The Making of The Myway Code
05 August, 2010
This stop-frame animation shows how I prepared the illustrations for The Myway Code. We went a long way towards realism, then abandoned our flaming Lancias on the hard-shoulders of reason. An actual explanation of the technique follows the video.
I made the illustrations for The Myway Code using the auto-trace in Illustrator. It all worked well, except for the roads themselves did not have the crisp-ness of the Highway Code I was looking for. I prepared set-ups on pre-printed roads (I had made up digitally) with tiny registration marks on them, then auto-traced. I then lined up the reg marks in the photo with the ones on the digital copy, using Photoshop’s distortion and perspective features and then erased everythnig in the photos apart from the cars and the odd bit of scenery.
I made the illustrations for The Myway Code using the auto-trace in Illustrator. It all worked well, except for the roads themselves did not have the crisp-ness of the Highway Code I was looking for. I prepared set-ups on pre-printed roads (I had made up digitally) with tiny registration marks on them, then auto-traced. I then lined up the reg marks in the photo with the ones on the digital copy, using Photoshop’s distortion and perspective features and then erased everythnig in the photos apart from the cars and the odd bit of scenery.