by Gare on Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:51 am
Xara artist Alan Burns passed away recently, a loss to us all, I feel.
Alan's work will be immortalized in the Xara spinning screen saver cube, and I will always remember his phenomenal tech illustration of a pocketwatch.
[url=http://site.xara.com/news/november08/inspirationalart.asp]Take a look at what this man did using Xara
It shouldn't come as a surprise that Alan accomplished a lot of things without the tools we now enjoy in version 4 such as feathering. Usually a practical joker, Alan would put things in his otherwise serious technical illustrations you won't notice until you zoom in 25,000% on the original artwork.
I remember one of his very first pieces was a promo for Xara in 1995, a fighter plane. If you zoomed, way, way in, there was a reflection of the Corel balloon in the windshield. evidently, the Xara Group was targeting CorelDraw.
The King is dead, long live the King.
Gary
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Gare on Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:58 am, edited 1 time in total.
