right after an exhibition of SIB members I invited everyone to go with me to a restaurant and it was fun. We weren't much but it was enough for a laugh, it was a start.
So a few months later I officially made an invitation and 10 of us came. And then on the next month we did the same, and then the next, and the next. Today we have an attendance of more then 70 illustrators each month in SÃo Paulo, they all bring friends and families whenever they can, we have meetings in other four major cities, we have guests from other states, other countries, we have sponsors such as Casa do Artista (art supply) and DRC (digital art school) that give discounts and other benefits for illustrators, and the best of it all, we all became close friends.
Brazilian artists, for example, are getting so much attention today, much more than before. We find great illustrators such as JoÃo Ruas doing the new covers of the acclaimed Fables, graffiti artists like Osgemeos and Onesto exhibiting their work in every major contemporary gallery around the world, comic book artists like FÃbio Moon and Gabriel BÃ at the top of the list in the US comic book industry, designers such as Nando Costa making big internationally and I could go on and on. It's a great time for Brazilians who think globally.
looking for ideas on how to go about making a metal stent that will be super editable in the future in illustrator. attached is an image of what they look like. I am positive the client will ask, " can you bend it this way, or can you tilt it that way or can you show it in this perspective".
If you are struggling with the outside edges, you may want to try and use more than 2 vector points. Try 3 with one in the middle. I tried 4 points, but try that also as there might be a way to not get so many surfaces.
Yes, its a medical device so i have to get 100% on target or they will point out to me it does not match. what you suggest is a gorgeous effect Mike. Let me play with it. Otherwise i am not sure illustrator can get us where they want to be and they might just have to buy the image from istock. i was trying to find a way to let illustrator do the work for me fast. But it has to be 100% accurate like the photo in every way since its medical/scientific publications...
But you did answer the the problem. the issue is with illustrators capability, but let me play around with it. I tried to make the patter as one line, do effects and make that a symbol, but it did not want to map it till i expanded appearance and that breaks the dynamic capability. it only wants to map expanded objects, not symbols made of dynamic effects.
KPT vector Effects 3D extrusion for Illustrator worked better and I used for final artwork on Frito-Lay and McDonalds. But Kai Krause sold his company and retired much too early, so did not have a chance to take their amazing suite of effects further. Whomever the developers along were at Metacreations, bravo you did some great work!
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Hi,looking for ideas on how to go about making a metal stent that will be super editable in the future in illustrator. attached is an image of what they look like. 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