{"id":11104,"date":"2006-05-04T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T08:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/05\/manga-zoomlines-for-illustrator.html"},"modified":"2006-05-04T08:14:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T08:14:47","slug":"manga_zoomlines_for_illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/manga_zoomlines_for_illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga Zoomlines for Illustrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plug-in maker GraphicXtras has released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicxtras.com\/products\/aiplugin23.htm\">Zoomlines<\/a>, an Illustrator utility for making the focus\/zoom lines often seen in manga and other comics.  The interface is a bit inscrutable, but for $12 a lot can be forgiven.  Just don&#8217;t stare too long a the vibrating centers of your creations, lest they induce a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banned_episodes_of_Pok\u00e9mon#Electric_Soldier_Porygon.2F.22Dennou_Senshi_Porigon.22\">seizure<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/news\/24199.html?cprose=daily\">Via<\/a>]<br \/>\nI dig this kind of little single-purpose tool: quick, affordable, and built to solve a particular problem.  We do need to make it easier to modify Adobe authoring tools to encourage this kind of development, and we&#8217;re working on that.<br \/>\nThe images created by Zoomlines reminds me of some fun I&#8217;ve been having in Illustrator lately, trying out ideas for this blog.  I was kind of taken with the album art for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/music\/reviews\/v\/volante-static.shtml\">Volante<\/a>, so I experimented with techniques to make <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/ai_bolts.html\">something similar.<\/a>  In case it&#8217;s useful, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/ai_shapes.html\">illustrated the steps<\/a> taken to create the basic artwork that became the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/d_body_bg.jpg\">background<\/a> for this page.  I think it&#8217;s got kind of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illuminado.com\/images\/soundgarden.jpg\">Soundgarden<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comeinandburn.com\/disco\/endofsil.htm\">Rollins Band<\/a> thing going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plug-in maker GraphicXtras has released Zoomlines, an Illustrator utility for making the focus\/zoom lines often seen in manga and other comics. The interface is a bit inscrutable, but for $12 a lot can be forgiven. Just don&#8217;t stare too long a the vibrating centers of your creations, lest they induce a seizure. [Via] I dig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}