boost: Hand-drawn Digital Artwork

[jesse_the_k]

My favorite Apple-oriented publication celebrates 36 years and 1800 issues this month. Their well-moderated forum talk.tidbits.com provides excellent tech support for thorny issues. This week I learned about a super-cool article for us old graphic geeks:

How a poster that morphed Hokusai’s Great Wave into The Wave of the Future, showing its original woodblock changing into bitmaps then raytracing was actually created by hand, because in 1981 it would have been too expensive to do it digitally.

Comments

[sonia]

Cool tidbit! (I would love to take a look at the art work, but your "actually created by hand" link isn't working for me.)

[jesse_the_k]

Arghhh. Forgot the trailing slash!

https://grafik.agency/insight/waveofthefuture/

[sonia]

Wow that is very cool! I did not expect how much work "by hand" entailed.

[jesse_the_k]

Yeah, my mind was blown. Will these hand-drawn pixels actually look like something when it's printed????

[thistleingrey]

Ah, it's beautiful! I remember and still love the curving gridlines people used then, and it's lovely to see them in the print.

[jesse_the_k]

They've got some of the lively magic of clematis vines

[clevermanka]

What a fascinating story! Thank you!

[jesse_the_k]

You're most welcome. The rapid shift between the hand and the computer was stunning to witness.

[otter]

Quite the undertaking with great result!

[jesse_the_k]

Having to imagine whether the color blend would actually work when printed ... required strong faith in oneself.

[susanreads]

Wow!

[jesse_the_k]

Just so.