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› June 10, 2004
Cruise Ship Illlustration
Want to suddenly feel like your job is cake? Check out the process outlined by Kevin Hulsey for this technical illustration of a cruise ship (try the Google cache version). It looks like it look a lot of work, and sure enough it did, 720 hours in less than 2 months, including 9 hrs just to export from Illustrator to Photoshop. The end result is quite stunning. Thanks k10k news for this inspiration.
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1. June 10, 2004 05:57 PM
2. June 10, 2004 06:13 PM
Nate Posted…
Thanks for catching that Tim. Everyone be sure to checkout the closeups of this drawing, especially in case more gets taken offline.
3. June 10, 2004 06:49 PM
CCN Posted…
Doesn't it seem pretty silly to NOT do this in a 3D program? What if the client needs a different angle? What did the hourly rate come out to? I just figured out 720 hours at our rate and it came out to six figures!
4. June 10, 2004 08:28 PM
DarkBlue Posted…
Holy cr*p! That's gorgeous.
Anyone else notice the propellors in the hull at the front of the ship? I guess, with a ship this big, this is about the only effective way to turn the thing. Are these common on large ships these days.
Beautiful, but I bet it drives like a pig.
5. June 10, 2004 10:27 PM
Simon Mackie Posted…
I believe those are bow thrusters, which are pretty useful when mooring. they're quite common on even fairly small yachts now. I would have thought normal steering was still achieved by a rudder.
The illustration is absolutely phenomenal!
6. June 10, 2004 10:55 PM
Nate Posted…
CCN, I wondered the same thing about the choice of Illustrator. Probably building the fully rendered thing with a 3D program wouldn't be a time saver, but at least he could have used one to generate the initial line drawing that was brought into photoshop?
I'm almost more baffled by the idea that one could let photoshop import an illustrator file for over eight hours, and still somehow know that it's not locked up.
7. June 11, 2004 01:15 PM
Bob Posted…
Looks like the images are now offline, even in the Google cache... [snif]
8. June 11, 2004 01:32 PM
Nate Posted…
Yeesh! the whole site is offline. I found the overall image is also here
Tim Posted…
Looks like it's gone now. Here's Google's cached version.