One of the best new features in Illustrator is known as Live Trace. With this tool, Illustrator can be used as a means of "rotoscoping" video to create a cartoon. The effect is similar to what you can see in "A Scanner Darkly" movie as well as in the Charles Schwab ads on TV.
Creative Cow has posted a tutorial on their site and our own illustrious Tony Woods has made it available locally as well. Click the CC link above or you can go to the folder described below to get it locally.
On the Assignments drive in the MM205 After Effects folder then into the Extra Credit subfolder.
On another note
Aniboom recently announced an online contest/festival that might interest some of you.
the CreativeGuy offers up some good Illustrator commentary. Check it out for features and Illustrator discussions.
Finally the
Real World Illustrator blog has a great entry on June 23rd, 2006 that discusses color space, swatches, and making your colors more "usable". While some of the discussion is Illustrator specific, some of it applies to many other tools and concepts that you all will be using.
