Vectorization
Vectorization is taking a piece of artwork that is typically a raster format (pixel based) and converting it to vector, a type of digital art that can be infinitely scaled up or down, making it useful for logos and highly used pieces of art/design. These two projects are jobs that I have worked on that display not only my vectorization skills but my separation skills as well.
Inspiration
Vectorization art typically starts with a base. For the Burger Run design, the image to the left was the original scanned artwork. Some jobs such as the Burger Run have specific designs that need to be followed with small details that can be decided upon by the vectorizer. Color themes similar to previous years were chosen for the vehicles, along with some choice highlights/shadows to create a better sense of depth on the flat colors.
Military Job
Unlike the Burger Run art, every vehicle/design was created individually then placed in a clipping layer for easier placement. Each design was hand traced from start to end to ensure that they had clean corners and sharp lines where needed. This was also done to limit the overall artwork to a lower color count.
Separation
It is important to keep color count low, primarily for printing, to make the printing process less convoluted and to save cost while printing. The four images above depict the separation process for creating one of the images. Each color layer pieces together to seamlessly create the vector art that is printed onto the T-shirts.
Final Product
The final product was slightly different from the original to allow for easier printing and lower costs, but was still positively received by the customer. Above are the two final options that were presented, with the design on the left including enlarged graphics, accomplished by individually creating each design and placing them in clipping masks to have more controlled placement over the project as a whole.
Disclaimer: All artwork above is not my concepts, all creation credit goes to the owners.