This month: Drafting the Scheherazade illustration project, and creating a Toy for Aberline.net.

Scheherazade Update:
And while that's not really a Form Finding Function topic, I thought the evolution of some of the illustrations for Scheherazade are kind of cool, and they involve components from Aberline.net.

For Scheherazade, I started making the images by doing some photography that I could base the finished image on. I know this sounds like a infomercial sell, but even I was surprised how the work improved when I started using components from Aberline.net.

You'll see how for the first 4 drafts, my ideas were locked into place, but with the help of these new resources my last draft took a radical departure into a much more free form. Also, it was great working with an image knowing that I had at least 10 other views of that object to work with - rather than trying to make just one image fit a variety of forms.



You can look at the Scheherazade project in more depth here: http://mattaberline.blogspot.com/

Or look at Aberline.net here:
http://aberline.net


Toy:
We just completed a major shoot where we improved all our image collection factors and decreased the image editing time from about 7 minutes an image, to about 2 minutes in most cases. I can't tell you how cool that is - normally editing my standard 60 images a day would take all day but now I can knock it over in the space of a few morning coffees.


This shoot also included the photography for our new toy, above. My good friend, and otherwise very useful man Matteo, agreed to pose for our new dress-em-up game and we've finished the graphic components for this. It's a bit camp I know... Here's the looks you can get:



This new toy will be different from the one we've currently got at Aberline.net under "fun", in that all the image layering can be done online as opposed to downloading the Ishell mini program we have now. Should be online in the next month or two... stay tuned!