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.

[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.

[otter]

Quite the undertaking with great result!