Re-live the 80's with Illustrator.

I developed a design brief for my students that requires then to recreate their own work in the style of the 80's arcade pop-culture.  Its a great era and one that seems to be fairly popular even today with its pixel-art, rainbow electric graphic design asthetic and just the fact I grew up in that era also helps... :D While its easy enough to create pixel-art in a bitmap editor such as Photoshop, Windows Paint or the Gimp - For some real flexibility artistically, Illustration software like - well - Illustrator is a better choice. ...

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"Its a wrap" - a light wrap that is...

Often when in a hurry, I'll render out composit shots from my 3D software once the main lighting and surfacing are working rather then spend time rendering passes and compositing them. Today I was thinking - one thing that often helps integration with a photographic plate is applying some light wrapping.  Its a process that is common in compositing - but what about throwing that idea into a 3D application's rendering output...

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