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- Pataskala, Ohio
Inspired by @MatskiMonk BMW Art Cars Project, I did the Civic Type R Art Car made by Jean Graton for the 2016 edition of the 24 hours of Le Mans. This was one of the first project I had in my mind at the beginning of the game, but I couldn't achieved it before. Now I think I have the skills to do it properly, so I restarted it.
The car is wrapped with one image from a Michel Vaillant comics. The image covers all the car, from the roof to the sides. The biggest challenge was to reduce the size of the SVG. I had to separate the pic in 5 zones (roof, left, right, front, rear). I choosed to only do the black part as a SVG, the colours are made under it with in-game shapes. Each of the 5 black SVG started at around 150kB after auto-trace. Then I had to delete, simplify and redraw a lot a nodes to keep the files under the 15kB limit. This was still easier/better than redrawing the pic from scratch, because my first tries lost the "drawing" effect, they were too clean.
This is so much better than the Anime cars I've seen. I can tell you put in the work to make the images line up properly! Kudos!