It almost hurts me to say this, but the cool factor is just too much to bare… Microsoft Excel rocks at sketching cell-shaded line art.
If you know me, you know I abhor spreadsheets list creation management hell. However, I’ll get past the fancy formatting and formula options used to drain the liquid centers from our souls for a few moments, to gaze upon the magic that is the the pixel art of Felipe, aka Shukei. He uses the freeform tool in Excel the create some of the most complicated line art you can imagine.
There’s a feature that makes Excel perfect for doing this, a feature a few CAD systems, both 2D and 3D could learn from. First check out Felipe’s process. 13 hours, speed up into a mere 5 minutes. Amazing.
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You are lookin’ sporty. Really, you are stylin’ the design and engineering process like no other and everyone wants to know just how you do it… or at least, we do.
Raise your eyebrow in a menacing way if you’ve ever received a really crumby .pdf, concept print or model data to create a production model from? If only there was a little more info or a way that the data could be transformed into usable 3D parametric data huh?
After really thinking about this post, getting some feedback and losing a slap fight with an angry camel trader, I’ve decided to totally revamp the 
