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Illustrator Outlines

This project began in Adobe® Illustrator 8.0. Mr. Thomas scanned a copy of the Hunab Ku glyph icon, made famous in the book, "The Mayan Factor." He saved it as a template and created a vector outline in Illustrator.

3D Extrusion

This vector outline was imported into a 3D rendering program.

3D Rendering

Inside this program texture and color was applied. This was rendered and saved as a Photoshop image with a fairly high resolution. It will be modified later as it is included in the final rendering.

Traditional Illustration

In 1980, while studying various archaeological cultures possibly related to the Arizona area, Mr. Thomas created some Mayan and Inca drawings using grease pencil on canvas textured panels. This depiction of the famous rattlesnake statues from the top of the Temple of the Warriors in Chichen Itza, is an example, and useful for this assignment.

Alpha Channels

The line drawing was scanned and the background was removed. The gray layer you see here was added to verify the Silhouette process.

Using the wand tool the remaining white pixels were selected and saved as a mask. These pixels all represented the fill portion of the drawing outline. A gray stone-like color was placed this area.

Then, using a wonderful Photoshop Plug In by Flaming Pear called SuperBladePro, granite-like texture was created and applied to these fill areas. There are unlimited possibilites.

Now the line drawing has dimension and more character. These two images were then composed into a final composition.

Here is a "screenshot" of the finished poster. You can see that an image of the moon has been added because everything Mayan is about time, space and universal cycles. The 3D Hunab Ku was manipulated into a perspective position and colorized.

Hope you gained from viewing this online tutorial The final image has now been interpreted into requested reproductions, per the AD in the side panel. JV